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[challenge entry] Perhaps a bit too obscure?


(at least it's not another map!)

From the The World According To America challenge. See all 269 entries (closed)

(I helped save b3ta! Squiggy Alloria makes theme parks., Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:43, archived)
# hmm
lets see,
* computers
* supersonic aerodynamics
* packet switching
* radio
* the telephone

... how many other things did we Brits invent only to have the yanks make a fortune off?
(I helped save b3ta! coder.keitaro I like pies!, Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:45, archived)
# sporks!!!
(I helped save b3ta! Firkinfedup last shat on your wife's tits at, Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:46, archived)
# if i remember correctly
we invented america too
(I helped save b3ta! Strawberry Dragon, Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:46, archived)
# Yip
and we will never stop regretting it!
(I helped save b3ta! Squiggy Alloria makes theme parks., Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:49, archived)
# Well Canada and Australia turned out ok
America just wasn't finished when it was released onto the market
(I helped save b3ta! Strawberry Dragon, Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:51, archived)
# True
we should issue a product recall.
(I helped save b3ta! Squiggy Alloria makes theme parks., Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:52, archived)
# ...
*switches packets*
(I helped save b3ta! Wildyles is back to rimming chimps, Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:46, archived)
# don't forget
bikes
television
penicilin
tyres

ALL SCOTTISH!
(I helped save b3ta! Squiggy Alloria makes theme parks., Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:46, archived)
# Tires?
Shirley tyres
(bogus official shove it up your cunt, Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:47, archived)
# The jet engine
Ground effect cars... hell, pretty much the entire composition of modern high performance vehicles...
And most importantly the chicken Tikka
(Guineapiggy Fuzzeh!, Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:48, archived)
# jesus!
I plain forgot it!

I must recind my citizenship and hang myself!
(I helped save b3ta! coder.keitaro I like pies!, Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:50, archived)
# Masala sauce actually
In the 70's h'apparently

*Curry connoisseur*
(I helped save b3ta! El_Jamer ooh Zippy!, Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:52, archived)
# Battered Mars bar
(I helped save b3ta! @><|= w0nu!) or cunt to my friends, Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:54, archived)
# didn't the germans invent the jet engine
? btw i'm just asking

just found out it was English / German

Dr. Hans von Ohain and Sir Frank Whittle are co-inventors of the jet engine
(site_history_log, Wed 1 Mar 2006, 14:03, archived)
# Yeah, but we ruled you!
*hides*
(I helped save b3ta! @><|= w0nu!) or cunt to my friends, Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:49, archived)
# this is why we kept
scotchland in the Empire.
(I helped save b3ta! Strawberry Dragon, Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:50, archived)
# Aaah the empire!
forgot the other things we invented;

* total war
* concentration camps
* checmical warfare
* biological warface
* internment

But the germans got to make the first two popular ...
(I helped save b3ta! coder.keitaro I like pies!, Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:53, archived)
# Everyone steals our ideas :(
(I helped save b3ta! Strawberry Dragon, Wed 1 Mar 2006, 14:03, archived)
# and bearing grudges/having a chip on the shoulder for hundreds of years
or is that the welsh?
(I helped save b3ta! harryfreeze Ignore, Hide, I like this!, Reply, Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:50, archived)
# Hmm
the Telephone.

Bell may be credited - although like most Scotchmen he had already abandoned is native Scotchland.

There is more than a little doubt and a suspicion of corruption at the patent office.
(I helped save b3ta! F5 F5 F5 Can't be arsed., Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:49, archived)
# Those damn yanks,
defrauding us by becoming more wealthy than us through independent enterprise, and somehow causing us not to capitalise on our own ideas to the same extent.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:51, archived)
# exactly
how dare they steal our entrepeneurial spirit and british can do attitude.
(I helped save b3ta! coder.keitaro I like pies!, Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:55, archived)
# pfft
woo to you
(I helped save b3ta! Neon Blue Ah ha ha haa! I feel positively capital!, Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:46, archived)
# Surely.....
that is the worlds biggest musical jewelry box chime!
(I helped save b3ta! Fire & Forget it's the only way to be sure, Wed 1 Mar 2006, 14:04, archived)