one million

[MilkToast]

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est. 10k achievement date: 7/20/03 11:59 AM

[Eliza]

9501
Evenin'!

[dicksbro]

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[dicksbro]

9505 down
990495 to go :)

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[Scarlett]

9548

Good morning

[IAKaraokeGirl]

9549~Good morning to all!

[Scarlett]

9550

Good afternoon!

[Sharni]

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[Sharni]

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[Sharni]

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[Scarlett]

9554

Good afternoon again

[Midnight Kiss]

9555

:P

[Scarlett]

9556

Good afternoon again!

[Scarlett]

9557

I really shouldn't be here.

[Scarlett]

9558

I have walls that need painting.

[Scarlett]

9559

Hubby wonders why I am not getting more painted during the day.

[Scarlett]

9560

I really HATE painting!

[dadaist]

#9561

Almost hit the 10000 mark guys.
Congrats. Looks like this'll be the third thread to do so in this forum.

[IAKaraokeGirl]

9562~And in the shortest amount of time, too, I bet, dadaist.

[IAKaraokeGirl]

9563~Scarlett, I'm here instead of doing a document production for a very unorganized client...I've been putting this off for *weeks.* lol

[denny]

9564~ Lokks like you're on your way to 11,000!

[celticangel]

9565

[denny]

9566

[IAKaraokeGirl]

Originally posted by denny
9564~ Lokks like you're on your way to 11,000!

9567

We can only try. :)

[Midnight Kiss]

9568

happy happy JOY JOY

just because

[Eliza]

9569
howdy all!

[Eliza]

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[Eliza]

9571

[MilkToast]

Hi Eliza!

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[MilkToast]

searching for postin' topic now....

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[MilkToast]

cool... interesting facts about inventors....

here we go:

Henry Waterman, of New York, invented the elevator in 1850. He intended it to transport barrels of flour.

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(from http://www.angelfire.com/ca6/uselessfacts/)

[MilkToast]

John Greenwood, also of New York invented the dental drill in 1790.

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[MilkToast]

The corkscrew was invented by M.L. Bryn, also of New York, in 1860.

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[MilkToast]

Electrical hearing aids were invented in 1901 by Miller R. Hutchinson, who was (you guessed it) from New York.

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[MilkToast]

Dr. Jonas Salk developed the vaccine for polio in 1952, in New York.

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[MilkToast]

Four wheel roller skates were invented by James L. Plimpton in 1863. Can you guess where?

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[MilkToast]

In the early 1800s, a French silk weaver called Joseph-Marie Jacquard invented a way of automatically controlling the warp and weft threads on a silk loom by recording patterns of holes in a string of cards.

In 1843, a mathematician, Ada Byron, published the first computer programs. She based them on Jacquard's punch-card idea. Her programs were for the first general-purpose mechanical digital computer, that was just invented by Charles Babbage.

--9580--

[MilkToast]

As an advertising gimmick, Carl Meyer, nephew of lunch meat mogul Oscar Meyer, invented the company's "Wienermobile". On July 18, 1936, the first Oscar Mayer "Wienermobile" rolled out of General Body Company's factory in Chicago. The Wienermobile still tours the U.S. today.

--9581--

[MilkToast]

The parachute was invented by Leonardo da Vinci in 1515.

AND

Jeanne Pierre Francois Blanchard built the first parachute and tested it using a dog. He put the dog in a basket equipped with his invention and then dropped it from a hot air balloon. It was a giant step forward for aviation history, but a giant step backwards in establishing the dog as man's best friend.


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[MilkToast]

Gutenburg invented the printing press in the 1450's, and the first book to ever be printed was the Bible. It was, however, in Latin rather than English.

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[MilkToast]

The alarm clock was not invented by the Marquis de Sade, as some suspect, but rather by a man named Levi Hutchins of Concord, New Hampshire, in 1787. Perversity, though, characterized his invention from the beginning. The alarm on his clock could ring only at 4 am. Rumor has it that Hutchins was murdered by his wife at 4:05 am on a very dark and deeply cold New England morning.

--9584--

[MilkToast]

Craven Walker invented the lava lamp, and its contents are colored wax and water.

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[MilkToast]

The guillotine was originally called a louisette. Named for Antoine Louis, the French surgeon who invented it. It became known as the guillotine for Joseph Ignace Guillotin, the French physician who advocated it as a more merciful means of execution than the noose or ax.

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[MilkToast]

Teflon was discovered in 1938.

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{I wonder if they really mean invented...}

[MilkToast]

Alfred Nobel used a cellulose adhesive (nitrocellulose) as the chemical binder for nitroglycerin, which he used in his invention of dynamite.

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[MilkToast]

At the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, Richard Blechyden, and Englishman, had a tea concession. On a very hot day, none of the fairgoers were interested in hot tea. Blechyden served the tea cold and invented iced tea.

--9589--

[MilkToast]

and that does it for this session...

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[MilkToast]

looks like Sharni should over take my posting in this thread in a day or two (since I will be away from the PC for about 5 days :D)

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I really hate posting these blank ones... but I'm not feeling overly enthusiastic tonight...

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The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

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[MilkToast]

The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.

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[MilkToast]

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

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[MilkToast]

David Prowse, was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.

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[MilkToast]

Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.

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[Sharni]

#9606

[MilkToast]

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

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[MilkToast]

Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.

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[MilkToast]

The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

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[MilkToast]

Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.

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[MilkToast]

Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.

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[MilkToast]

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

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[MilkToast]

In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

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(although Ostrich farms might qualify as domestication... I dunno)....

[MilkToast]

Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

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[MilkToast]

If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

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[MilkToast]

The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver".

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[MilkToast]

In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.

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[MilkToast]

One of the reasons marijuana is illegal in the United States today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers -- they saw it as competition. It is not chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.

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[MilkToast]

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

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[MilkToast]

Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son.

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[MilkToast]

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

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[MilkToast]

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

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[MilkToast]

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

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[MilkToast]

The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

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[MilkToast]

..9625..

and that does it for me tonight... good night y'all.

[ryker]

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[IAKaraokeGirl]

9636~Woohoo! Maybe a million *is* in sight!!!!

[IAKaraokeGirl]

9637~AWESOME news from Kim!

[IAKaraokeGirl]

9638~I am *so* doing the happy dance! :D

[IAKaraokeGirl]

9639~Not only will I get to hit 15,000, but I'll get my one-year Pixies anniversary (which, amazingly, is *still* about 5-1/2 months away). :D

[skipthisone]

9640 ~ If we get to a million I am eating every pixie woman here.

[IAKaraokeGirl]

9641

<--------is making plans to be at the head of the line

[MilkToast]

well... it certainly is good news... but I'm still targetting this thread for 10k and then leaving it alone :)

--9642--

[MilkToast]

--9643--

gotta go to work... bye.

[Scarlett]

9644

Good morning!

[IAKaraokeGirl]

9645~It certainly is, isn't it? Woohoo!

[Scarlett]

9646

So this leaves me wondering about my goal to reach 3000 by the 31st...

[IAKaraokeGirl]

9647~Keep working at it, Scarlett. It's always nice to have goals. :)

[Scarlett]

9648

Okay :D

[IAKaraokeGirl]

9649~Glad to see you got the grass cut :)

[Scarlett]

9650

Oh me too! I was afraid to be out there in the heat advisory.It's almost too hot to breathe out there.

[Scarlett]

9651

But the house is a wreck now.

[Scarlett]

9652

I got half of the house clean! :D

[IAKaraokeGirl]

9653~Come clean mine!

[Scarlett]

9654

Ah, if only I was done with mine, I would be on the first plane to Iowa :)

[Sharni]

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[celticangel]

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Celtic~ya a bit behind matey :D

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[Sharni]

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Mornin' Scarlett :) & Where'd ya go *LOL*

[Sharni]

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