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Beer.
Or Wheel.
I vote 'BRA' for the WORST invention... It hides them beauties, dammit...
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LET'S GO BRANDON!!!
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See......FatCity67 and fester are intelligent, after all........in Africa.
"Those that think they know everything are annoying those of us that have Google." - Dr. D. Edward Wilkinson
Note to self: Never ask an old Fogey how he is doing today.
Revised note to self: Keep it short when someone asks how I am doing.
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See......FatCity67 and fester are intelligent, after all........in Africa. Somebody call the burn unit! 🤪
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Would have thought fester would declare the mailbox, or direct deposit.........being from California. I figured you would declare the dental damn ya c ock sucker.
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fester........I am starting to like you. See......FatCity67 and fester are intelligent, after all........in Africa. Somebody call the burn unit! 🤪
"Those that think they know everything are annoying those of us that have Google." - Dr. D. Edward Wilkinson
Note to self: Never ask an old Fogey how he is doing today.
Revised note to self: Keep it short when someone asks how I am doing.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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The machines that made the machines that made the machines that made the stuff couldn't have been made without the screw thread. But before that, the wheel had to be invented, which incidentally, was unknown in Sub-Saharan Africa until Europeans introduced it in the 1600s Indeed, the screw thread is an adaptation of the wheel concept. . That's basically an inclined plane superimposed on a wheel of sorts. The use of the inclined plane concept likely preceded the wheel, IMO. A case of 1 +1 = 3!  Fire wasn't an invention. It existed long before anyone thought to make use of it, much less how to make it on demand. That's like saying air was an invention once something learned to breath it. One COULD argue that round and slanted also pre-existed their use, I suppose. The line is arguably fine.... And then there is the lever. My nomination is still the wheel, tho.
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Beer... I'm sure there is something else, but ...
I work harder than a ugly stripper....
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I work harder than a ugly stripper....
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I work harder than a ugly stripper....
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Conduct is the best proof of character.
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Beer... I'm sure there is something else, but ... Not sex? At some point, pretty near everyone has "invented" it - or thinks they have!
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Beer... I'm sure there is something else, but ... Not sex? At some point, pretty near everyone has "invented" it - or thinks they have! 107 reasons beer is better than women.... for instance ..number five , if you pour a beer right you always get good head !
I work harder than a ugly stripper....
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I'll say agriculture.
The wheel was a big step and a good case has been made here that it was the basis for all further mechanization, but empires were built without it.
The printing press was a huge leap forward in disseminating information relatively cheaply, so it's another big step but really just a large incremental advance in writing which had been invented long before.
Agriculture allowed the very existence of civilizations.
Remember, without agriculture there wouldn't be beer...
Gunnery, gunnery, gunnery.
Hit the target, all else is twaddle!
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[quote=Bristoe]The machines that made the machines that made the machines that made the stuff couldn't have been made without the screw thread. Fire wasn't an invention. It existed long before anyone thought to make use of it, much less how to make it on demand. That's like saying air was an invention once something learned to breath it. . Ok, I'll say the invention of the use of fire! LOL
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The telephone has got to be up near the top. International transmissions was and is an amazing feat, IMO. https://www.britannica.com/technology/telephone/Overseas-transmission
The deer hunter does not notice the mountains
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve" - Isoroku Yamamoto
There sure are a lot of America haters that want to live here...
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Gotta go with synthetic insulin. Otherwise I'd be dead.
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Paper. No printing without it.
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