> Today we've got a good Readers' Poll, but it was missing a few key keys.
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> Tab (for ordering one or for quick transport to the next location)
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> Print Screen (for when people are talking really fast or mumbly or foreignly and you can't understand them, so you get a prinout of what they're really saying)
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> Control (the name explains it all)
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> Alt (use as a shortcut key to get thing quickly done)
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> And, there are, of course, some that are on my keyboard that aren't on some:
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> Volume Controls: +, -, Mute (to make loud people quiet, quiet people loud, or to get them to shut up)
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> Search (when you can't find your keys and you're already late)
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> -eric "of course, I prefer the E" sleator
> Mon 21 Feb A.D. 2000

I also took a look at the keys on my TV and VCR remotes. You mentioned the volume controls, but what about stop, freeze frame and rewind? Sometimes I need more time to think about what I want to do and sometimes I would like to go back and do things differently. And then there are times when I have so much fun I think I'd like to play it again. At times, things are going badly and I wish I could hit a key and change channels.
That's why I voted for the escape key.
Howard