Things you wish you'd invented but .......
Jay dubbleU
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..someone else got there first
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cjw wrote:Money
that would be quite a hard one to get accepted.
"Right, I give you this bit of paper/crafted metal and you give me all your land, livestock and worldly goods, but dont worry, some guy up the road will give you his horse, cart and wife for some of that paper, then you can use more of that paper to exchange for food, lodgings and a lovely town house - honest!"
"Then, many moons from now, there will be huge companies that just exchange bits of paper for other bits of paper and bring the world to its knees!
I don't think it will take off..."Encyclopaedia is a fetish for very small bicycles"0 -
buying up dirt cheap bombed out land after the war and calling it a National Car Park.
or Tetra Pak - billionaires from waterproofed cardboard, magnificent achievement.0 -
Wallace1492 wrote:cjw wrote:Money
that would be quite a hard one to get accepted.
"Right, I give you this bit of paper/crafted metal and you give me all your land, livestock and worldly goods, but dont worry, some guy up the road will give you his horse, cart and wife for some of that paper, then you can use more of that paper to exchange for food, lodgings and a lovely town house - honest!"
"Then, many moons from now, there will be huge companies that just exchange bits of paper for other bits of paper and bring the world to its knees!
I don't think it will take off...
Fits in your wallet easier than goats? The guy who invented it must've been a helluva salesman0 -
Jay dubbleU wrote:Wallace1492 wrote:cjw wrote:Money
that would be quite a hard one to get accepted.
"Right, I give you this bit of paper/crafted metal and you give me all your land, livestock and worldly goods, but dont worry, some guy up the road will give you his horse, cart and wife for some of that paper, then you can use more of that paper to exchange for food, lodgings and a lovely town house - honest!"
"Then, many moons from now, there will be huge companies that just exchange bits of paper for other bits of paper and bring the world to its knees!
I don't think it will take off...
Fits in your wallet easier than goats? The guy who invented it must've been a helluva salesman
Maybe fits in wallet easier than a goat, but you can't marry it!! Then again, quite a few are married to money.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/4748292.stm"Encyclopaedia is a fetish for very small bicycles"0 -
Ring pulls on top of cans
yes i am having a can of beer at the momentA punctured bicycle
On a hillside desolate
Will nature make a man of me yet ?0 -
Jay dubbleU wrote:Wallace1492 wrote:cjw wrote:Money
that would be quite a hard one to get accepted.
"Right, I give you this bit of paper/crafted metal and you give me all your land, livestock and worldly goods, but dont worry, some guy up the road will give you his horse, cart and wife for some of that paper, then you can use more of that paper to exchange for food, lodgings and a lovely town house - honest!"
"Then, many moons from now, there will be huge companies that just exchange bits of paper for other bits of paper and bring the world to its knees!
I don't think it will take off...
Fits in your wallet easier than goats? The guy who invented it must've been a helluva salesman
Ah, you mean the Goat Standard. Ended after WW1 as they ran out of goats.Bike1
http://www.flickr.com/photos/35118936@N07/3258551288/
Bike 2
http://www.flickr.com/photos/35118936@N ... otostream/
New Bike
http://www.flickr.com/photos/35118936@N07/3479300346/0 -
The bicycle.
What an invention.0 -
No, I'd be many many miles away and still pedalling :P0