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[Brian37]

How quickly you forget.

ABBA is the best band in the world. 

Still not getting it. Just like my spelling errors, you jump at every flaw or mistake. What you do not see, because of selection bias and sample rate error are the amount of times I DO correct myself before you see it.

If I said Washington's cherry tree story was a myth, would you argue that? 

I did not know P.T. Barnum did not coin that quote. But he damned sure popularized it, otherwise most people, including me, would not make that mistake.  Can you tell me who invented stuffed crust pizza? Can you tell me who invented the "Lucy Juicy" burger?

Aw, and you were doing so well, too. I was legitimately proud of you for actually looking something up on your own. But you had to ruin it by saying Barnum popularized that quote. He didn’t - there is no record or evidence of Barnum ever using that phrase.

Stuffed crust pizza: Patty Scheibmeir

Lucy Jucy: Matt Bristol

So close.

Boru

So you say. The patent office is full of failures and successes, the only difference is who makes it work.

Even with religion, both you and I know, and accept that Islam is nothing but a copy of Christianity and Christianity is a copy of Hebrews and Hebrews got their ideas from the poly theistic Cannanites.

Yes, Coke and Pepsi both exist, but neither were the first beverage, water was. 

Again, you have yet to explain to my why it is P.T. Barnum is so widely falsely  quoted as being the origin of that quote.

I can tell you the reason. The same reason American history has been so fucked up in thinking "Pilgrims" "settled" America when the reality is that white Europeans invaded America. 

So who invented the hamburger? Who invented the hot dog? Who invented sliced bread? 

There is always going to be ambiguity to who did what first and as tribal and competitive as our species is, it still remains, that what humans remember always is based on a past. There is only innovation, but there is no such thing as an idea that pops out of nothing.