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08-17-2001, 06:48 AM
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Jack Burton
 Join Date: March 1, 2001
Location: Airstrip One
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 Who was that guy that invented fire?  ------------------  Save Chip - Don't let Sarah win! Official Titterer of the Laughing Hyenas |
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08-17-2001, 08:29 AM
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Red Wizard of Thay
 Join Date: May 6, 2001
Location: Stuttgart, Germany
Age: 45
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The flushable toilet, of course! There´s nothing of greater importance, followed by Calvin and Hobbes.
------------------ Calvin the bold  the lonely malt beer lord*snif*
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08-18-2001, 12:22 AM
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Beholder
 Join Date: May 4, 2001
Location: The Outside Looking In
Age: 38
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1)the flushing toilet! id hate to live in a world without one...
2)the wheel. this was purely a sympathy vote, seeing as how deodorant should be high on my list... 3)FIRE! FIRE FIRE FIRE!!! mwahaha, and learning what burns... where would be be without it? 4)computers. even tho i spend half my day trying to convince mine to print, i still love em 5)diesel engines. one of the first fuel-efficient engines ------------------ With each kill, I grow wiser, and with added wisdom, I grow stronger. Does anybody have any idea what this means? |
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08-18-2001, 06:39 AM
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Ironworks Moderator
 Join Date: March 1, 2001
Location: Scotland
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Just to be pedantic, I presume that by "inventions", we mean things created. The others (fire,etc.) were there all along and thus are more properly termed "discoveries"
P.S. Just for the record, it is Saturday a.m. and I am very slightly hungover  ------------------ Regards Mouse [This message has been edited by Mouse (edited 08-18-2001).] |
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08-19-2001, 08:23 PM
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Ninja Storm Shadow
 Join Date: March 27, 2001
Location: Northport,Alabama, USA
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08-20-2001, 02:55 AM
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Gold Dragon
 Join Date: March 5, 2001
Location: smyrna, tn, usa
Age: 47
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yeah the written word is great, but what cave would we be living in if some bright individual hadn't figured out to give things names and start a spoken language?
------------------  Get The IronWorks Winamp skin Slackerboys Custom Characters |
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08-20-2001, 02:12 PM
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Very Mad Bird
 Join Date: January 7, 2001
Location: Breukelen (over the river from New Amsterdam)
Age: 53
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1. Matches (instant fire)
2. Fishing hook with a barbed end. (food) 3. The Axe (to build shelter) 4. Stringed instruments (including piano, harp, lute, guitar etc) 5. The various musical scales. ------------------ I am the walrus!.... er, no hang on....  A fair dinkum laughing Hyena! |
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08-20-2001, 02:15 PM
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Very Mad Bird
Join Date: January 7, 2001
Location: Breukelen (over the river from New Amsterdam)
Age: 53
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Oh, one I should have put down is: Tampons.
------------------ I am the walrus!.... er, no hang on.... A fair dinkum laughing Hyena! |
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08-21-2001, 09:22 AM
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Thank you, Yorick
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08-21-2001, 03:25 PM
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Fzoul Chembryl
 Join Date: March 29, 2001
Location: Montréal, Canada
Age: 50
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1- Man made fire
2- Wheel 3- Mathematics and other written languages 4- Peniciline 5- Man made irrigation |
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