Nine reasons to celebrate America


	Nine reasons to celebrate America

Richclips777

7-5-2009 1:32 PM

196 views

Richclips777 says:

Tongue in cheeky British take on American ingenuity.

4 Comments |

Add a Comment

7-5-2009 3:27 PM

clip-on-tie

1. the quality of life for nearly all 6 billion people on the planet would be unimaginably worse if not for ingenuity of the American mind.
2. vaccines - millions of people are not dead thanks to Americans who formulated the cures
3. electric light
4. motion pictures
5. Neil Armstrong's giant leap for mankind
6. This little thing we call THE INTERNET
7. TV
8. Laser
9. phonograph
10. telephone
11. synthetic rubber
12. video cassette recorder
13. The thing I'm using now - THE COMPUTER
14. Britain uses our invention - air conditioning - you're welcome
15. alkaline storage battery
16. mimeograph machine
17. discovery of DNA, atomic energy, mapping the human genome
18. Windows
19. Macs
20 Clipmar...

7-5-2009 3:43 PM

Satchamo

I love the cheeky British wit!

7-5-2009 9:41 PM

Richclips777

Right on! Clip on. We can agree about a lot here! Except for the venom in your voice. The bloke was just trying to be funny, eh?

7-26-2009 2:19 PM

foxyarse

Americans have always been great innovators. I personally like the idea of 'fart free neutralizers for vehicles' They actually target the fart molecule. Genius!

Login to Comment. Not a member yet? Sign up

Today's Top Clips

visit the Top Clips page

View the Top Clips from July 5, 2009

Embed This Clip In Your Site...

<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6650879f-e35f-45f5-b3f2-6ba2c5d0ad31/E0279B9E-B9A3-47DF-8F96-6597829EC22B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/8134410.stm" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/8134410.stm" style="font-size: 11px;">news.bbc.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/8134410.stm"><H1>
					Nine reasons to celebrate America
				</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/8134410.stm"><P><B>As the US is marking its 233rd anniversary of its independence, the BBC's Kevin Connolly gives his own list of reasons why America should be celebrated.</B></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/8134410.stm"><P>This is more about the American genius for making daily life more convenient, more entertaining or just more fattening. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/8134410.stm"><B>air conditioning</B> </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/8134410.stm"><B>valet parking. </B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/8134410.stm"><B>aviation</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/8134410.stm"><B>chewing gum</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/8134410.stm"><P><B>Ice cubes</B>, too, reflect the same happy knack for making light of the hostility of circumstance. </P><P>Every floor of every motel building in the country has an ice machine; every convenience store sells it by the sackful, and every drink you are served contains lumps of ice big enough to sink a battleship. </P><P>All cold drinks in America are served at a temperature which could cryogenically freeze human tissue. I know you find ice cubes elsewhere, too, but in Europe bar staff hoard them as though they were precious stones. In America, they flow in rattling abundance</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E0279B9E-B9A3-47DF-8F96-6597829EC22B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

New from the makers of Clipmarks: Amplify.com - Don't just share the news...Amplify it!

Clipmarks: Home; New Clips; Top Clips; Dashboard

Popular Topics: News; Life; Science; Technology; Entertainment

Get Started: Sign Up; Install Clipping Tool; How Clipping Works; Clip-to-Blog™; ClipSearch

Tools and Resources: FAQ; ClipWeek; Top Clippers; Top Tags; Site Map

About Clipmarks: About Us; Contact; Copyright; Privacy; EULA

Search Options

Today's Top Clips