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  2. Lazy Bones - Wikipedia

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    Lazy Bones was originally a comic strip in the British comic Whizzer and Chips. It made its first appearance in 1978. The strip was about a boy called Benny Bones, who would constantly fall asleep everywhere, much to the annoyance of his parents. Until 1986, the strip was drawn by Colin Whittock, [1] and moved to Buster in 1990 after Whizzer ...

  3. Lazybones - Wikipedia

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    Lazybones or Lazy Bones may refer to: Lazybones (song) , a 1933 song by Johnny Mercer and Hoagy Carmichael Lazybones (1935 film) , a British film directed by Michael Powell

  4. Lazybones (song) - Wikipedia

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    Lazybones or "Lazy Bones" is a Tin Pan Alley song written in 1933, with lyrics by Johnny Mercer (1909-1976), and music by Hoagy Carmichael (1899-1981).. Mercer was from Savannah, Georgia, and resented the Tin Pan Alley attitude of rejecting Southern regional vernacular in favor of artificial Southern songs written by people who had never been to the South.

  5. Remote control - Wikipedia

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    The remote, called Lazy Bones, [15] was connected to the television by a wire. A wireless remote control, the Flash-Matic , [ 15 ] [ 16 ] was developed in 1955 by Eugene Polley . It worked by shining a beam of light onto one of four photoelectric cells , [ 17 ] but the cell did not distinguish between light from the remote and light from other ...

  6. Eugene F. McDonald - Wikipedia

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    In 1950 Zenith came up with a remote control called the "Lazy Bones" which was connected with wires to the TV set. The next development was the "Flashmatic" (1955), designed by Eugene Polley, a wireless remote control that used a light beam to signal the TV (with a photosensitive pickup device) to change stations. One problem was that during ...

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  8. List of retronyms - Wikipedia

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    However, rechargeable batteries back then were limited to stationary and vehicular (sometimes semi-portable) applications. Divided expressway /freeway (USA) Early expressways and freeways were divided corridors, but recent concepts of freeways and expressways have included occasional undivided corridors for economic and environmental ...

  9. Lazybones (1935 film) - Wikipedia

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    Sir Reginald Ford, known as "Lazybones", is an idle baronet. He hasn't a care in the world, although he doesn't have any money either. His brother and sister introduce him to Kitty McCarthy, an American heiress, in the hope that he will marry her and so gain access to her fortune which will help out his family.