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Patently Absurd! - Table of Contents
Patently Absurd! - Table of Contents
Links to serious information about patents
If you enjoy weird and wacky patents, visit these sites:
Table of Contents
Home page- GB2328762 Condom advent calendar.
- GB2289222 Fart collecting device.
- GB2221607 Glove for courting couples.
- GB2272154 Spider ladder.
- GB2283412 Chair for coition.
- GB2060081 Horse-powered minibus.
- GB2172200 Umbrella hat.
- GB2301524 "Contoured Ulterior Pouch" (CUP).
- GB2267208 Portable seat.
- GB2251542 Ashtray which warns you to quit smoking.
- GB2339950 Car registration plate indicating sex of driver.
- WO02069773 Toilet seat.
- FR2739014 Another toilet seat.
- FR2780195 Gravestone sun-dial.
- JP09-256683 Another gravestone sun-dial.
- US6325727 Underwater golf swing training device.
- DE4020440 "Go-Matic" dog excrement remover.
- WO9939598 Beer barrel headgear.
- US4233942 Device for protecting a dog's ears from soiling by its food.
- US4773863 Urinal with amusement features.
- US4429685 Method of growing unicorns.
- US4734078 Liquid brassiere.
- FR2694256 Amphibious horse drawn light vehicle.
- FR2640874 The ultimate in safe sex.
- WO9701384 Leash for walking an imaginary pet.
- US5163447 Musical condom.
- GB1121630 Controlling the spin of a golf ball.
- GB1047735 Piping snowballs from Antarctica.
- GB1405575 Horse-powered car.
- GB1251780 Practice golf tee.
- GB1153249 Television tower.
- GB1204648 Irrigating the Sahara Desert.
- GB1361962 The ultimate deterrent to solve the Cold War.
- GB1439086 Large, luxury multi-bodied aircraft.
- GB1453920 Skyscraper fire curtains.
Links to serious information about patents
Sites with absurd patents
Other sites with absurd patentsIf you enjoy weird and wacky patents, visit these sites:
- Patently Absurd!
- This site! - in case you missed it.
- Delphion's Gallery of Obscure Patents
- Delphion (formerly IBM) provide a searchable database of patents. Users can vote to add patents to this gallery.
- Patent of the week
- Can be viewed by category. The 'sex' category is not for the prudish.
- Weird and Wonderful Patents
Crazy Patents
Wacky Patent of the Month
Wacky Patents - Four sites provided by American firms of attorneys.
- Totally Absurd
- Yet more patents from the USA.
- Patscan - Bizarre Patents
- US and a few Canadian examples, from the University of British Columbia.
- BBC News
- Article on absurd patents.
- ABC News - Patently Weird
- Gives well-researched details of off-beat patented ideas.
- About.com/Mining Co - Wacky Patents
- A directory listing some of the above sites, and more.
- Incredible Inventions
- The Living Web portal site.
- Bizarre Tales from New Scientist
- Strange scientific and technical stories. Includes a few absurd patents.
- Patentes curiosas
- Curious inventions from Spain (in Spanish), plus others.
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13.11.12
Tired of "Bronco Bamma" and Mitt Romney - YouTube
Tired of Bronco Bamma and Mitt Romney - YouTube
Published on Oct 30, 2012 by Elizabeth Evans
"she cries that she's "tired of Bronco
Bamma and Mitt Romney."
The four-year-old has been joined by a
surprisingly large number of reporters who decided to make their living
writing about politics but can't stop complaining that the election
sucks. And they are totally and completely wrong. The YouTube clip of
crying Abby was being tweeted Wednesday morning as the perfect
distillation of how tired voters feel after all the negative ads and
stump speech zingers during the presidential election.
We'll cut a toddler some slack. But what else should we do, grownups who take
their cues from babies? Pick our governments by killing each other in
the streets? A bunch of negative ads supporting your local broadcasting
economy seems like a quite pleasant alternative to the French
Revolution. The election is being fought over big, important problems,
and people have very different ideas about how to fix them. If all
citizens officially agreed on all of them, we wouldn't be living in a
utopia, we'd be living in North Korea. Cheer up, Abby. It could be
worse."* Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss Abby's predicament, and
why even adults who like politics can relate.
*Read more from Elspeth Reeve/Atlantic Wire:
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/10/bronco-bamma-girl-theres-noth...
Published on Oct 30, 2012 by Elizabeth Evans
Published on Nov 1, 2012 by TheYoungTurks
"she cries that she's "tired of Bronco
Bamma and Mitt Romney."
The four-year-old has been joined by a
surprisingly large number of reporters who decided to make their living
writing about politics but can't stop complaining that the election
sucks. And they are totally and completely wrong. The YouTube clip of
crying Abby was being tweeted Wednesday morning as the perfect
distillation of how tired voters feel after all the negative ads and
stump speech zingers during the presidential election.
We'll cut a toddler some slack. But what else should we do, grownups who take
their cues from babies? Pick our governments by killing each other in
the streets? A bunch of negative ads supporting your local broadcasting
economy seems like a quite pleasant alternative to the French
Revolution. The election is being fought over big, important problems,
and people have very different ideas about how to fix them. If all
citizens officially agreed on all of them, we wouldn't be living in a
utopia, we'd be living in North Korea. Cheer up, Abby. It could be
worse."* Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss Abby's predicament, and
why even adults who like politics can relate.
*Read more from Elspeth Reeve/Atlantic Wire:
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/10/bronco-bamma-girl-theres-noth...
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