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I remember watching that commercial and laughing at the old lady at the end every time.
I looked after a young girl once who said that when she stayed overnight at her gamma’s she got no sleep because the lights would go on and off every time her gramma snored.
And now they have lights that turn on via remote control for (I am not making this up) people who are too lazy to clap their lights on.
What is this world coming to?
Older people often have limited mobility. When getting up means risking a potentially fatal fall, you either wake someone up, take the risk, or get remote control lights.
No ground prong. Safety fail.
I noticed that too. I’m also willing to bet the prongs aren’t polarized.
You Americans with you 110 and 220 plugs. 110s arent earthed, 220s are.
Seriously, do you all want to die?
Current 110v outlets are “earthed” – although we call it grounded on this side of the pond. The two prong designed plugs have to be polarized so one side can only go into the neutral side of the outlet. It still provides protection from shock.
i can think of a few epic wins for those “posters” out there.
1. pogs
2. zebra gum
3. the television show full house
unfortunatly, i do not have enough time to post these myself.
anyone who wishes to post may!
Pssst…check the voting pages!
Ha ha, I remember when one of my friend’s mother got a bunch of these and went hog-wild with them…but then she put more than one in each room! If you weren’t careful, whenever you clapped to turn the lights off the TV would come on.
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My brother had one in his room and he had a *ahem* flatulence problem. His lights would go on/off all night!
We had the brilliant idea of plugging our Christmas tree in to a Clapper on year to save from trying to plug the lights in all the time. Worked great… till we were listening to some family members sing and play the piano over the holidays and started applauding for them! Strobing Christmas tree, the neighbors must’ve thought we were nuts…
oh my god…that fucking song! haha it definitely will be stuck in my head for awhile. i love the way the old lady claps at the end.
you havent lived until youve had the luxury of having the clapper, and a toaster.
seriously, i was 8 years old, my grandma had one, i plugged a fucking toaster into it.
i almost burnt the house to the ground
Holy Crap! Osco drug!!!! I don’t think any of those stores at the end exist anymore.
False. Meijer still exist. Perry Drug Stores were bought by Rite Aid in 1995, Hills merger with Ames in 1999 and Osco Drug has been split between Jean Coutu, CVS, Supervalu and Cerberus in 2002 and 2006.
“clap on.. clap off…” Oh dangit. Well done >__< xD
They shud use those on America’s Got Talent.
I used to work for Walgreens (from 2007-2008) and we got these in one week around Christmas time, and they were gone in two days. I can’t count how many times I got yelled at too because people had heard we had them but we were already sold out.
If you ask me it’s all a load of clap
We’re only just getting this advert in the UK
Totally got a clapper for Christmas this year. Score!
I love the announcer’s voice. So oily.
My dad’s LAUGH sets these things off. Which makes him laugh harder. It’s a vicious circle.
lazy people had this one. just kidding, now we have voice recognition so that we don’t have to use the mouse and keyboard.