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(why ??) - - - Why didn't you say so?
-- "All this time I've been looking for 'it' and couldn't find it -- and now you tell me!!!" -- All this time I've been looking for 'it' and couldn't find it -- and now you tell me!!!

-- Why, why.. it's been here, under my nose all the time! I could have saved a lot of time reading had you told me before. What took you so long?! It's not like I would have stolen it from you--you could have trusted me. I wouldn't have told anybody, -- No, I won't breathe it to another soul. Just tell me real quietly. Shhh, not too loud.

-- You will help me in my pursuit of marketing my invention when I do the following:
1. I spend my time in reading this IASL website.
2. I join and attend the monthly IASL meetings.
3. I pay extra for your personal service to me.

-- What could be simpler? It's laid out right before me. If I want to save my money, I do it by myself. If I want it done by experts, I pay extra and get it done that-way. All it takes is my time or money or both.

-- And all I thought I had to do is contact you - and money was on its way to me !!
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Quasi Quote: At the end of Einstein’s life he was asked the most important lesson he learned in Life. His answer: “There is No free Lunch!"
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-- How much are you prepared to invest in your invention before it generates a profit?

$0-$2,000 | 34%

$2,000 to $5,000 | 14%

$5,000 to $20,000 | 24%

$20,000 to $50,000 | 7%

$50,000+ | 21%

Source: From a Poll in UIAUSA

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** Did you ever wonder, "Why Me?" or "Why Not Me?"

-- "The committee used

- innovative design,
- technology breakthroughs,
- and market potential

- as the three main criteria for their selections."
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-- "It's all very well in practice, but it won't work in theory." -- Aphorism found in French Management Practice
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-- "I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it." -- Voltaire -->

-- "There's nothing to winning, realy. That is if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind and no scruples whatsoever." --
-- Alfred Hitchcock
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Wisdom & Profound Words: -- "Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from." -- Al Franken

-- It was a hot Summer's day in a small town in the rural Midwest. Not a leaf rusled nor lazy dog stired. A young tousle haired kid, about nine years of age, was playing by himself in the middle of the street when a man came by.. "Come on with me, son, you need your hair cut." The young boy obediently followed him into the country barbershop. -- The man sat himself down on the waiting barberchair. "Now, you just sit there 'till I'm through an' behave yourself." The kid waited for his turn. -- Having had his haircut, the man rose from the chair and said sternly, "O.K. You're next. Get up there. I'll be back." - The barber gave the boy his fresh haircut and had him sit waiting in a side chair. - After a long while and being anxious, the barber said to the kid, "Where'd your father go, son?" -- The kid said, "What!?! He ain't my father!"
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A young man shopping in a supermarket noticed a little old lady following him around. If he stopped, she stopped. Furthermore she kept staring at him.

She finally overtook him at the checkout, and she turned to him and said, "I hope I haven't made you feel ill at ease; it's just that you look so much like my late son."

He answered, "That's okay."

"I know it's silly, but if you'd call out "Good bye, Mom" as I leave the store, it would make me feel so happy."

She then went through the checkout, and as she was on her way out of the store, the man called out, "Goodbye, Mom!"

The little old lady waved, and smiled back at him.

Pleased that he had brought a little sunshine into someone's day, he went to pay for his groceries.

"That comes to $121.85," said the clerk.

"What!! How come so much ... I only bought 5 items.. !!"

The clerk replied, "Yeah, but your Mother said you'd be paying for her things, too."

---- Don't trust little Old Ladies!!!
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Two fellows stopped into an English pub for a drink. They called the proprietor over and asked him to settle an argument.

"Are there two pints in a quart or four?" asked one.

"There be two pints in a quart," confirmed the proprietor.

They moved back along the bar and soon the barmaid asked for their order.

"Two pints please, miss, and the bartender offered to buy them for us."

The barmaid doubted that her boss would be so generous, so one of the fellows called out to the proprietor at the other end of the bar, "You did say two pints, didn't you?"

"That's right," he called back, "two pints."

-- "Divvying up profits is known in the trade as "Belling the Cat," i.e., "Following the Money." - "Knowing where that Fat-Cat is at." -- -- Belling the Cat --

-- When you are in the midst of negotiation, you must understand your opponent. If you are not in his 'in crowd', you are totally out. Ferinstance:

-- Your adversary is about to eat you up and spit you out and you don't know it! He wants what you have and he doesn't want you in the bargain. You are now upsetting his feint moves. He wants to put you behind him and go on. Yet, he sits before you and through the powers that be, the deal is struck.

-- Divvying up profits is known in the trade as "Belling the Cat," i.e., "Following the Money." "Knowing where that Fat-Cat is at."

-- Honesty 'drives' this beast. You want your small 'fare-share' and he wants exponentially more. All he wants now is your damn invention, period. Once gotten, he doesn't further need you. -- Unless you can provide him with further improvements and another profitable invention? You'll get what's coming to you, for it's written in your contract. He says, "Go home and invent something else."

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-- Remember that old wives-tale of Belling the Cat? :: Long ago, mice were running rampant and people of the village brought in a fierce alley cat to rid them from these mice. - Mice were eaten without mercy by the Cat and soon there were few mice left.

-- One mouse, a leader among mice, reallizing his peril, brought together those few remaining mice and made a brilliant proposal to them all: "From my observations, if we were to place a bell on a necklace around that cat's neck, we could hear him coming and always know where he is, and run for safety."

-- The point of this fable wasn't what was just said; it was the crux to this proposal, which was... "Who among you will volunteer to bell the cat?"

-- I belled the Cat. - You would think that with my prior 24-years Naval Military Service as Chief Personnelman, that I would have shunned volunteering; I took-on the position of IASL Director back in 1993, and injected a new life into this organization and you are the recipient of my efforts.

-- Our Cat in question is the Scamming Idea Developer. Through IASL's effort, laws were passed and 'beware notices' were posted. And, of-course, this website.

-- Don't let the Big Bad Cat remove his bell. He is a dirty ashpit-driven alley cat. He isn't Clarence, the Angel in the movie "It's a Wonderful Life." That tinkle may not be an angel getting his wings. ;-) ~~

-- "The credit for my success with the IASL is in having good people like yourself standing behind me and helping me when I needed you." -- R.S. -- I'll do my best to warn you. -->

-- "NCIO Homepage: Scambusters: Invention Scam Companies" --
-- "Invention Promoter Watch List" --

-- The credit for my success with the IASL is in having good people like yourself standing behind me and helping me when I needed you. Your dues has kept this organization moving forward in the right direction.

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That is because, as we all know, SEEING IS BELIEVING! -- SEEING IS BELIEVING - How do you know if your invention will work? Assuming it does, can you make money from it? Finally, and most importantly, will enough people buy it?

-- The only way to really know the answers to these questions is to build a prototype. Once you can hold a working prototype of your invention in your hand, you are on your way to answering these questions. A prototype gives you the confidence to sell your invention to potential investors, or to present and sell it to a company. A prototype allows you to provide a compelling demonstration of your invention to potential investors or companies. It becomes apparent how the invention will look and operate as a product. It proves your concept to potential investors, customers and suppliers - and to yourself. That is because, as we all know, SEEING IS BELIEVING!

-- A prototype is also valuable to you, the inventor, because it prevents you from investing too much time and money on your invention if it is unfeasible because of cost or complexity.

-- Construct a prototype as soon as you decide to move forward on your idea, even a crude one, before you pay someone to create expensive computer drawings, or more importantly, before engaging a contract manufacturer which is a very expensive process.

+ + Muldoon lived alone in the Irish countryside with only a pet dog for company. One day the dog died, and Muldoon went to the parish priest and asked, "Father, me dog is dead. Could ya' be saying' a mass for the poor creature?" -- Father Patrick replied, "I'm afraid not; we cannot have services for an animal in the church. But there are some Baptists down the lane, and there's no tellin' what they believe. Maybe they'll do something for the creature." -- Muldoon said, "I'll go right away Father. Do ya' think $5,000 is enough to donate to them for the service?" -- Father Patrick exclaimed, "Sweet Mary, Mother of Jesus! Why didn`t ya tell me the dog was Catholic?

-- "Don't wait. If you have a Great Idea, there's no better time to act than NOW!" -- SPECIAL NOTE: You don't need a prototype of your invention to file for a patent. - When building a prototype of your invention, always keep in mind who will see it. Be sure that it will stimulate the enthusiasm of any combination of potential investors, partners, customers, and suppliers. Remember, the more attractive your prototype, the better.

-- "People will listen a great deal more patiently while you explain your mistakes than when you explain your successes." -- Wilbur N. Nesbit

-- Another important advantage of building a prototype is to stimulate your mind to come up with improvements and new ideas for your invention. Inventions evolve when working models are built. Therefore, as often happens, you might end up building multiple prototypes.

-- With many inventions, it is useful to make two prototypes; one a dummy model that looks like a finished product, and one a working model that can demonstrate the capabilities of the invention.

-- SEEING IS BELIEVING: When you present a prototype of your idea to others, it becomes real and easy to envision how it will appear to a customer. - Prototypes that look like your final product can be made of low-cost material such as wood, clay or even paper mache. Paint or lacquer makes it look authentic. - Always remember, neatness counts.

-- I hope that you are convinced that prototypes are crucial for selling your invention to potential investors and customers.

-- Where to start and knowing how much money to spend is challenging. Did you know there are thousands of university students that have to conduct a Senior Design Project each year, and they are looking for a real project to develop, including R&D (Research and Development)?

-- NOTE: Before posting your idea or telling anybody about it, you should protect it with at least a low cost Provisional Patent Application.

-- Don't wait. If you have a Great Idea, there's no better time to act than NOW!

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Truth is Stranger than Fiction >> We've always done it that way.....

> Does the statement, "We've always done it that way" ring any bells...?

> The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number.

> Why was that gauge used?

Because that's the way they built them in England, and English expatriates built the US Railroads.

> Why did the English build them like that?

Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used.

> Why did "they" use that gauge then?

Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing.

> Okay! Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing?

> Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads in England, because that's the spacing of the wheel ruts.

> So who built those old rutted roads?

Imperial Rome built the first long distance roads in Europe (and England) for their legions. The roads have been used ever since.

> And the ruts in the roads?

Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagon wheels. Since the chariots were made for Imperial Rome, they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing.

> The United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot.

> And bureaucracies live forever.

> So the next time you are handed a spec and told we have always done it that way and wonder what horse's ass came up with that, you may be exactly right, because the Imperial Roman war chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the back ends of two war horses.

> Now the twist to the story...

> When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at their factory in Utah. The engineers who designed the SRBs would have preferred to have made them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site.

> The railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the mountains. The SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses ''ASSES''

> So, a major Space Shuttle design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a Horse's ass.

> And you perhaps thought being a horse's ass wasn't important ??
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-- Strange Information and Facts --

Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.

If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.

If your eyes are six feet above the surface of the ocean, the horizon will be about three statute miles away.

The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.

Hydroxydesoxycorticosterone and hydroxydeoxycorticosterones are the largest anagrams.

Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula."

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

The band Duran Duran got their name from an astronaut in the 1968 Jane Fonda movie "Barbarella.

Cleo and Caesar were the early stage names of Cher and Sonny Bono.

Ben and Jerry's send the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo.

The company providing the liability insurance for the Republican National Convention in San Diego is the same firm that insured the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth...and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.

If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die, they need gravity to swallow.

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life".

It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.

White Out was invented by the mother of Mike Nesmith (Formerly of the Monkees).

Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar with "Midnight Cowboy." Her entire role lasted only six minutes.

Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic flight.

Goethe couldn't stand the sound of barking dogs and could only write if he had an apple rotting in the drawer of his desk.

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy. The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their radio's newscast about the wreck.

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.

The "L.L." in L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood.

Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been overmixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.

Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.

The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they would crack and break off... Thus the saying.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks, otherwise it will digest itself.

The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."

A walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the background -- when they say "walla-walla" it looks like they are actually talking.

The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.

'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.

Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.

To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs -- it will let you go instantly.

Reindeer like to eat bananas.

A group of unicorns is called a blessing. Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink." A group of frogs is called an army. A group of rhinos is called a crash. A group of kangaroos is called a mob. A group of whales is called a pod. A group of geese is called a gaggle. A group of ravens is called a murder. A group of officers is called a mess. A group of larks is called an exaltation. A group of owls is called a parliament.

Physicist Murray Gell-Mann named the sub-atomic particles known as quarks for a random line in James Joyce, "Three quarks for Muster Mark!"

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

The phrase "sleep tight" derives from the fact that early mattresses were filled with straw and held up with rope stretched across the bedframe. A tight sleep was a comfortable sleep.

"Three dog night" (attributed to Australian Aborigines) came about because on especially cold nights these nomadic people needed three dogs (dingos, actually) to keep from freezing.
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From: Stephen Key
Subject: New Free Resources For Inventors
Date: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 1:16 PM

Hello,

This is Stephen Key with inventright. I wanted to take a quick moment and wish you a Happy Holidays and to let you know about the new Free resources that we have available on our website for inventors. Our new resources are a great place for your members to come to get valuable information and education to get their inventions to market.

First we have our inventRight forum. In the forum your members can ask questions and get answers from industry experts such as Patent Agent, Don Kelly, Successful inventor Roger Brown and other industry leaders. To get to the forum you simply go to:http://www.inventright.com/forums/

Next we have our inventRight resource center. In the resource center industry leaders and experts post articles with helpful tips and information for inventors. You can visit the resource center here: http://www.inventright.com/blogs/

Finally our newly added directory of companies looking for inventions is the place for every inventor to come and find a company to license or manufacture their invention. We have just over 100 companies at this point and plan to add many more in the near future. This should be a great resource for your members as well. You can visit the directory here: http://www.inventright.com/links/

Hopefully these resources will be of help to your members and the inventing community. And as I mentioned above, they are all absolutely free.

Once again I wish you the best this holiday season and if there is every anything we can do to help you or your organization please feel free to contact us.

All the best,

Stephen Key
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