Magic TV
When I was about 7 and my older brother was 12 our TV was a huge wood panelled thing with wonderfully clunky buttons like pegs that you had to push in to change the channel.

We would want to watch different things so we would be constantly fighting until my brother had an idea. He said that he had seen a TV that could show more than one channel at a time. If pushing the buttons in changed the channel then if you had more than button pressed, logically, you should be able to see more than one channel. Surely that was the answer to our dilemma.

We tried it at once I held one button in and he tried to push another. It wouldn't work as the TV had some sort of "censor system" (his words) which meant that as soon as one button was pushed the other would automatically come out.

We were so close to magic TV bliss that we decided to carry on. Maybe, he said, it was an adult thing and kids weren't strong enough to do it. Thats when I hit on the idea of using a hammer.

Yes, I hammered all four buttons into the set, that way we would never have to change channels. The TV blinked and then died, never to lighten our living room again.

We both got the kind of beating that I would only be able to describe in a "whats the most painful beating your parents gave you?" qotw.
(Bo Nidle Coming back in from the cold., Tue 30 Dec 2008, 22:27, 2 replies)

...and we have next weeks question.
*click*
(Generator cannot be named for legal reasons, Tue 30 Dec 2008, 22:59, closed)

*Click*
Ahh, childhood memories of wanton destruction in the name of scientific endevor...
( SpankyHanky, Wed 31 Dec 2008, 9:37, closed)