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It's Thursday, time for another quiz
See if you can guess the intended purpose of the following
inventionsI scored a respectable 4/10, lets see if you're Barnes Wallis or Wilf Lunn.
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Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 14 Aug 2008, 12:44,
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latest was 17 years ago)
I got seven
Go me.
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Cawl, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 12:48,
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I got 4
so that makes me a bloody stupid Johnson I reckon
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Halfy By light alone, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 12:51,
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Woo!
5 - In your
FACE PJM!
Apologies, I'm not even that competitive, I just felt like being shoutily insulting and I can't even do that without regretting it immediately. I'm so very, very, sorry.
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Fireflier La la la la, not listening on, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 12:52,
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4
Bah.
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Shippy likes linebreaks and doesn't care what you think, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 12:53,
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4/10
bah.
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mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 12:55,
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I got 6...
But I'm so old I remember when half of them were the 'latest must-have gadgets'
*sigh*
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Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Thu 14 Aug 2008, 12:56,
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9
Do I win some kind of invention guessing prize?
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wanderlust, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 12:56,
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Wanderlust
Yes, you win the continuing admiration of everyone on here for guessing 9 correctly.
How the heck did you manage that?
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Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 14 Aug 2008, 12:58,
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Yeah...well...
I took it again, and got 8 the second time!
w00!
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Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Thu 14 Aug 2008, 13:00,
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I did this a couple of days ago
Got a not-terribly-good 3/10.
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The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 13:00,
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8/10
Not bad!
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Kroney, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 13:02,
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not bad
I got 6/10 not too bad :)
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weekirst23 Is broken! Silly ice. Silly High heels!, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 13:04,
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I managed
5/10.
Although I still refuse to believe the pile cream applicator is real. My eyes are watering at the thought.
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Moey, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 13:06,
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7 - quietly inspired
I can live with that.
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bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 13:07,
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@PJM
The only one I got wrong was the eye massager one.
I have no idea how I did it. I guess I just have the brain of an invention guesser.
*smugs*
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wanderlust, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 13:07,
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Blimey
some weird and wonderful stuff there...
5/10, so I'm half an inventor!
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Evilweevil is covered in bees, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 13:17,
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7/10
Most were guesses but some I remembered form some crazy website I was reading a while back :)
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TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 13:22,
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I got 5
would've been 6, but I thought "surely no one would put that up their arse"
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 13:24,
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Speaking of inventions
I think
this would make a great QOTW.
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mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 13:33,
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I Got 4/10
Meh.
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Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 13:33,
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6/10
Woo!
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Axai is in Montréal, Canada O.o, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 13:37,
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6
and I have to admit, a lot of it was guess work.
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lei, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 13:45,
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4 out of 10
would have been five but my mouse clicking finger would not accept the pile cream applicator and clicked something else instead.
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TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Thu 14 Aug 2008, 13:47,
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I got 5/10
Although I think if the pictures had been bigger I might have done better. (or some other excuse).
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Mrs Entity is in hiding., Thu 14 Aug 2008, 13:58,
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I got 6
I feel frighteningly mediocre.
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PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 14:09,
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7/10
Huzzah.
Like the idea of the hipflask-disguised-as-binoculars thingy.
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osok Rebel without a clue, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 18:05,
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