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28 Nov 05 - 07:41 PM (#1615927) Subject: Tech: Best Idea Since Sliced Bread From: GUEST,wdyat12 Dear Mudcatters, I just heard this the other day on Jim Hightower. All you have to do is come up with an idea that helps or improves the lives of simple folk like you and me and you might win $100,000. The best idea since sliced bread has been incubating for a long time in the grassroots of America. Please go to SinceSlicedBread.com wdyat12 |
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28 Nov 05 - 08:24 PM (#1615961) Subject: RE: Tech: Best Idea Since Sliced Bread From: Kaleea Unsliced bread? |
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28 Nov 05 - 09:35 PM (#1616000) Subject: RE: Tech: Best Idea Since Sliced Bread From: Bobert Kill whitey!!! |
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28 Nov 05 - 09:49 PM (#1616007) Subject: RE: Tech: Best Idea Since Sliced Bread From: GUEST Campaign for REAL ALE! |
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28 Nov 05 - 09:50 PM (#1616009) Subject: RE: Tech: Best Idea Since Sliced Bread From: GUEST if this "TECH" why is it below the line? |
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29 Nov 05 - 04:27 AM (#1616154) Subject: RE: Tech: Best Idea Since Sliced Bread From: Paul Burke Because no one knows any songs about sliced bread? |
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29 Nov 05 - 05:03 AM (#1616171) Subject: RE: Tech: Best Idea Since Sliced Bread From: Dead Horse Toast. |
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29 Nov 05 - 05:35 AM (#1616179) Subject: RE: Tech: Best Idea Since Sliced Bread From: s&r Sliced bread was the worst idea ever Stu |
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29 Nov 05 - 06:15 AM (#1616193) Subject: RE: Tech: Best Idea Since Sliced Bread From: Dave Hanson Yo Paul, you never heard the old bread cutting shanty ' Hollow Ground ' I bought my wife a breadknife, hollow ground hollow ground. A stainless Sheffield breadknife, hollow ground hollow ground. eric |
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29 Nov 05 - 06:31 AM (#1616202) Subject: RE: Tech: Best Idea Since Sliced Bread From: Paul Burke 'Cos the bread we have's all sliced, narrow rounds!!! Should be above the line. |
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29 Nov 05 - 07:09 AM (#1616224) Subject: RE: Tech: Best Idea Since Sliced Bread From: Bunnahabhain Baking you own bread. How about making the bottle opener obsolete, by making the twist off crown cap the standard? Simple access to beer for all! It may be tech, but is non-music. Below the line with it, although if it carries on like this I know a great hornpipe called 'crossing the line' |
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29 Nov 05 - 06:05 PM (#1616702) Subject: RE: Tech: Best Idea Since Sliced Bread From: Liz the Squeak Ring pull tins of beans and cat food were the next best idea..... just wish they'd make easy open packets for bacon or other cold meats. LTS |
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30 Nov 05 - 03:53 AM (#1616967) Subject: RE: Tech: Best Idea Since Sliced Bread From: Paul Burke Talking of which, why do re-sealable pasta packets always tear vertically, so they won't re-seal? |
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30 Nov 05 - 05:31 AM (#1617037) Subject: RE: Tech: Best Idea Since Sliced Bread From: GUEST,DB Home computers, of course! I can do all sorts of things with mine: contribute to threads on Mudcat (the reason why I bought it, of course!), word process via typing, voice recognition or OCR, fiddle around with various sorts of multi-media including music files, edit, store and print digital photographs (including digital photomicrographs - fairly unthinkable just a few years ago), e-mail, spreadsheets, databases etc., etc., etc. Of course there's a price to pay for this - apoplexy and hypertension when the flipping thing won't behave or the the documentation makes no sense whatsoever!!! |
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30 Nov 05 - 08:25 AM (#1617119) Subject: RE: Tech: Best Idea Since Sliced Bread From: Sooz What was the best thing before sliced bread? |
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30 Nov 05 - 10:47 AM (#1617237) Subject: RE: Tech: Best Idea Since Sliced Bread From: Jim Dixon Perforated toilet paper. |
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30 Nov 05 - 11:07 AM (#1617257) Subject: RE: Tech: Best Idea Since Sliced Bread From: Pied Piper It's too easy. Education. |
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30 Nov 05 - 01:49 PM (#1617388) Subject: RE: Tech: Best Idea Since Sliced Bread From: Ebbie It amazes me that one innovation was not created many decades sooner: wheels on luggage. Does anyone else remember lugging those backbreaking, arm wrenching, finger numbing behemoths? |
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30 Nov 05 - 06:40 PM (#1617584) Subject: RE: Tech: Best Idea Since Sliced Bread From: Liz the Squeak But what about the days when people went on 'round the world' cruises with naught but a change of underwear in a small brown suitcase the size of your average lap top computer? LTS |
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30 Nov 05 - 07:40 PM (#1617631) Subject: RE: Tech: Best Idea Since Sliced Bread From: Ebbie Those were men, Liz. *G* There was a time not so long ago when 'regular' people traveled with more things than I have dreamt of. I live and take care of a house museum and we have some of their luggage from about 1890 to 1940. The luggage includes standup chests with hangars and drawers. (There is a name for that type but it escapes me at the moment. Refers to ocean liners) They also traveled with book boxes, secured by inset screws, and huge strapped bags that had inset shelves. These things carried more than just underwear and handerkerchiefs. |
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30 Nov 05 - 08:52 PM (#1617673) Subject: RE: Tech: Best Idea Since Sliced Bread From: Joe Offer My kid's history book says sliced bread was invented in the 1920's. I liked it when Mom would get bread at the bakery, and I could watch as they sliced the whole loaf at once in their Rube Goldberg slicer. I wonder if bakery-sliced bread like that came earlier than the 1920's. -Joe Offer- |
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30 Nov 05 - 09:06 PM (#1617680) Subject: RE: Tech: Best Idea Since Sliced Bread From: Deda I think the packing trunks mentioned were called "steamer trunks." And after "sliced bread", the next most common is "best thing since zippers." So when were zipper invented? Toilet paper is actually a fairly recent invention, late 1800s I think. The ancient Romans used a sponge on a stick -- not to get too gross here. |
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01 Dec 05 - 08:00 AM (#1618020) Subject: RE: Tech: Best Idea Since Sliced Bread From: Mr Red Sooz The best thing before sliced bread - was - er - um - bread. because in those days you would not miss a slice off a cut loaf ........................... |
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01 Dec 05 - 08:17 AM (#1618030) Subject: RE: Tech: Best Idea Since Sliced Bread From: Sooz Isn't biotechnology wonderful? Bread, beer and wine courtesy of one little mould! |
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01 Dec 05 - 08:50 AM (#1618063) Subject: RE: Tech: Best Idea Since Sliced Bread From: The Fooles Troupe Technically speaking, all different ones... |
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04 Dec 05 - 05:19 AM (#1619677) Subject: RE: Tech: Best Idea Since Sliced Bread From: autolycus ZIP invented bt Whitcomb Judson of Chicago, first exhibited 1893. His system didn't gain currency, and was superceded by Gideon Sundbeck's, patented 1913,tho' the idea didn't take off till 1917. Sliced bread invented Otto Rohwedder, Missouri,1912, but idea didn't become successful until he devised a method of sealing the bread in a wrapper,1928. Greatest idea before sliced brea - the knife. Greatest idea since - the rediscovery of Gestalt bt Fritz Perls after WW2. |
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15 Dec 25 - 06:11 PM (#4233029) Subject: RE: Tech: Best Idea Since Sliced Bread From: Mr Red Seen in Gloucester, UK - reet thralled! Yorkshire Pudding Wrap Choice of fillings. 'happen. |