Fancy a channel surf?
By silicon.com, 16 January 2009 12:14
This competition is now closed. The winning caption, from reader Martin Plumb, was "Dave was delighted when the police phoned to tell him that his stolen television had been recovered and was ready for collection from their compound. He was, however, bemused by the instruction, "Please bring its remote control to help us locate it"."
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1. Rob Falconer
Unfortunately, these televisions cannot be repaired without a plasma transfusion
2. Valerie Ganne
Some of these televisions are so old they’re still showing ‘Hancock’s Half Hour’
3. Audrey
Everybody seems to be dumping their televisions, now “Celebrity Come Dancing” is over
4. Karen Challinor
the surfeit of reality TV shows led to an inevitable result
5. Karen Challinor
I wish people would remember to turn their tv's off before throwing them out
6. Graeme Teesdale
Wall-TV!
7. Paul
I see Jonahan Ross is back this weekend!
8. Paul
Some think they have to get a digital receiver to get digital television, good for sales, bad for environment!!
9. Mike Parmley
Down the back of the IT department's sofa.
10. Ian Sargent
Proof that the "Pile 'em high, sell 'em cheap" approach doesn't work for all products.
11. Karen Challinor
the television convention wasn't quite what I expected
12. Paul Wilson
Who sat on the remote and changed all the channels.
13. Craig Mitchell
This goes to show that there is some meaning to the saying power in numbers.
14. John Ray
Soon to become flat screen TVs
15. Ron Livesey
The queue at the Gym had become quite substantial...
16. Tony Sibley
True HD TV - That is, Hastily Dumped TV's
17. kenneth wilkinson
"Match of the day was very popular with TV Fans."
18. Martin Plumb
Dave was delighted when the police phoned to tell him that his stolen television had been recovered and was ready for collection from their compound. He was, however, bemused by the instruction, "Please bring its remote control to help us locate it".
19. Carl Brown
Thousands of tv's thrown out in anger as Channel 4 once again brings back Big Brother.
20. Richard
Backstage, reality TV.
21. Janet McKitterick
The directive was to open a new tellytubby land, but it was misheard and tellytopple land was opened instead!
22. Gwilym Rhy-Jones
Albert Steptoe was spoiled for choice.
23. Mike Parmley
The office move finally gave Geoff the excuse to clear out some of the kit that he hadn't used for a while.
24. kenneth wilkinson
"Honest Officer,they fell off the back of a lorry."
25. Tim Ware
Video conferences - kiss and tell the truth
26. Dave Devine
Rob had telly's for sale, they are cheap coz they fell off the back of a lorry