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So far nobody has alluded to the dozens and dozens of automobiles named after founders of the companyBut of course, BYB did. Was there a Mr. Rolls and a Mr. Royce then BYB? ----------------------------------------------- Yup, Caesar could hardly have been the inventor of the 'section' since he was allegedly the outcome of one. (Bill, I haven't checked out your post yet so if I'm off on this mea culpa) ------------------------------------------------- See now, when you are unclear about what you want, the conversation inevitably turns to food again. Take careful note for future reference ladies. That little bit of wisdom should come in handy one of these days. Be precise! Cause the next time you suggest a little snack off he'll go to the kitchen. 
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Yup, Caesar could hardly have been the inventor of the 'section' since he was allegedly the outcome of one.
Well, whaddabout the salad, then?
By the way, I'm not altogether pleased with the Caesar dressing recipe I normally use; if any of you culinary masters have a fantabulous one and would like to send it by private, I'd be much obliged
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The Thomas Crapper reference can be found in published sources, but they cite no sources. It appears to be a myth perpetrated by Flushed with Pride: The Short of Thomas Crapper, (1969) by Wallace Reyburn. Panati (who I cited above) writes: The book reads for long stretches as serious biography, but the accumulation of toilet humor puns, double entendres, and astonishing coincidences eventually reveals Wallace Reyburn's hoax." [examples omitted]
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Again according to Panati, the Titzling account is another Reyburn creation. In Bust Up: The Uplifting Tale of Otto Titzling" (1971) Reyburn informs us that Otto Titzling, assisted by a Dane named Hans Delving, created a bra for Sweden's greatest female athlete, Lois Lung. Titzling later brought suit for patent infringement against a Frenchman, Philippe de Brassiere.
Reyburn's account has been accepted and cited in later references!
Can anyone find out if Reyburn is still alive? If so, we've got to get him on this board!
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My apologies to BYB. I have been driven nuts by agonizingly slow changes from window to window, and missed his. Back in the twenties there were so many odd-ball car companies, that we had a game of sitting on the curb, watching the cars, and seeing who could be first to identify each car as it came into view. "My Moon!" "My Essex!" "My Peerless!" "My Pierce Arrow!" "My Franklin!" There were so many different ones each kid's score was fairly large.
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For automobiles there's Austin, Aston-Martin, Bentley, Buick, Bugatti, Citroen, Chevrolet, Chrysler, Daimler, Delahaye, Delorean, Deusenberg, Delage, Dodge, Edsel, Ford, Hillman, Humber, Isotta, Kaiser, Lincoln, Marmon, Mercedes-Benz, Messerschmitt, Morris, Oldsmobile, Peugeot, Renault, Rolls-Royce, Stanley, Studebaker, Tucker, Willys, et al. Then there's Armstrong-Whitworth, Avro (A.V. Roe) Beech, Bloch (later Dassault), Boeing, Bristol, Brewster, Cessna, Curtiss, Dornier, Douglas, Fokker, Ford, Hughes, Loughead (later Lockheed), McDonnell, MIG (Mikoyan and Guerevitch), Piaseki, Piper, Ryan, Sikorsky, Taylor, Tupolev, et al among aircraft. Shall I go on to bicycles? 
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Singer--which for years was sewing machines.
Well, since Ted hasn't said anything to keep us in stitches, I guess I'll have to mention that it was Elias Howe who invented the first modern sewing machine. Howe he did it makes for a howeling good story. It's said he dreamed of needles with the holes in the wrong end. I guess he got it awl wrong.
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>Incidentally, as recently as the;youth of one of my grandfathers, tomatoes were thought unsafe to eat.
Talking to friends with elderly relatives here in Scotland that seemed to apply to almost all non root vegetables until fairly recently!
.... OK I've made it white, it's a foodie thingy, .... back to the land of the deep fried Mars Bar ... oh, maybe that is relevant, I can post that ...Mars bars (they are different in the UK to the ones in the USA but that is another story) were named after Forrest Mars. M&Ms too (we used to call them "Treats", unless they were a different company, possibly because we didn't have Hershey's chocolate here) The first M was Mars, the second M stands for Bruce Murrie, who was the son of the president of Hershey, Mars’ biggest competitor. Mars put up 80% of the capital, Bruce Murrie 20%. The explanation for this unusual joint venture was that chocolate was rationed during WWII, but not for Hershey’s, which produced chocolate for the troops. By setting up in business in this way, M&Ms had a guaranteed source of chocolate. (Mars soon bought the younger Murrie out, but M&Ms continued to be made with Hershey’s chocolate through the 60s.) http://www.goodbyemag.com/jul99/mars.html
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