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    Idea stolen from here.

    My grandfather invented fish splinters, the precursor to fish sticks.

    Your turn!
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    My grandfather didn't invent anything. But he's so old that he was around back when the Dead Sea was just getting sick!
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    My grandfather invented the spoon.
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    My grandfather invented the automostay. Called it 'the horseless chair'!

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    My great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather invented the hedge fund derivative market on grass growing. This apparently led to the collapse of the Maya.

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    My grandfather invented the family seed.

    He also outlined a theory called the Catapillar Effect.
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    My grandfather invented the school bus.

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    My grandfather invented the culinary delight known as Creek 'n Coop, which is a trout served on a bed of over-easy eggs.

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    My grandfather invented the patent office.

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    My grandfather invented the pen enlarger.
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    My grandfather taught Chuck Norris how to fight.
    They weren't singing....they were just honking.
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    My grandfather invented the lockboard.
    The precursor to the keyboard.
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    My grandfather invented the P-tip.

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    Yanno the old newsreel clips showing a helicopter reeling in the space capsule from its landing in the ocean?

    My dad ( and some buddies) invented that.


    Srsly.

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    Quote Originally posted by Rabid Renaissance
    My grandfather invented the P-tip.
    My grandfather discovered cuesernic.

    He also came up with a good recipe for S-bones. It involved a hint of honey, harvested from an ay hive.
    Something tells me we haven't seen the last of foreshadowing.

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    You know the tin can telephone? Yeh, well my grandfather innovated the wireless kind. He cut out the bottoms of the cans, and the people just shouted at each other.
    ????

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    My grandfather invented most of the rays upto H, I think. Then someone else took over.
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    Quote Originally posted by Shirley Ujest
    Yanno the old newsreel clips showing a helicopter reeling in the space capsule from its landing in the ocean?

    My dad ( and some buddies) invented that.


    Srsly.
    Uh. He invented the newsreel, the helicopter, the space capsule, or the ocean?

    Halp.
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    My grandfather to the power of x, where x is a very large sum, invented the egg.
    To sleep, perchance to experience amygdalocortical activation and prefrontal deactivation.

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    Quote Originally posted by Rabid Renaissance
    My great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather invented the hedge fund derivative market on grass growing. This apparently led to the collapse of the Maya.
    My favorite so far. Although "wireless tin can phone" is a close second.

    Anyways, my grandfather invented mittent windshield wipers. They're like intermittent windshield wipers, only they don't move at all.

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    Quote Originally posted by ivan astikov
    My grandfather to the power of x, where x is a very large sum, invented the egg.
    Oh yeah?! - Well, my grandfather invented y'all's grandfathers!
    - and the "deaf"-button which sorta caught on until some wiseguy ...
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    My grandfather invented weightloss... right after he invented the hacksaw. (and, to that end, he also invented amputation.)
    ????

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