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Jac de Molay is offline Jac de Molay
Prince
Detroit
Sep 2001
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The handkerchief.

A piece of cloth you repeatedly blow your nose into, and then put back into your pocket???

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Got spare money?

Neckties.

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International crime fighting playboy
Apr 2002
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models

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Dilbert
Aug 1999
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Apolyton.

If I hadn't said it, someone else would have.

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Feb 2000
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The opposable thumb. It was all downhill from there.

Lancer is offline Lancer
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Apr 1999
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Airplanes! Without them we wouldn't have hijackings, and we would still have the Twin Towers. Also, the majestic zepplin would still ply the skys. Huge Grande ocean liners would transport the masses happily across the seas cheaply and with better food. There would be no noisy airports to piss people off. No contrails to ruin photos, no occasional huge lump of frozen **** crashing through someones house in Boise.

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Feb 2003
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Planes *and* automobiles, Lancer?

(*thinks of good John Hughes reference will waiting for trains to be added*)

Lancer is offline Lancer
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Apr 1999
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Trains can stay.

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Chieftain
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Feb 2000
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You know, I have no problem with the occasional lump of frozen **** crashing through someone's house in Boise. Just as long as the frozen **** stays well away from Minnesota, I can appreciate the comedic value.

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Even frozen **** is smart enough not to go to Minnesota.

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For six months of the year, all **** in Minnesota is frozen. I just don't want it invading the other half of the year.

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Taehan Mingook
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quote:
Ring tones for cell phones.

Why not just cell phones?

Lancer's at least partially right about cars, there's very little to be said for the sprawl that cars made possible.

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Television. Without it more people might actually spend some time thinking rather than waste hours sitting watching mindless drivel.

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Sweden
May 2002
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Television. Without it more people might actually spend some time thinking rather than waste hours sitting watching mindless drivel.


Like you do right now eh?

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NO flobbies, chiapets, mood rocks, lava lamps, and so forth?

Light Beer sounds good to me

as for a significant invention? Cotton Gin: revitalized a dying institution, and I am sure industrilization could have lived without it.

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Oct 2002
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Like you do right now eh?


I like to think I am in good company.

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You don't wear cotton clothing GePap ?
Polyester kind of guy ? Larry the Lounge Lizard?

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Nov 2001
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I would not have mided paying a wee bit more for my cotton cloathes. And what's wrong with linens?

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Put an end to popups!

Nothing. Nothing at all.







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- spam


but without spam none us would be posting!

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Ever eaten spam?

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Worst Invention? - The Accordian

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quote:
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Ever eaten spam?


spam?

+1

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Empires were built by dictators, not democracies.
Jul 2002
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Humans

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Tired of ads?

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spam?

+1


oh, forgot OT doesn't count

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WTG, dolt.

Kontiki is offline Kontiki
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Aug 2001
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Astroturf.

Really, pick any synthetic material popularized in the 70s and you've got a winner. Actually, pick just about ANYTHING from the 70s and there's a good chance it should be on the list.

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I forgot the glowing puck some US network (I believe it was FOX, IIRC) introduced when they first decided to televise NHL hockey.

Arrian is offline Arrian
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Jul 2001
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Oh, there you go. The glowing puck. I agree. Hideous. Typical Fox (pretty sure it was them).

-Arrian

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Dec 2002
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The handkerchief.

A piece of cloth you repeatedly blow your nose into, and then put back into your pocket???



The handkerchief was a great human advance. Before that, people used their shirt sleeves, for crying out loud!

 
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