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Reply #15 - Sep 25th, 2016 at 11:57am
 
The Patent Office would only accept the tools for assessment Boges

"A device to make fire" would be the title of your application
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Reply #16 - Sep 25th, 2016 at 12:08pm
 
So that would be two pieces of flint & a handful of straw. Or one long thin stick and one flat piece of wood.
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Reply #17 - Sep 25th, 2016 at 12:10pm
 
Great invention.

Projectile weapons that killed food remotely.

And of course the dog-whistle for calling the children in for dinner.


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Reply #18 - Sep 25th, 2016 at 1:01pm
 
The excuse, as in:-

"Sorry, tribe - we had that mastodon cornered but just at the wrong moment, the Gods intervened!  Fasting is good for the soul, the shaman says."

or

"Me?  Wasn't me, God - I never touched that apple - ADAM did it!  And besides, it was that snake that told me it was all right...  and I only had one little bite..."

or

"Wandering for forty years in a space as big as Sydney metro area?  Not me - that damned Egyptian compass was wacky.. and besides.. some of the clowns I was stuck with insisted on lugging this huge golden calf... it had nothing to do with what was in those tablets... nothing..."

or

"Farked the economy?  US?  I was only the government mouthpiece - I didn't put the figures together, and you can blame the public service for that....look at the jobs we created... umm.. like...... Dole Queue Attendant..... Pitiful Supplicant for Some Income..... thousands of people in Chindia are now working.... we DID generate one hell of a lot of CEO and board member jobs through privatisation... that raised their standard of living!  As a government, we were a GREAT success."
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Reply #19 - Sep 25th, 2016 at 1:30pm
 
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Reply #20 - Sep 25th, 2016 at 1:38pm
 
bogarde73 wrote on Sep 25th, 2016 at 1:30pm:
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Bogarde what a silly question. All the dumb $$@(

on this board know it's the INTERNET

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Reply #21 - Sep 25th, 2016 at 2:03pm
 
bogarde73 wrote on Sep 25th, 2016 at 1:30pm:
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Grapp has "Hillary" moments now and then
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Reply #22 - Sep 25th, 2016 at 2:37pm
 
All this started with me musing on the power of the lever in opening a tin. From there I jumped to a vision of cavemen atop a cliff levering a huge boulder to fall on a mastedon.
That set me to ponder, was the lever the earliest great discovery.
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Reply #23 - Sep 25th, 2016 at 2:49pm
 
bogarde73 wrote on Sep 25th, 2016 at 2:37pm:
All this started with me musing on the power of the lever in opening a tin. From there I jumped to a vision of cavemen atop a cliff levering a huge boulder to fall on a mastedon.
That set me to ponder, was the lever the earliest great discovery.


No.

The camouflaged mastodon pit was.

(Was that Baked Beans again for lunch, bogey?)
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Reply #24 - Sep 25th, 2016 at 3:52pm
 
bogarde73 wrote on Sep 25th, 2016 at 1:30pm:
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I rather thought it was pretty funny myself...


I think you meant 'leverage', as in:-

"That snake promised me I'd get all the juicy bits if I just got Adam to pick that apple."

or

"Guys!  I'm just down from the mountain!  Now take these  tablets and fer god's sake get rid of that golden calf...."

or

"Take this apple, Adam, and I promise you'll be the first President/PM/Mayor of Eden!  Just a little donation there.. from the good ol' snake!  I'm in tight with The Big Fella so you know it's kosher... and we can do business together... when you're the boss."

or

"Yum-Gak here reckons we mastodon hunters can do better if we get a slightly higher wage.... so we're not getting any mastodon steaks until it's all settled, right?"
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Re: Which was the earliest great invention?
Reply #25 - Sep 25th, 2016 at 4:04pm
 
Bias_2012 wrote on Sep 25th, 2016 at 11:34am:
John Smith wrote on Sep 25th, 2016 at 11:29am:
OK, then i'd have to go with fire




God had the patent on fire

You mean the tools to make fire


that's the one
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Reply #26 - Sep 25th, 2016 at 6:03pm
 
John Smith wrote on Sep 25th, 2016 at 11:32am:
Lionel Edriess wrote on Sep 25th, 2016 at 11:09am:
The weapon - in two ways.


what weapon? ... early on rocks and sticks were used as weapons often because they were handy. No one invented them. They were later developed into spears, arrows etc with necessity.


All patents must cover a method, not an item. That is the nature of invention.
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Reply #27 - Sep 25th, 2016 at 6:11pm
 
bogarde73 wrote on Sep 25th, 2016 at 10:27am:
I'd reckon the wheel came much much later.


Except for aboriginals. They STILL havent invented it.
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Reply #28 - Sep 25th, 2016 at 6:20pm
 
Aboriginals invented the stick early on and its still used to this day.
Hollow ones, bent ones, pointy ones.

No need to invent anything else when you have the stick.
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Reply #29 - Sep 25th, 2016 at 6:25pm
 
longweekend58 wrote on Sep 25th, 2016 at 6:11pm:
bogarde73 wrote on Sep 25th, 2016 at 10:27am:
I'd reckon the wheel came much much later.


Except for aboriginals. They STILL havent invented it.


Grin Grin Grin

That's nasty.

But then again, how many times in my 56 years in Australia have I had the "Poms only wash once a week" and all the variations on that shoved in my face?

So Raven, loosen up and don't take our little attempts at humour here so seriously.

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