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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. 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 ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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.

  6. List of inventions named after people - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of inventions followed by name of the inventor (or whomever else it is named after). For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people) see Lists of etymologies . The list

  7. Bones (nickname) - Wikipedia

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    Bones is a nickname. Notable people with this nickname include: People. Music. Elias Andra (born 1973), American rock drummer; Bones Hillman (1958–2020), New ...

  8. Johnny Mercer - Wikipedia

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    "Lazy Bones" Hoagy Carmichael: 1934 "P.S. I Love You" Gordon Jenkins: 1936 "Goody Goody" Matty Malneck: 1936 "I'm an Old Cowhand from the Rio Grande" Johnny Mercer: 1937 "Hooray for Hollywood" Richard A. Whiting: 1937 "Too Marvelous for Words" Richard A. Whiting: 1938 "Jeepers, Creepers!" Harry Warren: Film - Going Places. Nominated Best ...

  9. List of animated short films - Wikipedia

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    Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse: A Duet, He Made Me Love Him: 1916 United States Traditional Animation Krazy Kat & Ignatz Mouse Discuss the Letter 'G' 1916 United States Traditional Animation Krazy Kat Invalid: 1916 United States Traditional Animation Battle of a Monkey and a Crab: 1917 Japan Anime The Dinosaur and the Missing Link: A Prehistoric ...