# One thing the Internet has changed: your clever jokes and ideas are already taken!

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 5, 2014, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-thing-the-internet-has-changed-your-clever-jokes-and-ideas-are-already-taken/677941 "2014-01-05T11:41:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-thing-the-internet-has-changed-your-clever-jokes-and-ideas-are-already-taken/677941/21 "2014-01-09T20:35:57Z")

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> [@gigi](#):
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> Here’s my invention idea, because I hate mundane daily tasks like flossing. A machine you can put your face into which has scanned the inside of your mouth and knows the optimal way to floss, brush and rinse your teeth. It does it for you as you stand there. You can buy an enhancement that gives you a neck and shoulder massage as you wait.
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> What do you think? Too expensive for the average household?

Sans the shoulder massage, I invented that for a high school class in 1977. It had a hose that screwed onto the faucet to power each little brush’s water turbine. And it had already been invented.

After the internet, it became easier to research if I’d been beaten. Googling 17,000 sites for “Hugh Manatee” confirmed that it was common coinage. However, I had “Death Row Jethro” for over a year with no Google returns until a pro wrestler took it.

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