I lost my TV remote

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Posted: 3/16/2011 1:20:34 PM EDT

Can't find it anywhere. It's been missing for almost 2 days now. I actually watched Larry the cable guys show and Top Shot

last night cause I didn't want to get up and try surfing through 1,000 channels with the satellite box.

Top shot was a bunch of grown men throwing hatchets and shooting blow darts, WTF! ! ! Where's my remote. I think one of the kids hid it.

Posted: 3/16/2011 1:21:38 PM EDT

[#1]

This is the first sign of the apocalypse.

Posted: 3/16/2011 1:23:47 PM EDT

[#2]

Call it with your cellphone. When you hear it ring you can find it.

Posted: 3/16/2011 1:24:10 PM EDT

[#3]

fo time.

Posted: 3/16/2011 1:25:27 PM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
Call it with your cellphone. When you hear it ring you can find it.

Didn't work. Must be set on silent mode.

Posted: 3/16/2011 1:26:59 PM EDT

[#5]

Did you check ALL of your fat rolls?

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Posted: 3/16/2011 1:27:16 PM EDT

[#6]

Maybe a hint from the Mrs. to get off your ass.

Posted: 3/16/2011 1:27:46 PM EDT

[#7]

I find mine in my kid's toybox periodically.

Posted: 3/16/2011 1:28:56 PM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Call it with your cellphone. When you hear it ring you can find it.

Didn't work. Most be set on silent mode.

Then try the top of your head. I always seem to find mine there.

Posted: 3/16/2011 1:39:42 PM EDT

[#9]

You have satellite, if it's Dish and you have an iPhone you can change channels with your phone.

(must have box connected to internetz)

Posted: 3/16/2011 1:41:59 PM EDT

[#10]

I guess the sofa ate it; or worst... The dog ate it... True story too...

Posted: 3/16/2011 1:51:39 PM EDT

[#11]

Took apart the sofa, love seat, looked under the coffee table, checked the kitchen, the workshop,
behind the TV, my fat rolls, on top of my head, felt up the wife, checked the kids toy boxes, can't find it.
One of the kids had to hide it.

Crap, what comes on history channel tonight?

Posted: 3/16/2011 1:56:50 PM EDT

[#12]

You can buy a universal remote at Walmart. That's what I did when my remote broke.

Posted: 3/16/2011 1:59:48 PM EDT

[#13]

It happens. Check in the couch and I mean IN THE COUCH.

Mine was gone for days until I found that between the arm rest and the first back cushion there is access down to the inside of the couch. I had to pull a couple of staples off the bottom to drop the fabric, reach in, and grab the remote

Posted: 3/16/2011 2:03:11 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
Did you check ALL of your fat rolls?

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LOL!

Posted: 3/16/2011 2:24:11 PM EDT

[#15]

my daughter went through a phase around a year old were she threw stuff away. lost a remote and older daughters shoes that way.

Posted: 3/16/2011 2:40:48 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
my daughter went through a phase around a year old were she threw stuff away. lost a remote and older daughters shoes that way.

Thought about that. I'm halfway tempted to go through the bag of trash sitting in the back of the truck. But, I think I'd rather

just go buy a universal remote.

Posted: 3/16/2011 2:46:14 PM EDT

[#17]

Ass crack?

Posted: 3/16/2011 2:50:38 PM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:

Quoted:
my daughter went through a phase around a year old were she threw stuff away. lost a remote and older daughters shoes that way.

Thought about that. I'm halfway tempted to go through the bag of trash sitting in the back of the truck. But, I think I'd rather

just go buy a universal remote.

Friend at work just dug his remote out of the trash. Could not find it and he asked his girlfriend about it (she was the last one with it). She said she doesn't remember where it is. Finally goes through the trash in the trashcan outside and finds it wrapped up in the newspaper she was reading.

Posted: 3/16/2011 2:50:42 PM EDT

[#19]

It's in the fridge next to the mustard.

You're welcome.

Posted: 3/16/2011 2:51:59 PM EDT

[#20]

If it were up your ass,you would know it..

Posted: 3/16/2011 2:54:46 PM EDT

[#21]

Time to go old school........

Posted: 3/16/2011 3:03:37 PM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:
It's in the fridge next to the mustard.

You're welcome.

I actually checked the fridge, twice. Not there.

Posted: 3/16/2011 3:09:20 PM EDT

[#23]

Shit just got real

Posted: 3/16/2011 3:11:16 PM EDT

[#24]

Mixed up with newspapers or magazines?

When's trash day?

Posted: 3/16/2011 3:27:31 PM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:

Quoted:
It's in the fridge next to the mustard.

You're welcome.

I actually checked the fridge, twice. Not there.

Pantry?

Posted: 3/16/2011 3:50:36 PM EDT

[#26]

Or you could purchase a make/model specific remote control. I've used the company below to order replacement remotes for work. Usually they're just like the original remote control.
http://www.remotecontrolwarehouse.com/

Posted: 3/16/2011 3:52:25 PM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:

Quoted:
It's in the fridge next to the mustard.

You're welcome.

I actually checked the fridge, twice. Not there.

Pantry?

Just checked the pantry and kitchen cabinets. Double checked all the cabinets and drawers that the kids can reach.

Posted: 3/16/2011 3:54:47 PM EDT

[#28]

some website in the internet said I have remote viewing skills. so i'll give it a try..........
I am seeing that it is either under a small table in the living room, or in the kitchen, behind the bread.

Posted: 3/16/2011 3:55:31 PM EDT

[#29]

I once put the remote in the freezer, it took days to find it.

I had gotten up to get a glass of tea, and when it seems when I went to get an ice tray out I set the remote on a shelf in the freezer. Once found it worked right away, even frozen.

Posted: 3/16/2011 3:55:58 PM EDT

[#30]

make the damn kids sleep in the basement till it shows up.

Posted: 3/16/2011 3:56:06 PM EDT

[#31]

Here is a million dollar idea......

TV manufacturers should put a FIND button on the front of the TV. When you push the FIND button it will cause a tiny speaker in the remote to beep for 5 seconds or so.

Granted you are SOL if the batteries in the remote are dead, but what the fuck even if you found the remote, it is useless without batteries anyway....

Posted: 3/16/2011 4:03:17 PM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:

Quoted:

It's in the fridge next to the mustard.

You're welcome.

I actually checked the fridge, twice. Not there.

Pantry?

Just checked the pantry and kitchen cabinets. Double checked all the cabinets and drawers that the kids can reach.

Kids?

They probably traded your remote for a frog.

Sorry.

edit: Or tried to use it on another TV. The remote, not the frog.

Posted: 3/16/2011 4:21:23 PM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:
make the damn kids sleep in the basement till it shows up.

Don't have a basement but

I'm tempted to throwaway one toy every ten minutes untill the remote shows up.

Posted: 3/16/2011 4:23:59 PM EDT

[#34]

Freezer?

Bathrooms? outside?

Posted: 3/17/2011 4:05:58 AM EDT

[#35]

The OP said he had kids. What does he need a remote for?

Posted: 3/17/2011 4:15:43 AM EDT

[#36]

Quoted:
The OP said he had kids. What does he need a remote for?

Maybe it's the kids that are missing?

Posted: 3/17/2011 4:18:36 AM EDT

[#37]

I put mine in the refrigerator once.

Posted: 3/17/2011 4:23:02 AM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:
You have satellite, if it's Dish and you have an iPhone you can change channels with your phone.

(must have box connected to internetz)

I wonder when the cell phone manufacturers are going to start putting the LED's into phones to make them usable as a TV remote? It would cost almost nothing and the engineering involved would be simple.

Posted: 3/17/2011 4:28:15 AM EDT

[#39]

Quoted:
Took apart the sofa, love seat, looked under the coffee table, checked the kitchen, the workshop,
behind the TV, my fat rolls, on top of my head, felt up the wife, checked the kids toy boxes, can't find it.
One of the kids had to hide it.

Crap, what comes on history channel tonight?

Check wife again. Take pics of wife. Post pics of wife. Check wife one more time just in case.

Posted: 3/17/2011 4:30:29 AM EDT

[#40]

Time to buy a new TV

Posted: 3/17/2011 4:51:13 AM EDT

[#41]

Check in your freezer.

(Not kidding, I lost mine once and that's where I found it.....

)

Posted: 3/17/2011 4:51:17 AM EDT

[#42]

Quoted:

Quoted:
The OP said he had kids. What does he need a remote for?

Maybe it's the kids that are missing?

Posted: 3/17/2011 5:07:21 AM EDT

[#43]

Tell the UPS guy to bring it back........and to stop drinking all the good beer.

Posted: 3/17/2011 5:10:11 AM EDT

[#44]

Quoted:

Quoted:

my daughter went through a phase around a year old were she threw stuff away. lost a remote and older daughters shoes that way.

Thought about that. I'm halfway tempted to go through the bag of trash sitting in the back of the truck. But, I think I'd rather

just go buy a universal remote.

Just get a pool cue and be done with it!

Farking armatures......

Posted: 3/17/2011 5:25:21 AM EDT

[#45]

Quoted:

Quoted:

make the damn kids sleep in the basement till it shows up.

Don't have a basement but

I'm tempted to throwaway one toy every ten minutes untill the remote shows up.

DAY 2

Posted: 3/17/2011 5:30:47 AM EDT

[#46]

Get a couple of these. They actually work really good and I guarantee you will NEVER lose one...

http://www.harborfreight.com/jumbo-universal-remote-control-66687.html...

Posted: 3/17/2011 5:35:31 AM EDT

[#47]

You need a finglonger.

Posted: 3/17/2011 7:21:04 AM EDT

[#48]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Call it with your cellphone. When you hear it ring you can find it.

Didn't work. Must be set on silent mode.

You gotta be kidding me! The new remotes have this feature now? I've been with Time Warner for nearly 20yrs and i have yet to see this feature. Of course I've had yhe same remote and box for about 5yrs.