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Favourite Inventor?

  • 04-09-2003 04:31PM
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    Who's your favourite inventor: BS Johnson or Leonard De Quirm?

    Personally I'd be a BS Johnson man, because whenever his name is mentioned I know i'm in for a five minute laugh-a-thon. And that my side's will be hurting by the end of the paragraph. Personally i'd love to have him invent a computer for me. I'd love to see what he'd do with it.

    By the way if you can think of any inventor's i've left out, just say so, and i'll add 'em in.

    Who's your favourite Disc Inventor? 10 votes

    BS Johnson
    0% 0 votes
    Leonard De Quirm
    100% 10 votes


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 129 shock
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    tough choice, some of leonards inventions are good, especially the ones you can modify at will, but B.S johnson wins for the laughs.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 250 Plasticman
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    BSJ. He's just so versatile. He can set out to do anything and never get it to do the thing it was meant to do (except in the unfortunate cases of the organs). Yet they always do SOMETHING either useful or entertaining. While Leonard may be a BETTER inventor, he's not got the loveable screwing-up qualities of Johnson. Or at least I think so.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 129 shock
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    By the way, you forgot to put in Goldeneyes Dactylos, any inventor who can fell the quality of the arrow that kills him should be included.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 Sarky
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    Leonard is good for a laugh too.
    Because it's submersible in a marine environment, I call it the going-under-the-water-safely-machine
    :D

    BS Johnson is good for sheer stupidity. Remember the 120 foot beehive? Not much use when there are no giant bees...:)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 559 jongore
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    BSJ for the maze that was so small people got lost looking for it!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 161 af666x
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    BSJ all the way. As for Goldeneyes Dactylos - I'd hate to be that good at anything. Poor guy.

    Anyway BSJ got my vote but only just.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,446 Havelock
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    De Quirm. The Gonne, Devices capable of leveling entire cities "But no would ever use". All that sort of thing.

    BSJ would build a siege engine inside a city, a battering ram on the inside of the door etc...

    What use are those to a man in my possition.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,236 AL][EN
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    I tend to agree with havelock my vote goes to De Quirm!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,445 echomadman
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    Leonard all the way, BSJ is funny, but thats it, leonard is a character in ihis own right, until BSJ actually makes an appearance he's just a footnote.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 129 shock
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    is BSJ alive to make an appearance? Or does that matter?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,445 echomadman
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    the books jump back and forth through time, i'm, sure the sweeper has run into him at some point.



    http://www.bradleystoke.co.uk/leo/index.htm << on the same note, the real leonard


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 129 shock
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    Maybe there could be a book where Lu Tze has to stop BSJ from destroying the disc with a machine which was ment to be a fully functional ornamental sundial/weathercock/calender.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,529 zynaps
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    I liked Johnson's hoho, I think it was.... well, I'm not sure, one of his creations was an ornamental fish pond 150 foot long and one inch wide, containing one trout, which is happy as long as it never tries to turn around :)

    (interesting link referencing this in a maths problem!)

    (btw, voted for Leonard - Johnson had some of my favourite inventions but Leonard was a more interesting inventor, characterwise since we never actually encounter Johnson himself (though I'd like to see it happen!))


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 354 Commissar
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    Leonard De Quirm.

    BS Johnson might have been more ridiculous but Leo's naivity was pretty funny at times too.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34 sweep_101


    BS Johnson for the sheer entertainment of his inventions


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26 Ravaan


    BS Johnson for the inventions. Lenny for naming them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 Raphael
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    Originally posted by shock
    Maybe there could be a book where Lu Tze has to stop BSJ from destroying the disc with a machine which was ment to be a fully functional ornamental sundial/weathercock/calender.



    Now THERES an idea!


    Anyone got terrys email address?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,152 ozt9vdujny3srf
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    OOooh I'd be a leonard de quirm man myself :)


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