Ten Bizarre Inventions That Never Caught On

by Dictionary Scoop    Budding inventors take note. Some ideas from the past were just too weird, too early, or too wonderfully impractical to survive. Let’s take a nostalgic trip through the patent office’s hall of shame.    Very hard to believe this first one! 1-The baby cage (1930s)    Back when fresh air was considered a …

Was This The Worst Idea Of The 1970s?

by Kevin Burton    Pet rocks I remember. Mood rings, yep. Little sawed-off Gremlin cars. Yeah, I remember those.     I was part of the 70s. I was on the scene baby! I watched the Jackson 5 cartoon. Didn’t dance much but I sang a lot of disco. I remember the bicentennial and staying up …

Walking And Gawking At The Omaha Zoo

by Kevin Burton    Let history record that it was my idea to go to the Omaha Zoo.    My wife will be both surprised and not surprised to read that. Surprised because technically it was her idea; I am not hostile to zoos but certainly indifferent to them.    She will not be surprised …