Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

Richmond richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Mon May 11 14:30:53 EDT 2015


On 11/05/15 21:29, PystCat wrote:
> It is supposed to be blowing a kiss...
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> Now... WHY on earth would anyone willingly spend time in Carbondale Illinois...?

I had a really super 3 years there doing my first Master's degree there 
in 1993-96.

Richmond.
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> I've never known those examples to be an "American" invention but... FTW... Marshmallow creme or as it is known in the states... Fluff
> http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_inventions
> 1917
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>> On May 11, 2015, at 1:41 PM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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:
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>> Computers
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>> Televisions
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>> Muffins
>>>> 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.
>>> (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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