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ignite ice
2010-08-28 03:57:29 PM
List fails without Stewie Griffin.
 
Roook [TotalFark]
2010-08-28 04:00:19 PM
I always hate lists like this that will include a currently popular character (like Dr. Horrible) when there are probably much better choices.
 
ignite ice
2010-08-28 04:01:42 PM
Roook: I always hate lists like this that will include a currently popular character (like Dr. Horrible) when there are probably much better choices.

Like Captain Nemo.
 
DammitIForgotMyLogin [TotalFark]
2010-08-28 04:03:44 PM
i35.tinypic.com

unimpressed.
 
DammitIForgotMyLogin [TotalFark]
2010-08-28 04:06:32 PM
List also missing:

Leonard of Quirm
Macgyver
Professor Farnsworth
Dr Richard Seaton
 
ignite ice
2010-08-28 04:07:41 PM
DammitIForgotMyLogin: Macgyver

Is Macgyver really an inventor? I see him more as a, "Holy shiat it worked for more than five seconds" kind of person.
 
Weaver95 [TotalFark]
2010-08-28 04:11:22 PM
No Davros!?

fail list is fail.
 
Fleet [TotalFark]
2010-08-28 04:15:37 PM
www.sullivanet.com

May or may not have been the first to "invent a time-stopping device" but every time I see one now I think they ripped off Duck Tales.
 
gameshowhost [TotalFark]
2010-08-28 04:17:29 PM
Fleet: May or may not have been the first to "invent a time-stopping device" but every time I see one now I think they ripped off Duck Tales.

Or the first season of Saved By The Bell.
 
shaft6969 [TotalFark]
2010-08-28 04:27:11 PM
Fleet: May or may not have been the first to "invent a time-stopping device" but every time I see one now I think they ripped off Duck Tales.

/This was the first guy that came to mind for me. Was surprised he wasn't listed. But somehow, they found room for Jigsaw. Fail...
 
Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener [TotalFark]
2010-08-28 04:27:15 PM
This list fails so hard without Joel Robinson.

Movie-mocking robots, folks. 'Nuff said.
 
oldebayer
2010-08-28 04:28:09 PM
List is absolute rubbish without Blackie duQuesne.
 
Roook [TotalFark]
2010-08-28 04:37:18 PM
Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: This list fails so hard without Joel Robinson.

Movie-mocking robots, folks. 'Nuff said.

I'd like to see him get into an invention exchange with Dr. Horrible.
 
Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener [TotalFark]
2010-08-28 04:39:08 PM
Roook: I'd like to see him get into an invention exchange with Dr. Horrible.

I'd throw down some serious cash to see that happen.

It's all Monopoly money, but still.
 
DammitIForgotMyLogin [TotalFark]
2010-08-28 04:39:47 PM
oldebayer: List is absolute rubbish without Blackie duQuesne.

Seaton was better ;)
 
oldebayer
2010-08-28 04:41:46 PM
DammitIForgotMyLogin: Seaton was better ;)

Maybe as an inventor, but not as a fictional character.
 
DammitIForgotMyLogin [TotalFark]
2010-08-28 04:42:40 PM
oldebayer: DammitIForgotMyLogin: Seaton was better ;)

Maybe as an inventor, but not as a fictional character.

Good point
 
downstairs [TotalFark]
2010-08-28 04:49:04 PM
No Thomas Edison?
 
dethmagnetic
2010-08-28 04:52:41 PM
List fails without Zefram Cochrane.

archive.liveauctioneers.com
 
Mentat [TotalFark]
2010-08-28 05:01:17 PM
What about the Time Traveler?
 
Snarfangel
2010-08-28 05:06:46 PM
DammitIForgotMyLogin: List also missing:

Leonard of Quirm
Macgyver
Professor Farnsworth
Dr Richard Seaton

I was trying to remember E.E. Smith's hero without resorting to Wikipedia. Thanks. :)
 
abb3w [TotalFark]
2010-08-28 05:27:09 PM
Along with the other mentions so far, Arcot, Morey and Wade might be a little obscure; Arthur Morton McAndrew, less so.

Still, part credit for remembering Tom Swift, Junior in this day an age, even if they did forget his dad Tom Sr.

On the other hand, massive fail for leaving out Leonard of Quirm.

img33.imageshack.us
 
MikeyB
2010-08-28 05:44:12 PM
Horrible fail without Futurama's Dr. Farnsworth.
 
thisispete
2010-08-28 05:56:16 PM
abb3w: On the other hand, massive fail for leaving out Leonard of Quirm.

What about Bergholt Stuttley Johnson?
 
SilentStrider [TotalFark]
2010-08-28 05:57:15 PM
Needs more Davros.
 
SilentStrider [TotalFark]
2010-08-28 05:57:55 PM
Weaver95: No Davros!?

fail list is fail.

ya know, i really should have read the thread before commenting :P
 
buckler [TotalFark]
2010-08-28 05:59:42 PM
No Dr. Heller and his nuclear-powered pogo stick? Bah.
 
improvius
2010-08-28 06:02:42 PM
List is complete and utter fail without:

th00.deviantart.net
 
mr lawson
2010-08-28 06:09:31 PM
www.wanderinggoblin.com


fail
 
doglover [TotalFark]
2010-08-28 06:22:13 PM
Roook: I always hate lists like this that will include a currently popular character (like Dr. Horrible) when there are probably much better choices.
 
MrLint
2010-08-28 06:31:28 PM
Buckaroo Banzai
 
Mugato [TotalFark]
2010-08-28 06:43:53 PM
dethmagnetic: List fails without Zefram Cochrane.

Yeah really. And he was just in it for money and pussy.
 
aevorea [TotalFark]
2010-08-28 06:52:18 PM
Dr. Walter Bishop?
 
jso2897 [TotalFark]
2010-08-28 07:01:26 PM
No Clyde?
i18.photobucket.com
 
NoboruWatanabe
2010-08-28 07:04:52 PM
Has nobody said God yet?

/ducks
 
Yankees Team Gynecologist
2010-08-28 07:05:27 PM
list fails without

literalbarrage.org

www.411mania.com
 
pheelix
2010-08-28 07:06:55 PM
A guy could go pretty far in life with what these two invented.
i900.photobucket.com
 
Diogenes Teufelsdrockh
2010-08-28 07:18:14 PM
Bogus. Heinous. Most non-triumphant list!

Needs:

img291.imageshack.us

Station!
 
softshoes
2010-08-28 07:19:13 PM
jso2897: No Clyde?
This
Number One Inventor

Leonardo Leonardo Leonardo!!
 
Eirik
2010-08-28 07:26:01 PM
Where is the Proffesor from Gilligans Island? Guy could invent anything with just coconuts and bamboo.

/except for a raft.
 
RoyBatty
2010-08-28 07:35:01 PM
I know this is obscure, (though not to everyone) but I truly was inspired by Dan Davis.
 
superbeerchan [TotalFark]
2010-08-28 07:37:02 PM
No Buckaroo Banzai?
 
Milos Hattrick
2010-08-28 07:38:36 PM
www.kcconfidential.com
 
WRX_Smokescreen
2010-08-28 07:44:32 PM
guidesmedia.ign.com
 
Linux_Yes [TotalFark]
2010-08-28 07:54:18 PM
The 10 greatest fictional inventors of all time


1)the Republican Party of the USA.

damn i'm good. (:
 
Razorwolf
2010-08-28 07:58:40 PM
Well Q and Doc Brown better be on there or else the list fai--

Oh. Ok.

Oh and I don't know what a Professor Gorgonzola Butts (or whatever) is, but he sure sounds like Rube Goldberg.
 
wildsnowllama
2010-08-28 08:07:07 PM
Dr. Egon Spengler.

Perhaps you've heard of him? Once tried to drill a hole in his head.
 
Gortex
2010-08-28 08:09:12 PM
Good news, everyone! I've found a deficient list on the the internet!

www.selectspecs.com
 
Noon Blue Apples
2010-08-28 08:10:44 PM
Came for Gyro Gearloose, left happy with a bunch of other examples I hadn't thought of.
 
Uchiha_Cycliste [TotalFark]
2010-08-28 08:10:46 PM
Need more gir:
1.bp.blogspot.com
 
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