The clicker. Or the remote. Either.

the tv clicker or the remote

ugh .. 2 weeks of takeout .. I feel for you!

A remote. Definitely. My grandpa used to call it a clicker.

Why would you possible call it a converter? It’s not converting anything.
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I’ll be there Wednesday too, so I’ll track you down and give you a quarter or buy you a bottle Iof hooch.

In my house growing up, it was either the flicker-flacker or the hinkydoomper. My dad is weird.
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Remote, though I know that different regions of Canada call it different things.

Remote or clicker.

Converter? Crazy people. It’s remote or changer here on the Atlantic coast.

I was born and raised on Vancouver Island and now live in Ottawa and have never heard a converter. I’ve always said remote and have heard other use clicker. I don’t think it is necessarily a Canadian thing. Maybe Toronto?

We call it a remote. Maybe it’s an Ontario thing?

Cannot WAIT to see you, my friend. In TWENTY-THREE DAYS.

I turned the TV off with my remote to read your post because I got so excited to find out that I share the multiple set of dishes gene with you! Last week, my mom came barging in with a set of dishes she bought for a buck at a garage sale to give to me. THEY WERE BRAND NEW! And…sigh…my mom talked the lady down from $2 to $1 for them.

I’m thinking of getting rid of all my baby stuff in the hopes that I end up pregnant, so, will you be announcing a pregnancy after you get settled in Atlanta? 🙂

(so wish I was going to BlogHer…)
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It’s a remote. Hope your move goes well and have a great time at Blogher.
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LOL, in our house, it’s a “clicker”. Good luck with your move!
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I’m with the majority of the others, that it’s a remote. We have a digital “converter” box, since we live out in the country with an antenna on top of our house. With the converter, we went from having 7 channels to having about 40 channels.
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Our big-ass wired channel changer from the 80’s was called the converter. I think I’ve dropped that name completely, but I would still pass the remote if someone asked for the converter.

Yup, it looks like you’re moving.

It’s a remote. I have never called it a converter, nor have I heard it be called a converter. That’s just…weird.

Converter? It doesn’t “convert” anything! It’s definitely a remote…silly Canadians! :p

Yeah so Canadian here and I definitely flip back and forth between remote and converter… I was raised by my grams and she always called it the converter. She was old school like that so I continue to keep it real in her memory!

I live in Canada and I usually say converter but I also say remote sometimes

I am way impressed that this far out you have packed that much stuff. My packing style is to wait until 30 minutes before the movers show up and start throwing crap into boxes.

In our house we call it a tooka, although I default to remote when people look at me like I’m crazy.

Ok, after reading your comments I just feel old. Thanks for that.

I don’t know that ‘converter’ is innately Canadian; but it is a relic of a word that just won’t go away. Converters convert the signal being received so I think it’s a throwback to when cable was first introduced. You had to have a cable converter box. In the 70’s we had these big brown caveman versions of today’s remotes that went along with said converter box. Like Tracy said, you could sit your ass on the couch and not have to get up to change the channel. They were connected to the TV with a big long wire which someone inevitably tripped over or the cat chewed on it. They had big buttons or a slider to change the channel. Here – this is what they looked like http://bit.ly/70sRule . We called it a converter in our house, but I knew some that called it a clicker; the buttons made a big clicking sound when pressed.

I seriously doubt anyone under 30 has ever heard of a converter because the battery operated type started surfacing in the 80’s; took me years to start calling it a remote.
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clicker

it’s a clicker. the noise it’s SUPPOSED to make is “bloop”. mine doesn’t. it’s not tivo. i’ve complained. hmph.

Canadians are weird. We call it the remote. My Aunt calls it the “buttons” and my roommate from college called it a “motey”.

Grew up in Waterloo Ontario, and it was a remote. Live in Vancouver with my Manitoba born husband and it is a remote. I *have* heard converter, but really, it’s a remote.