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  1. 25th June 2007, 05:44 PM #1
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    Default 10 Useless Inventions

    1. Black Highlighter
    2. Braille Driver’s Manual
    3. Clear Correction Fluid
    4. Fake Rhinestones
    5. Inflatable Dart Board
    6. Mesh Umbrella
    7. Motorcycle Air Conditioner
    8. Sugar-Coated Toothpaste
    9. Super-glue Post-it Notes
    10. A system to report power failures via the Internet
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  2. 25th June 2007, 06:02 PM #2
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    11. A certain companies phone system, that you access by the internet, to get a PUK for your mobile phone when you have locked it out.
    It SMSs your info to your mobile phone......The one that is locked out.....
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  3. 25th June 2007, 11:32 PM #3
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    Quote Originally Posted by rod1949 View Post
    10. A system to report power failures via the Internet
    I kid you not. The recorded message on our power failure hot line (regular telephone) suggests their web site for additional help.

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    12. Triton workcentre.
    Visit my website at www.myFineWoodWork.com
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  5. 27th June 2007, 06:18 PM #5
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    OOHHH....nasty
    I would love to grow my own food, but I can not find bacon seeds
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  6. 28th June 2007, 11:04 AM #6
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    Quote Originally Posted by rod1949 View Post

    1. Black Highlighter

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    Isn't this the one that most governments use when you do an FOI
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    13. Seat-belts for motor bikes
    Reality is no background music.
    Cheers John
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  8. 28th June 2007, 02:49 PM #8
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    My ISP does that too, call with a the problem of not being able to get on the net and they suggest you go to the web site for advise. Gotta love the marketing morons .
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    BMW manufactured the C1 scooter type of motorcycle that had a set of crossover seat belts.

    Very interesting machine. I believe that there are only two in Australia as the Australian authorities wouldn't allow it to be ridden without a helmet being worn by the rider.

    The machine was designed to be as safe as a small motorcar.

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  10. 10th July 2007, 04:01 PM #10
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    Default Moronic authorities

    Not quite the same thing but I read in a U.K.Magazine about a man who wrote to the utilities supplier to inform them of the death of his wife. They replied, in a letter addressed to Mz. Blank Blank Decd, to say that they had closed the account, but that- '-they would leave it open in case she wanted to re-activate it in the future' !!!
    The collecting of facts is not the gaining of wisdom, or even knowledge; knowing that the earth is round does not prevent our falling off the edge of it.
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    LOL, I dunno, but my black highligher does a great job of increasing the brightness of some thing I wrote !
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    14. Screen door on a submarine.
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    If you cant fix it with a hammer, you have an electrical problem...
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    pedal powered wheelchair
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    Ashtray on a motorbike
    Hip pockets on a singlet

    mammaries on a male moo cow
    Androgens Order
    Forgive your enemies, but never, ever forget their names.
    The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but never forget.
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    cat flap in an elephant house
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