I was tying a knot on Saturday and ever since have been wondering about who invented the knot. That must have been a major technological breakthrough at the time.
I was tying a knot on Saturday and ever since have been wondering about who invented the knot. That must have been a major technological breakthrough at the time.
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I’m guessing, some Japanese pervert.
That was a good guess. Well, a funny guess.
I had a good guess. A serious guess. But, somehow, in light of your funny it seems lame to make a serious guess.
But I’m not funny like you so here it goes:The knot was discovered by accident!
Probably even more common in discoveries than we already know. Moving in to the modern age, most research scientists/inventors are way too egotistical to admit their discovery came by kismet rather than intellect.
Come to think of it, that might be quite a dilemma, “Miguel, tell us just how you DID indeed discover that the human genome could be mutated with fresh semen & MD 20/20?” You couldn’t just say, “Well, I was bored. And this freakin genome bullshit was driving me bats so I had a little wine. Then I got to thinking about my hot little teaching assistant and decided to jerk-off, so I layed the bottle down on the culture table, leaned up against it and…,” could ya? Hell no.
But if you really like the history of indespensible help-mates, check out the ultra-cool book entitled something like The History of the Paper-clip by some cool engineer guy whose name escapes me now. Even though I’m an idiot, the book rocks.
That’s gross, mic. I would never, ever drink MD20/20. Again.
I’m sure the first knots were all accidents. “Damn it! Another perfectly good vine has this inexplicable… _thing_ in it!”
But who invented untying? Maybe that, too, had something to do with drinking and sex.
Hadda be Gordian. Why else would there be a knot named after him?
Or Granny.
or slip.
and not long after the first knot was invented, the first person to have their shoes tied together fell on their face.
i suppose the first person to ‘invent’ the knot was a friend of the first person to drink cow’s milk, or eat a mushroom. or make cheese (‘hey, the curds have gone sour. i wonder what they would taste like if i compressed them and let them get mouldy…’)
heh. “hrm. bear milk didn’t work too well, i wonder about cow milk…”
also – scent glands near the anuses of certain animals secrete something used for a base in perfume. however did they figure that one out?