Re: EU outlaws incandescent bulbs by 2012


Joerg wrote:

Joel Koltner wrote:

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Remotes don't last too long, anymore. :(

Just last week or so there was some discussion of the ceramic resonators in
the things breaking... do you know if that's the usual failure mode?


Nah. The usual failure mode is stuff like V-8 juice getting in.


I have never spilled anything into a remote.

Seriously. Then contact material of the buttons rubbing off, and pets
getting a hold of it are probably number three.


No worn buttons, and no pets.


Oh, and uncle Leroy
plopping himself onto the sofa where the remote was laying.


i don't think that any of my uncles are still alive.


Number five is probably "the smack". Remote being tossed across the room
when Manchester United got socked.


Not going to happen. I don't watch sports anymore. The last thing i
could watch was NASCAR, and now it puts me to sleep.


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