Group: triangle.general · Group Profile
Author: AI4QJAI4QJ Date: Apr 1, 2008 21:38
"Jim" bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:47F2F949.8D7072BD@bellsouth.net...>
> would it surprise you to learn, speed bumps were invented
> through the collaboration of two automotive front-end alignment
> shops both of which were owned by Southerners seeking to capitalize
> on the fact of how yankees are incapable of slowing down? and how
> after they obtained their patent as well as their franchise
> authorization they were able to retire to a nice place where speed
> bumps are not required... you're more than likely having a difficult
> time believing there could be a place with no yankees.
It would surprise me to learn that *anything* of technical merit was
invented by a Southerner. I do give credit for Southerners having discoverd
that catfish could actually be eaten as a food; yankees from the northern
midwest would never touch the stuff, considering it to be similar to Carp
(the big Lake Michigan cats were sometimes called Chicago brown trout) while
in the South they actually sold this dirty bottom feeder at restaurants.
Same goes for squirrel and possum. But as for Southern technical
achievement, that would surprise me.
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