also – scent glands near the anuses of certain animals secrete something used for a base in perfume. however did they figure that one out?

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…’)

But who invented untying? Maybe that, too, had something to do with drinking and sex.

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.