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What do you call your TV Remote?

  • 23-01-2009 03:39PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 986 ✭✭✭


    In my family we have called it the Modge for many years.

    I assume this stems from to word Modulator as in Frequency Modulator but I could be wrong.

    I also know a girl who calls it a 'Goji'. I've no idea how that came about.

    Do other people nickname the remote?
    Is it just me?


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Comments

  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,838 ✭✭✭midlandsmissus


    that is wrong dude


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Well it has Comcast written across it. :confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,821 ✭✭✭RxQueen


    i call it : the remote control

    for example : " hey guys , do any of ye know where the "remote control " is"


    or

    " will you pass me the remote control please"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 208 ✭✭Poloman


    We have a cool name for ours.

    We call it "The Remote"

    Classic!! :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 82 ✭✭chiliconparmi


    When I was a kid I called it the 'changer' now I just call it .... the remote


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 491 ✭✭deleriumtremens


    The zapper


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,193 ✭✭✭Turd Ferguson


    When I was younger I used to call it the changer.
    Now I can remotely access my TV with my mind, so I have no need for a remote control.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 986 ✭✭✭Bill-e


    Oh... So it is just me then... :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 36,322 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    Professor Armando Hermodulator Slansdanovich


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 282 ✭✭Kettle316


    I dont know why but everyone in my family always calls it "the doofer"!!:D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,905 ✭✭✭Rob_l


    We got one with a tv many years ago which when you changed the station made a clickign sound that remote became known as the clicker


    but now i call my remote Steve and steve has become my best friend


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 867 ✭✭✭giddybootz


    in my house it was always the flickie

    i also call it the clicker (not to be confused with the click-click which is a stapler!!)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,846 ✭✭✭Jet Black


    Call mine mote??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 716 ✭✭✭SarahJ


    Used to call it the Chopper, just a plain old Remote now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,758 ✭✭✭Stercus Accidit


    Used to be the controller, remote now, heard it called the buttons before also.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 423 ✭✭madmik


    my girlfriend calls it "the flicker" and i hate her for it

    it sounds gay "wheres the flicker"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭Enii


    We call ours the Mo-key.

    And it's constantly hiding on us!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,483 ✭✭✭ManFromAtlantis


    either where is ' the yoke' or 'the gismo' ........ dunno u had it last ..........sorry gettin carried away........


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 403 ✭✭counterpointaud


    Doodie flipper.

    Don't know where it came from actually.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭Sleipnir


    Clicker is the remote for the car's central locking :rolleyes:

    I like "Modge"

    From this day, mine shall also be called 'the modge' and when my girlfriend asks why, and I tell her it's for frequency modulator, she can roll her eyes and give me that look that says "why didn't I pick that other guy"


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,758 ✭✭✭Stercus Accidit


    Actually lately it is frequently reffered to as, "where is the...


    ...fuckin yoke, yekno, the fucking yokey tv fuckin thing.
    "

    or

    ...fuckin thing, the tv thing, fuckin... fuckin.. fuckin... remote yoke, fuckin tv remote."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,744 ✭✭✭funk-you


    Call mine the 'button presser'. Suppose technically thats me though:confused:

    -Funk


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 842 ✭✭✭starflake


    The zapper


    lol +1

    Throw us over 'The Zapper' there will ya!!?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 122 ✭✭Joe's fanclub


    Mine is called the 'dooja'

    inherited it, whole family call it that


  • Posts: 24,774 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The "feckin remote" as in, Give me the feckin remote and I put of that s***e!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26 ast


    fat controller

    Since this refers to the NTL remote which is pretty big I quite like the name


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭Sleipnir


    Mine is called the 'dooja'

    inherited it, whole family call it that

    Jeez, I hope my parent's leave me more than the feckin remote when they go.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    We call ours Maddie.

    Can never seem to find it...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 986 ✭✭✭Bill-e


    whiskeyman wrote: »
    We call ours Maddie.

    Can never seem to find it...

    HAHAHA! Ouch!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭pq0n1ct4ve8zf5


    It's called the cooter in our house for some reason. Gets us some funny looks from Americans.


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