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Bell did not invent the telephone
Recumbentman Posted Apr 4, 2005
Hmmm. . . went to UpdateForum and saw no place to start a conversation. So for the moment this is it. I'll try and contact the original author.
Bell did not invent the telephone
Recumbentman Posted Apr 4, 2005
Aah. Arthur Phillip has elvised. Ironically his last post was on the death of Douglas Adams, May 2001. Pun intended. Back to us.
Bell did not invent the telephone
Xanatic Posted Apr 4, 2005
The Rubic's Cube was invented by two people simultaneously? That seems rather unlikely with such an object.
Bell did not invent the telephone
Recumbentman Posted Apr 4, 2005
But true! In Japan, with a different interior mechanism, but the same toy! Rubik beat him to the patent!
Bell did not invent the telephone
Xanatic Posted Apr 4, 2005
I bet next you'll tell us that England didn't really invent the cat.
Bell did not invent the telephone
Recumbentman Posted Apr 4, 2005
A little googling reveals that Rubik beat Terutoshi Ishige to applying for the patent, by a year . . . not so simultaneous perhaps.
Bell did not invent the telephone
I am Donald Sutherland Posted Apr 4, 2005
>>I bet next you'll tell us that England didn't really invent the cat.<<
Do you mean the feline variety or the one with nine tails. If you mean the nine tailed variety I would agree. England was pretty good at inventing things like that.
Donald
Bell did not invent the telephone
Recumbentman Posted Apr 5, 2005
Rum, buggery and the lash (Churchill's opinion of "Naval tradition")
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