Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

[Richmond]

On 11/05/15 20:36, PystCat wrote:
>> The Americans have invented very little indeed.
>>
>> What the Americans have done is pinched other people's inventions and improved them immensely, to the extent
>> that they can fool people they invented the things in the first place.
> Examples and/or citations, please.  😘
No citations:

Computers

Televisions

Muffins
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>> Some Americans even think they invented English; which was invented by a load of vulgar northern Frenchmen
>> attempting to speak Anglo-Saxon and getting it wrong.
> Well... Considering the country is only a little over 200 years old, I find this to be just a little too silly to even believe.  😘
You, obviously, haven't spent time in Carbondale, Illinois.
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> (do those smiley emojis come through on this list...?)

Those emojis do come through, although they don't look very smiley; they 
look more like somebody
with quite a nasty growth on the right side of their face.

Richmond.
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>> On May 11, 2015, at 1:29 PM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 11/05/15 17:27, Mark Schonewille wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> A quick look-up on Wikipedia:
>>>
>>> "Innocenzo Manzetti considered the idea of a telephone as early as 1844, and may have made one in 1864, as an enhancement to an automaton built by him in 1849."
>>>
>>> Why doesn't Italy have 001?
>>>
>>> Don't answer that the US invented electricity: it is said that the Babylonians did this some time earlier.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Mark Schonewille
>>>
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>> Richmond.
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