Word: clicker
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Concerns over voter impropriety arose when, prior to the initial vote against the grants package, representative Vivien G.H. Wu ’08 left the meeting early and handed her electronic vote-clicker to fellow representative Nworah B. Ayogu...
When representative Sammad Khurram ’09 discovered that Wu’s name had appeared on the projector screen that displays the votes despite the fact she was no longer present at the meeting, Ayogu admitted that he registered votes on both his own clicker and Wu’s. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...universal remote in the Beyond section of Bed, Bath and Beyond, which is down a spooky hallway in a shadowy stock room presided over by Christopher Walken's genial, flaky Mort. Michael (Adam Sandler) hopes the device will bring a little order to his chaotic life - one clicker replacing the many that presently operate the TV, the garage door, his kids' toys...
...revealing flash emerged as Costello, projector clicker at the ready, was explaining the Budget to sequestered reporters on May 9. Searching for a word to sum up the changes to superannuation, he thought for a few beats, then settled on "radical." It was Costello looking down the time tunnel; the exact image of the landscape and people out there in 2040 was elusive, but he seemed happy with the shape of the outcome. The moment passed and the Treasurer went back to the script. But radical was a description Costello was burdened with-or guided by-for two decades...
...hate to admit it, but I’m one of those guys who always has the clicker in hand,” he says. “I’m always watching a half dozen shows at once...