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   From: weaponx013@yahoo.com   
      
   Lee K. Seitz wrote:   
   > In article <9CY3i.459$YW1.363@trnddc04>, Scott H     
   wrote:   
   >> 2000man@gmail.com wrote:   
   >>     I've always wondered how a controller with a cord could be   
   >> considered remote.   
   >   
   > You have much to learn, young grasshopper.  There was a time when VCRs   
   > came with remote controls and these controls had long wires connecting   
   > them to the VCR.  The point was you didn't have to get up off the   
   > couch to fastforward and rewind, so it was a remote.  Still, *I*   
   > wouldn't call a video game controller a remote in most cases.   
   >   
      
   That is news to me.  It also somewhat invalidates my point.  I was   
   mostly being intolerant in the first place.  People are used to calling   
   things they hold in their hands that control something on the TV a   
   "remote," which is short for remote control.   
      
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   Scott   
      
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