Winning Words 6/10/11
“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody else has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.” (Jonathan Swift) Edison wound up with 1,093 inventions. A person who gets Winning Words is from the family that invented TV dinners. I’m from a family that eats them, and I work on a computer invented in a 1-car garage. God was really on to something when he invented the brain. ;-) Jack

FROM CWR IN B'MORE: ..........I must be related to you.////FROM JACK: Original sin?

FROM SH IN MICHIGAN: All the comments on yesterday's blog here are very thought-provoking. Thankful to have read them this morning and, as I go about my business today, I'll pay especially attention to the people who are often quite likely to be overlooked but they probably are doing the work that is most necessary and most unsung.////FROM JACK: We discover the most interesting people when we "see" in situations that are right before our eyes. "Here's lookin' at you, kid." Wasn't it Humphrey Bogart who said that?

FROM JH IN OHIO: like it!////FROM JACK: It must be that inquisitive, scientific mind of yours.

FROM BLAZING OAKS: Just when you think there can be NOTHING "new under the sun", yet another invention hits us big time. It is truly amazing!! And each generation builds on the discoveries of the previous one. Thank goodness for the Thinkers! What would our great-grandparents think of the world we live in today? My own grandfather, who lived in a tiny burg in IL remembered the Wright Brothers early experiments with flying an airplane, bought the first Model-T Ford in his town, (They were all black, no color choice for them!) and lived, in his eighties, to see a man walk on the moon. He never would have dreamed we would "invent" Space travel!! Now I'm in my eighties, and marvel at Cell phones which do EVERYTHING (!), I Pods, Kindles, electric cars, etc. etc. Yep! The brain is one of God's miracles!////FROM JACK: Recently someone sent me a link....You type in any sentence, and a voice speaks what you have written. You can ask for a different language, and the voice will respond in that language. How about that for an invention? I'll forward it to you, if you want it.

FROM PLAIN FOLKS CHESTER: And to think they are phasing out the incandescent bulb! in favor of one made in China? No wonder this country is in trouble.////FROM JACK: You probably want to go back to candles, horse-drawn buggies and outhouses, too.

FROM OUTHOUSE JUDY: Yep, and especially when people use them! Good words!!!////FROM JACK: People use them all the time. There's no on/off switch on the side of the head. But there does seem to be an invisible channel changer.