Yep. Scrummy, not scummy…
And because I like to think of myself as an equal-opportunity nut-eulogiser, I can report that I nearly fainted with delight the first time I tasted a macadamia nut (from Australia, as I recall)…
Actually, that other famous Englishman Leonardo da Vinci invented the first telephone. Of course it wasn’t any use until AGB invented the second, or something.
We throw custard pies 
How long until this gets sent down to IMHO or MPSIMS?
NinjaChick, shouldn’t that be ewe?
da Vinci was a Scot, and it was Druids who invented the telephone pole (which they spelled “caber” since no one taught them proper English). Everyone knows that an American invented grape pie, which is evidence for rampant Grapism, not inventiveness.
Oh, yeah, the OP. Anybody remember the OP?
Anyway, I found a page that adds a bit to the original quote:
Though, with all those organ pies, I can’t imagine how their systems could not be not out of order…
Of course, when you really do some serious research, the truth is revealed:
The English invented apple pie!
http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/exhibits/food/panl4ukno.html
We also do other things similar - apple crumble anyone?
Oh - and in reference to an earlier post claiming television as an american invention - it was a scot who invented the TV, while living in London (that’s in England btw 
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Baird didn’t invent true television. That was left to Farnsworth, who was from Utah. (that’s in the US).
http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae408.cfm
Don’t give me any of that half-assed Scottish television.
Revisionist piffle.
If it weren’t for the Scots, there would be no Utah, and therefore no television. Incontrovertible Proof!
I think that the whole distinction is a language problem, like how the British insist oun putting Us intou aull ouf theiur wourds. See, there are two different objects here: There is the thing which Americans (properly) call pie, and there is the thing which the British (improperly) call pie. Aside from the coincidence of wourds, they’re completely different. When Edison, an American (we can conclusively prove that he’s American by the fact that he’s inventive, and no Brit is inventive) used the term “pie”, he properly meant “crust filled with sweet stuff, to be eaten for dessert or breakfast”. Hence, he’s correct that the Brits don’t eat enough pie. If he had meant what the British refer to as pie, he would have used the American translation, which is “the stuff that’s swept up off of the packing-house floor, after the dogs have taken all the bits they consider fit to eat”.
Oh be quite you… you… um… you crumpet eating bastards!!!
hehe, crumpets.
KEep believing what you want, but don’t tell this guy as I’m excedingly sure he’ll have some harsh words for you:
Absolute clap trap. Baird was sending moving images by means of electromagentic waves two years before Farnsworth. If that doesn’t count as being first what does?
Farnsworth’s version inevitably had a greater future, as Baird’s camera and receivers were mechanical rather than electronic, but at the time Baird’s system was very much superior to Farnsworth’s. To say that this was not the first TV is like saying Wrights didn’t invent flight because they didn’t use the jet propulsion that would later prove top be superior.*
This Farnsworth revisionism is a new conceit on the part of the Americans. At the time Baird was recognised as being the first in the New York Times.
Baird went on to be the to invent colour TV. Another first.
The whole sorry tale of American revisionism and a fair amount of double dealing.
- Yes, I know this is another disputed first, by the analogy still applies.
Edison didn’t mean pie per se. He meant pi. Which we all know was invented by the Greeks.
I’ll never look at another Steak & Kidney pie the same way again after reading of this little bit from Ulysses:
Mmmm…
Please strike that “of” – it was a vestige of “without being reminded of,” not an admission that I only read the Cole’s notes.
Aaaaaaaiiiiiiigh! No. No no no no no no no.
Lemon (or lime) merengue pie: a delicious way to top off almost any meal.
Key lime pie: a delight to all the senses, nectar of the gods. Can top off any meal or, better yet, meals can be designed around it.
Hope this helps.
The sad thing is reading that passage made me drool, sheep’s kidneys are excellent grilled.
Actually, the difference between Baird’s television and Farnsworth’s television is like the difference between Babbage’s Analytical Engine and the Atanasoff-Berry computer. Baird’s was good, but Farnsworth’s is what we think of when we think of television - electronic.
And of course, your article neglects to mention Herbert Ives, who had color television in 1929, two way television in 1930 (think picture phone), and high resolution TV over coaxial cables 1937.
Basically, your cite is just a well-deserved giant pat on the back for Baird (and of course, saying he was the only Scot to ever change the world is ridiculous, too - Adam Smith, anyone?). Baird was a genius who made many ground-breaking advancements in science and technology, but Farnsworth had the first electronic television which is what we talk about when we talk about television.