Someone pressed his ‘off’ button

MEN everywhere should today stop to remember Eugene Polley – the man who invented the first wireless TV remote control. Polley, 96, died of natural causes at an Illinois hospital, according to Zenith Electronics, his workplace from 1935 to 1982. Of course, women may not be so keen to stop and remember – not my wife anyway. Since my first remote TV (connected to the TV via a cable) I’ve had it in my hand whenever we sat and watched TV. My infantry trained ears could detect a commercial approaching as well as any sneaky enemy and I’d zap the TV to the alternative channel that hopefully wasn’t also in a commercial mode. If it was then I simply surfed avoiding anything that remotely looked like a commercial until the programme resumed. My wife couldn’t handle that which is why I’m now watching Origin football in my study with a USB TV stick in my laptop and she is watching some girlie rubbish on the big TV in the lounge. I bet she even leaves the TV on the same channel when the adds come along. Strange…