Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for September 09, 2024

Apparently it was last seen in a remote location.

The remote is hiding in the sack that ran…

Where’s Goldie? It looks like we will need her to solve The Case of the Missing Remote.

I suspect Lupin.

I suspect Gent suspects the Mice.

Robin’s suspicions are doomed.

tag it so that you can find it.

I can remember when losing the remote only meant that you actually had to get up and go over to the TV. Now, many new TVs don’t even have external controls.

(Actually, I can remember much further back than that: Before remote controls at all, when most people didn’t even have color TVs. My dad told me how almost his whole little town gathered outside the hardware store because they had an actual television (black & white, of course) in the store window when he was a teenager!

I just had to replace the remote control for my Bose radio/CD player. The remote’s not much bigger than a thick credit card, and the player cannot be used manually, only with the remote. :/

Well, it looks like the Woman has tried all the usual hiding places. Time to empty out toy box and the dishwasher. Maybe the silverware drawer.

And call Goldie.

We are toebeanless today. :-(

Look in the freezer.

That’s where my mother found her glasses and a friend found her keys.

Always good to keep a spare remote. We have the universal remote and the remote that actually came with the TV.

Ransacked?!?! Did somebody break the glass? (Ref. Yesterdays comic)

Happens to me all the time.

I don’t lose the remote but the cordless house phone is another matter.

Disaster! Devastation! And other d words.

pssst! check under the refrigerator!

If the woman is like me, the remote will turn up when she stops looking for it. Of course with helpful cats on the case it should turn up quickly. (Asking for help from family members who have passed on can also work.)

And this is why you should always check if your model has a phone app you can use in a pinch.

I remember when TVs actually had buttons on them…

You still have a remote control?

Kenny (the very active husky over on Dogs of C-Kennel) is helping keep us safe from the leaves today.

The remote control is probably attending channel studies in the nursery school.

I have flipped high couch cushions

I am done with this ordeal

Wish I had pay-per-view

I just want to click with you

I am done

I have bawled

Checked the cracks where you could fall

Felt and crawled

Only to be with you

But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for

But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for

/Paul David Hewson, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen, Dave Evans /U2

oh dear, that really IS a tragedy!

I still call the remote the clicker, even though it hasn’t clicked for decades.

Living room? It useless to wastes time on that one. Me is say ransnacking the kitchen is much better.

It’s time to ask the most useless question in the world:

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“Well, where did you see it last?”

Our “cable” box has a button on the back you push to make the remote play a tune. I admit it is helpful.

Not the remote!!!!

We have a coffee table with a drawer to store our 7 remotes. All necessary. Cable, Roku, gas fireplace, tv, dvd player, blinds and one remote to rule them all and in the darkness bind them!

Some of us are old enough to remember BEING the remote control for our parents

Look UNDER the Big Red Couch, Woman! Have you forgotten that you have cats?

Just tell your kid to change the channel as in the old times

We had to tunnel three miles uphill both ways through the snowdrifts to change the channels

Disaster! Tragedy! Doom! Chaos! Has anyone thought to check with Ora Zella?

See, this is why having so many TVs of today have next to no external controls themselves is a bad idea. Like, I legit don’t know what manufacturers are smoking to think THAT was a good idea. The age-old problem of misplacing the remote is most definitely still a thing, and I don’t expect it to go away.

I wonder if this means they’ll have to move the couch, revealing another kitty trove. November 13, 2014, if you were wondering.

There should be a remote that makes all the other remotes beep … of course, that will be the one that goes missing.

The Woman has… lost control! ;)

Somebody will probably soon invent an AI remote control that can tell you where it is. You say something like “Remote, where are you?” and it’s listening for that key word or phrase. When it hears it, it activates its camera. The AI analyzes the view from the camera and describes it to you with its voice function. “I appear to be under a white cushion.”

During the late 1970s, I lived in a commune while in college. One of the guys hated that commercials were so loud, so he strung a wire to a coffee can with switch so we could mute them without having to get off the couch! We thought we were so cool and all of our friends took lessons in how to do that. I hate the fact that new products require remotes because I am always misplacing mine.

heck…. i can remember when i was the remote control… i’d be sitting on the floor near the tv and my Dad would tell me to keep changing the channel…of course back then we only had three channels… that was before even PBS…..

EVERY remote I have is Black. A problem in itself as several are the same shape and stored together. I have been planning on painting different colors or stick-ons on them….planning, planning…….

It’s probably on top of the TV

I suspect that owl in the background – he looks pretty sly! :-)

How can that be?! Maybe Detective Goldie could help her find the remote.

OT: Plumbing nightmares

We have white upholstery, white rug and a white remote. Additionally, the wife stuffs the remote behind or under the cushion or chair she is sitting on. “Find the remote” is an hourly game in our house.

Time to read or nap.

One more thing on remotes today. I just misplaced my apple tv remote….. WHILE it was plugged into my computer to recharge. LOL I put it in my glasses case while I was reading the brilliant comments of the Orb. Then decided to change channels and thought, HEY, WHERE’S MY REMOTE? It’s been a taxing day. And on that note, Gracie wasa good girl today, with plumbers and my stress, but Sara….. Sara was a star! She’s been snuggling me and making me feel better. I’m in the middle of a nasty migraine. I’ll be picking up a few Lil soups tomorrow. Sara’s favorite.

I just realized – Puck is doing a live REMOTE from the living room!

Poor Lupin looks so sad in panel 2.

And always the professional as he is doing his remote report, Puck with the serious “In related news” item in panel 4! :-)

OT

The hiding place which stumped me the most was the 1" wide space between the side of my mattress and the wooden side of my bed. My remote lived there with my glasses for weeks.

The cats have competition. Bound and Gagged shows the mice have their own show.

Oh no…….Say it isn’t so!!!!! You mean someone will have to get up and change the channel on the television set manually?

Oh the humanity of it all……..

I don’t recall ever having to do The Great TV Remote Search. But this just-past Saturday, milady and I did The Great Ransack the Car For the Vanished Key. Unsuccessfully, and about 100 highway miles from home. We set out to go to the Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend, WA, and as we’ve done every trip there, stopped at a popular and busy store in Chimacum, 10 miles from Port Townsend. Before we so much as opened the car doors, I took the key out of the ignition and put it…somewhere. I realized it wasn’t in my hand or pocket or in sight before I got out, and we started hunting for it. We occupied about an hour doing that, along with each of us doing a quick pit stop in the store. Maybe we put 1 1/2 hours into the search—I don’t know. We called AAA (we’d joined less than a year ago) and explained the problem. They found a locksmith who could and would come—he’d arrive in about an hour and a half from the time we talked to him. He got there, programmed two new keys, and it cost about 30% of what it would have cost without AAA. By then, we were NOT in a ‘festival’ mood, so went home and…

Shortly after we got back, we let Excelsior, our newly adopted cat, out of the bathroom and into the rest of the house. Now, we rarely see him, for he’s very shy. He seems to have told Steph that he wants company of the feline kind, so we’ll be adopting another this week.

Yes, I should have tagged this as OT, but just didn’t.

My brother and I were the remotes in our house!

we lost the remote for the tv many times and now we had to put a tracking chip on it.

Shake out the fuzzy blanket. Things always get bundled up in fuzzy blankets!

my old tv you could just get up and press a button, but i got a new one a couple of years ago because it was almost 10 years old at that point. so if you lose the remote, you’re gonna have to find it.

This might be my new favorite BCN story. I hate how most new TVs don’t even have any controls on the actual TV itself. Whose bloody stupid idea was that anyway? Misplace a remote and you’re doomed.