Australia:

Duel flush toilet
Paul Hogan
Sandy beaches
lots of red dirt.
ANZACS with the NZ and US
the worlds most venomous snake....any one want one?
G'day!
Dr hollows foundation ???
Bionic ear implants ???
IVF ???

and Kiwi gg.....ya gotta be quick, we were convicts ya know so possession is nine tenths......(my brother married a kiwi,)  we'll claim anyone/anything of value and heaps that aren't) ;^)

Jenny

Ooooooooooooooooooo, and the Croc Hunter!!  The best guy ever.

Well since I live in China now. (will go back to the states later this year)  Paper money, Printing, Zang Ziyi, Kung Fu and of course Kung Fu films. ( American Martial arts films are so weak in comparison. Why ?simple Kung fu Chicks rule) So many things now are made here. Soemtimes I think this place is like living on Neptune.

Now Now Ricky, although Joe McCarthy is a tad infamous, he did work to protect the US from subversion by communist interests.  All be it he went over the line in the Senate Army hearings.  For more information regarding Joe McCarthy from a point of view that isn't blatantly hostile to him, read Ann Coulter's book: "Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism ".   She devotes a section to him and what he did.  I'm not putting this one out to debate here, but rather for people who want to read another side of McCarthy that has been kept out of the national debate.  Interesting read.

Plus he's an Appletonian like me, as well as Wilem Dafoe, and Harry Houdini (who has a nice museum there) and Edna Ferber (author).

Oh yeah, another Wisconsin first, Worlds first Residential Hydroelectric power grid.  Okay it was one house at first, Hearthstone, but still. :c)

Oh yeah, Appleton, WI is also home of the John Birch Society too.  They're even too right-wing for me on many things.

mdb

Well I think the best thing to come out of Britain is Gin and tonic.,although I reckon the Scots will claim it's whiskey.

Quote - Bryster......Dont forget the roast spuds,the roast pumpkin,the fresh garden peas and the rich brown gravy all finished off with Pavlova,fresh Strawberries and whipped cream.
 The Ozzies tried to steal our sheep too!!!!!!!.

Cheers 
GG.

Kiwi, its not the Aussies tried to steal your sheep, the sheep tried to escape from your country but you buggers caught them before they had chance of getting away, now they are all back in the roles of house wife or girlfriend **:tongue2:

**PS: This message comes to you from a british person that only lives in Australia and never claims to being an Aussie cause he has his brain still

LOL  You know, this all reminds me of a bad joke I heard on why God invented Whiskey.  To prevent the Irish from taking over the world. ;c)

mdb

 Hmmm...... what can scots claim to have brought to the world?  well amongst other things -

Adhesive postage stamps
Anaesthetics
Antisepsis
Artificial Diamonds
Advertising films
Agricultural Reaping Machine
Bakelite/Damard
Bank of England
Latent Heat
Brownian Movement
Buicks
Colloid Chemistry
Pneumatic Tyres
Chemical Bonds
Cure for scurvy
Decimal Point
Encyclopedia Britannica
Fax Machines
First cloned mammal
Flailing machines
Geosciences
Golf
Halloween
The Historical Novel
hypodermic syringes
Iron Bridges
King Arthur
The Kelvin scale of temperature
Percussion Powder
Logarithms
Maxwell's Equations in Electromagnetism
Marmalade
Mackintosh Raincoats
Macadamised roads
Microwave Ovens
Penicillin
Postcards
Paraffin
Hollow-pipe drainage
Peter Pan
Radar Defense System
Refrigerators
 Planet Neptune
Quinine
The Steam Engine
Solitons
A cure for insomnia
The Steam-hammer
Saki (Hector Hugh Munro)
The Stereotype
Sulphuric Acid
The telephone
Thermos bottles (Dewars)
The telegraph
Television
Tubular steel
Sociology
Breech-loading rifle
 Sherlock Holmes
Toad of Toad Hall
Long John Silver
Jekyll and Hyde
Auld Lang Syne
Paleobiology
Polarization of Light
Whisky
US Navy 
Chilean navy
 Economics
The Cloud Chamber

with thanks to http://www.magicdragon.com/Wallace/thingscot.html#Mo
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I have a book somewhere on all the Scots contributions to the world, and how they 'saved' England in the 17th-18th Centuries. There was also 'the Wealth of Nations', one of the original books on economics. 

but then I have another book called 'How the Irish saved Civilization'...so I guess it's always something..;)

My grandmother was the last of the McLennans in McLennan county, so I could be prejudiced..;)

Well, I'm a decendant of the McVitties, so I think the Scots are the bomb.   Although, hollow pipe drainage was used in Crete about the time of the Minoans .... so I think the Scots can only claim to have "rediscovered" it.  Still, a good thing they did.

mboncher, I have little or no respect for Ann Coulter, even though I am a conservative in most regards, I can not tolerate the woman.  I'm not about to spend any money supporting her writing.  I'll stick with my own view of McCarthy.  I think he did more to harm the American spirit than he did saving America from subversives.  However, I absolutely respect your right to believe otherwise (both about Ann Coulter and Joseph McCarthy).

UK Pork pie, the fry up Bacon Sausage eggs, mushrooms grilled tomatoes beans and toast, Pedigree bitter from my home town of Burton on Trent, Football (soccer).

@ boofy & crazydawg.......  G'day neighbours,I have brother that lives at a place called The Summit I think, someplace outside of Brisbane. Also have a Sister-in-law who was last heard from a place called Mimili which I think is about 500k south east of Alice Springs, right out in the wops. My partner and I have travelled quite a lot through Vic, SA, and the Territory, absolutely loved it and hope to be back over again next year. I fancy the idea of driving the Nullabor,We'll see,depends on work and how much time we can take. Happy New Year.

Cheers
GG

North Carolina,   

That other place that claims first flight.
Nascar, from Richard Petty and Junior Johson to Dale Earnhardt
Rednecks in general
Fried chicken (really a south thing) 
Bojangles
Dairy Queen
Senator Sam Ervin (Watergate investigation)

Actually a lot of dignitaries but really don't care because tonight I feel like a redneck.

Kansas- The butt of many jokes

California
Movies that have Actors who become Govenors and sometimes Presidents.

Manchester, England, UK Stone Roses, The Smiths, Inspiral Carpets, Happy Mondays, Badly Drawn Boy, The Bee Gees, The Chemical Brothers, Take That, Doves, George Formby, Joy Division, Nine Black Alps, Johnny Marr and the Healers, Morrissey, M-People, Oasis... Mani(Primal Screams' Bass Player) Amongst others. Its never quiet in Manchester :) I'm not into all of the above, mind

OMG !!! I thought this thread had died a natural death. I have had absolutely NO E-bots from this. Rendo Sucks.
Thank you so much for keeping it alive, guys! It's been a blast reading  through all of your posts! :thumbupboth:

Hey alexclark Madchester was so cool!! Love the Inspiral Carpets :) Take That are well Naff though!
Another thing to come out of Manchester is Boddingtons ale (the cream of Manchester so the Ad goes)

I think counting Morrisey and the Smiths is cheating..;) 
And thanks, Skiwillgee, I knew someone from here was actually around these 2 lane highways..;) 
 If you really want to start controversy, I've been told the NC monument at Gettysburg reads

First at Sumpter

Farthest at Gettysburg

Last at Appomatox

but I've never actually checked..;)

OK,  WHO PUT UP MORRISSEY???????

Jeez! I HATE Morrissey. He is without doubt the most boring, talentless, miserable so called singer I have ever heard. Talk about music to slash your wrists too......Some idiot on the AOL Star of the Month called him ' The King of Rock And Roll'.  I was so disgusted I tried to get the guy fired.

Lyrics like 'I wanted a job - so I got a job....' are so pathetic I just want to puke. Anyone who sings in one key and only uses 2 notes needs putting out of our misery.

If we're going to put up singers and bands, let's put up some real talent, like, Black Sabbath, ELP, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, YES, Genesis, Led Zeppelin...............not bloody Morrissey....

(And while the Bee Gees are without doubt very popular, I believe they only came to stardom after emigrating to Australia.)

The Bryster

...and heaven knows, he's miserable now..;)
I don't know, there's so much bad talent out there, I don't think Morrisey actually gets into the bottom  10. After 'she bang', Wham!, yanni, etc., the bottom is pretty thick..;)

Why would the NC monument at Gettysburg read "First at Sumpter"??  Sumpter is in SC in Charleston Harbor.  That makes no sense at all to me.

Actually, the whole thing doesn't make sense, pakled.  The NC State Monument at Gettysburg doesn't have anything like that written on it .... at least I'm pretty certain not.

The "last at Appomattox" was the 14th NC Regiment, but they were not at either Sumpter or Gettysburg.

So .... nope .... no makie da sense.  :)

Sorry if I brought back some painful memories there Bryster :) I don't like Morrissey either, or Take That! Or a fair few others I put there. But they are from Manchester, so thats why I put them. The Inspirals though are one of the coolest bands on the planet - Clint Boon DJ's for my local radio station too :) Sadly Star4mation, Boddies moved 2 years ago to Preston. Which is why the ads only say 'the cream' now. A terrible shame.

that's what happens to me when I listen to the Sons of the Confederacy..;) sorry, as stated previously, I've never been closer than I95..;) apologies to all concerned. 

That's ok ... no harm done ... I was just confused.  I grew up whistling Dixie and know my Confederate history backwards forwards and sideways (used to have all sorts of arguments with my teachers in the lower grades because they do an awful job of teaching the Civil War ... really awful ... borderline pathetic.  They sidestep all the Constitutional issues, barely discuss the representational and economic issues, and make it sound like the war was all about the peripheral issues - just because those were the ones that got the public's interest.)

Eeeeech ... don't get me started, I'll be ranting about the US school systems until the cows come home, grow old, puke up blood and die.

it's funny, the most I learned about the Civil War was from a multi-volume history called 'The History of the English-speaking Peoples' (you couldn't even use a title like that today..;)  written by Winston Churchill..;)

I guess it was just bragging by the local re-enactors or something (tried that once, wool uniforms are scratchy..;)

I guess it depends on what military the South had during the debacle at Sumpter.  If NC had volunteer units (probably just artillery at that point, at Sumpter), it's vaguely possible..;)

Most of the Civil War history is taught like trivia nowadays..it's just disconnected, facts, like the woman who got impregnated by a minie ball, what torpedoes were back then (as opposed to now), etc. This, despite being the most written-about conflict (in the 1990s, there were over 60,000). go figure.

It's possible, I suppose, but I never heard of NC troops being at the battle of Ft. Sumpter, just SC volunteers .... however, ya never know.

Impregnated by a minnie ball??  I never heard that one!!

Quote - OMG !!! I thought this thread had died a natural death. I have had absolutely NO E-bots from this. Rendo Sucks.

read this on here, you aren't the only one not getting E-bots and yes i agree with your statement, rendo sucks..

Quote - @ boofy & crazydawg.......  G'day neighbours,I have brother that lives at a place called The Summit I think, someplace outside of Brisbane. Also have a Sister-in-law who was last heard from a place called Mimili which I think is about 500k south east of Alice Springs, right out in the wops. My partner and I have travelled quite a lot through Vic, SA, and the Territory, absolutely loved it and hope to be back over again next year. I fancy the idea of driving the Nullabor,We'll see,depends on work and how much time we can take. Happy New Year.

Cheers
GG

Kiwi if you do want to travel the Nullabor make sure you plan it out well and you carry plenty of water and food you can cook on the side of the road. Reason i tell you this is the last time i travelled the Nulla a cup of coffee cost nearly $3.00, steak and salad was around $11.00, ltr petrol was up around $1.30(15 years ago) oh plus sleeping is another thing you want to plan as well, it cost me and the wife $125 for a double room 1 night and i actually slept better in the car than i did in that bed.

I have a book of Civil War oddities. This actually happened. A woman was close to the front lines, a la Molly Pitcher, and a Confederate round went through...uh...the scrotum of a soldier, out the back, and into the body of the woman behind him. The conception happened, and 9 months later she gave birth. They got married, and had 11 children the 'normal' way.

Bummer .... I wonder where she got hit??  Most of the time, abdomenal wounds like that, near the intestines and bladder, would get badly infected and result in death.  Amazing that she even survived, much less got preggers out of it.

well, it's actually documented. She should have been a candidate for perotonitis, but heaven knows. I just report 'em..;)

Nah, it's down as a "medical hoax" ..... http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/bullet.html.  But it would have been a miracle had it been true.

well..I better chuck that volume..;) sad thing, every time I turn around, it turns out something I was taught isn't true after all. enough to make you paranoid..;) thanks.

Sorry, kiddo.  It did sound a little .... well, miraculous ... ah well, check that volume indeed.

:)

Ricky

Nowadays you should always check stuff that sounds too good or too wierd to be real against something like Snopes.com for any urban legends running around.  Like Coke being used to degrease engines and the like.  Or watch a lot of mythbusters.  A very relevant show for this day and age of data pollution.

I can just imagine, in the future, we'll have to cybernetically implant "factcheckers" to run data through and catch falsehoods before we get too suckered in.  There are things about the information age that really suck.

mdb

The minnie ball impregnation was on Snopes as well as that other site I noted.  I do check just about every ol' thing I'm told these days.

If I haven't done the medical, legal, or historical research myself, such that when I'm told something I know it to be true based on that research, I do it as soon as I get the chance.

I find that most of what I am told, in good faith mind you ... no one is intentially lying to me .... is just plain wrong.  But, that's the way of information ... once something is "out there" most people take it as gospel truth, and pass it on that way.

That's what killed Paul McCartney back in the early 70s. 

Tennessee
Greg Allman Rockstar, *Nashville
*Jack Daniel Distiller Tennessee Whiskey, Lynchburg
Morgan Freeman actor, Memphis
Aretha Franklin singer, Memphis
George Hamilton actor, *Memphis
*Sandra Locke actress, Shelbyville
Dolly Parton singer, Sevierville
Wilma Rudolph Childhood polio victim First american to win 3 gold medals in an olympics, *Clarksville
*Cybil Shepherd actress, Memphis
Dinah Shore actress, singer, Winchester
Pat Summit All time winningest coach in NCAA basketball history
Justin Timberlake singer, Memphis
Tina Turner singer, *Brownsville
*Reggie White Football Minister of Defense Green Bay Packers. Chattanooga

Knoxville in paticular
Mary Costa MET Soprano Disney voice of Sleeping Beauty
John Cullum Actor Northern Exposure
Jack Hanna Wild animals
David Keith actor An officer and a Gentleman
Johnny Knoxville actor Jackass
Quentin Tarantino Writer Director Pulp Fiction Kill Bill

That's what killed Paul McCartney back in the early 70s. 

Nope! I'm not falling for this one !!!!! :lol:

what a topsy turvey world it is. When the Internet trumps the printed word (no aspersions, but considering some of the stuff on the internet..;) but you did your homework. We did land on the moon, right?..;)

Keep in mind that the Internet is the new "printed word."  That bogus minnie ball story started out as a spoof item in a Civil War newspaper.  It was then reprinted in other papers whose editors did not realize it was a spoof ... and on from there.

Now, it's on the Internet ... but that is really no more than additional dissemination of the original printed material, unfortunately most of the time without the entire history of the item.

The thing about the Internet is that it allows these things to have a much faster and broader dissemination than was available back in the days when only  hard copy publications were available.  And, you know us humans .... we read something (whether in real or virtual print) and we tend to think it's true.

Essex UK: Constable country

Oh... and unfortunately "Blur" (some of whom even went to the same school as I did...)

But I prefer Constable

I got 'Parklife', but had trouble getting used to them...;) Let's see, the DBs (Winston), Connels (Raliegh), Archers of Loaf (Chapel hill), no one that really jumps out and gets attention..;)

It took a Canadian to invent alcohol sugar. Baking takes on a whole new meaning.