Monday, January 02, 2006

I can't feel my thumb!!!!

Out of sheer laziness, the Mole today acquired a universal remote for his TV (despite the fact of only having 15 channels, but thats another story) and there are three(3) seperate sets of instructions as to how to get your TV to recog your remote. Among the directions for getting the thing to work when your TV obstinately refuses to recog your remote is this (my emphasis):

4. Press the ON-OFF button repeatedly (up to 300 times) until the device to be controlled turns off. The red indicator blinks off with each button press.

The Mole is proud to inform loyal readers that it only took him 47 presses of the ON-OFF button to achieve remoteness. Lesser beings might well have had press the requisite additional 253. I wonder what would happen if some hapless fool pressed 301? Who was the researcher who arrived at 300? Very suspicious.

No applause, as we used to say in the third grade, just throw money.

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