My Could Have Been a Champion Invention ?
With people whinging & whining about AO..I thought I'd add a "Non political " post to the door...
So here is is..drum roll....
I've discovered a new way to waterproof matches..
Yippee I hear you say...
Well most matches are dipped in wax which runs an burns fingers..
So here is my idea...
Pour a half a glass or so of turpentine into a tin and drop ordinary matches into the liquid.
Let it set for 5 minutes.
Drain off turps..lay matches on newspaper to fully dry..
That's it..they are now fully waterproof..
Just for fun take one of your new matches, drop it into water..leave it for a minute... wipe it off & I guarantee that it will strike perfectly..with no runny residue..
Cute trick.. Much cheaper than those off the shelf ones..
So what little thing have you invented or the like that can rank as a " Could have been champion invention "
So here is is..drum roll....
I've discovered a new way to waterproof matches..
Yippee I hear you say...
Well most matches are dipped in wax which runs an burns fingers..
So here is my idea...
Pour a half a glass or so of turpentine into a tin and drop ordinary matches into the liquid.
Let it set for 5 minutes.
Drain off turps..lay matches on newspaper to fully dry..
That's it..they are now fully waterproof..
Just for fun take one of your new matches, drop it into water..leave it for a minute... wipe it off & I guarantee that it will strike perfectly..with no runny residue..
Cute trick.. Much cheaper than those off the shelf ones..
So what little thing have you invented or the like that can rank as a " Could have been champion invention "
Comments
Why not get an encoder in a tape player that could convert audio to digital code? You could read and write CD quality audio to tape!
I invented DAT.
Originally posted by Aquafire
I've discovered a new way to waterproof matches..
I am not sure whether I read your "new" way here first or somewhere else, but it may not be that new... :-/
One of my girlfriends and I were just sitting there naked one night and I was all, "I bet this fits in there." And it worked! The rest is history.
No thanks necessary. It was my pleasure.
When I was 7 or 8, I got hooked on the idea of underwater breathing apparatuses, after reading Jacque Cousteau's biography. I figured that if fish could breathe, it could be replicated. A synthetic hemoglobin in a high-surface-area matrix (a sponge gel) would be a good O2 extractor, and a slight electric current of the right voltage would release it from the binding sites... even figured out the voltages/amperages needed, the gel volume needed, the amount of water that would have to be pumped through, etc, for an average sized adult. The batteries to run it were a problem though... I ended up dropping it, since gee, I was just a kid...
Ten years later a group at Duke produced a revolutionary system for producing O2 underwater for divers... yup, it was identical. (Of course, it probably took them 15 years to get the engineering worked out...
Originally posted by Kickaha
Too bad she thought otherwise...
No, you're thinking of fellatio. I heard that was invented by some guy in Chapel Hill, NC.
As a kid, I used to think a lot about rail guns before I knew they existed. I made a couple of low-power models, but since they were made just from hardware store parts they basically just lobbed the projectile at pretty low speeds.
" invented sex.
One of my girlfriends and I were just sitting there naked one night and I was all, "I bet this fits in there." And it worked! The rest is history.
No thanks necessary. It was my pleasure.
That raises an interesting conundrum akin to the chicken & the egg.
Since one presumes you had parents, they must have "willed" you into existence rather than melding on the physical plane...
Originally posted by Aquafire
That raises an interesting conundrum akin to the chicken & the egg.
Since one presumes you had parents, they must have "willed" you into existence rather than melding on the physical plane...
fellowship will explain it.
Just kidding. Everyone knows storks used to bring babies. Duh
Originally posted by giant
fellowship will explain it.
Just kidding. Everyone knows storks used to bring babies. Duh
Immaculate Conception....?
I don't remember any storks being involved in the manger story...
Originally posted by Scott
Just to note the quote is "I could have been a contender" spoken by Marlon Brando's character in On The Waterfront. Which I'm going to add to my rental que now.
That's interesting Scott.
I kinda was referring to " Could have been champions " as used in OZ to show home videos of amateur footballers playing and goofing up in their attempts to score a goal, tackle etc.
They play as if "They could have been Champions " ....at least in their own minds...
I think you would enjoy watching it..
Originally posted by Scott
Just to note the quote is "I could have been a contender" spoken by Marlon Brando's character in On The Waterfront. Which I'm going to add to my rental que now.
I know most folks are all about the car scene with his brother, but the whole sequence where he takes her glove while they are chatting, sits in the swing and absentmindedly puts it on his hand and plays with it is by far one of the best scenes ever recorded on film.
In it they referred to the use of the worlds' first submarine, the Nautilus.
Turns out amongst other things, that it's inventor used natural light emitting lichen & fungus to illuminate the interior of the submarine...
Now that is a stroke of genius based on simple observation and use of natural at hand materials...
Impressive.. 8)
Originally posted by giant
No, you're thinking of fellatio. I heard that was invented by some guy in Chapel Hill, NC.
You're thinking Durham. I'm sure I could track down his number if you need it though...
Originally posted by Aquafire
Immaculate Conception....?
I don't remember any storks being involved in the manger story...
Thats not what the Immaculate Conception refers to. Most people think it refers to Christ but in fact it refers to his mother, Mary. When she was conceived in HER mother's womb it was an "immaculate" conception because she was conceived without "Original Sin". Only someone without the stain of original sin could give birth to Christ....or so the story goes. Mary was in fact conceived in the "normal" (wink wink hubba hubba) way.
So now you know....and knowing is half the battle.
i invented battles, knowing and Christ.
ART JeRK