What is your favorite piece of technology? - Page 2

smoothmoniker · 12-21-2004, 09:35 AM

I'd like to change my answer to "Indoor Plumbing"

wolf · 12-21-2004, 09:36 AM

If we're going to be that way, I might have to change my answer to "printing press".

Elspode · 12-21-2004, 12:54 PM

Air Conditioning.

dar512 · 12-21-2004, 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Elspode

Air Conditioning.

God bless John Gorrie. He made summer liveable. There was an article on him in the Smithsonian last year.

footfootfoot · 12-21-2004, 09:00 PM

A thermos, because it keeps hot things hot and cold things cold.

How do it know?

mrnoodle · 12-21-2004, 09:02 PM

Pop-top beverage cans are cool. Actually, it's been awhile since we had a really innovative, affordable-for-the-masses technological advance like that. I'm probably missing several hundred, but...

wolf · 12-22-2004, 12:44 AM

I miss soda cans that you had to open with a can opener, carefully poking it twice to let the beverage flow freely ... I also miss pull tabs. Damn shame people were too stupid not to choke on them.

Troubleshooter · 12-22-2004, 10:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wolf

I miss soda cans that you had to open with a can opener, carefully poking it twice to let the beverage flow freely ... I also miss pull tabs. Damn shame people were too stupid not to choke on them.

Damn shame more stupid people didn't choke on them...

Elspode · 12-22-2004, 10:38 AM

The whole choking fad was the fault of the eco crowd, anyway. They suggested that the pulled tab be inserted into the can so as to not end up tossed carelessly on the ground.

What they failed to appreciate was the artistic value inherent in the thing, as witnessed by Jimmy Buffet's eventual line in "Margaritaville":

'Blew out my flipflop
Stepped on a poptop
Cut my heel, had to cruise on back home.
But there's booze in the blender
And soon it will render
That frozen concotion that helps me hang on..."

zippyt · 12-22-2004, 09:38 PM

The personal computer
Tivo ROCKS !!!!
And on a COLD and snowy night such as this is ( for folks in my area ) ventless gas fire logs !!! Yes we have one of those fake fire places , but you know what , i don't have to cut , split , haul , or buy wood ( Yea Yea i know the smell and the sound of burning logs is HARD to beat ) . or deal with the ashes , i just call the gas man when the tank starts getting low .
Plus on cold mornings i can get dressed in front of the fire , and when i am done I just turn them off .

Troubleshooter · 12-22-2004, 09:45 PM

Everybody is forgetting the innovation that made almost all others possible.

Fire

Undertoad · 12-22-2004, 09:46 PM

Fire bad

xoxoxoBruce · 12-28-2004, 01:48 AM

You'd need more than two dogs without it.

wolf · 12-28-2004, 01:50 AM

Or at least two much larger ones.

Griff · 12-28-2004, 08:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Troubleshooter

Everybody is forgetting the innovation that made almost all others possible.

Fire

Actually, Warch nailed that down on page 1. After fire, I'll take the bicycle.

12-21-2004, 09:35 AM	#16
smoothmoniker to live and die in LA Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 2,090	I'd like to change my answer to "Indoor Plumbing" __________________ to live and die in LA

12-21-2004, 09:36 AM	#17
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	If we're going to be that way, I might have to change my answer to "printing press". __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

12-21-2004, 12:54 PM	#18
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	Air Conditioning. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

12-21-2004, 09:00 PM	#20
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	A thermos, because it keeps hot things hot and cold things cold. How do it know? __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

12-21-2004, 09:02 PM	#21
mrnoodle bent Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: under the weather Posts: 2,656	Pop-top beverage cans are cool. Actually, it's been awhile since we had a really innovative, affordable-for-the-masses technological advance like that. I'm probably missing several hundred, but... __________________ Sìn a nall na cuaranan sin. -- Cha mhór is fheairrde thu iad, tha iad coltach ri cat air a dhathadh

12-22-2004, 12:44 AM	#22
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	I miss soda cans that you had to open with a can opener, carefully poking it twice to let the beverage flow freely ... I also miss pull tabs. Damn shame people were too stupid not to choke on them. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

12-22-2004, 10:38 AM	#24
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	The whole choking fad was the fault of the eco crowd, anyway. They suggested that the pulled tab be inserted into the can so as to not end up tossed carelessly on the ground. What they failed to appreciate was the artistic value inherent in the thing, as witnessed by Jimmy Buffet's eventual line in "Margaritaville": 'Blew out my flipflop Stepped on a poptop Cut my heel, had to cruise on back home. But there's booze in the blender And soon it will render That frozen concotion that helps me hang on..." __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

12-22-2004, 09:38 PM	#25
zippyt LONG LIVE KING ZIPPY! per Feetz Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Arkansas Posts: 7,661	The personal computer Tivo ROCKS !!!! And on a COLD and snowy night such as this is ( for folks in my area ) ventless gas fire logs !!! Yes we have one of those fake fire places , but you know what , i don't have to cut , split , haul , or buy wood ( Yea Yea i know the smell and the sound of burning logs is HARD to beat ) . or deal with the ashes , i just call the gas man when the tank starts getting low . Plus on cold mornings i can get dressed in front of the fire , and when i am done I just turn them off . __________________ "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. " Brother Dave Gardner

12-22-2004, 09:45 PM	#26
Troubleshooter The urban Jane Goodall Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Florida Posts: 3,012	Everybody is forgetting the innovation that made almost all others possible. Fire __________________ I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. - Aristotle

12-22-2004, 09:46 PM	#27
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Fire bad

12-28-2004, 01:48 AM	#28
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	You'd need more than two dogs without it. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

12-28-2004, 01:50 AM	#29
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Or at least two much larger ones. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

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