if you were going to invent something, what would it be?
$Zero
how would it work?
or do you consider yourself incapable of invention?
if so, why?
do you think that everything is the way it is because the really smart
people have already figured it all out?
-$Zero...
the return of the horse and buggy
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/371ff88c8c95d016
john.ku...@sympatico.ca
Sock yarn with GPS tags in it and a hand held homing unit.
The thread is in the sock and you innitialize it to your particular
GPS homing unit. When you put a sock in the dryer and it does not come
back out, you will be able to track it down. Now some folks claim that
sock loss is a cross dimentional phenomenon so I don't know if it
will work every time.
Pies de Arcilla
> if you were going to invent something, what would it be?
>
> how would it work?
>
> or do you consider yourself incapable of invention?
>
> if so, why?
>
> do you think that everything is the way it is because the really smart
> people have already figured it all out?
I think of lots of things, and I would patent them, but it always
happens that some idiot publishes first by about a week.
PJ
> if you were going to invent something, what would it be?
A thing that affixes to the rear bumper of my Jeep that would shoot
flames and shards of metal at vehicles that tailgate me.
>
> how would it work?
I would have a remote control on my steering wheel. The left button, the
blue one, would send a warning first in neon lights: "Get off my ass now
or I will shoot you with flames and shards of metal." If said warning
was not heeded, I would then press the right button, the red one, and
first the words "I warned you, sucker!" would appear, and then the
flames and shards of metal would shoot out.
> or do you consider yourself incapable of invention?
Yes.
> if so, why?
I just can't seem to get the technology figured out.
> do you think that everything is the way it is because the really smart people have already figured it all
What I'm hoping is that a really smart person will read this and invent
it for me. Selling the cops on the idea might take a little work.
~ ~ ~
PJ
boots
>if you were going to invent something, what would it be?
Electricity from nothing and the girls are free.
>how would it work?
Most excellently.
>or do you consider yourself incapable of invention?
Prolly.
>if so, why?
Would you like to buy gasoline for my generator?
>do you think that everything is the way it is because the really smart
>people have already figured it all out?
Not even.
--
Don't read this crap... oops, too late!
[superstitious heathen grade 8]
boots
boots
btw, re flames? You could install a sparkplug at the back end of your
tailpipe and a pushbutton switch that would divert your engine's spark
from the engine to the tailpipe sparkplug. Pressing the switch would
cause the gas/air mixture in the engine to pass into the exhaust
system unburned and be ignited by the tailpipe sparkplug... meanwhile
your vehicle would slow down a bit bringing the flame closer to its
intended victim Untested, don't be surprised if your muffler
explodes.
boots
Final note: May what gods that be damn the inventor of the catalytic
converter to an everlasting hell of tailgaters. Caltrops, that's the
ticket. They got anti-littering fines in MI?
PJ
>>> if you were going to invent something, what would it be?
>> A thing that affixes to the rear bumper of my Jeep that would shoot
>> flames and shards of metal at vehicles that tailgate me.
>>> how would it work?
>> I would have a remote control on my steering wheel. The left button, the
>> blue one, would send a warning first in neon lights: "Get off my ass now
>> or I will shoot you with flames and shards of metal." If said warning
>> was not heeded, I would then press the right button, the red one, and
>> first the words "I warned you, sucker!" would appear, and then the
>> flames and shards of metal would shoot out.
>>
>>> or do you consider yourself incapable of invention?
>> Yes.
>>
>>> if so, why?
>> I just can't seem to get the technology figured out.
>>
>>> do you think that everything is the way it is because the really smart people have already figured it all
>> What I'm hoping is that a really smart person will read this and invent
>> it for me. Selling the cops on the idea might take a little work.
> btw, re flames? You could install a sparkplug at the back end of your
> tailpipe and a pushbutton switch that would divert your engine's spark
> from the engine to the tailpipe sparkplug. Pressing the switch would
> cause the gas/air mixture in the engine to pass into the exhaust
> system unburned and be ignited by the tailpipe sparkplug... meanwhile
> your vehicle would slow down a bit bringing the flame closer to its
> intended victim Untested, don't be surprised if your muffler
> explodes.
I feel that it's a display of bad manners not to respond when you
comment on one of my posts, but half the time I have no idea what you're
talking about.
<g>
~ ~ ~
PJ
Sylvia
> $Zero wrote:
> > if you were going to invent something, what would it be?
>
> A thing that affixes to the rear bumper of my Jeep that would shoot
> flames and shards of metal at vehicles that tailgate me.
<horrified>
Miz PJ! How could ya show such disregard for yer fellow peeps!?
"Flames and shards of metal"! How rude!
<shaking tasty carrot stick in Miz PJ's direction>
Disintegrator Torpedos, now *that's* the ticket!
<hopping about excitedly>
One good [WHOMP!] and the bastids are GONE!
See, yer way, they'd be Road Hazard, so they'd still be a clear and present
danger to other peeps. You don't really want to give 'em a final chance to
hurt other peeps, now do ya?
<suspicious>
Did you invest heavily tire sales?
> > how would it work?
>
> I would have a remote control on my steering wheel. The left button, the
> blue one, would send a warning first in neon lights: "Get off my ass now
> or I will shoot you with flames and shards of metal."
Spoilt sport.
> If said warning was not heeded, I would then press the right button, the
> red one, and first the words "I warned you, sucker!" would appear, and then
> the flames and shards of metal would shoot out.
<...>
> What I'm hoping is that a really smart person will read this and invent
> it for me. Selling the cops on the idea might take a little work.
Disintegrator Torpedos. They'd love it. Ask the Loot. [1]
--
Sylvia
[1] http://tinyurl.com/The-Loot
http://preview.tinyurl.com/The-Loot
PJ
> Miz PJ wrote:
>> $Zero wrote:
>>> if you were going to invent something, what would it be?
>> A thing that affixes to the rear bumper of my Jeep that would shoot a
>> flames and shards of metal at vehicles that tailgate me.
>
> <horrified>
>
> Miz PJ! How could ya show such disregard for yer fellow peeps!?
I hate tailgaters. Hate 'em, hate' em, hate 'em.
>
> "Flames and shards of metal"! How rude!
>
> <shaking tasty carrot stick in Miz PJ's direction>
Got any dill dip? I love carrot sticks with dill dip.
>
> Disintegrator Torpedos, now *that's* the ticket!
Yeah, that would work too.
>
> <hopping about excitedly>
<hopping here as well>
>
> One good [WHOMP!] and the bastids are GONE!
And you called *me* rude.
>
> See, yer way, they'd be Road Hazard, so they'd still be a clear and present
> danger to other peeps. You don't really want to give 'em a final chance to
> hurt other peeps, now do ya?
Now I feel ashamed.
>
> <suspicious>
<cowering>
>
> Did you invest heavily tire
>
>>> how would it work?
>> I would have a remote control on my steering wheel. The left button, the
>> blue one, would send a warning first in neon lights: "Get off my ass now
>> or I will shoot you with flames and shards of metal."
>
> Spoilt sport.
Am not.
>
>> If said warning was not heeded, I would then press the right button, the
>> red one, and first the words "I warned you, sucker!" would appear, and then
>> the flames and shards of metal would shoot out.
> <...>
>> What I'm hoping is that a really smart person will read this and invent
>> it for me. Selling the cops on the idea might take a little work.
>
> Disintegrator Torpedos. They'd love it. Ask the Loot. [1]
I still think my method would be more fun.
~ ~ ~
PJ
Grand Mal
"boots" <n...@no.no> wrote in message
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Hm.
I think it'd have to be at least a second of delay for the compression of
the 'dead' engine to push the fuel mixture to the end of the tailpipe.
Otherwise, if it were only a cycle or two, the next firing in the combustion
chamber would exhaust hot enough to set the fuel off in the exhaust
manifold, wouldn't it?
Would look pretty cool, though- the car coasting for that second and then
the ignition timed so it takes off at the same time the exhaust ignites at
the tailpipe.
boots
Bluuuuue Rajah
news:03vdk.3281$1o6.167@edtnps83:
For too many reasons, too technical to detail here, this design won't
survive the POC phase (proof of concept). I prefer paint-balloons, hand
tossed through the sunroof, since a funnelator has too much chance of
misfiring on launch, spraying the cab with effluent.
The gizmo that drops star-nails from beneath the trunk was already
invented in Goldeneye, but to save assembly costs, you could just
straddle both lanes and drop handsful of drywall nails from the rear
passenger window. Drywall nails have the handy tendency of tangling up
with each other into clumps, in a way that typically leaves many sharp
points aiming in all directions.
Of course, these ideas have been rendered obsolete by run-flat tires,
and I'm anxious to see what happens the first time somebody notices that
they defeat police "stop sticks," and tests them in a car chase.
Put that in your short story and smoke it. :]
Bill Penrose
My GPS has multiple Universe capability. Like taking a US cell phone
to Europe.
(Is Universe still upper case when there are trillions of them?)
DB
Bill Penrose
> btw, re flames? You could install a sparkplug at the back end of your
> tailpipe and a pushbutton switch that would divert your engine's spark
> from the engine to the tailpipe sparkplug. Pressing the switch would
> cause the gas/air mixture in the engine to pass into the exhaust
> system unburned and be ignited by the tailpipe sparkplug...
In the pre-catalytic converter 1950s, you could do this by turning the
ignition off and then on again after a couple of seconds. If your
timing was good, you could get a flame four or five feet long, and a
VERY loud bang. Your muffler would tolerate this 0 to 5 times before
splitting like a banana.
DB
boots
We used to make Real Mufflers here in the US. Now the only mufflers
you can get come from China and wrap around your neck.