All in One Remote controls
I love the Pound Shops (and their evben more lowbrow competitor, the 99p Shop). I buy all mannmer of household items there, but there's one I am banned from ever purchasing again.

A few years back, when I first assembled my grgeous home entertainment centre, Mrs S was continually baffled byu having four or five remotes, and never knowing which one controlled which expensive black box (looking at the name eg SONY, TOSHIBA was obviously beyond her).

One day, in our local Poundland, she spots an all-in-one remote. Great, thinks I, Dixons want anything up to £60 for these, I'll have it.

Unfortunately, I could only get the thing to control my video recorder, and even then, only the rudimentary basics, and not the Menu/set up screens.

Next week, I spy another, different one. This one would only operate the TV.

Ands this went on until I amassed 5 different All-in-One remotes, each of which would only operate one item in my system, and consequently our coffee table broke under the weight of cheap plastic doofers clogging it up.*

(*may contaiun elemenets of lie)
( Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Mon 7 Jan 2008, 17:40, 3 replies)

DOOFERS :-)
Strange to hear you call them doofers ,my old man use to call them that,where does it come from?
(andycrass loves two hats on, Mon 7 Jan 2008, 21:33, closed)

No idea...
just a term that I've picked up. Mrs S says it a lot, but she's fom suffolk so that probably explains a lot
( Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Tue 8 Jan 2008, 8:32, closed)

sadly...
...I seem to recall it came from Telly Addicts. Noel Edmonds used to call it an "oofer doofer" - must have come from somewhere before that though I'm sure.

I've heard many people call them a "box" which always reminds me of those sports things you put your man bits in :p
(kebabking - salad and garlic mayo pls, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 13:40, closed)