Author Topic: Best Commodity/invention? (Read 1509 times)

Animal · « **Reply #45 on:** June 19, 2003, 11:29:33 AM »

Camera
Porn

-dead- · « **Reply #46 on:** June 19, 2003, 02:02:01 PM »

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Originally posted by miko2d
Alphabet.

Unlike other crap, the concept of a phonetic alphabet was only invented once in the course of human history - by the semitic ancestors of jews and palestinians.

miko

The Chinese prove you can get by just fine without a phonetic alphabet.

Opposable thumbs would get my vote.

ra · « **Reply #47 on:** June 19, 2003, 02:11:26 PM »

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Originally posted by Pepe
The real important concept by the Arabs was the "zero" (not A6M5, tho)

And, by that time, arabs were probably the most tolerant and open-thinking society of that time. That explain a lot about then and now...

Zero was first used in India.

Vulcan · « **Reply #48 on:** June 19, 2003, 03:18:30 PM »

VELCRO!

Bodhi · « **Reply #49 on:** June 19, 2003, 09:47:46 PM »

I bet is that Dowding says "Anal-Eze"

udet · « **Reply #50 on:** June 19, 2003, 10:55:03 PM »

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Originally posted by ra
Zero was first used in India.

yep, just read something about it. An Indian invented and the Arabs quickly adopted it.