The World's Largest Computer in 1951

[zoobyshoe]

is it matches?

No, and I'm subtracting ten points for such an off-the-wall guess. (How would the color affect the reusability of matches?)

 

[JamesU]

Black absorbs heat. Making it easier to combust.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Black absorbs heat. Making it easier to combust.

Make that twenty points off.

 

[Mk]

In 1841, for a variety of reasons, mostly having to do with fraudulent re-use of postage stamps, the color of the one penny was changed from black to red. The term 'Penny Stars' is often used for this incomparably complex series of stamps which were in continual production from Fed. 10, 1841 until April 1862. The complexity of this series is due, ignoring at least 20 distinct shades color shades, not only to the hundreds of plates used for printing, but to that fact that 2 master dies, both imperforate and perforate issues (2 gauges as well as experimental perforations), 2 watermarks (and 2 varieties of one) and 4 fonts (alphabets) as well as various combinations were used for these stamps.

Anyone who wants to give one can, I'm leaving for a few hours.

 

[JamesU]

a gender-specified toy still is in existence today which was invented in 1959. Named after inventor's daughter

1) what was the invention?
2)who was the inventor?
3) who was the inventor's daughter?

 

[JamesU]

no, stupid. GOOGLE!

 

[zoobyshoe]

Barbie Doll
Ruth Handler
Barbara

 

[JamesU]

 

[JamesU]

Barbie Doll
Ruth Handler
Barbara

Good job I;m going to bed

 

[Mk]

no, stupid. GOOGLE!

Hmm, so now "google" is a verb neogalism too.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Hmm, so now "google" is a verb neogalism too.

Conjugated thus:

singular
I google
You google
He/She/It googles

plural
We google
You google
They google

 

[brewnog]

Ok, I'll have another go since nobody else has for a while.


This man might have needed a poultry excuse to leave his job at Marconi in order to develop his 1956 invention.

 

[JamesU]

The hard disk drive was invented in 1956

 

[brewnog]

The hard disk drive was invented in 1956

So was Play-Doh, but you need to think about the clues, and use google as a reference rather than a brute-force answer getterer.

Here's another clue: I don't often make spelling mistakes accidentally, re-read my last post.

 

[Danger]

I don't often make spelling mistakes accidentally, re-read my last post.

My first thought upon seeing it was Col. Saunders, but I wouldn't expect a Brit to ask that.

 

[brewnog]

Nope, but Col. Sanders' product would give you a clue as to the inventor of this thing.

 

[JamesU]

OMG! Is it the rubber chicken?!?

 

[brewnog]

Dear god, no. It's cleverer than that, much cleverer.

 

[JamesU]

The turkey pan?

 

[brewnog]

Sigh...

 

[Danger]

Sigh...

Oh, wait! It's the vegetable turkey! Evo has one on the next thread down.

 

[JamesU]

It's *sigh* not sigh...

 

[brewnog]

Oh, wait! It's the vegetable turkey! Evo has one on the next thread down.

Sorry Dange. No cigar.

It's *sigh* not sigh...

No, it was definitely said aloud...

 

[JamesU]

then how 'bout this?

*"sigh"*...

The turkey baster?

 

[brewnog]

Ok, you're really not getting this.

The invention isn't food related.

The inventor has a tenuous connection with Col. Sanders' meat of choice.

 

[JamesU]

The incubator?!

I know I'm making this harder than I should

and it's sanders' not sander's

 

[Danger]

Automatic chicken-plucker?

 

[brewnog]

The incubator?!

No.

I know I'm making this harder than I should

and it's sanders' not sander's

So it is, sorry. This honey liqueur is obviously a bit better than I'd thought...

 

[JamesU]

ooh!ohh!

the chicken?

 

[brewnog]

Automatic chicken-plucker?

Nope. The invention has nothing to do with chickens.