Lauren's Paul Harvey 10-5-06
From: Lauren Westling [mailto:snowflake_baby23@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 11:19 AM To: Lisa Botham; Dave Westling; Isaiah Subject: hey guys
This is a massive e_mail so I am sorry but deal with it,
I feel like a wealth of information and just want to share about my experience thus far and at points you will see that it is like a Harvey episode from 92.1.
First I am going to talk about Spain´s inventions because so few people actually know about this stuff.
Futbolín_ this is the word in Spanish but to describe this invention I need to describe a man. There was a man that fought in one of the punic wars and was injured. He was put in a hospital where he met a nurse that was really nice to him. This nurse enjoyed playing the piano and to thank her for her kindness he invented the page turner for her music. When this man recovered he returned to the Spain that was obsessed with fútbol. He watched as millions of people played fútbol and got hurt a lot because of its an aggressive contact sport. He decided to invent a futbolín so people could play fútbol an not get hurt. After he invented this object he had to leave Europe because of problems in Spain, he couldn´t carry the futbolín with him because it was too big so he copyrighted his invention with a piece of paper from the government. Then he traveled to the americas for a couple years. When he returned to Spain later he descovered that futbolíns were extremely popular in Spain. When he tried to prove that someone had taken his idea and claim the money that he deserved he found that nobody would believe him because his paper had gotten wet in his travels and could not be read. He never recieved credit for inventing what Americans now call a foosball table. However, futbolín is different from our foosball tables because it is a little longer and the figures have split legs which makes the game a little harder play and more interesting. I´ll let you know when I find a futbolíñ to play with.
Another invention came from a man in Cataluna named Enric Bernat. Carmels were prevalent throughout spain and after kids would eat them their hands would get dirty so he invented carmelo con tenedors, which in english is carmels on a fork but honestly he only put them on sticks as it was cost effective. That is where chupa_chups, or what we call lollipops, was invented. If you decide to purchase this Spanish lollipop you will be excited to learn that the wrappers were designed by none other then the famous artist Dahli in 1969. However, today you can´t find Dahli´s signature on every wrapper but it is still the same design. Little masterpieces massively produced.
How about those knives that fold up so they can be carried in your pocket yep inventd in Spain so they could cut mangos. The king Carlos V carried one around. How about that I?
Electronic pencil sharpeners, stapler, also of course the mop so that women didn´t have to clean the floors with their knees and feet, were invented in Spain.
How about the canteens that are pouches, yeah can´t remeber the name, those of course were need to carry water around.
How about cigarrettes in the 16th century Sevilla was known for it´s fabrication of tobacco. And is was the poor people in sevilla that invented tobacco rolled up in paper ito our modern day ciggarettes. You guessed it smoking is really REALLY big here!
They also had cards in the 14th century and the suits were representations of the social structures at that time. (However don´t get me wrong this was not a spanish invention) the diamonds was the monarchy hearts the church the spades were the nobility and the clubs represented the poor also they didn´t have a queen and instead had a knight. In addition they only had 40 cards in a deck.
The guitar was also popular among the poor in Sevilla, not among the nobility, and the flamenco was rarely performed without it.
And now you know the rest of the story!
Lauren
This is a massive e_mail so I am sorry but deal with it,
I feel like a wealth of information and just want to share about my experience thus far and at points you will see that it is like a Harvey episode from 92.1.
First I am going to talk about Spain´s inventions because so few people actually know about this stuff.
Futbolín_ this is the word in Spanish but to describe this invention I need to describe a man. There was a man that fought in one of the punic wars and was injured. He was put in a hospital where he met a nurse that was really nice to him. This nurse enjoyed playing the piano and to thank her for her kindness he invented the page turner for her music. When this man recovered he returned to the Spain that was obsessed with fútbol. He watched as millions of people played fútbol and got hurt a lot because of its an aggressive contact sport. He decided to invent a futbolín so people could play fútbol an not get hurt. After he invented this object he had to leave Europe because of problems in Spain, he couldn´t carry the futbolín with him because it was too big so he copyrighted his invention with a piece of paper from the government. Then he traveled to the americas for a couple years. When he returned to Spain later he descovered that futbolíns were extremely popular in Spain. When he tried to prove that someone had taken his idea and claim the money that he deserved he found that nobody would believe him because his paper had gotten wet in his travels and could not be read. He never recieved credit for inventing what Americans now call a foosball table. However, futbolín is different from our foosball tables because it is a little longer and the figures have split legs which makes the game a little harder play and more interesting. I´ll let you know when I find a futbolíñ to play with.
Another invention came from a man in Cataluna named Enric Bernat. Carmels were prevalent throughout spain and after kids would eat them their hands would get dirty so he invented carmelo con tenedors, which in english is carmels on a fork but honestly he only put them on sticks as it was cost effective. That is where chupa_chups, or what we call lollipops, was invented. If you decide to purchase this Spanish lollipop you will be excited to learn that the wrappers were designed by none other then the famous artist Dahli in 1969. However, today you can´t find Dahli´s signature on every wrapper but it is still the same design. Little masterpieces massively produced.
How about those knives that fold up so they can be carried in your pocket yep inventd in Spain so they could cut mangos. The king Carlos V carried one around. How about that I?
Electronic pencil sharpeners, stapler, also of course the mop so that women didn´t have to clean the floors with their knees and feet, were invented in Spain.
How about the canteens that are pouches, yeah can´t remeber the name, those of course were need to carry water around.
How about cigarrettes in the 16th century Sevilla was known for it´s fabrication of tobacco. And is was the poor people in sevilla that invented tobacco rolled up in paper ito our modern day ciggarettes. You guessed it smoking is really REALLY big here!
They also had cards in the 14th century and the suits were representations of the social structures at that time. (However don´t get me wrong this was not a spanish invention) the diamonds was the monarchy hearts the church the spades were the nobility and the clubs represented the poor also they didn´t have a queen and instead had a knight. In addition they only had 40 cards in a deck.
The guitar was also popular among the poor in Sevilla, not among the nobility, and the flamenco was rarely performed without it.
And now you know the rest of the story!
Lauren
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