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3:08 has me dying laughing. “Botts’s dots have also become cultural icons appearing in literature, art and popular media” lol WHAT? Where can I find a graphic tee of these culturally iconic dots?
Women and high heels are an amazing combo. They make the legs and calves look even better than when in flats! Nylons and heels 👠 a must. 😊 They, along with nylons, are the epitome of femininity, something badly needed these days. Of course, they shouldn't be worm all the time, but...
That lady at the end there looked around kinda surreptitiously. What , was she gonna stuff that can of whatever in her purse. Haha! Just kidding. It just amused me the way she looked around. The whole scene was set up anyway, I’m sure.
3:10 THOSE ARE TRAFFIC THINGIES! WTF YOU TALK ABOUT! ... books and arts?! WHO GIVES A SH... they are supposed to keep ppl from dying and not have statues of them... if this was a book report - id fail you right here
Cats eyes where invented in 1934 in the UK. Botts dots are really inactive cats eyes and are actively developed only in 1953 (they did some investigation in 1936, I'm guessing because of cats eyes). So I'd say the inventors of cats eyes, Percy Shaw, deserves credit here.
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The Bic pen was invented by John Loud, perfected by Laszlo Biro and marketed by Marcel Bich who changed the name Bich to Bic to sell to English speaking countries.
I had a boss yrs ago, that told his beginning days- in outside sales ' stories. He traveled all over. The stories always involved getting stop by local cop...as he traveled. One story, was he was an early pioneer of selling ball point pen, lol. Sitting all- in his car's passenger- seat.. cops thought them ' suspicious ' lol. 🙄 Then.. later, YES pioneer salesperson.. traveling Canned arousal Shaving Cream !!! Cops THOUGHT can was a War bomb !!! 😆
Kinda skipped over the part where in the early 1900s Rockafella started packaging food, using it as a method of 'disposing' of waste products from his petro-chemical manufacturing by adding them as 'preservatives, additives or colors'. Of course he serendipitously found yet another form of controling the masses, just as psychology replaced slavery, now chemical 'soft kill lobotomy' combined with this to give us 'woke bleach drinker conservative child sniffer democracy'.
