On Jan 29, 2012, at 7:21 AM, ashok _ wrote: > On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 7:15 PM, ss <[email protected]> wrote: >>> A fraught question, eh? :) >> >> Man's greatest invention? >> >> Agriculture >> >> Agriculture led to settlements and leisure. Leisure led to writing and art >> experiemnation and wheels. >> > > I thought of agriculture too ... but I would go a step further and say > that the invention before agriculture was religion, which made people > form groups of common ideology and work together and farm. > Old joke:
Radio interviewer: "And what would you say is man's greatest invention?" Man on street: "That's easy. The thermos." RI: "The thermos? Why do you say that?" MoS: "Well, what you put in it is hot, it stays hot. What you put in it is cold, it stays cold." RI: "What's so amazing about that?" MoS: "How do it know?" regards, jrs P.S. In my house, my wife and I use the phrase "how do it know?" to express amazement, especially when some technology, such as a new DVD player, actually works when you set it up instead of not working for some unfathomable reason that makes you want to smash it to bits (before you give up, swallow your pride, and call the 800 "help" number and get connected to a very nice young woman in Bangalore named "Jenny" who has a very bad fake American accent, but who figures out how to get your DVD working.)
