It is supposed to be blowing a kiss... Now... WHY on earth would anyone willingly spend time in Carbondale Illinois...?
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 > On May 11, 2015, at 1:41 PM, Richmond <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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: > > Computers > > Televisions > > 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. >> >> >> >>>> On May 11, 2015, at 1:29 PM, Richmond <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 11/05/15 17:27, Mark Schonewille wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> A quick look-up on Wikipedia: >>>> >>>> "Innocenzo Manzetti considered the idea of a telephone as early as 1844, >>>> and may have made one in 1864, as an enhancement to an automaton built by >>>> him in 1849." >>>> >>>> Why doesn't Italy have 001? >>>> >>>> Don't answer that the US invented electricity: it is said that the >>>> Babylonians did this some time earlier. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Best regards, >>>> >>>> Mark Schonewille >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Richmond. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> use-livecode mailing list >>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>> subscription preferences: >>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
