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NewHampster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-04 08:59 PM
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Poll question: Greatest Invention of the 20th Century
Selected randomly from the hundreds of inventions of the last century.

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Dookus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-04 09:00 PM
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1. Other
the transistor
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freetobegay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-04 09:00 PM
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2. Other
The vibrator!
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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-04 09:00 PM
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3. How about the record player?
Or "turntable," as folks call it now.

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WannaJumpMyScooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-04 09:02 PM
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6. 19th century, IIRC
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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-04 09:53 PM
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21. In that case, how about the CD player?
:shrug:
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mr_hat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-04 09:01 PM
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4. The original Super Ball. The one that shattered.
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DAGDA56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-04 09:02 PM
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5. other..
Velcro
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A Brick Wall Donating Member (4 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-04 09:03 PM
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7. How about...
... the automobile?
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NewHampster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-04 09:04 PM
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9. 19 th century
ford just built em better
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WannaJumpMyScooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-04 09:03 PM
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8. Clearly the Thong... but only on certain, ummm, body types.
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NewHampster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-04 09:05 PM
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10. I see no competition
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-04 09:07 PM
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11. Airplane
It makes it so easy to go anywhere so fast
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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-04 09:13 PM
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12. Eight straight hours in the air does not seem fast.
You want to feel like a sardine? Do it non-stop.
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-04 09:25 PM
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20. When I find myself in another continent it seems fast
Considering the alternative of days on a ship
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Rowdyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-04 09:17 PM
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13. Can't believe I'm only the 2nd person to vote for "the Pill"
This freed 1/2 of the population sexually and allowed them to be whatever they wanted to...
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NewHampster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-04 09:21 PM
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14. I like what it did for my half of the population too
God bless the Pill and thank you inventors for my times in the 60s and 70s.

But I voted for the Thong. The single greatest gift to man in the last 100 years.

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pagerbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-04 09:21 PM
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15. Air conditioning
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Rowdyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-04 09:24 PM
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18. For us southerners, it was absolutely the major invention
of the 20th century. Before that, Mississippi was like Guatemala in the summer-hot and humid.
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Faygo Kid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-04 09:23 PM
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16. Penicillin, or the microwave
Single guys would starve to death without the latter.
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DAGDA56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-04 10:16 PM
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23. Single guys would do more than starve without the former...
nt
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NewHampster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-04 09:24 PM
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17. Come on. Look at this Thong and tell me its not a great invention
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Van Helsing Donating Member (376 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-04 09:24 PM
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19. The thong!
Yep! Gotta love the beach sandals! :evilgrin: Kidding!
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NewHampster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-04 10:00 PM
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22. slap dang it
:kick:
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