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At the risk of blowing my own horn, have a look at the shower
system I came up with in the Link for a unique shower temp
mechanism. |
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Holy crap! That was 9 years ago! |
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I patented something along these lines in my youth.
Took it to Teledyne, the guys who make the Water
Pick tooth cleaner. They told me their engineers had
worked on the issue and given up and said mine was
a really good design. After considering it they passed
though. |
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Shower temp thing. And believe it or not I called it
the Smart Shower way back in the 90s. Might have
even registered smartshower.com, but not sure,
I've registered a lot of websites over the years. I'll
get an idea like "Fetch ball that talks to your dog"
and register "Talkingfetchball.com". When the
renewal comes around if I haven't done anything
with it I let it lapse. |
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Happens more than I care to admit. |
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And no, I never registered "talkingfetchball.com". |
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Well, I like to keep anonymous, I had some crazy
guy on this site threaten me with violence once
and I've got kids
and a family and any description of the mechanism
will make it easy to find what it is and after that,
who I am. Once you do
that and put my name in Google there's a lot of
pages on the internet about me from my past job.
Times we live in unfortunately. I have, and will,
stand up man to man when challenged, but I don't
need some coward throwing a bomb through my
window at night before driving away like a little
pussy. Having had a little experience with the
public spotlight I learned to truly hate it. |
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Don't worry, I'm not interesting or special, I just did
some business back in the day that some people
cared to write about. |
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I'm not referring to you. |
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Actually disregard anything I said. I just made it up
so people will like me. |
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My name is Bob Smith. I work at a hot dog stand
(that I don't own) in
a small town and have worked there for.... 40
years. Only interesting thing that happened to me
in my
life was one time I saw a blimp. (It was just in a
picture though.) Only thing I've ever invented was
a stick that makes lines on paper. Turns out the
pencil was already invented though. Much better
than mine because my prototype just tore holes in
the paper because it was just a stick. |
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Only person on this site that knew who I was
through personal correspondence was
MaxwellBuchannon. (Which is actually true.) |
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Because I have no acquaintances in the real world.
I
have no friends, no family, I've never technically
met
anybody beyond saying "Want mustard on that?" |
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I was thinking of saving up to get a cat someday.
Not
a real one obviously, just a picture. But the price
of
paper these days, might just remain a dream. |
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My boss says on my 90th birthday coming up I can
actually eat one of these hot dogs I've been selling
for the past 85 years for a 10% discount. People
really seem to like them, I'm looking forward to it. |
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Budget permitting obviously. |
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//People really seem to like them// |
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I just found them on the internet. Wouldn't normally be my
style, but I will definitely give the whole menu a try. |
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Where I work it's a short menu: "Hot Dog". |
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Back in the 60s I suggested adding Pepsi to the menu.
Still have a limp from my beating, but I do think I
was out of line. |
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Progressive place actually having a menu. I'm more used to those places with no menu or anything listed, where you walk in and they stare at you. If you order the one item available they give you it. If you ask for anything else they just keep staring. |
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I lied about having a menu so people would respect
me. |
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I actually sell hot dogs out of a bucket on 2nd Ave.
At
least I think they're hot dogs. Hot dog shaped
anyway. Have yet to actually sell one. Thinking
2022's gonna be my year. That first sale is always
the sweetest. Or so they tell me. At least they
might if I ever actyally talked to anybody. |
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So hey, I'm not some fancy rich guy with a cart and
an actual product. At least I... let me get back to
you
on that one. |
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That's no problem, lying is fine. |
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//Don't worry, I'm not interesting or special,// |
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You're interesting and special to us, Doc. |
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Whoa, Aus, that was actually touching. |
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I'm so sarcastic all the time I'm out of practice
being
sincere but that was very kind. |
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Thank you Aus. You and the other bakers here are
very special to me too. |
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We all have secrets, [doctorremulac3]; & that's fine. I'm too
lazy to create & maintain a "fake persona" for here (or
anywhere else) so I'm "me" in everything but name. The late
great [MaxwellBuchanan] was legendary in projecting who he
wanted us to see. If you say you're a hot-dog seller, who am I
to say otherwise? |
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Ya know, come to think of it, I'd actually have a
great
deal of respect for somebody who could actually
make a living as a hot dog vender. Yea, it's a
humble
job on its face, but to be self employed
successfully
at anything, something I've spent much of my life
doing, is something to be respected. |
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Running a business, any business, is a daily
challenge. Stuff goes wrong all the time,
addressing problems is what you do and that's
admirable. |
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So to any actual hot dog vendors out there that
might have been offended by my caricature
depiction, hats off to you. |
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