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Having a flipper zero in LA is cool because...
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Oh man. It's flipper, it's a dolphin, because it's a reference to Jones, the smack-addicted cyborg anti-submarine warfare dolphin in Johnny Mnemonic.
Do other people not use the word flipper for the TV remote control? Like, flip the channel?
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When I was young "clicker" was common because the tech was so basic that they made a click sound. But I never heard "flipper".
My dad used to call it a flipper. He's dead now.
In the upper Midwest a lot of people use the term "clicker" instead. Similar enough idea