The invention of Dumb

Pauly
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edited October 2009 in The Clubhouse
http://www.life.com/image/3270485/in-gallery/25371/30-dumb-inventions


30 dumb inventions.


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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,806
    edited October 2009
    Oh my God! L. Ron Hubbard and the Screaming Tomatoes! Still makes me laugh and it sounds like a cheesy punk-polka band! If there is such a thing. If there is, I'll betcha zombie_boy_2000 has been to one of their concerts!


    By the way, one of the lab experiments I had in electronic circuits classes in college was making a battery and a capacitor. Guess what we used? Tomatoes. They are acidic but full of water as well. You put a metal lead of any kind in to one and that is your plate in the electrolytic solution. You just made a battery. The "screaming" that Hubbard measured with his "meter" was not a spike in energy due to pain experienced by the tomatoes but rather a spike in voltage due to the knife completing the battery. Slicing a tomato doesn't make it scream, it just charges it like a battery.

    The guy was a nutcase. He also invented the crackpot "religion" of Scientology.
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  • concealer404
    concealer404 Posts: 7,440
    edited October 2009
    Jstas wrote: »

    The guy was a nutcase. He also invented the crackpot "religion" of Scientology.

    And some interesting books, if it's the same guy.
    I don't read the newsssspaperssss because dey aaaallllllllll...... have ugly print.

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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited October 2009
    concealer404 wrote: »
    And some interesting books, if it's the same guy.

    His books were his religion! Those science fiction books you've read? Yeah, that's Scientology.
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • Pauly
    Pauly Posts: 4,519
    edited October 2009
    Jstas wrote: »
    The guy was a nutcase. He also invented the crackpot "religion" of Scientology.

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  • concealer404
    concealer404 Posts: 7,440
    edited October 2009
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    His books were his religion! Those science fiction books you've read? Yeah, that's Scientology.

    Hrmm... that kindof ruins them for me, now... i rather liked the books, to be honest.
    I don't read the newsssspaperssss because dey aaaallllllllll...... have ugly print.

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  • Pauly
    Pauly Posts: 4,519
    edited October 2009
    concealer404 wrote: »
    Hrmm... that kindof ruins them for me, now... i rather liked the books, to be honest.

    Whoa, where you been?


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  • bruss
    bruss Posts: 1,039
    edited October 2009
    how about the "baby cage" holy crapola
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  • obieone
    obieone Posts: 5,077
    edited October 2009
    That 'laryngaphone' was really just a sound powered phone, with a bad marketing campaign. A great invention. It's still used on U.S. warships today.
    I refuse to argue with idiots, because people can't tell the DIFFERENCE!
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  • concealer404
    concealer404 Posts: 7,440
    edited October 2009
    Pauly wrote: »
    Whoa, where you been?


    Pauly

    Under a rock, apparently. :p

    I tend to tune out anything remotely related to religion when it comes up in conversation, so i probably heard it, then it went straight out the other side.
    I don't read the newsssspaperssss because dey aaaallllllllll...... have ugly print.

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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,806
    edited October 2009
    This is the awesomest picture I've ever seen! It's got so many levels of wrong that I don't know where to start!

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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,806
    edited October 2009
    And this just looks painful! Furthermore, why's that guy got a Shemp Howard haircut?

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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,601
    edited October 2009
    30 years ago I had a boss like that. One in his mouth, one burning in the tray, and a full cup of coffee. He could of used that. He was a crusty
    retired Marine. He survived countless beach invasions of WWII,
    but I bet lung cancer did him in.
    "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." --Thomas Jefferson
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,806
    edited October 2009
    But THIS! Well this is just all kinds of awesome! Forget the dog, imagine what it could do for child rearing skills! It's also the biggest set of tongs I've ever seen! Somebody lend me your kid so I can torment them with this! Then again, imagine the size of the can you could get off the top shelf without ever having to leave your Rascal?!

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  • Pauly
    Pauly Posts: 4,519
    edited October 2009
    concealer404 wrote: »
    Under a rock, apparently. :p

    I tend to tune out anything remotely related to religion when it comes up in conversation, so i probably heard it, then it went straight out the other side.

    Understood, just dont hear L. Ron Hubbard everyday :p

    Well unless your one of them :D

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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,806
    edited October 2009
    Then there's this little contraption so you can share your cancer sticks with your best girl!

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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,806
    edited October 2009
    And the best one yet!

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    Just IMAGINE the possibilities! And just think of how tan your chickens could be! Ben needs one of these.
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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,601
    edited October 2009
    http://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/shoefittingfluor/shoe.htm

    Nothing like giving the buying public an overdose of xrays.
    "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." --Thomas Jefferson
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  • SKsolutions
    SKsolutions Posts: 1,820
    edited October 2009
    L. Ron was a crackpot, and Dianetics was a failure, but his fiction novels were pretty good, if I remember correctly. I was reading Asimov around the same time, which is fuzzy.

    There's a buffet of crazy out there, and it's self serve.
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