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Title: Genius...
Post by: McGiver on August 02, 2006, 12:35:09 PM
we all know that whoever invented sliced bread is a genius.

and, whoever invented You Tube is equally a genius.

this thread is dedicated to those things that you find in your everyday lives that you cannot live without.
the way i see it, you will write, "hey, whoever invented the mouse pad (or similar) is a genius."
then lucifer or callaway will come through with a link which tells us who the inventor was.

so basically,

whoever invented ________ is a genius.
Title: Re: Genius...
Post by: duncvis on August 02, 2006, 02:26:50 PM
Whoever invented paracetamol is a fucking genius...
Title: Re: Genius...
Post by: Callaway on August 02, 2006, 02:41:28 PM
Whoever invented paracetamol is a fucking genius...

From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracetamol

By this time, paracetamol had already been synthesized by Harmon Northrop Morse via the reduction of p-nitrophenol with tin in glacial acetic acid. While this was first performed in 1873, paracetamol was not used medically for another two decades.

Another name for paracetamol is acetaminophen, or brand name Tylenol.

The Systematic (IUPAC) name for Paracetamol is:  N-(4-hydroxyphenyl)acetamide
Title: Re: Genius...
Post by: Callaway on August 02, 2006, 03:04:21 PM
we all know that whoever invented sliced bread is a genius.

From:  http://www.foodreference.com/html/fslicedbread.html

SLICED BREAD
Otto Frederick Rohwedder has been called the father of sliced bread. He worked for many years on developing a bread slicer, starting in 1912. His first efforts met with resistance from bakers, who informed him that the sliced bread would quickly go stale. By 1928, Rohwedder had finally designed a slicer that would also wrap the bread.

For many years, Battle Creek, Michigan has claimed to be the first place Rohwedder’s bread slicing machine was used, and the first the first place where sliced bread was sold. However, there is no evidence to back up this claim.

New documented evidence, has come to light recently, which refutes the Battle Creek claim.

Karen L. Hicklin, the Director of the Livingston County Library in Missouri was kind enough to give me the following information.

The Chillicothe, Missouri Constitution-Tribune of July 7, 1928 carried a story of the new machines first use at M.F. Bench's Chillicothe Baking Company, 100 Elm Street in Chillicothe, Missouri. According to the story, Mr. Bench assisted Rohwedder in the fine tuning the new bread slicing machine.

So - Sliced bread was born in Chillicothe, Missouri, on July 7, 1928.

Title: Re: Genius...
Post by: Nomaken on August 02, 2006, 03:32:26 PM
This is not a "They are genius" statement, rather they are fucking idiots, but they did what they did for a greater cause (unbeknowst to them).  Bless all of the stupid humans who tried eating and smoking and injecting into their eyeballs every substance conceivable, and therefore discovered intoxicating agents.
Title: Re: Genius...
Post by: McGiver on August 02, 2006, 03:34:15 PM
do you mean a person like: timothy leary.
Title: Re: Genius...
Post by: McGiver on August 02, 2006, 06:50:42 PM
a genius who created google image search.
Title: Re: Genius...
Post by: Triste on August 02, 2006, 07:04:16 PM
Whenever I knit, I think of what person invented it.  To take two needles, and weave thread around and through them to create warm clothing - that invention was genius.
Title: Re: Genius...
Post by: McGiver on August 03, 2006, 01:15:38 PM
whoever invents a machine that exclusively targets labor killing machines will be a genius.
a virus perhaps.
Title: Re: Genius...
Post by: Leto729 on August 03, 2006, 02:37:21 PM
However invented the computer?
Title: Re: Genius...
Post by: Callaway on August 03, 2006, 04:18:32 PM
However invented the computer?

http://inventors.about.com/

Quote
Rome was not Built in a Day
And neither was the computer. "Who invented the computer?" is not a question with a simple answer. The real answer is that many inventors contributed to the history of computers and that a computer is a complex piece of machinery made up of many parts, each of which can be considered a separate invention. BTW, I have written a whole series of articles (http://inventors.about.com/library/blcoindex.htm) on the topic.
Title: Re: Genius...
Post by: El on August 04, 2006, 08:35:48 AM
Whoever invented aspertame is a genius.  Same to the inventor of the more recent (I think) Splenda.
Title: Re: Genius...
Post by: Triste on August 04, 2006, 01:03:34 PM
I can't eat sugar so was thrilled with the disovery of Splenda.  But I started having problems with puffy eyelids, read somewhere on the net that Splenda can cause that, so stopped using it.  Lo and behold, my puffiness went away.  Weird.  Now I just use honey, which is expensive, but better than looking like shit.
Title: Re: Genius...
Post by: Calandale on April 21, 2008, 11:03:59 PM
You'd be rolling over in your grave,
if you were dead.  :zoinks:
Title: Re: Genius...
Post by: El on April 22, 2008, 08:28:40 AM
Whoever invented Panera's scones and pecan rolls is a genuis and quite possibly my soulmate as well.
Title: Re: Genius...
Post by: Lucifer on April 22, 2008, 11:15:36 AM
ditto nairn's ginger oatcakes.  :drool:
Title: Re: Genius...
Post by: Peter on April 22, 2008, 03:10:19 PM
I can't eat sugar so was thrilled with the disovery of Splenda.  But I started having problems with puffy eyelids, read somewhere on the net that Splenda can cause that, so stopped using it.  Lo and behold, my puffiness went away.  Weird.  Now I just use honey, which is expensive, but better than looking like shit.

I wonder if she ever realised that honey is composed largely of sugar.
Title: Re: Genius...
Post by: Callaway on April 22, 2008, 10:11:23 PM
I can't eat sugar so was thrilled with the disovery of Splenda.  But I started having problems with puffy eyelids, read somewhere on the net that Splenda can cause that, so stopped using it.  Lo and behold, my puffiness went away.  Weird.  Now I just use honey, which is expensive, but better than looking like shit.

I wonder if she ever realised that honey is composed largely of sugar.

Isn't the sugar in honey mostly fructose while table sugar is sucrose, though?
Title: Re: Genius...
Post by: Lucifer on April 23, 2008, 01:44:17 AM
I can't eat sugar so was thrilled with the disovery of Splenda.  But I started having problems with puffy eyelids, read somewhere on the net that Splenda can cause that, so stopped using it.  Lo and behold, my puffiness went away.  Weird.  Now I just use honey, which is expensive, but better than looking like shit.

I wonder if she ever realised that honey is composed largely of sugar.

Isn't the sugar in honey mostly fructose while table sugar is sucrose, though?

yep.  fructose, then glucose, and other bits and bobs of other sugars (including sucrose), as i remember.  best check, though.
Title: Re: Genius...
Post by: DirtDawg on April 23, 2008, 08:25:15 PM
I can't eat sugar so was thrilled with the disovery of Splenda.  But I started having problems with puffy eyelids, read somewhere on the net that Splenda can cause that, so stopped using it.  Lo and behold, my puffiness went away.  Weird.  Now I just use honey, which is expensive, but better than looking like shit.

I wonder if she ever realised that honey is composed largely of sugar.

Isn't the sugar in honey mostly fructose while table sugar is sucrose, though?


Many hypoglycemics can tolerate fructose quite well, but experience difficulties when eating  mostly sucrose.