The guy who invented TV-B-Gone ought to get a Nobel Prize. I don't mind being at bars or places where people are actually watching TV, but I resent being the only person in a waiting room with the TV blaring inanities. And when you ask the receptionist to turn it off, you get answers like "Other people like it."

Um, what other people?

"Well, the next person might want it on."

And, of course, turning a television on and off is an electrician's job. TV-B-Gone seems a lot simpler.

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