Remote controls are usually found in remote locations. “The best place to keep a remote control is in a remote location!” was posted on Twitter on June 9, 2011. “They call it a remote control because it’s always in a remote location when you want to find/use it” was posted on Twitter on June 20, 2011. “The remote control is in a remote location” was posted on Twitter on March 13, 2012.
“It doesn’t matter where you leave the tv remote control, because it will always be in a remote location” was posted on Twitter on December 15, 2017. “Anywhere you leave your remote control becomes a remote location” was posted on Reddit—Shower Thoughts on January 27, 2018.
Twitter
Nadiyah Pemitasari
@NDYpermitasari
Ketawa mu lebay hun ._. RT @ReyLawson: @deaneputrii the best place to keep a remote control is in a remote location! XD HAHAHA xD
2:26 AM - 9 Jun 2011
Twitter
Chanelle ♥ ♀ ♀
@Chae_FromTheBay
They call it a remote control because it’s always in a remote location when you want to find/use it.
10:36 AM - 20 Jun 2011
Twitter
auss
@austinekele
Lol! The remote control is in a remote location. Champ anoda fool.
7:15 AM - 13 Mar 2012
Twitter
stelman®
@stelman83
It’s called a remote control since it’s on a remote location where it’s hard to find when you need it.
5:53 AM - 1 Jan 2013
Twitter
Scarr MaCucci
@SheOutYoLeague
My remote control always in a remote location bro
5:44 PM - 16 Jan 2013
Twitter
fromthetop_sg
@KyloBen
I can’t find my remote control. It’s probably in a remote location.
8:57 AM - 28 Apr 2013
Twitter
Scarr MaCucci
@SheOutYoLeague
Remote control always in a remote location
7:11 PM - 5 May 2013
Twitter
SMOKEkush EATbush
@pimptaqulahG
Friend: Where’s the remote control?
Me: In a remote location (._. )
8:31 AM - 21 Oct 2013
Twitter
Qhan
@FQhan
The tv remote control is always missing cos wherever it is..... it will be at a remote location
1:11 AM - 21 May 2016
Reddit—Puns
I lost my remote control (self.puns)
submitted February 16, 2017 by Thethirdwheel11
Its in a remote location
Twitter
VODKOWSKI LEBOWSKI™
@Vodkowski
It doesn’t matter where you leave the tv remote control, because it will always be in a remote location.
6:30 AM - 15 Dec 2017
Reddit—Shower Thoughts
Anywhere you leave your remote control becomes a remote location.
submitted January 27, 2018 by Try_Not_To_Suck
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
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