When my son was five, I taught him to ski. He did ok on the bunny hill tow rope so we graduated to the chair lift. His first time was ok. Second time, he faltered as he got off and I missed the grab. He fell.
I yelled “Don’t get u….” WHACK
He got smacked on the head by the next chair.
His ski trip turned into a Ski Patrol snowmobile ride and a trip to the hospital for a few stitches in his head.
Yeah, well, I’m told queso cheese dip was invented in Arkansas.
So neener.
some inventions are inevitable. This one of them.
Everyone claims to have invented the television.
Story doesn’t sound bizarre to me. Sounds like old-fashioned American ingenuity,
Claiming to have invented television is demonstrative of ignorance of the subject. The author starts out with bullstuff, so why should I bother reading the rest?
How does a state invent anything?
Dang!
And we always were told that Al Gore had invented the ski lift. /s
“We invented the television, for goodness sake. Still, the only thing that comes to people’s minds when they think of Idaho are potatoes.”
Potatoes are more important than television. Potatoes are more important than anything. Anyhow, IMO. ;)
I had friend in HS in 1975, that moved from California. He was a surfer. We lived in the hills 15 miles outside of White Salmon Washington and got quite a bit of snow. So one night we took his surfboard, cut the fin off of it and decided to surf down the hillside. It was to wide to control but it was fun. By the end of the night we just drilled a hole in the nose and tied a rope through it.
So I guess you could say we came up with snowboard concept.