Do you ever wonder who was the first person ever to do a particular thing?

[Bertha Venation]

I wonder about stuff like this:

Who was the first person to write "WASH ME!" on a dirty automobile?

Who first baked coffee beans until they were black, then ground & boiled them and drank the result?

Who invented pie?

What do you wonder about (besides how much longer I can let my mind wander like this before I become catatonic)?

[CO Liberal]

1. Who Was The First Person to Eat Crawdads....

...and just how hungry was he??

:shrug:

(Had to be a man - women tend to have more common sense.)

[Bertha Venation]

5. Reminds me of an old story

about a farmer who had occasion to visit the big city. He went out for a meal at a fancy restaurant. He was served a bowl of consomme, which he ate. Then a celery salad, which he ate. Then a lobster, at which he balked. He told the waiter, "Now, look here. I drank your dishwater. I ate your bouquet. But I'll be damned if I'm gonna eat your bug."

:bounce:

[Liberal Veteran]

2. Who decided that painting your eyelids would be sexy?

:)

[Left Is Write]

12. Well - we know that goes back at LEAST as far as

ancient Egypt.

[damntexdem]

3. Hey, I wonder:

are you the first DUer to ask this question?

[BurtWorm]

4. Who told the first knock knock joke?

And how did they get the other person to say, "Who's there" and "___ who?"

[CO Liberal]

11. "Knock Knock" Jokes Started in the 1920s

During Prohibition, there were "speakeasies" - bars hidden in the basements of or behind legitimate businesses. To gain access, you knocked on the door, someone on the other side would as who you were, and you had to say a specific name or phrase to get in. This led to the "Knock Knock" joke.

(This concludes this afternoon's history lesson.) :-)

[BurtWorm]

26. Interesting!

Thank you for solving that mystery for me!

:toast:

[LifeDuringWartime]

6. who milked the first cow?

and how did they know which one to milk?

[Kindigger]

8. Why did they ......

decide to drink the milk?

I'm going to assume the first person to try drinking piss invented the first cheap beer. :think:

[Bertha Venation]

28. "first cheap beer" LOL

(:puke: but LOL)

[unblock]

7. who was the first to say "george w bush would make a fine president"?

[MrSandman]

9. Who dried up tobacco leaves, roleed them together,

Put them in their mouth, and set them on fire?

[Mojambo]

48. Bob Newhart does a really funny telephone bit

about this.

[kat21]

10. Who decided that women had a need for panty hose?

Those bastards!!!

[GingerSnaps]

27. Men

I think that high heels, bra's and pantyhose were all invented by men. :hurts:

[Shadowen]

44. Actually...

As I recall, there are two theories on who invented the bra. One said that a man did, one that a woman did, and both say it was sometime in the late 19th century.

[mdhunter]

13. Who was the first to say, "You know, George W. Bush ought to be President"

Honestly, who was the first person in this world to have that thought. Who looked at him and said, "Yeah, him, that's the one, he should be the leader of the free world...if only I could figure out how."

[EstimatedProphet]

14. how do you know that they were done by one person?

Maybe these things were a group effort. I'm pretty sure that the first "wash me" sign was a group effort involving several people.

15. Subject: Who did what first?

Another facet of this question is that by juxtaposing various people and events, we come to realize that, for example:
Beethoven never heard a saxophone.
Abraham Lincoln never tasted pizza.
Leonardo da Vinci never wore sneakers.
Queen Victoria never played Twister.

[zanana]

16. Who was the first person to pick wheat berries...

crush them to a fine powder, add yeast and sugar, knead the dough and bake bread? (The yeast must have been unintentional).

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

41. You beat me to this one, I think about that all the time. Grain--check.

Grinding up grain--check. Mixing with water for paste--check. Adding yeast and firing the whole thing up? WTF?

[MrScorpio]

17. I always think about the people who invented oral sex

What a stroke of genius!

[JohnKleeb]

18. or sex itself

:).

[Xithras]

25. The origins of oral sex have always baffled me.

While the results are enjoyable, you have to think about what those parts were originally intended to do and wonder what was going through the mind of the first person to give it a try. It <i>IS</i> a little odd, if you think about it.

[ironflange]

19. Eggs

Who first said, "See that bird over there? I'm gonna eat the next thing that comes out of its ass."

[Sabriel]

20. I always wondered about artichokes, myself

"Hey, I'm gonna pick this giant thistle--despite the prickers--, boil it until it's soft, then rake the meager meat off with my front teeth." What kind of hunter/gatherer had that much time?

[johnnie]

21. How many plants

Did someone have to put in their bong before they found out that cannabis would be the one that would get them high?

[baldguy]

22. Clams

[Kat45]

23. Who figured out you could eat a fugu (sp) fish by cooking it an exact time

And how many people got poisoned and died by eating it before it was figured out? And why did people continue trying to eat it after they did?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

40. It's not a time thing. It's cutting out the poisonous parts.

Intestines, liver, ovaries, gonads and skin.

http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/byname/toxicity-tetrodotoxin.htm

[DrWeird]

24. I had a girlfriend who was curious about the couple who invented sex.

She wasn't very bright.

[Aiptasia]

29. I think all chineese food was based on a dare initially...

Ever walked through a chineese market? Horry crap.

[Bertha Venation]

34. Horry crap

OMFG i just peed myself... LOLOL

[RebelOne]

30. I always wondered who thought of eating lobster.

I mean, they are so ugly. Who ever thought of eating them?

[Aiptasia]

31. octopusses.. they thought of it first

too bad they didn't invent the lobster bib.

[Seabiscuit]

32. Who starts all the jokes that circulate for years?

E.g. the "grape" jokes - Who conquered Macedonia? Alexander the Grape.

Or the "elephant" jokes - How can you tell if there's an elephant standing on your head in a hurricane? You can hear his ears flapping.

[Bertha Venation]

33. The Bee Gees.

:7

[Seabiscuit]

42. I was hearing jokes before they were born!

[Bertha Venation]

43. Dude. No one is THAT old. The Bee Gees were in the Garden of Eden.

. . . I am getting old. Tsk.

Time doth flit / Oh, shit
--Dorothy Parker

[Seabiscuit]

45. Oh, I see - they were the bad apple tree?

[no name no slogan]

35. Who discovered you could eat eggs?

I dunno about anybody else, but if I saw something like that coming out the back of a chicken, the LAST thing I'd do with it would be stick it in my mouth.

[gtp1976]

36. who was the first person

to drink alcohol? See that puss from that rotting fruit? I'm gonna drink it. LOL

[Lizzie Borden]

37. Who are the people who change things suddenly?

Who changed calling Peking into Beijing and in resturants do you have to order Beijing Duck now? Is it someone's job to change that stuff? If so, where can I apply?

[bigwillq]

38. I wonder about stuff like that all the time

That's crazy.

Like who discovered that lemon juice takes away the smell of onions on your hands?

[shain from kane]

39. Courage.

I think it was a commentary on Wide World of Sports or something like it, where one of the reporters said (and I am paraphrasing), "I don't consider what happened here today to be courageous. To me, the definition of courage was the first man to eat a raw oyster."

[yellowdogintexas]

46. who figured out that if you separate the egg and beat the hell

out of the clear part, you get meringue? Which you can then bake ? Or fold into a cake to make it rise?????

who figured out that if you put butter, eggs flour, and sugar together you get a cake?


the milk thing is pretty easy: mammal babies automatically go for the milk, human, cattle, cats, etc. So even the earliest humans knew about mother's milk. So if the mother died and there was no milk for a new baby they knew they could get it from another animal because their babies lived on it. Or at least they could try.


I can't imagine why anyone who accidentally ate a persimmon when it was green ever decided to try it again later.

[Spirochete]

47. The one I wonder most about

is the enema. Who in the hell thought of that first?