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Tell us something you invented, only to find out it already exists?

Words, puns, jokes, company names, objects, solutions, thread questions, anything?

Wait - someone already asked this question, didn't they? *sigh*

― StanM, Saturday, 11 June 2005 07:40 (twenty years ago)

I do this all the time, that's why I'm asking. Earlier today, I thought I thought up the word "revivification" for the Flush this question out thread and I was like all "Take THAT, English tongue! YOU WILL BOUGH AND NEIL BEFORE ME AND SUCK CUM TO MY SUPREAM LANGUAGEOLOGICAL MASTERBRANE, MUHAHAHA!"

and then I looked it up and I found out that revivification already exists and then I was like "Oh."

― StanM, Saturday, 11 June 2005 09:14 (twenty years ago)

The insult "fuckchest".

― M Annoyman (Ferg), Saturday, 11 June 2005 10:57 (twenty years ago)

the term "clitorati."

― NF, Sunday, 12 June 2005 02:48 (twenty years ago)

calling an architect "frank lloyd wrong"

― metal assembly (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 12 June 2005 02:50 (twenty years ago)

I used the phrase "Sincerity is the new irony" in a movie review only to have somebody call me out on a message board as having stolen it from a Spin magazine article about Beck. Which I hadn't read, but I still felt like an idiot for saying such a stupid thing in the first place.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 12 June 2005 05:13 (twenty years ago)

I'm responsible for the discovery of the hidden arrow in the FedEx logo (between the final E and the x).

http://images.fedex.com/images/globalhome/globalhome_fedex_corp_logo.gif

Only it was put there on purpose and a depressingly large amount of friends who I disclose this information to reply "yeah, I know."
("so why didn't you tell ME?" "dunno, it never c

― StanM, Sunday, 12 June 2005 06:42 (twenty years ago)

(as if nothing happened and I didn't accidentally TAB and Enter just now)

ame up in conversation. but now that we are, do you know about the Amazon smile that's also an arrow going from A to Z?")

http://g-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/nav2/images/skins/teal/logo-on.gif

― StanM, Sunday, 12 June 2005 06:46 (twenty years ago)

the insult "mainstream non-mainstream"

― tehresa (tehresa), Sunday, 12 June 2005 06:49 (twenty years ago)

noise music

― A Nairn (moretap), Sunday, 12 June 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

Chelski

― Masked Gazza, Sunday, 12 June 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

dude! i'm impressed, stan.

― Maria (Maria), Sunday, 12 June 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

rollerskates

― rainy (rainy), Sunday, 12 June 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

unfortunately I was deep into maquettes and field trials before I realised.

― rainy (rainy), Sunday, 12 June 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

abstract expressionism

― something about a tarantula coming out of a coconut (deangulberry), Sunday, 12 June 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

Traffic Light Modifications For The Deaf (TM)

When I was about 10, I noticed that traffic lights for pedestrians made ticking sounds so the blind knew when to cross the road and when to wait. "That's great," I said to my parents who were in the front of the car, "but it's a shame there isn't something like that for the deaf."

They were silent for a while, obviously thinking about what they were going to do with the untold millions my Traffic Light Modifications For The Deaf patent was going to make, who was going to play them in the unavoidably Oscar-winning (something about disabilities, it can't lose!) biopic about my life, and then it struck me.

― StanM, Monday, 13 June 2005 04:31 (twenty years ago)

You took down its number, I hope.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 13 June 2005 04:32 (twenty years ago)

I didn't, no. I was too humbled by the realisation.

(Oh, and YTMV (Your Trafficlights May Vary), I was referring to a number of Belgian traffic lights at busy intersections that have this feature)

― StanM, Monday, 13 June 2005 07:02 (twenty years ago)

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