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Seven greatest accidental inventions
San Antonio Express-News ^
| 04/04/2010
| Source: www.spike.com/blog/top-7-greatest/91870
Posted on 04/05/2010 10:12:05 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Edited on 04/05/2010 10:16:18 AM PDT by Admin Moderator.
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To: Responsibility2nd
My first and third daughters were accidents.
Actually, so was my fifth, but that was more alcohol-induced negligence than accident.
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posted on
04/05/2010 10:31:01 AM PDT
by
TheThirdRuffian
(Nothing to see here. Move along.)
To: MindBender26
WD-40 is also great to use on stainless steel appliance doors (refrig’s, etc.).. First you clean with 409, or something like that, then you buff with WD-40. Looks great and no streaks.
To: KarlInOhio
You should have seen what they went through to get formula 409. This is 410; they backed away:
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posted on
04/05/2010 10:34:54 AM PDT
by
TheThirdRuffian
(Nothing to see here. Move along.)
To: Responsibility2nd
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posted on
04/05/2010 10:38:58 AM PDT
by
Cheetahcat
(Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
To: TheThirdRuffian
Look, though....clearly an IM-plosion. Looks more like an artificial singularity in a 1G standard grav field.
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posted on
04/05/2010 10:41:10 AM PDT
by
50sDad
(The Left cannot understand life is not in a test tube. Raise taxes, & jobs go away.)
To: MindBender26
I can’t recall the comedian who quipped (I’m paraphrasing): “What happened to the guys who tested Preperation A through G?”
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posted on
04/05/2010 10:43:07 AM PDT
by
whd23
To: Responsibility2nd
I’m glad I wasn’t the person who ‘accidentally’ discovered dynamite. If I was, I probably would not have survived to file the patent application.
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posted on
04/05/2010 10:43:18 AM PDT
by
Vision Thing
(He has a white house, and he wants to paint it black.)
To: Responsibility2nd
Velcro was no accident. Everyone knows the government got it from the dead aliens crashsite in Roswell, New Mexico........../tinfoil
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posted on
04/05/2010 10:45:20 AM PDT
by
OB1kNOb
(When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. - Thomas Jefferson)
To: Responsibility2nd
This is nonsense.
Velcro was not an accidental invention: See
Neither was Dynamite: See
Nor Coca Cola: See
Or the potato chip: See
Or WD-40: See
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posted on
04/05/2010 10:46:30 AM PDT
by
catnipman
(Cat Nipman: Made from The Right Stuff)
To: Vision Thing
You DO know the person that invented dynamite, don’t you?
He is now well known for useless prizes that should be found in Cracker Jack boxes.
To: catnipman
Great. There’s always one in every thread.
A common sense poster who comes along with the facts.
Sheesh.
/sarc
To: TheThirdRuffian
Looks like someone in the schoolhouse just tried to divide by zero!
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posted on
04/05/2010 10:52:24 AM PDT
by
Sax
To: catnipman
Velcro was not an accidental invention: SeeThe inspiration for it was. The creation of it was not.
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posted on
04/05/2010 10:57:15 AM PDT
by
IYAS9YAS
(The townhalls were going great until the oPods showed up.)
To: Responsibility2nd
These inventions should be called serendipitous, not accidental.
True examples include:
Goodyear and vulcanization of rubber.
Teflon
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posted on
04/05/2010 11:00:36 AM PDT
by
Plutarch
To: Responsibility2nd
Rogaine..
Originally a drug for high BP.
Hairy palms was a side effect. :)
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posted on
04/05/2010 11:01:06 AM PDT
by
Vinnie
(You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
To: Responsibility2nd
You DO know the person that invented dynamite, don’t you? Nobel, as in Nobel prize.
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posted on
04/05/2010 11:02:09 AM PDT
by
unixfox
To: Responsibility2nd
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posted on
04/05/2010 11:06:57 AM PDT
by
vamoose
To: Responsibility2nd
Your list is complete BS. Here are the 7 best real accidental inventions.
1. Beer
2. Beer
3. Beer
4. Beer
5. Beer
6. Beer
7. Beer
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posted on
04/05/2010 11:14:59 AM PDT
by
HenpeckedCon
(What pi$$es me off the most is that POS commie will get a State Funeral!)
To: Responsibility2nd
Yo. Here da man:
To: IYAS9YAS
Velcro was not an accidental invention: See The inspiration for it was. The creation of it was not.
Personally, I wouldn't label keen observation and intellectual curiosity as "accidental".
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posted on
04/05/2010 12:47:22 PM PDT
by
catnipman
(Cat Nipman: Made from The Right Stuff)
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