TV-B-GONE

   Want to make yourself about as popular as a skunk at a garden party? Order one of these little babies and start clicking your way to taking the Miss Congeniality title. The gadget is a universal remote control that is billed as being able to turn off "virtually any television". The ads proclaim it as the "ultimate tool for reclaiming public space", and say it will work at places like airports, and bars. At $25.00 Canadian, it wouldn't be too unreasonable a price tag for a good laugh. You'd just have to be careful about where and when you used it. A bar filled with football fans in various stages of drunker-than-drunk might not be quite ready for you to turn off the whatever-bowl game on them.