I'm very pleased to say this thread has been won :)
Not by identifying the invention I had in mind, but on post number, people. I will get to that in a moment, but first - I would like to apologise for any and all moments of tension that may have cropped up from time to time :( It is not how I like to do things at all - but circumstances behind the scenes (pre-dating my TLPTPW coup) made things a little difficult for my innocuous/not innocuous-comment-radar-apparatus to distinguish between, which is round about when I stopped having fun. If that was round about when everybody else stopped having fun, I'm genuinely sorry.
Thank you all for persevering despite that. I am grateful :)
Now to the invention.
When I told Sir Ffing he was sort of on the right track but going the wrong way, the track I was referring to was inventions that turned out not to be quite such a good idea as originally thought.
Those that caught on and suckered us all in when it might have been much better if they hadn't, is the direction he careered off in.
The other direction was of course, those that never really did capture our attention, and so disappeared like evolutionary dead ends have a habit of doing.
That's where I'd been rummaging.
Yes.
I wanted something that had usefully been deemed useless for my purposes - whether or not it should have been deemed useful at the time it was invented, and wasn't, or not.
Who knows... if a war hadn't gone and broken out all over the place when this thing was invented - perhaps we'd all own one now. It did, we don't, and there we have it...
The Blizzard Cone / Face Cone / Make-up Protector (or as the Netherlands' Nationaal Archief lists it: Plastic sneeuwstormbeschermer) that made its appearance in 1939 in Montreal then disappeared.
I'm pleased to tell everyone though, that - with post 100 being Jonathan's - he is the winner! :) A more deserving one there isn't as he also put the most effort into finding the invention I'd chosen. Thank you. So...
Well done!! and Congratulations on the win, Jonathan :)
edit: I will now send you a PM.
confirming edit: I have
:)
... now all that remains to do is whether anyone tells Mike he can stop digging that tunnel he's working on... ;)
oh and sorting out the debacle of everyone running away from the tool thread again...
Please wait here. Further instructions could pile up at any time. Thank you.
WD40
WD40
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
I'm very pleased to say this
I'm very pleased to say this thread has been won :)
Not by identifying the invention I had in mind, but on post number, people. I will get to that in a moment, but first - I would like to apologise for any and all moments of tension that may have cropped up from time to time :( It is not how I like to do things at all - but circumstances behind the scenes (pre-dating my TLPTPW coup) made things a little difficult for my innocuous/not innocuous-comment-radar-apparatus to distinguish between, which is round about when I stopped having fun. If that was round about when everybody else stopped having fun, I'm genuinely sorry.
Thank you all for persevering despite that. I am grateful :)
Now to the invention.
When I told Sir Ffing he was sort of on the right track but going the wrong way, the track I was referring to was inventions that turned out not to be quite such a good idea as originally thought.
Those that caught on and suckered us all in when it might have been much better if they hadn't, is the direction he careered off in.
The other direction was of course, those that never really did capture our attention, and so disappeared like evolutionary dead ends have a habit of doing.
That's where I'd been rummaging.
Yes.
I wanted something that had usefully been deemed useless for my purposes - whether or not it should have been deemed useful at the time it was invented, and wasn't, or not.
Who knows... if a war hadn't gone and broken out all over the place when this thing was invented - perhaps we'd all own one now. It did, we don't, and there we have it...
The Blizzard Cone / Face Cone / Make-up Protector (or as the Netherlands' Nationaal Archief lists it: Plastic sneeuwstormbeschermer) that made its appearance in 1939 in Montreal then disappeared.
I'm pleased to tell everyone though, that - with post 100 being Jonathan's - he is the winner! :) A more deserving one there isn't as he also put the most effort into finding the invention I'd chosen. Thank you. So...
Well done!! and Congratulations on the win, Jonathan :)
edit: I will now send you a PM.
confirming edit: I have
:)
... now all that remains to do is whether anyone tells Mike he can stop digging that tunnel he's working on... ;)
oh and sorting out the debacle of everyone running away from the tool thread again...
Please wait here. Further instructions could pile up at any time. Thank you.
A worthy winner.
A worthy winner. Congratulations, Sir. :-)
Stop digging Mike.
Stop digging Mike.
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
I won, wheey. Now that
I won, wheey.
Now that invention does look useful!
As when I'm cycling I regularly catch some kind of bug with either my eyes out my mouth, and this thing looks like it would prevent just that!
Scrape ..... crawl .....
Scrape ..... crawl ..... scrape ..... tap small shovel on trolley .... whizz away it goes .... scrape ..... crawl ..... scrape
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal