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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-03 04:02 PM
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To answer Mr. Pitts poll question...
...of what the most important event of the 20th Century was. It was the advent of indoor plumbing. Think about it the next time you are sitting on that nice warm can and outside there is a wind chill factor of 30 degrees below zero.

Don
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-03 04:05 PM
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1. Hey, while we're considering that
How about the discovery of penicillin/antibiotics?

You can't take a crap on your nice indoor toilet if you're dead of a bacterial infection.

Of course, Will was speaking poltically.
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-03 04:16 PM
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Yes but fewer people caught Pneumonia going out to take that crap...
...and then less needed those penicillin/antibiotics anymore. :-)

Don
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amazona Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-03 04:06 PM
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2. indoor plumbing goes back to at least the Roman Empire
Here some links to the history of the water closet or indoor toilet:

http://www.plumbingworld.com/historytoilet.html

The 20th century can't take credit for this one.
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-03 04:17 PM
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5. My mom and dad still remember going to the outhouse
Only the rich had the indoor stuff for a long time.

Don
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-03 05:03 PM
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11. Believe me, my mom still reminds me about that to this day
And she's only 60!
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JNelson6563 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-03 04:12 PM
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3. followed by the equally important
toilet paper. ;-)

Julie
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-03 04:18 PM
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6. Corn cobs are no fun n/t
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Bandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-03 04:16 PM
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4. My pick was invention of Television ~ Think about it ~ The immense Power
It has the power to make a country of peaceful beautiful people into War Mongering hateful bunch of evil Fascist Nazis
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-03 05:04 PM
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12. Better yet - the Internet
Think about what would have happened if we had the power of the internet during Watergate or Iran/Contra? Would Reagan have been as popular if we had discussion boards like this while he was in office?

The internet has been an incredibly powerful tool!
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OKNancy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-03 04:19 PM
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7. How about air conditioning
It allowed the south and west to grow and prosper.
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ArkDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-03 04:51 PM
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8. The sexual revolution was more important to me
:evilgrin:
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Clete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-03 04:54 PM
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9. Sorry indoor plumbing has been in use in various civilizations
since the Minoan culture of Crete. Just because our pioneers hadn't caught up didn't mean it wasn't used somewhere in the world.
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-03 05:01 PM
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10. OK. You guys got me. How about the transistor? n/t
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Clete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-03 05:07 PM
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13. Actually go a step further to the electronic chip.
Edited on Tue Jul-22-03 05:10 PM by Clete
Back in the sixties, we still had to use circuit boards, usually about one foot square, with transistors and other capacitors screwed and wired on to it. When the circuit board could be made into a one inch chip, it revolutionized how we do everything today. This was the one great achievement of the twentieth century as far as technology is concerned.
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