What DID America contribute?

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CaptainClaude wrote:
Joel Fagin wrote:Doctor Who: The Enemy Within
Is awesome. dont go comparing it to intelligent design as science!
It was good right up until the point where the plot started - which was about half way through for thems that don't know. After that... Well, let's just say that it had plot holes in the same way that spider webs have gaps in between the threads.

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KWill wrote:
Ahaugen wrote:mass produced consumer goods
world assemblies
the airplane
reusable spacecraft
rock & roll
This one came up before, so: No.

The Wright brothers invented "sustained and controlled heavier-than-air powered flight", not the airplane.
um... wouldn't that be the airplane?
gliders and dirgi bles may have existed previously, but the powered plane is a direct result of the bicycle makers.

also, the ice cream cone.
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Joel Fagin wrote:
CaptainClaude wrote:
Joel Fagin wrote:Doctor Who: The Enemy Within
Is awesome. dont go comparing it to intelligent design as science!
It was good right up until the point where the plot started - which was about half way through for thems that don't know. After that... Well, let's just say that it had plot holes in the same way that spider webs have gaps in between the threads.

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oh yeah, massive HUUUUUGE plot holes. but at least it was a fun runaround. Much love for McGann, and I actually like the Eric Roberts Master

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Dracomax wrote:
KWill wrote:
Ahaugen wrote:mass produced consumer goods
world assemblies
the airplane
reusable spacecraft
rock & roll
This one came up before, so: No.

The Wright brothers invented "sustained and controlled heavier-than-air powered flight", not the airplane.
um... wouldn't that be the airplane?
gliders and dirgi bles may have existed previously, but the powered plane is a direct result of the bicycle makers.

also, the ice cream cone.
Gliders are airplanes. Not to be detracting from what the Wright brother's achieved. It just wasn't the airplane.

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Chinese food.







...Yes I'm being serious. That stuff is freaking awesome, but if you actually go to China it's a whole new world. But screw accuracy, I'll take my damn General Tso's chicken and LIKE IT.
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see i really can't stand chinese food in the UK, but the US, it's a whole other matter

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i KNOW, i KNOW!
we contributed the phrase "war on {nebulous concept such as terrorism or drugs]"

also, teenage mutant ninja turtles, TMBG, and mst3k.
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CaptainClaude wrote:see i really can't stand chinese food in the UK, but the US, it's a whole other matter



Confirmation! See? We're awesome, case closed. Who wants chop suey? I got fortune cookies!
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Hip hop.
The cobb salad.
Freedom.
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I haven't had a fortune cookie in YEARS
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Same goes for pizza. American pizzas are different from their European ancestors, making them a whole new different thing.

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KWill wrote:Same goes for pizza. American pizzas are different from their European ancestors, making them a whole new different thing.
After the Pointersaurus, I've been having a CRAVING for pizza pretty regularly, but none of them fulfill it. I'm craving a POINTER'S pizza. With ham and turkey. Oh God. Is the next cookout really THAT far off?
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Cope wrote:
LibertyCabbage wrote:This song.
I love that song.
So I was out surfing on the net when I saw Cope and he said "I love that song..." and I'm like "YEAH WHATEVER!"
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KWill wrote:Same goes for pizza. American pizzas are different from their European ancestors, making them a whole new different thing.
Pfft, everyone knows mcDuffies invented the pizza.

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Only the Italian one ;)

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america contributed mickey mouse.
tijuana made him a porn star.
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Assembly lines - modern mass production owes it's existance to America.
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Hrmm....a viable democracy and the Bill of Rights? Innocent until proven guilty? I was in Hong Kong a year back, saw a guy get nabbed for something. Freaked my mind he had to prove his innocence instead of the other way around.

Not to mention the "biggie size" phenomenon, from food to cars to electronics! Who doesn't love a TV the size of your wall? :D
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Rkolter wrote:Assembly lines - modern mass production owes it's existance to America.
maybe you mean conveyor lines. However even this was stolen from the way factory farms slaughter pigs and other live stock. Assembly lines have been around since the first chinese dynasty, and linear assembly was thought up by englishman Henry Maudsclay for her majesties royal navy. truly on one country can take the credit (or blame) for assembly lines.
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interchangable parts.

the cotton gin. and possibly the spinning jenny.

oh, and nuclear power
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