




hugh wrote:Alexander Graham Bell didn't invent the telephone, he just exploited someone else's idea and pulled a few strings at the patent office. Thomas Alva Edison made a good going career doing much the same. The greatest inventor of all time was the Irishman, Pat Pending. Or maybe Leonarda Da Vinci, who invented the motorbike. But Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues, you can tell by the way she smiles.
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hugh wrote:Sir Sharkalot Herringbone. He invented a brand new penguin-skin frogman's suit for shark hunters. Being made of bits of dead penguins, it tended to pong a bit. But at £49.95p, it wasn't to be sniffed at.
That's all I know about sharking inventions. Sharking? I take it that's what you meant?





hugh wrote:The bustle was invented in the mid-1800's to expand the fullness or support the drapery of the back of a woman's dress. It became quite the thing amongst the genteel ladies of Victorian society. Victoria herself never wore one, she just had an enormous arse.

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