The Buckets by Greg Cravens for July 12, 2011
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Transcript:
TV remotes were invented when I was a kid. I'll bet you were excited. No way... My brother and I worried dad only kept us around to change the channel for him. I'm not sayin' you were wrong.
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The first practical remote was sold in 1956¤, which makes him about 60 now. This means he was around 45 when Toby was born and 54 when Eddie came along‡ (and I thought that my father was old – 40 when I popped out).Of course he might be talking about the infrared remotes like we have now, which came along in 1980; this means he’s around 35, making him only 20 for his first kid (coming soon – a flashback to a Buckets shotgun wedding?).¤I remember those early remotes – one of my cousins had a TV with one in the mid-’60s. It was clunky, had only four functions (on/off, volume, channel up, channel down) and operated on sound pulses. This meant that occasional random noises could change the channel or turn the set off.‡According to the Wikipedia entry on The Buckets, Toby is 15 and Eddie is 6.