ROBERT ADLER IS GONE
But his spirit lives on.
(New, improved, registration-free link supplied by Jeff Meyerson, who states that he sent this in yesterday)
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But his spirit lives on.
(New, improved, registration-free link supplied by Jeff Meyerson, who states that he sent this in yesterday)
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**changes channel**
Posted by: Mahatma Kane Jeeves | February 17, 2007 at 10:39 AM
Is anyone remotely interested in this?
Posted by: Jazzzz | February 17, 2007 at 10:40 AM
Actually, Dave, Polley's around. It's Adler's bit the dust. Eitherway, all of mandom has lost it's Paul Revere. Its George Washington. Its Jack Bauer.
It is, indeed, a tragedy that Mr. Adler had not lived mong enough to make his invention easier to find, as right now I am in the precarious situation of WALKING TO THE TV every time I need to change the channel. That's right. Ol' JP's roughin' it. So I can truly appreciate Mr. Adler's genius.
Posted by: JP | February 17, 2007 at 10:41 AM
jp -- Thanks for the correction. I really need to start reading these things.
Posted by: Dave | February 17, 2007 at 10:44 AM
Actually, jp, you're Dave.
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | February 17, 2007 at 10:51 AM
I've temporarily misplaced the remote for my dish PVR (tivo). In the old days you could get up off the couch, walk to the TV, and do whatever you needed to do at the set. But now, there aren't even enough buttons on the dang satellite reciver to do all the functions that the remote can do. I can't even figure out how to change the channels, let alone watch something I recorded, or back up and replay something.
Come, on, Mr. Polley, help me out!!!
Posted by: Stevie W | February 17, 2007 at 10:52 AM
I think jp is judi, and she's just sitting in the boss' chair while he's out golfing. With Hasselhoff.
Posted by: Stevie W | February 17, 2007 at 10:53 AM
Didn't I send both of these stories in yesterday? And mine didn't need no steenkin' registration.
Robot plows driveway.
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | February 17, 2007 at 10:53 AM
THAT'S why my remote wasn't working this morning! It's in mourning!
Posted by: tropichunt.com guy™ | February 17, 2007 at 11:00 AM
Calm down, Jeff. This is just an exhibition, not a competition. Please, no wagering.
Posted by: Stevie W | February 17, 2007 at 11:01 AM
"the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences awarded both Adler and Polley an Emmy in 1997 for the landmark invention."
Some phrases, Like "National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences", just float right past you for years, until you read an artcle like this. Television science...the science of television.
The remote control. Who knew?
"'He was part of a project that changed the world,' Polley said from his home in Lombard, Ill."
That's just a stone's throw from me. Or a fling of the remote, if you will.
In other, unrelated news, Britney is now bald. God help her children -- she's crashing and burning fast.
Click.
Posted by: Cat R. | February 17, 2007 at 11:04 AM
Hooray Jeff! FINALLY you are getting Claire Martin-esque recognition!
Posted by: sarah o. | February 17, 2007 at 11:05 AM
This just in:
Eugene Polley is still not dead.
jp is not Dave.
Judi is Dave.
Judi is not jp.
Dave is not Judi.
Generalissimo Francisco Franco is confused.
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | February 17, 2007 at 11:11 AM
Bald as in B A L D.
Not to be confused with a bikini wax or anything else we've been seeing too much of lately.
Posted by: Cat R. | February 17, 2007 at 11:15 AM
"I want him to get some exercise," she said. "He's always controlling everything by remote."
she wanted to say: "Why can't he invent a robot to 'plow my driveway', if you know what I mean."
Posted by: insomniac | February 17, 2007 at 11:16 AM
OK, just to clarify:
I initially had the wrong guy being dead. JP corrected me, and I corrected the post and thanked JP in a comment, but accidentally put "JP" in the box where I was supposed to put my name. So now I have corrected that, as well as the registration link I posted because I failed to realize that Jeff Meyerson had sent a better link yesterday. I am starting to hate this post, which was not all that great to begin with. Thank you.
Posted by: Dave | February 17, 2007 at 11:17 AM
Thanks for clarifying, judi.
Posted by: Stevie W | February 17, 2007 at 11:20 AM
Gumball, Dave?
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | February 17, 2007 at 11:22 AM
*loves Dave a beer, cheese-its n a parfait*
Posted by: just sayin' | February 17, 2007 at 11:22 AM
Dave, take a deep breath...have a gumball & a beer and go back to bed. Judi will take over and
post about nakkid mendo a fine job.Posted by: Siouxie | February 17, 2007 at 11:25 AM
Who's "Dave"?
Posted by: Jazzzz | February 17, 2007 at 11:25 AM
Brittwit's bald head reminds me of the old days (yeah, I'm that old) when someone would arrive @ school with a bald/shaved head ... everyone knew it wuz 'cuz they were lousy (as in: infested with head lice) ...
Merely ... um ... sayin' ...
Posted by: OtheU(manity) | February 17, 2007 at 11:28 AM
((((Dave))))
I, for one, am kinda liking this thread. You boys and your angst are fun to watch.
And Jeff, the wife is obviously short-sighted. If something happens to hubby, she still has the remote and can plow her driveway!
Posted by: Meditrina | February 17, 2007 at 11:31 AM
In the early days of rehab (ie, Synanon in Santa Monica, CA), getting shaved bald was the first step. Sort of like giving up your old effed-up identity and joining a cult, a cult at least devoted to "purifying the spirit and body." So maybe there's a method to her madness.
Posted by: Stevie W | February 17, 2007 at 11:33 AM
... and the round of double 'bot "verification" on the posts reminds me that man is no longer the master of his machines ...
(tho sometimes the "shaved" look wuz due to Ringworm [some sorta fungal (NOT Fun Gal) infection] ...)
Posted by: OtheU(manity) | February 17, 2007 at 11:33 AM
lol, jazzz.
PS Who's jazzz?
Posted by: Stevie W | February 17, 2007 at 11:37 AM
Thanks for the post CatR. The sound you just heard was my intestinal tract shifting from forward to reverse without using the clutch.
Stevie, didn't Jazzz writ a book?
Posted by: fivver | February 17, 2007 at 11:58 AM
or writE one?
Posted by: fivver | February 17, 2007 at 12:02 PM
fivver - My Dad refers to that sound as 'my a$$hole slamming shut.'
Posted by: Meditrina | February 17, 2007 at 12:03 PM
fivver.... I think "writ" was correct
Posted by: Daniel Frazier | February 17, 2007 at 12:08 PM
Sorry, I'm catching up on the blog after days away. Siouxie already commented on the bald Britney on the radioactive sign thread.
I really should read old threads in order, instead of backwards.
Where's my universal remote? Rewind.....
Posted by: Cat R. | February 17, 2007 at 12:15 PM
I are an igit
Posted by: Jazzzz | February 17, 2007 at 12:31 PM
i was just telling my boys last night that (cue geezer music) back when i was a girl, i had to get up from the couch, trek through the entire room, use my own hands to click from one channel to the next and sometimes...even back again!..and still had to walk back to the couch by my own power after i was done choosing something to watch out of all five of those channels.
Posted by: crossgirl | February 17, 2007 at 12:36 PM
i was just telling my boys last night that (cue geezer music) back when i was a girl, i had to get up from the couch, trek through the entire room, use my own hands to click from one channel to the next and sometimes...even back again!..and still had to walk back to the couch by my own power after i was done choosing something to watch out of all five of those channels.
Posted by: crossgirl | February 17, 2007 at 12:36 PM
Poor Dave. Sounds like he needs a beer. Or three. H3ll, give me a few.
Posted by: Nurse Tammy | February 17, 2007 at 12:36 PM
Yep, CG, and barefoot and uphill both ways, too.
Namby-pamby kids of today....
Posted by: Cat R. | February 17, 2007 at 12:41 PM
CG - when I shared with my boys that as a child we did not yet have:
1. Cable or
2. VHS/DVD
they were in SHOCK!!!! How could you survive with just 3 or 4 channels? No movies to rent or buy and watch over and over again? How? How?????
Posted by: OkieDokie | February 17, 2007 at 12:42 PM
I just severely p1$$ed off Da Bot. I think it tried to fry my laptop in vengeance for trying to link to something.
*rousting Hammie out my shower*
*unless he promises me a foot rub*
Posted by: Nurse Tammy | February 17, 2007 at 12:44 PM
Okie - I, too, just had that conversation with my son. He was appalled that there were no special features on a DVD of an old movie, Victory. I had to explain that there were no VCR's, etc. when the film was made.
He shoots me a confused look and said, "So, how did you see movies?" At the theater! Duh.
Oh, and I don't have cable tv. I get 7 channels for FREE, double what we had growing up. Funny, my kids find other things to do if there is no cartune netwk or aminal planet to watch. They read, do art projects, or go outside and PLAY! aka torture each other.
Posted by: Meditrina | February 17, 2007 at 12:54 PM
what I don't get is -if he invented the technology to make channel changing easier in 1956, why did it take another 30 years or so for it to reach our living rooms?
and the bot sure is cranky today
Posted by: mm | February 17, 2007 at 01:01 PM
Med - I'm glad I'm not the only one that appreciates the seven channels of non cable! The savings will buy my a car someday! How's the weather in KC?
Are we still talking geezer talk...my nieces (19 & 21) are just amazed that the song "I Like Big Butts" by Sir Mix-A-Lot came out when I was in high school. They thought is was totally knew. When I told them I had a tape of that song, they had no idea what a tape was....scary....
Posted by: wxgurl | February 17, 2007 at 01:32 PM
I think I'll have to cry a little tear for that guy.
I don't watch a lot of television either, but,
without the remote, I'd still be changin' channels for everyone.
As for the robot snow plow? I'm with it.
I think we need some androids now.
I would be all about havin' androids.
Think about it, androids could do all sorts of cool stuff that I would never want to do.
Things like car wrestleing.
Spectacular car crashes.
Spectacular motorcycle crashes.
They could wrestle lions.
How about fist fighting a tank? I couldn't do it.
But an android could.
So I say that unless you're building a giant apparatus capable of exponentially magnifying human strength, you should prolly try to make an android.
I mean, aim a little higher than the mundane people!
Thank you.
Psycho, signin out.
Posted by: Psycho Joe | February 17, 2007 at 01:37 PM
Hey Med, we get "senior" cable, just 8 bucks/month. I looked at what we were spending on regular cable and figured I could use that money for something more worthwhile (beer). My 14 yo daughter does just fine for being channel challenged, until she goes to my parents who seem to have every station in the western hemisphere.
Posted by: Peg Leg Pete, CPA | February 17, 2007 at 02:41 PM
But do you get Senior Wences?
Posted by: Senor Wences | February 17, 2007 at 03:01 PM
The older sets get that, Stevie. (Talking about the TVs, not us).
Ees nice!
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | February 17, 2007 at 03:08 PM
'sawrright.
Posted by: slyeyes | February 17, 2007 at 03:25 PM
tenk yew very muuuch!
Posted by: OtheU(manity) | February 17, 2007 at 03:35 PM
Man, the geezers are out! ;)
In a box somewhere, I have an 8 track tape of Boston. I am SO Coool!
Posted by: Meditrina | February 17, 2007 at 03:46 PM
Thanks, Dave. You the man!
And major *snork* for insomniac for she wanted to say: "Why can't he invent a robot to 'plow my driveway', if you know what I mean."
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | February 17, 2007 at 03:51 PM
All righty, I am off to drive back to KC! Wish me luck in this crazy wind!
Posted by: wxgurl | February 17, 2007 at 04:13 PM
Wx .... good luck in that crazy wind ! ;-D
Posted by: Jazzzz | February 17, 2007 at 04:16 PM
I swear the bot just said "eat me". this is war !!!
Posted by: Jazzzz | February 17, 2007 at 04:17 PM
Be safe wxgirl. This week is going to warm up, so maybe we will have a chance to meet for coffee.
Posted by: Meditrina | February 17, 2007 at 04:17 PM
Jazzzz... Is the bot coming onto you? Why don't you take it as a compliment? 6 letters isn't enough to say, would you marry me?!
Posted by: Meditrina | February 17, 2007 at 04:20 PM
Hmmmmmmmmmm....good point Med
Posted by: Jazzzz | February 17, 2007 at 04:22 PM
Mot is becoming contagious...
Posted by: mm | February 17, 2007 at 04:34 PM
maryme ...
that's only six letters ...
merely sayin' ... (and leavin' for the hockey party ... talk @y'all later ...)
Posted by: OtheU(manity) | February 17, 2007 at 05:21 PM
I seem to have that effect sometimes.
Posted by: Mot the Hoople | February 17, 2007 at 05:26 PM
I seem to have that effect sometimes.
Posted by: Mot the Hoople | February 17, 2007 at 05:27 PM
mmmmmmmmm, that Jazzz sure is tasty.
Posted by: bot | February 17, 2007 at 06:14 PM
*it being Saturday, presses the 'Clean' button on the remote so the Roomba will get started on the floors*
Posted by: CJrun | February 17, 2007 at 06:17 PM
HELP !!!! The rotten-bot has me !!!
BTW CJ....don't over do yourself. Better take a break for a sandwich of the "hydraulic" type. (house cleaning can be soooo hard)
Posted by: Jazzzz | February 17, 2007 at 06:44 PM
Awhile back my youngest was complaining she didn't have a tv in her room. I mentioned when I was a teenager we only had one tv in the whole house. We didn't even get color til the 70's. She looked at me and said with all seriousness "You mean there was no color in the world til then?" Totally unaware there had ever been black and white tv's.
Posted by: baligurl | February 17, 2007 at 06:47 PM
His wife should be encouraging him. If he holds a patent, I bet they would get rich off his invention.
Posted by: Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa | February 17, 2007 at 06:48 PM
*smacks bot w/remote control to help Jazzzz*
*snork* at bali--how goes the home makoever show?
Lisa, you're right! Necessity (or, sometimes, pure laziness) is the mother of invention!
Posted by: Just Ducky | February 17, 2007 at 06:52 PM
Heyyyy, I sent this in last week several times. A friend works at Adler's nursing home, and knew his 'batteries were low.' Apparently Adler's last words were, "Don't let that dang Meyerson get the scoop on my death."
It is so hot here, over 80. If the LA groundhog comes out of his hole and sees his agent, we get 6 more weeks of botox. Something like that.
Did I mention it's hot here?
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | February 17, 2007 at 06:52 PM
BTW....the bot is pretty sexy... ;-P
Posted by: Jazzzz | February 17, 2007 at 06:53 PM
*smacks Jazzzz w/remote control* Make up your mind!
Annie, how are you doing? All well now?
Posted by: Just Ducky | February 17, 2007 at 06:56 PM
AWBH.... I'm going to jump off the roof now. Please don't wait a week to embalm me.
Posted by: Jazzzz | February 17, 2007 at 06:56 PM
baligurl-I know, and try to tell them about when there were no computers.
Hi Ducky!
*turns on the fan for Annie* We're having a cold snap in Fla. Actually wearing closed-toed shoes!!!
I was thinking though, it might be nice to be where it was snowing. I miss that sometimes. (except for the times you need a remote-controlled driveway cleaner offer.)
Posted by: Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa | February 17, 2007 at 07:00 PM
When I was a kid, we had 1 TV, 3 channels (1 was PBS), no remote control, no VCR. Well, we got a VCR when I was in high school. How times have changed! Of course, sometimes there's nothing on even with 53 channels or so.
Posted by: Kristina L. | February 17, 2007 at 07:02 PM
*snork* Ducky.... I'm a guy....what did you expect?
Posted by: Jazzzz | February 17, 2007 at 07:03 PM
Home Makeover was fun today, DEMOLITION! Mostly by tank, with an assist by backhoe. I have approximately 4 lbs of fiberglass debris in my lungs, can't remember when I had so much fun! I met Ed Sanders today (he's my fave), had a brief conversation: fans will be glad to know he's very nice, and his hand is healing well. I'm probably not back til moving day, as I have no real skills to offer. Got a snappy blue shirt and a milewide grin!
Posted by: baligurl | February 17, 2007 at 07:03 PM
Feeling much better, thanks. Although we have a birthday party tomorrow, with 10-year-old boys...in my house...survival is my only goal.
Jazzzz - you been suckin' fumes at work again? What is bot-hering you?
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | February 17, 2007 at 07:04 PM
Hey, Annie, tomorrow my baby will be 16! And the bot has me too. Dang.
Posted by: baligurl | February 17, 2007 at 07:06 PM
whoa, bali - I can't imagine that. Dating, driving, dissing....teen time! I'll take my 10-year-old any day. It's just the houseful that I'm a bit leary of.
I hope Adler gets a cool headstone, maybe in the shape of a remote.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | February 17, 2007 at 07:26 PM
bali - I just read about your xtreme makeover experience - very cool. I've always wanted to do home makeovers. Once I took a house, stripped the walls, refinished the floors, and even redesigned part of the floorplan, moving a wall. Then the owners came home and I was in trouble.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | February 17, 2007 at 07:31 PM
The really strange thing about this story is that for a couple of days, Adler's casket could not be located. Luckily, someone eventually discovered it stuck between two sofa cushions.
Posted by: Malcolm | February 17, 2007 at 07:32 PM
Ooh, bali, sounds like you had fun! (Except for the lungs full of debris.) Is your baby getting a driver's license on Monday?
Good luck with the malechild mayhem tomorrow, Annie! Remove all breakables and nail down everything else!
Posted by: Just Ducky | February 17, 2007 at 07:33 PM
She's my 4th, so I'm pretty much broken in. And as for the ungrateful owners...can I e-mail you the address of my farmhouse I'm remodling? I'll stock the bar and fridge!
Posted by: baligurl | February 17, 2007 at 07:33 PM
Ducky, who needs lungs? Been awhile since I had so much fun working, I wouldn't take a hundred bucks for it! As for the DL, there's a law here in OK that they have to have had their permit for 6 months before they can test for their licence, so I'm good til May. (She took driver's ed late.) Whew!
Posted by: baligurl | February 17, 2007 at 07:39 PM
Good for you, bali! The law here in Texas lets kids get their license as soon as they turn 16 if they've been through driver's ed, but they are only allowed 1 passenger and have other restrictions on how late they can be out driving, etc., for (I think) 6 months after they receive their licenses. I believe it's called a "graduated license" or something like that.
My son, for some completely unknown reason, elected to wait until he was 18 to get his license. I was just fine with that!
Posted by: Just Ducky | February 17, 2007 at 07:44 PM
*snork* at Annie & Malcolm!
Posted by: Just Ducky | February 17, 2007 at 07:46 PM
From Adler's obit: Although he often appeared remote, Adler was universally loved...
Posted by: Just Ducky | February 17, 2007 at 07:48 PM
*snork* @ Malcolm ('cause my *snork* @ Annie is a given)
Posted by: Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa | February 17, 2007 at 07:50 PM
The Anti-Remote
Posted by: Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa | February 17, 2007 at 07:58 PM
LBFF, this AM I watched "Biography: The Brady Bunch" while I was on my treadmill...I ran my 2 miles in record time!
Posted by: baligurl | February 17, 2007 at 08:02 PM
So when you fall over dead, it turns off.... sweet
Posted by: Jazzzz | February 17, 2007 at 08:03 PM
I hope Adler gets a cool headstone, maybe in the shape of a remote.
Brilliant, Annie! How cool would that be?
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | February 17, 2007 at 08:03 PM
bali-That's what I do when watching tv too. I almost want to buy this just for variety.
btw How did you get involved with "Extreme Makeover?" It sounds like fun!
*winks* @ Jazzzz
Posted by: Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa | February 17, 2007 at 08:06 PM
Extreme Makeout? *winks back*
Posted by: Jazzzz | February 17, 2007 at 08:08 PM
Awwww Jazzzz. *blush*
Posted by: Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa | February 17, 2007 at 08:12 PM
Once again, I have to say: get a room! ;-)
Posted by: Just Ducky | February 17, 2007 at 08:14 PM
I think the group Kiss used to have a contest every year called "Extreme Makeout" or something like that.
*snork* @ ducky
Posted by: Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa | February 17, 2007 at 08:15 PM
Lisa, if anyone could perform an extreme makeout, it would be Gene Simmons! Possibly all by himself!
Posted by: Just Ducky | February 17, 2007 at 08:17 PM
My Hubby knows the builder really well, and he got me and a friend VIP volunteer status, because he knew it was my favorite show. I knew they were coming, but I never dreamed I'd get this close! (It's actually taking place 30 miles away, in Lawton.) I feel so fortunate!
Posted by: baligurl | February 17, 2007 at 08:18 PM
Ducky-You got that right!
bali-That is really cool. They do good stuff on that show. I'll look forward to pictures, if you can get 'em.
Posted by: Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa | February 17, 2007 at 08:21 PM
Well girls, would you rather have the extreme make-out with Gene Simmons or Richard Simmons?
Posted by: Stevie W | February 17, 2007 at 08:31 PM
EWWWWW, Stevie! *grabs lye soap to wash out Stevie's keyboard*
Posted by: Just Ducky | February 17, 2007 at 08:38 PM
So far away
Doesn't anybody get off the couch anymore
It would tune so fine if you'd put on channel four
And I can't find the remote, it must be
Far away
Long ago I reached for it and
There it was
Now I reach beneath the couch and all I find is some fuzz
And a stale chee-toh, it must be
Far away...
One more night without getting up off the sofa
I can't find much of anything that's new
This old rerun of M*A*S*H is nearly over
I'd rather they'd try something like "Dave's World II"
But it's so
Far away
Hell if I'ma gonna get up off my fat hairy rear
Anyone within earshot, could you please bring me a beer?
Donuts, too, my dear, the kitchen's...
Far away...
Flippin' it around by hand sure gets me tired
All that up and down is so hard on my knees
I sure hope the remote turns up by midnight
Those infomercials really make me scream...
The TV's
Far away...
(with humblest apologies to Carole King, whom I love dearly.)
Posted by: Stevie W | February 17, 2007 at 08:46 PM