Square eyed poll

[lnr]

[Poll #1175343]

Comments

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

oojit, thingie, wossname

[thorfinn]

Heh!

thingie, wossname, "pointing index finger circular waving followed by stabby waving gesture"

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

> "pointing index finger circular waving followed by stabby waving gesture"

In that case, if I may nounify a verb, the Scosthrop (http://folk.uio.no/alied/TMoL.html#anchorS) :-)

[thorfinn]

Heh heh, yes, that'd be the one.

[vyvyan.livejournal.com]

Often just "control" or "controller". Sometimes "thingy" :-)

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Aye, us too. Its function is that of controlling, whereas the remoteness is merely a desirable attribute.

[dave holland (from livejournal.com)]

Surely remoteness from oneself isn't desirable though...

[gailsedotes.livejournal.com]

yep - and i hand you "ultimate control"...

[sparrowsion]

"thingy for the television" and, with one particular housemate, "Frank".

[venta.livejournal.com]

At least, I think that's what I'd call it. It's not a thing I ask people to pass me very often :)

[ceb.livejournal.com]

[X] doofer

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

[X] hoofer doofer - in, I'm afraid, the Telly Addicts stylee.

[sphyg.livejournal.com]

Ditto. Either than or "Give me the power!" ;)

[new-brunette.livejournal.com]

Clinker, or Clicker? I clinked - er, clicked clinker but it's because I thought you'd probably mean clicker.

In other news, I'm not a pheasant plucker. That was my Dad's job.

[lnr]

It was definitely written "clinker" in the community post that inspired the poll.

[pm215]

[x] troll

[sbp.livejournal.com]

"mote"?

[aldabra]

Thingy. Or "bloody control" if it wasn't to hand.

[kaet.livejournal.com]

thingie

[geekette8.livejournal.com]

I call it the "remote". Matthew used to call it the "mote tontol" but now calls it the "memote control".

[numberland.livejournal.com]

keyboard... but then it is actually a keyboard.

[artela.livejournal.com]

Just "zap", normally with the name of which box it's for in front... so "TV Zap" or "Freeview Zap" or "DVD Zap" etc

[stephdairy.livejournal.com]

doofer, widget.

(S)

[dmwcarol.livejournal.com]

Remote, Zappie, Remoke or Telly Stick

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Flicker.

[tigerfort.livejournal.com]

And another vote for "thingy" from here. Not that we have a TV these days, but.... I'm not sure we even have a stereo with a remote any more.

[gillyg.livejournal.com]

It's the clicky in our house - for all four of them!

[teleute.livejournal.com]

At this point in the pregnancy it's the "...um..." but then so is nearly everything in the house (and the few things I do name, I get wrong).

But then, since I'm not allowed to be in charge of it if Adrian is around (a battle just not worth fighting) I rarely have to ask for it to be passed to me anyway ;-)

[k425.livejournal.com]

Zapper, but also "mocron" because that was how YoungBloke pronounced "remote control" when he was younger.

[ellefurtle.livejournal.com]

Doofer (my parents)
Podger (my ex and I caught it off him)

[marco-villalta.livejournal.com]

In English I say “remote”. In Swedish I say “fjärrkontroll”, which means “remote control”.

[imc.livejournal.com]

"Remote" and "remote control" but no "control"? :-)

In my parents' house it's called the "stick" — the first remote controlled thing we had was a Hitachi VCR and its control was long and thin. After that came the "telly stick" which wasn't quite so stick-shaped but the terminology had already stuck.

[lnr]

The poll was based on names people had already given for it, and no-one had mentioned that one.

No-one else seems to use "wand" but that's what ours was, because of the long thin nature and because it's "magic".