# Worst inventions of the 20th Century

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-inventions-of-the-20th-century/13853>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 15, 2000, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-inventions-of-the-20th-century/13853 "2000-02-15T23:31:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2000, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-inventions-of-the-20th-century/13853/41 "2000-02-16T21:59:00Z")

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Leaf blowers. Noisy and polluting. Plus they just blow the dirt somewhere else so some other schmuck with a leaf blower can blow it back.

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But where were the Spiders?

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**Author:** ![Vestal\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5e9695/32.png) [@Vestal\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vestal_Blue)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2000, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-inventions-of-the-20th-century/13853/42 "2000-02-16T22:04:00Z")

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Television. Consumer credit. Pocket fisherman. any cheap pot metal tool.

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VB

I could never eat a mouse raw…their little feet are probably real cold going down. :rolleyes:

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**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2000, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-inventions-of-the-20th-century/13853/43 "2000-02-16T22:27:00Z")

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Now I feel like The Patron Saint of Cheap Shit as Seen on TV, but…

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> Um, tell me something I didn’t know, Dem! _running away like crazy_ (And come on, hon! You give me a line like that and expect me not to say anything???)
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> And as for my input…the salad shooter.

First let me say, I warned you Falc…

Look, the Salad Shooter is a hell of an appliance. Great for shredding stuff quickly over salads, etc. My only beef with the thing is that is is **so fricken noisy!** If anyone can get me a salad shooter silencer, hook me up!

Oh yeah, and what do you call a vegetarian with diarrhea(sp)?

Yep…Salad Shooter…

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**What I tell you three times is true.**  
_The Hunting of the Snark._  
Lewis Carroll

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**Author:** ![Linney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/58956e/32.png) [@Linney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linney)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2000, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-inventions-of-the-20th-century/13853/44 "2000-02-17T02:10:00Z")

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(hijack)

Bluepony, You weren’t hitting on me with that line, were ya?

**(In my best Rodney Dangerfield Caddyshack voice) "…Oh, but that Chia Head looks good onyou"**  
That sounds like a ‘hit’ to me…  
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**Author:** ![Linney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/58956e/32.png) [@Linney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linney)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2000, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-inventions-of-the-20th-century/13853/45 "2000-02-17T02:12:00Z")

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(hijack)

Bluepony, You weren’t hitting on me with that line, were ya?

**(In my best Rodney Dangerfield Caddyshack voice) "…Oh, but that Chia Head looks good onyou"**  
That sounds like a ‘hit’ to me…  
(end hijack)

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“If we submit everything to reason, our religion will have no mysterious or supernatural element. If we offend the principles of reason, our religion will be absurd and ridiculous.” Blaise Pascal

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