A question of vocabulary

[lukevanoort]

I usually call it a water fountain if I refer to it as anything other than "Mmm, cold(ish) water."

Originally Posted by artdutra04

If you want some more crazy New England vocabulary, we call it clicker.

I'm rather partial to calling it a converter. It just seems to make more sense to me, since nowadays converters/tuners/clickers/remote controls do a lot more than just tune to a channel, the ones I use don't click, and remote control sounds like they're really far away. That said, I usually say remote, no one would understand what I meant if I said "Pass me the converter."