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#1 2010-06-02 08:46:24
- soroban
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World's Dumbest Inventions
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#2 2010-06-02 09:11:04
- bobbym
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Re: World's Dumbest Inventions
These are actually in a 1.00 store here, nothing over a buck.
Not all are inventions but one has to marvel at the inventiveness of their marketing dept.
Pet trashcan - 1.00
empty soda bottle - .50
clear sunglasses - 1.00
Faded Jacko T-shirt - $4.00
baby milk bottle with laser range finder - 1.00
bag of 75 cents in coins - 1.00
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If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
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#3 2010-06-05 17:08:06
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Re: World's Dumbest Inventions
But why was the T-shirt there if it was $4.00? We have those kind of shops, but ours are $2.
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#4 2010-06-05 17:08:36
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You don't get it, that's the joke. The stupid invention
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
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#5 2010-06-05 17:15:37
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Oh, yeah! They do that at our $2 shops all the time, it's horribly rigged.
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
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#6 2010-06-05 17:16:49
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Re: World's Dumbest Inventions
The people who would buy that that are probably the dumbest invention.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#7 2010-06-05 17:43:39
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Re: World's Dumbest Inventions
How could the people be an invention?
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
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#8 2010-06-05 17:44:23
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Re: World's Dumbest Inventions
They are a creation, are they not?
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#9 2010-06-05 17:49:16
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Re: World's Dumbest Inventions
They're a bunch of matter, not necessarily a creation, just a formation. Although I guess they were created to be born... But anyway they can't help it if they're dumb.
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#10 2010-06-05 17:50:53
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Re: World's Dumbest Inventions
Beg to differ, they are very much a creation. They were designed. They didn't just fall together.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#11 2010-06-05 17:54:45
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Yes I think they did just fall together. Or I think that the sperm and the egg that created them- no wait, the first life evolved from matter falling together that created the universe. And the rest is Elementry, my dear Watson.
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#12 2010-06-05 17:56:11
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Re: World's Dumbest Inventions
Really, all by accident? That is some accident. I wasn't created by accident, took 2 people to make me.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#13 2010-06-05 17:58:20
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I didn't say that the dumb people's parents formed by accident, just the evolution. Although they could've been an accident...
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#14 2010-06-05 17:59:07
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Also interesting, evolution remember it is only a theory, not fact.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#15 2010-06-05 18:02:03
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Re: World's Dumbest Inventions
But it's the most logical theory.
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#16 2010-06-05 18:03:27
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Not really, there are other theories. It is the one that is fashionable, trendy!
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#17 2010-06-05 18:17:54
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Re: World's Dumbest Inventions
Because those other theories are dumb inventions.
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
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#18 2010-06-05 18:20:34
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Re: World's Dumbest Inventions
Supposing this one, is the dumb invention. Remember 50 years ago they were selling another theory. 50 years from now they will sell yet another.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#19 2010-06-05 18:29:06
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Re: World's Dumbest Inventions
what theory were they selling 50 years ago?
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#20 2010-06-05 18:32:43
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Re: World's Dumbest Inventions
Back then they were selling creationism. They argued it just as hard and just as long. They were sure they were right then too.
Theories are not facts, no matter how much publicity they get.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#21 2010-06-05 18:36:35
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Re: World's Dumbest Inventions
I know, I know. I still believe creationism is wrong, but a less likely possibility. I have to go, we shall discuss this later.
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
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#22 2010-06-05 18:39:11
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Re: World's Dumbest Inventions
CYA TIG!
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#23 2010-06-06 11:35:13
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Re: World's Dumbest Inventions
What about more inventions?
Striped paint
A keyboard that has rearranged letters that have no labels that change every minute
I'll be here at least once every decade.
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#24 2010-06-06 16:20:42
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Yes, I thought of that random keys. Keep you guessing.
Here is one, I don't think anyone has ever thought of this. Make an operating system so bloated it wears your hard drives out twice as fast. Why because we own those companies too. Make it about 10 gigs when it only needs to be 300 - 400 megs. Make it use the hard drive a lot in place of ram so that it is very slow. Have the os spy on it's users and report to law enforcement. Make the os the absolute standard so all software is written for it. Put it on all machines so that every time someone buys a new computer they pay for the os again and again.
Cripple competitors with thug tactics and legalities. Make our competitors software run badly on our os. That way people won't use their software. Encourage hackers and virus writers to attack our os and then gain controlling interests in all the security software. You know make a problem and then solve it. Spend 10 times more on advertisement then on building a good os. Sounds like a winner! Now we need a name, Wind Blows, that's it.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#25 2010-06-08 20:47:54
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Re: World's Dumbest Inventions
lol hehee 
Skin colored Tatoo ink
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