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Has anyone had an original idea at one time only to find out it made someone else famous?
For example I can remember many years ago,hating chili dogs but loving the actual chili sauce that went on them,so at these little tastee freeze ice cream places I would order a cheeseburger topped with the chili sauce and would get the strangest looks and people would say thats a strange request,only to find out chili cheeseburgers are popular now.
Back in 1977 shortly after the movie came out I had invented the first toy light saber from Star Wars.However I never asked my parents to pay the $300 fee for getting my patent and now after almost 30 years I still regret it.
Could have made a fortune...lol
Way back when Packman was a cool arcade game I remember telling a friend, we should write a song about that game. Someone else did (you know, that song Packman Fever?).
My sister swears that she came up with the idea for gas-ahol...and pet rocks!
As for me? I was the co-creator of the Internet...along with our buddy Al Gore.
I did try and invent a board game when I was in 7th grade...even sent it off to Parker Brothers and everything. I sent them my artwork too. They were so nice to send it all back to me with a very nice letter.
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I didn't think of this, but some "genius" came up with a home sales kit that has a little statue of St. Joseph and a prayer card, along with the legend that burying the little guy in your front yard will help you sell the house. I'm sure whoever it is is sitting there, laughing all the way to the bank.
It's funny that you mentioned White Out. My good freind of thirty years dad invented it an lives pretty comfortably in Long Island now. (dad i mean)
Whould-a-thunk-it .....white paint in a small bottle....free brush included.
I thought I had read that a secretary invented it, so I did a Google search:
Bette Nesmith Graham used a kitchen blender to create liquid paper.
It was originally called "mistake out", the invention of Bette Nesmith Graham, a Dallas secretary and a single mother raising a son* on her own. Graham used her own kitchen blender to mix up her first batch of liquid paper or white out, a substance used to cover up mistakes made on paper
I honestly could just spit at the TV every time Joy Mangano comes up with another idea!
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