it has to be the thermos,  it keeps the hot things hot and the cold things cold.... how does it know.

-------Original Message-------
From: James Walldow <jwall@ARCTIC.NET>
Sent: 05/05/03 01:57 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Great inventions of the world

>
> ha............next time your sitting there just think of how good ya
feel afterwards.............the toilet.........best
invention.................james

Joel Walker wrote:

>>In my opinion the greatest invention in the world is bread
>>
>(taking a
>
>>near inedible object and turning it to a wonderful confection.)
>>
>Others
>
>>may argue for beer, but that's a Fryday subject.....
>>Another great invention is Air Conditioning. So the GoldBricks
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>AC's
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>>fan(s) stop working during the winter (I do try to run my AC at
>>
>least
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>>every couple of weeks in winter to keep the oil throughout the
>>system....) So today (friday that is) I spent a few hours
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>working on
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>>it...
>>
>
>aw, you young whippersnappers, wimps all of ya!!!
>
>the greatest invention in the world was ....
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>running water INside the house!!! :)
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>unca joel
>who , as a yuth, used ta hafta carry buckets of water into the
>house (from the pullup-another-bucket-on-a-rope well) for cooking
>and bathing. seriously. ain't sorry at all that it went out of
>fashion. ;)
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>