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GoIreland rewrite history to make it "Irish"

MadsL · 2012-12-27 20:08:10

http://www.goireland.com/craic/10-irish-inventions.htm#axzz1laqhQzFM 1. The submarine: Numerous designs predate Holland. http://www.submarine-history.com/NOVAone.htm 2. "The first color photograph made according to Maxwell's prescription, a set of three monochrome "color separations", was taken by Thomas Sutton in 1861 for…

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#122 29-12-2012 10:01am
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Duggys Housemate wrote: »

I decided to pop back in to point out to serious minds that I don't really believe that an Irishman invented the unsubscribe button.

Now continue to get over-excited by a "State Sponsered" fluff piece in a privately funded tourist website which , tongue in cheek, over credits some Irish people with certain inventions.

I mean, God knows, that's the most important thing that ever happened. Someone is wrong on the Internet.

I fervently hope that Jim Corr never reads your last six-word sentence, for there's only one word to accurately describe the consequences that this revelatory fact woud have on our Jim, ..............MELTDOWN!!!

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#123 29-12-2012 7:06pm
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Duggys Housemate wrote: »

I mean, God knows, that's the most important thing that ever happened. Someone is wrong on the Internet.

...and yet here you are. Again.

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