Being retired now gives me time to think about new products that are needed.I went to the Patent Office trying to register some of my inventions. I went to the main desk to sign in and the lady at the desk asked me questions for a form that had to be filled out.
She wrote down my personal info and then asked me what I had invented.
I said, "A folding bottle."
She said, "Okay. What do you call it?"
"A Fottle."
"What else do you have?"
"A folding carton."
"What do you call it?"
"A Farton."
She snickered and said, "Those are silly names for products and one of them sounds kind of crude."
I was so upset by her comment that I grabbed the form and left without even telling her about my folding bucket.
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"If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think" - Clarence Darrow, American lawyer (1857-1938)
When you are right, no one remembers;when you are wrong, no one forgets.
Thought for today.."No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit
they are wrong" - Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld, French moralist (1613-1680)
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