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To: TigerPaw who wrote (29464)	10/6/2003 8:20:17 PM
From: Jagfan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 62567

There's a student in medical school who wants to specialize in sexual disorders, so he makes arrangements to visit the sexual disorder clinic. The chief doctor is showing him around, discussing cases and the facility, when the student sees a patient masturbating right there in the hallway. "What condition does he have?" the student asks. "He suffers from Seminal Buildup Disorder," the doctor replies. "If he doesn't obtain sexual release forty to fifty times a day, he'll pass into a coma." The student takes some notes on that, and they continue down the hall. As they turn the corner, he sees another patient with his pants around his ankles, receiving oral sex from a beautiful nurse. "What about him?" the student asks. "What's his story?" "Oh, it's the same condition," the doctor replies. "He just has a better health plan."

To: TigerPaw who wrote (29464)	10/6/2003 10:15:20 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 62567

Is this true? From Britain...Inventions The automobile The internal combustion engine is usually attributed to Benz, a German. The American inventor was a patent fraud whose claim to have invented the engine was thrown out by the US courts in the Ford case. The sewing machine The first functional sewing machine was invented by the French tailor, Barthelemy Thimonnier, in 1830. There were about 6 previous patents for sewing machines of which the first US one came in at number 5... Electricity (I thought B. Franklin discovered it) Try Faraday, Royal Society, London The light bulb Swan invented the light bulb first and actually filed his patent first to boot. Edison only got a patent because at the time the USPTO did not recognise foreign inventions or prior art. Bar-b-que I don't think you can count that since the Hawaiian islanders were having BBQ before the US was founded, before Westerners had discovered it even. I don't think you can count inventions aquired by conquest. The vaccine "In 1796 English country doctor Edward Jenner found that if a small amount of material was taken from a cow suffering from cowpox and injected into a healthy human child, that child would become immune to smallpox. " [chron.com] - incidentally the term vaccine comes from the Latin for cows. Do Americans wonder what we did before we found them and split up from them? We weren't living in caves. Silly Americans. I think the Americans where misinformed at school again! Doh!

To: TigerPaw who wrote (29464)	2/8/2004 8:38:12 PM
From: Geof Hollingsworth	Respond to of 62567

Technology keeps advancing. A few years ago, to call the police you had to look up the number and dial 7 digits to have a stenographer write down your information. The more recent 911 systems require only 3 digits to connect to the police and have your call recorded automaticly. Now with the Patriot Act you don't even have to dial. You know why John Ashcroft has so much respect for Donald Rumsfeld? Rumsfeld is the only one in the administration who can read the Patriot Act in its original German.