Perhaps a bit too obscure?


(at least it's not another map!)

From the The World According To America challenge. See all 275 entries (closed)

( Squiggy Alloria makes theme parks., Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:43, archived)

hmm
lets see,
* computers
* supersonic aerodynamics
* packet switching
* radio
* the telephone

... how many other things did we Brits invent only to have the yanks make a fortune off?
( coder.keitaro I like pies!, Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:45, archived)

sporks!!!

( Firkinfedup was right in the middle of a fucking reptile zoo, Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:46, archived)

if i remember correctly
we invented america too
( Strawberry Dragon, Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:46, archived)

Yip
and we will never stop regretting it!
( Squiggy Alloria makes theme parks., Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:49, archived)

Well Canada and Australia turned out ok
America just wasn't finished when it was released onto the market
( Strawberry Dragon, Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:51, archived)

True
we should issue a product recall.
( Squiggy Alloria makes theme parks., Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:52, archived)

...
*switches packets*
( Wildyles is back to rimming chimps, Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:46, archived)

don't forget
bikes
television
penicilin
tyres

ALL SCOTTISH!
( Squiggy Alloria makes theme parks., Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:46, archived)

Tires?
Shirley tyres
(bogus official contains acts of violence and sexual references, Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:47, archived)

The jet engine
Ground effect cars... hell, pretty much the entire composition of modern high performance vehicles...
And most importantly the chicken Tikka
(Guineapiggy Fuzzeh!, Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:48, archived)

jesus!
I plain forgot it!

I must recind my citizenship and hang myself!
( coder.keitaro I like pies!, Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:50, archived)

Masala sauce actually
In the 70's h'apparently

*Curry connoisseur*
( El_Jamer ooh Zippy!, Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:52, archived)

Battered Mars bar

( @><|= w0nu!) AKA chadder - but is still a ****, Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:54, archived)

didn't the germans invent the jet engine
? btw i'm just asking

just found out it was English / German

Dr. Hans von Ohain and Sir Frank Whittle are co-inventors of the jet engine
(site_history_log, Wed 1 Mar 2006, 14:03, archived)

Yeah, but we ruled you!
*hides*
( @><|= w0nu!) AKA chadder - but is still a ****, Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:49, archived)

this is why we kept
scotchland in the Empire.
( Strawberry Dragon, Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:50, archived)

Aaah the empire!
forgot the other things we invented;

* total war
* concentration camps
* checmical warfare
* biological warface
* internment

But the germans got to make the first two popular ...
( coder.keitaro I like pies!, Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:53, archived)

Everyone steals our ideas :(

( Strawberry Dragon, Wed 1 Mar 2006, 14:03, archived)

and bearing grudges/having a chip on the shoulder for hundreds of years
or is that the welsh?
(harryfreeze Ignore, Hide, I like this!, Reply, Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:50, archived)

Hmm
the Telephone.

Bell may be credited - although like most Scotchmen he had already abandoned is native Scotchland.

There is more than a little doubt and a suspicion of corruption at the patent office.
( F5 F5 F5 Can't be arsed., Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:49, archived)

Those damn yanks,
defrauding us by becoming more wealthy than us through independent enterprise, and somehow causing us not to capitalise on our own ideas to the same extent.
(_Felix suspicious character from prehistoric caucasus, Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:51, archived)

exactly
how dare they steal our entrepeneurial spirit and british can do attitude.
( coder.keitaro I like pies!, Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:55, archived)

pfft
woo to you
( Neon Blue Ah ha ha, I feel positively Capital!, Wed 1 Mar 2006, 13:46, archived)

Surely.....
that is the worlds biggest musical jewelry box chime!
( Fire & Forget it's the only way to be sure, Wed 1 Mar 2006, 14:04, archived)