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Dracula(Romanian Vlad Tepes)
09-26-2006, 18:29
This is a post for the people who are not from america(not fools).I think that americans think that they are the masters of the world and that everyone wants to go in their country(and be killed by terrorists).Who agrees with me?
They are selfish,fools.
Reenk Roink
09-26-2006, 18:30
Whoa... :inquisitive:
Crazed Rabbit
09-26-2006, 18:31
Did someone just discover the internets?
Crazed Rabbit
This is a post for the people who are not from america(not fools).I think that americans think that they are the masters of the world and that everyone wants to go in their country(and be killed by terrorists).Who agrees with me?
They are selfish,fools.
Do you think you are speical because you are the first person who hates America? With an attitude like this, nobody cares.
cegorach
09-26-2006, 18:33
Idiot...:shame:
Someone who starts a thread to bash a country even without any real arguments for sure deserves to be called that.
I am already waiting for more threads like 'I hate country X and I think they are all morons who is with me ?' type.
Please close the thread - it is completely useless.:skull:
Blodrast
09-26-2006, 18:37
Dracula: We try to be a wee bit more polite, and, if nothing else, at least more subtle, around here.
That means no offending other people, for any reasons (nationality, religion, sex, whatever).
Feel free to use facts, arguments, ideas - but not silly, pointless, and very rude mindless bashing. Trolling is not welcome.
This thread should have been closed long ago.
Tribesman
09-26-2006, 18:38
Please close the thread - it is completely useless.
Not neccesarily
Oh look a monkey swimming on a unicycle in a tree eating a cigar while buggering a porcupine with an avacado .
Spam
sharrukin
09-26-2006, 18:42
America the Beautiful - 1913
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern, impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!
O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife.
Who more than self the country loved
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain divine!
O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for halcyon skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the enameled plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till souls wax fair as earth and air
And music-hearted sea!
O beautiful for pilgrims feet,
Whose stern impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America ! America !
God shed his grace on thee
Till paths be wrought through
wilds of thought
By pilgrim foot and knee!
O beautiful for glory-tale
Of liberating strife
When once and twice,
for man's avail
Men lavished precious life !
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till selfish gain no longer stain
The banner of the free!
O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till nobler men keep once again
Thy whiter jubilee!
p.s. I am a proud Canadian
Divinus Arma
09-26-2006, 18:46
I think this guy is probably a puppet account of someone wishing to stir up trouble for fun.
Or he is an idiot who should be banned. And then set on fire. And then dorked by whale dorks. Before being banned again. And dorked again.
How I really feel:
https://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b139/bibi3680/dork.jpg
R'as al Ghul
09-26-2006, 18:51
Teh ban! ~:flirt:
yesdachi
09-26-2006, 19:04
Stop repressing your true feelings and let us all know what you really think of the USA.:elephant:
Kralizec
09-26-2006, 19:22
But he's from Switzerland :oops:
"...or we'll bomb Iran!"
"But I'm from Iraq!"
"Iran, Iraq, what's the difference?"
Samurai Waki
09-26-2006, 19:27
This idiot knows nothing about America or Americans. He asserts his opinions based on TV and what other people say, who also assert their opinions based on TV. Yeah, America has many crude, opinionated, and arrogant ***holes. But same with Romania (or Switzerland) and well... every country. If you've ever been here, you would know that a larger majority of us are very kind and open people, who would take the shirts off of our back for you, but I find it kind of odd, that you Vlad "Tepes", act like a typical "American" You might see on a TV Show. Get Bent.
This guy gives me the un-supressable urge to invade Romania.
No Way, I think Edyz is a good indication that Romania is a pretty awesome country.
Divinus Arma
09-26-2006, 19:35
Actually he is probably right:
(a) I want to enslave the Romanian people and force them into a good job and freedom.
(b) All Americans secretly desire to be killed by Islamofascist terrorists.
In all seriousness, if this guy would actually respond- let's see why he hates America so much. Maybe we can share our perspective with him and open him up to a side of the world he may never have known existed. It may or may not involve whale peni.
Blodrast
09-26-2006, 19:40
meh, can't you spot a troll when you see one ? just stop feeding him, and wait for the mods to pop in.
Uesugi Kenshin
09-26-2006, 19:51
*Waits*
First basically spam post from Germany!
Just to make that false here's an anecdote for you all to consider. This morning I saw my host dad drop his drawers and sit on the toilet (the door wasn't really closed....) while his son was still in the room. Now that may not be odd everywhere, but I have to say my dad has never done that while I was in the room.
I told you guys I was looking forward to this. :2thumbsup:
Please, close this topic.It is a disimulated way of spam
Devastatin Dave
09-26-2006, 20:07
Please don't close this thread, I love this guy!!! Besides, if you close this thread then the terrorists win. Let ask the mod that eventually closes this thread this...
Why do you hate freedom?:laugh4:
This thread will one day just turn into one load of anti-American rubbish!!!! Really this thread should be closed or even better deleted. I have reported Dracula(Romanian Vlad Tepes) for starting this very offensive and very childish thread that discriminates against ALL Americans.
However it is important to remember that only SOME Americans are selfish or stupid. A little bit like some Swiss or Romanians or even British are selfish. They do not deserve to be stereo typed. People think that the British are a load of beer drinking football hooligans. I'm not and I'm British, I actually HATE football and I have never drunk any alcohol in by life (excluding that one glass of diluted red wine I had at Christmas). Nobody, I repeat NOBODY, should be stereotyped in an offensive way or style. Not even for fun.
This topic should be CLOSED immediately!
Dutch_guy
09-26-2006, 20:21
This is a post for the people who are not from america(not fools).I think that americans think that they are the masters of the world and that everyone wants to go in their country(and be killed by terrorists).Who agrees with me?
This is sig. material all right - right next to the Bartix you go !
Hmmz if only I had room left...
:balloon2:
*sneaking in a sleazy post to bump my post count before this piece of **** get´s locked*:juggle2:
This is a post for the people who are not from america(not fools).I think that americans think that they are the masters of the world and that everyone wants to go in their country(and be killed by terrorists).Who agrees with me?
They are selfish,fools.
LOL - someone has delusions. Let him post, so far he is showing himself to be poorly educated in matters of the world.
Divinus Arma
09-26-2006, 20:32
*Waits*
First basically spam post from Germany!
Just to make that false here's an anecdote for you all to consider. This morning I saw my host dad drop his drawers and sit on the toilet (the door wasn't really closed....) while his son was still in the room. Now that may not be odd everywhere, but I have to say my dad has never done that while I was in the room.
What the heck is a host dad?
And ya. I agree that crapping in front of other people is generally an unusual thing to do in western society.
Anybody have family members that leave the door open when they crap?
Americans are the masters of the world and everyone wants to go in their country and be killed by terrorists. Tell what bartix and the faction that replaces armenia got then??
What the heck is a host dad?
And ya. I agree that crapping in front of other people is generally an unusual thing to do in western society.
Anybody have family members that leave the door open when they crap?
I leave the door open when I go outside to crap on my neighbor's lawn......
Divinus Arma
09-26-2006, 20:39
I leave the door open when I go outside to crap on my neighbor's lawn......
Tell what bartix and the faction that replaces armenia got then?? This is a post for the people who are not from america(not fools).I think that americans think that they are the masters of the world and that everyone wants to go in their country(and be killed by terrorists).Who agrees with me?
They are selfish,fools.
Chargers game this Sunday. Glad to see Drew Brees kicking butt for New O. The Saints needed that win. Good for them.
@Dracula(Romanian Vlad Tepes). I think you've just opened the floodgates on yourself. No one likes race/culture/religion based prejudice/hate etc. Americans are no exception. I'm sure that if I had waltzed into some "less tolerant culture" forum and told them something similar to what you've just written I'd probably provoke a worse response and be banned as an added bonus.
Oh look a monkey swimming on a unicycle in a tree eating a cigar while buggering a porcupine with an avacado .
Spam
Where! Where!?? :stupido3:
Duke Malcolm
09-26-2006, 20:47
What?
You guys can say what you want but he has verry good arguments...sigh.
btw: not all American are bad. ~;)
You guys can say what you want but he has verry good arguments...sigh.
Hell, Im convinced. :captain:
Red Peasant
09-26-2006, 21:04
Heard the one about Chuck Norris? ... :tomato2:
:dancinglock:
Divinus Arma
09-26-2006, 21:05
Why do birds... suddenly appear?
Dutch_guy
09-26-2006, 21:20
Why do birds... suddenly appear?
I fear you may have lost a couple of us with that statement DA. :laugh2:
:balloon2:
Devastatin Dave
09-26-2006, 21:24
Why do birds... suddenly appear?
When... you are near...
When... you are near...
Just like me..... they long to be...
Just like me..... they long to be...
Close to you...
Somebody Else
09-26-2006, 21:29
Bugger the topic... I'm amused by that picture DA posted.
If he is trolling, he's done a pretty good job.
Sasaki Kojiro
09-26-2006, 21:33
This is a post for the people who are not from america(not fools).I think that americans think that they are the masters of the world and that everyone wants to go in their country(and be killed by terrorists).Who agrees with me?
They are selfish,fools.
http://i9.tinypic.com/2zg9c2t.jpg
Wahay! I feel small and inferior in the Backroom with my pitiful post count, so hey! :spammer: :spammer: :spammer: :spammer: :spammer:
On a more serious note, my Gran lives in Texas, and it's a lovely place, and I love the country.
Also,
Thine alabaster cities gleam Whats an alabaster? Any chance to improve my vocab...
Sasaki Kojiro
09-26-2006, 21:42
On a more serious note, my Gran lives in Texas, and it's a lovely place, and I love the country.
http://i9.tinypic.com/2nk070g.jpg
Sasaki Kojiro
09-26-2006, 21:48
I think it should be left open personally.
This is a post for the people who are not from america(not fools).I think that americans think that they are the masters of the world and that everyone wants to go in their country(and be killed by terrorists).Who agrees with me?
They are selfish,fools.
http://i10.tinypic.com/43zy2jk.jpg
200th Post!!
Captain America says NO to anti-americans!
http://i9.tinypic.com/2pt9xxs.jpg
Gosh I am bored...
yesdachi
09-26-2006, 22:02
Also, Whats an alabaster? Any chance to improve my vocab...
Alabaster is a rock/mineral that looks kind of like translucent marble, it is easy to carve and they make nice things out of it. Except here in the US, were all fools. ~D
Seamus Fermanagh
09-26-2006, 22:08
...an oldie but a goodie.
Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate
West Berlin, Germany
June 12, 1987
This speech was delivered to the people of West Berlin, yet it was also audible on the East side of the Berlin wall.
2,703 words
Thank you very much.
Chancellor Kohl, Governing Mayor Diepgen, ladies and gentlemen: Twenty-four years ago, President John F. Kennedy visited Berlin, speaking to the people of this city and the world at the City Hall. Well, since then two other presidents have come, each in his turn, to Berlin. And today I, myself, make my second visit to your city.
We come to Berlin, we American presidents, because it's our duty to speak, in this place, of freedom. But I must confess, we're drawn here by other things as well: by the feeling of history in this city, more than 500 years older than our own nation; by the beauty of the Grunewald and the Tiergarten; most of all, by your courage and determination. Perhaps the composer Paul Lincke understood something about American presidents. You see, like so many presidents before me, I come here today because wherever I go, whatever I do: Ich hab noch einen Koffer in Berlin. [I still have a suitcase in Berlin.]
Our gathering today is being broadcast throughout Western Europe and North America. I understand that it is being seen and heard as well in the East. To those listening throughout Eastern Europe, a special word: Although I cannot be with you, I address my remarks to you just as surely as to those standing here before me. For I join you, as I join your fellow countrymen in the West, in this firm, this unalterable belief: Es gibt nur ein Berlin. [There is only one Berlin.]
Behind me stands a wall that encircles the free sectors of this city, part of a vast system of barriers that divides the entire continent of Europe. From the Baltic, south, those barriers cut across Germany in a gash of barbed wire, concrete, dog runs, and guard towers. Farther south, there may be no visible, no obvious wall. But there remain armed guards and checkpoints all the same--still a restriction on the right to travel, still an instrument to impose upon ordinary men and women the will of a totalitarian state. Yet it is here in Berlin where the wall emerges most clearly; here, cutting across your city, where the news photo and the television screen have imprinted this brutal division of a continent upon the mind of the world. Standing before the Brandenburg Gate, every man is a German, separated from his fellow men. Every man is a Berliner, forced to look upon a scar.
President von Weizsacker has said, "The German question is open as long as the Brandenburg Gate is closed." Today I say: As long as the gate is closed, as long as this scar of a wall is permitted to stand, it is not the German question alone that remains open, but the question of freedom for all mankind. Yet I do not come here to lament. For I find in Berlin a message of hope, even in the shadow of this wall, a message of triumph.
In this season of spring in 1945, the people of Berlin emerged from their air-raid shelters to find devastation. Thousands of miles away, the people of the United States reached out to help. And in 1947 Secretary of State--as you've been told--George Marshall announced the creation of what would become known as the Marshall Plan. Speaking precisely 40 years ago this month, he said: "Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine, but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos."
In the Reichstag a few moments ago, I saw a display commemorating this 40th anniversary of the Marshall Plan. I was struck by the sign on a burnt-out, gutted structure that was being rebuilt. I understand that Berliners of my own generation can remember seeing signs like it dotted throughout the western sectors of the city. The sign read simply: "The Marshall Plan is helping here to strengthen the free world." A strong, free world in the West, that dream became real. Japan rose from ruin to become an economic giant. Italy, France, Belgium--virtually every nation in Western Europe saw political and economic rebirth; the European Community was founded.
In West Germany and here in Berlin, there took place an economic miracle, the Wirtschaftswunder. Adenauer, Erhard, Reuter, and other leaders understood the practical importance of liberty--that just as truth can flourish only when the journalist is given freedom of speech, so prosperity can come about only when the farmer and businessman enjoy economic freedom. The German leaders reduced tariffs, expanded free trade, lowered taxes. From 1950 to 1960 alone, the standard of living in West Germany and Berlin doubled.
Where four decades ago there was rubble, today in West Berlin there is the greatest industrial output of any city in Germany--busy office blocks, fine homes and apartments, proud avenues, and the spreading lawns of parkland. Where a city's culture seemed to have been destroyed, today there are two great universities, orchestras and an opera, countless theaters, and museums. Where there was want, today there's abundance--food, clothing, automobiles--the wonderful goods of the Ku'damm. From devastation, from utter ruin, you Berliners have, in freedom, rebuilt a city that once again ranks as one of the greatest on earth. The Soviets may have had other plans. But my friends, there were a few things the Soviets didn't count on--Berliner Herz, Berliner Humor, ja, und Berliner Schnauze. [Berliner heart, Berliner humor, yes, and a Berliner Schnauze.]
In the 1950s, Khrushchev predicted: "We will bury you." But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented in all human history. In the Communist world, we see failure, technological backwardness, declining standards of health, even want of the most basic kind--too little food. Even today, the Soviet Union still cannot feed itself. After these four decades, then, there stands before the entire world one great and inescapable conclusion: Freedom leads to prosperity. Freedom replaces the ancient hatreds among the nations with comity and peace. Freedom is the victor.
And now the Soviets themselves may, in a limited way, be coming to understand the importance of freedom. We hear much from Moscow about a new policy of reform and openness. Some political prisoners have been released. Certain foreign news broadcasts are no longer being jammed. Some economic enterprises have been permitted to operate with greater freedom from state control.
Are these the beginnings of profound changes in the Soviet state? Or are they token gestures, intended to raise false hopes in the West, or to strengthen the Soviet system without changing it? We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace. There is one sign the Soviets can make that would be unmistakable, that would advance dramatically the cause of freedom and peace.
General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
I understand the fear of war and the pain of division that afflict this continent-- and I pledge to you my country's efforts to help overcome these burdens. To be sure, we in the West must resist Soviet expansion. So we must maintain defenses of unassailable strength. Yet we seek peace; so we must strive to reduce arms on both sides.
Beginning 10 years ago, the Soviets challenged the Western alliance with a grave new threat, hundreds of new and more deadly SS-20 nuclear missiles, capable of striking every capital in Europe. The Western alliance responded by committing itself to a counter-deployment unless the Soviets agreed to negotiate a better solution; namely, the elimination of such weapons on both sides. For many months, the Soviets refused to bargain in earnestness. As the alliance, in turn, prepared to go forward with its counter-deployment, there were difficult days--days of protests like those during my 1982 visit to this city--and the Soviets later walked away from the table.
But through it all, the alliance held firm. And I invite those who protested then-- I invite those who protest today--to mark this fact: Because we remained strong, the Soviets came back to the table. And because we remained strong, today we have within reach the possibility, not merely of limiting the growth of arms, but of eliminating, for the first time, an entire class of nuclear weapons from the face of the earth.
As I speak, NATO ministers are meeting in Iceland to review the progress of our proposals for eliminating these weapons. At the talks in Geneva, we have also proposed deep cuts in strategic offensive weapons. And the Western allies have likewise made far-reaching proposals to reduce the danger of conventional war and to place a total ban on chemical weapons.
While we pursue these arms reductions, I pledge to you that we will maintain the capacity to deter Soviet aggression at any level at which it might occur. And in cooperation with many of our allies, the United States is pursuing the Strategic Defense Initiative--research to base deterrence not on the threat of offensive retaliation, but on defenses that truly defend; on systems, in short, that will not target populations, but shield them. By these means we seek to increase the safety of Europe and all the world. But we must remember a crucial fact: East and West do not mistrust each other because we are armed; we are armed because we mistrust each other. And our differences are not about weapons but about liberty. When President Kennedy spoke at the City Hall those 24 years ago, freedom was encircled, Berlin was under siege. And today, despite all the pressures upon this city, Berlin stands secure in its liberty. And freedom itself is transforming the globe.
In the Philippines, in South and Central America, democracy has been given a rebirth. Throughout the Pacific, free markets are working miracle after miracle of economic growth. In the industrialized nations, a technological revolution is taking place--a revolution marked by rapid, dramatic advances in computers and telecommunications.
In Europe, only one nation and those it controls refuse to join the community of freedom. Yet in this age of redoubled economic growth, of information and innovation, the Soviet Union faces a choice: It must make fundamental changes, or it will become obsolete.
Today thus represents a moment of hope. We in the West stand ready to cooperate with the East to promote true openness, to break down barriers that separate people, to create a safe, freer world. And surely there is no better place than Berlin, the meeting place of East and West, to make a start. Free people of Berlin: Today, as in the past, the United States stands for the strict observance and full implementation of all parts of the Four Power Agreement of 1971. Let us use this occasion, the 750th anniversary of this city, to usher in a new era, to seek a still fuller, richer life for the Berlin of the future. Together, let us maintain and develop the ties between the Federal Republic and the Western sectors of Berlin, which is permitted by the 1971 agreement.
And I invite Mr. Gorbachev: Let us work to bring the Eastern and Western parts of the city closer together, so that all the inhabitants of all Berlin can enjoy the benefits that come with life in one of the great cities of the world.
To open Berlin still further to all Europe, East and West, let us expand the vital air access to this city, finding ways of making commercial air service to Berlin more convenient, more comfortable, and more economical. We look to the day when West Berlin can become one of the chief aviation hubs in all central Europe.
With our French and British partners, the United States is prepared to help bring international meetings to Berlin. It would be only fitting for Berlin to serve as the site of United Nations meetings, or world conferences on human rights and arms control or other issues that call for international cooperation.
There is no better way to establish hope for the future than to enlighten young minds, and we would be honored to sponsor summer youth exchanges, cultural events, and other programs for young Berliners from the East. Our French and British friends, I'm certain, will do the same. And it's my hope that an authority can be found in East Berlin to sponsor visits from young people of the Western sectors.
One final proposal, one close to my heart: Sport represents a source of enjoyment and ennoblement, and you may have noted that the Republic of Korea--South Korea--has offered to permit certain events of the 1988 Olympics to take place in the North. International sports competitions of all kinds could take place in both parts of this city. And what better way to demonstrate to the world the openness of this city than to offer in some future year to hold the Olympic games here in Berlin, East and West? In these four decades, as I have said, you Berliners have built a great city. You've done so in spite of threats--the Soviet attempts to impose the East-mark, the blockade. Today the city thrives in spite of the challenges implicit in the very presence of this wall. What keeps you here? Certainly there's a great deal to be said for your fortitude, for your defiant courage. But I believe there's something deeper, something that involves Berlin's whole look and feel and way of life--not mere sentiment. No one could live long in Berlin without being completely disabused of illusions. Something instead, that has seen the difficulties of life in Berlin but chose to accept them, that continues to build this good and proud city in contrast to a surrounding totalitarian presence that refuses to release human energies or aspirations. Something that speaks with a powerful voice of affirmation, that says yes to this city, yes to the future, yes to freedom. In a word, I would submit that what keeps you in Berlin is love--love both profound and abiding.
Perhaps this gets to the root of the matter, to the most fundamental distinction of all between East and West. The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship. The totalitarian world finds even symbols of love and of worship an affront. Years ago, before the East Germans began rebuilding their churches, they erected a secular structure: the television tower at Alexander Platz. Virtually ever since, the authorities have been working to correct what they view as the tower's one major flaw, treating the glass sphere at the top with paints and chemicals of every kind. Yet even today when the sun strikes that sphere--that sphere that towers over all Berlin--the light makes the sign of the cross. There in Berlin, like the city itself, symbols of love, symbols of worship, cannot be suppressed.
As I looked out a moment ago from the Reichstag, that embodiment of German unity, I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: "This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality." Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.
And I would like, before I close, to say one word. I have read, and I have been questioned since I've been here about certain demonstrations against my coming. And I would like to say just one thing, and to those who demonstrate so. I wonder if they have ever asked themselves that if they should have the kind of government they apparently seek, no one would ever be able to do what they're doing again.
Thank you and God bless you all.
This is a post for the people who are not from america(not fools).I think that americans think that they are the masters of the world and that everyone wants to go in their country(and be killed by terrorists).Who agrees with me?
They are selfish,fools.
To get to the root of your problem, the USA invented the Internet. You have been prawned.
Now to eliminate this swissislamoterroristiranianparishiltonnuculer threat.
Texas will rule the world!!!!1111
Seamus Fermanagh
09-26-2006, 22:28
Long time no read BIGtex, nice to see from you.
GeneralHankerchief
09-26-2006, 22:31
Just for old time's sake.
What the hell? The innate non-sensical glee of this makes me afraid. But my constant desire to be helpful means I have to answer a question. Because this makes no sense, I'll instead answer the question "What is the history of the zipper?"
The zipper had numerous 'inventors', the first of which was Elias Howe, who invented the sewing machine, and received a patent in 1851 for an 'Automatic, Continuous Clothing Closure.' Perhaps it was the success of his sewing machine which caused Elias not to pursue marketing his clothing closure.
In 1895, Mr. Whitcomb Judson (who also invented the 'Pneumatic Street Railway') marketed a 'Clasp Locker' a device similar to the 1851 Howe patent. Being first to market gave Whitcomb the credit of being the 'Inventor of the Zipper', However, his 1893 patent did not use the word zipper. The Chicago inventor's 'Clasp Locker' was a complicated hook-and-eye shoe fastener. Together with businessman Colonel Lewis Walker, Whitcomb launched the Universal Fastener Company to manufacture the new device. The clasp locker had its public debut at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and met with little commercial success.
Swedish-born (who later immigrated to Canada), Gideon Sundback, an electrical engineer, was hired to work for the Universal Fastener Company. Good design skills and a marriage to the plant-manager's daughter Elvira Aronson led Sundback to the position of head designer at Universal. He was responsible for improving the far from perfect 'Judson C-curity Fastener.' Unfortunately, Sundback's wife died in 1911. The grieving husband busied himself at the design table and by December of 1913, he had designed the modern zipper. Gideon Sundback increased the number of fastening elements from four per inch to ten or eleven, had two facing-rows of teeth that pulled into a single piece by the slider, and increased the opening for the teeth guided by the slider. The patent for the 'Separable Fastener' was issued in 1917. Sundback also created the manufacturing machine for the new zipper. The 'S-L' or scrapless machine took a special Y-shaped wire and cut scoops from it, then punched the scoop dimple and nib, and clamped each scoop on a cloth tape to produce a continuous zipper chain. Within the first year of operation, Sundback's zipper-making machinery was producing a few hundred feet of fastener per day.
The popular 'zipper' name came from the B. F. Goodrich Company, when they decided to use Gideon's fastener on a new type of galoshes and renamed the device the zipper, the name that lasted. Boots and tobacco pouches with a zippered closure were the two chief uses of the zipper during its early years. It took twenty more years to convince the fashion industry to seriously promote the novel closure on garments.
In the 1930’s, a sales campaign began for children's clothing featuring zippers. The campaign praised zippers for promoting self-reliance in young children by making it possible for them to dress in self-help clothing. The zipper beat the button in the 1937 in the "Battle of the Fly," when French fashion designers raved over zippers in men's trousers. Esquire magazine declared the zipper the "Newest Tailoring Idea for Men" and among the zippered fly's many virtues was that it would exclude "The Possibility of Unintentional and Embarrassing Disarray."
The next big boost for the zipper came when zippers could open on both ends, as on jackets. Despite the limited successes, the amount of products with the zipper being produced weren't exactly vast. The United States Navy, however, placed an order for several thousand of the items, to be tailored onto certain uniforms, for interior pockets, trousers, and as the main closure for overcoats. This greatly enhanced the popularity of the zipper via footage of the events of World War 2, and the zipper subsequently became the main fixture on most articles of men's clothing.
Elias Howe was an American btw. :2thumbsup:
Long time no read BIGtex, nice to see from you.
Yeah, summer was too busy to really get on the computer let alone the forums.
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Leet Eriksson
09-26-2006, 22:46
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HAHAHAHA :laugh4::laugh4::laugh4::laugh4:
YOU SO CRAZY DARIUSH <3
Divinus Arma
09-26-2006, 22:56
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Someone set up us the bomb? (http://allyourbase.planettribes.gamespy.com/video1_view.shtml)
Evil_Maniac From Mars
09-26-2006, 23:42
*sneaking in a sleazy post to bump my post count before this piece of **** get´s locked*:juggle2:
Yes, I don't have nearly enough of them.
Papewaio
09-26-2006, 23:45
Bricks away!
2 point warning and thread closed.
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