-- -- Yes, Inventing can be your fun hobby -- where you won't have to be so serious that you'll think, "This idea will make me my greater fortune!" -- Far be it for me to tell you otherwise: --> "Relax, do what you have read within these IASL pages and you will get there in due time." -- The moral of Aesop's Fable of the Tortoise and the Hare is: "Slow and steady wins the race."--> "Keep persevering and your day will come." --> Go to: --> "From Patent to Profit"

-- -- You'll have noticed that I ramble along, telling my tale in order to make my point. This time, I will tell you a favorite story told to me by the late "Bobby" Toole, our first IASL Director: -- --> It was during the time of the French Revolution. -- Three hapless prisoners were to be executed by guillotine that day in the public square. The first was a saintly priest: "How would you like your head to be chopped off, Father?" said the hooded exocutioner. -- "With my body lying supine and my eyes seeing my Lord," the priest sighed. -- When the blade came down and stopped an inch from the priest's throat the melee of people arose and shouted, "It's a Miracle! It's a Sign, a Miracle! Free the Father!" And this was done. -- -- The second man was a no good villain, a thief, a mass murderer..and he chose to have his head lopped off while facing downward, -- for that was the direction he was headed. And again the blade stuck, stopped an inch short of his neck. "It's a miracle! It's another #*@!+% miracle? Free Him!!" shouted the masses!! -- -- The third victim was an Inventor, (you knew that ;-)) "She" chose to have her blonde head facing skyward. -- As the executioner was about to release the dreaded blade, she looked to the top of the guillotine and shouted out, "Stop, Stop!! I see your problem!! -- The rope is knotted!!" :-))

-- LOL (Lots of Luck) --

-- "PatentHunter - Patent Downloading Software"

-- -- "Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." -- Napoleon Bonapart

-- -- There are three rules for success...
1) Never tell everything you know.
2) :-# Keep your mouth shut and know when to open it.
3) Be resourceful and adaptive with your surroundings.-- R.S.

4) Always look both ways when crossing a one-way street; there may be a car backing up.

-- -- "Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt." -- Samuel Johnson

-- [EDITOR'S NOTE: The IASL Website was resourced and translated into German.] -- "European Countries - Germany"

-- -- Since light travels faster than sound, isn't that why some people appear bright until you hear them speak?

-- -- Thought of the day --

-- "Great minds have great purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them."

Washington Irving
1783-1859, Author

"Intellectual Property Owners Association"

-- -- -- "SLU Entrepreneurship Program One of the Best in Nation, According to Entrepreneur Magazine"

-- "The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn." -- Alvin Toffler

-- "Monthly Frugal Fun Tips" --

Subject: Test For Dementia

-- Test For Dementia - Lets see how you do!

Below are four (4) questions and a bonus question. You have to answer them instantly. You can 't take your time, answer all of them immediately. OK?
Let's find out just how clever you really are....
Ready? GO!!! (scroll down)

First Question:
You are participating in a race. You overtake the second person. What position are you in?
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Answer: If you answered that you are first, then you are absolutely wrong! If you overtake the second person and you take his place, you are second!
Try not to screw up next time.
Now answer the second question, but don't take as much time as you took for the first question, OK?
Second Question:
If you overtake the last person, then you are...?
(scroll down)
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Answer: If you answered that you are second to last, then you are wrong again. Tell me, how can you overtake the LAST Person?
You're not very good at this, are you?
Third Question:
Very tricky arithmetic! Note: This must be done in your head only, Do NOT use paper and pencil or a calculator. Try it.
Take 1000 and add 40 to it. Now add another 1000 . Now add 30.
Add another 1000. Now add 20. Now add another 1000
Now add 10. What is the total? Scroll down for answer.....
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Did you get 5000?
The correct answer is actually 4100. If you don't believe it, check it with a calculator!
Today is definitely not your day, is it? Maybe you'll get the last question right.. .Maybe.
Fourth Question:
Mary's father has five daughters: 1. Nana, 2. Nene, 3. Nini, 4. Nono. What is the name of the fifth daughter?
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Did you Answer Nunu?
NO! Of course it isn't. Her name is Mary. Read the question again!
Okay, now the bonus round:
A mute person goes into a shop and wants to buy a toothbrush. By imitating the action of brushing his teeth he successfully expresses himself to the shopkeeper and! the purchase is done.
Next, a blind man comes into the shop who wants to buy a pair of sunglasses; how does HE indicate what he wants?
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He just has to open his mouth and ask.. It's really very simple.... Like you!

-- "I don't know what it is but I know what I like." "Behind the Controversy: How Evolution Works | LiveScience" --

-- Who could have believed it? At our class reunion the very dumbest of our graduating class, Sammy, came, escorting a ravishing beauty covered with diamonds, and Sammy, equally sporting a large man-sized diamond ring. A crowd gathered 'round. -- "Sammy, you obviously have done well for yourself, how did you possibly do it?" -- "It's ben kinda easy fer me. I finds sumthin' fer about a tousan' bucks ani sells it fer tree-tousan'
-- an I figgurs two-percent is about enuff profit!" :-))

-- Remember: "It's 'Who You Know' as well as 'What You Know' in this world that can make you richer." Come and mingle with the Members of the Inventors Association of St. Louis at their regularely scheduled Monthly Meetings. -- You'll take home a headfull of inventive ideas.

-- The Inventor --

-- "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only at night." -- Edgar Allen Poe

-- Go to and enjoy reading about: "INVENTURE PLACE (National Inventors Hall of Fame)" -- Take a day to visit the
St. Louis Science Center -- You should take some time to visit science museums to see what they have grown to today. -- Sci-Info -- "Exploring Physics in Cyberspace"

-- IASL in
Saint Louis, Missouri: The Gateway to the West -- THIS IS WHERE IT'S AT! Missouri: The 'Show Me' State
-- You can travel either south or north and enter Missouri from the eight states that surround it: -- From Kentucky, Tennessee, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and even from Arkansas at the bootheel of Missouri.
-- Missouri has six times as many trees as the combined eight states surrounding it.
-- And that the City of Saint Louis is not in St. Louis County. - (It's still trying to find out where it belongs?
Maybe, with East St. Louis, Illinois? ;-)

-- Jumping-in-too-soon would cost you more money than I thought you could earlier afford. -- Since you stuck it out to the very end...maybe you have learned your lessons on inventing? I sure hope so?
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-- -- Thought of the day --
-- "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."-- Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, Physicist
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-- -- Matthew Lesko #Money For Your Invention" --

-- -- And if you have a Great Idea that involves plastics, this is the book for you? It answers the questions that every inventor has when it comes to dealing with the plastics industry - including where to begin, how to get a good part design, how to find a moldmaker; marketing tips and the best advice from some of the best and most successful inventors in the arena of plastic products. Send for this easy to read book called, "So, You Think You Have A Great Idea!" by Clare I. Goldsberry. Only $6.95, plus $2.50 postage. -- Post to: --> Pro-Write Communications, 4401 East Willow Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona 85032 --

-- -- And since you would prefer to do your Virtual Prototyping locally, I will send you to: Quality Welding, Inc. - 480 Brown Rd., St. Peters, MO 63376-1036 - Phone: --> 636-ARC-WELD (272-9353) and ask for Robert C. Cumings, President
Fax: 1-636-397-4250 - E-mail: --> qualitywelding@att.net

-- KEEP CLIMBING TO THE TOP --

-- Rich Freese is a very knowledgeable member of our IASL team. He wants to help you as I do. -- I wrote him an e-mail about a website that I found which had to do with prototyping and what that company charges. -- Rich knows that he can do it much better and much cheaper: -->

--> "I have no less than 30 shops that can do prototype work. I can have plastic machined by these 30 shops. I can get it steriolithographed by 2 shops and can know of 2 companies that do plastic with Formed Deposition. I have 12 shops that will do plastic molds when it gets past the Prototype stage. I can look at a project and see if stamping or machining would work better and be more cost efficient. Some shops work for $35/hr some are $30 and one down at Camdenton is at $25. This week I'm working with a man who attended your meeting. [04/20/02] - I enjoy helping people with their projects. ... Again I can't tell you how much you are helping me with my company by letting me do this. Every inventor I meet with I let them know how greateful they should be that you do this service and I encourage new inventors to come by and attend the meeting. Thanks. Rich Freese" --> --> Definitely talk to Rich @ --> arhctysv@netzero.net
- (Rich Freese) ARCH CITY SERVICE - 314-638-1227 - 1-800-746-9550

--> --> I just have to say a few words more :-) --> I was viewing on tv the life of Billy Wilder, a late-great Hollywood Writer - Director - Producer. There was a final quote that I will pass on - that could apply to me. [Although I don't consider myself great.] --> "I get mad when you don't take me serious. I get madder when you take me too seriously." -- (Factoid: Did you know that Professor Evil's father invented the question mark? <8-)) -- Austin Powers -- "The Spy Who Shagged Me"

-- "If you never grow up - you'll never grow old." Thomas Alva Edison --

-- -- Retire At The Holiday Inn! --

- As I was checking my 401(k) account and thinking about retirement, I saw an article about nursing and retirement homes.

-- Then it hit me. No nursing home for me! -- Here is my plan: I'm checking into the Holiday Inn.

-- With the average cost for a nursing home reaching $188 per day, there is a better way when we get old and feeble. I have already checked on reservations at the Holiday Inn.

-- For a combined long-term stay discount and senior discount, it's $49.23 per night. That leaves $138.77 a day for breakfast, lunch, dinner in any restaurant I want, or room service. It also will leave enough for laundry, gratuities, and special TV movies. Plus, I'll get a swimming pool, a workout room, a lounge, and washer and dryer. I'll also get free toothpaste, razors, shampoo and soap. And I'll be treated like a customer, not a patient.

-- Five dollars worth of tips a day will have the entire staff scrambling.

-- There is a city bus stop out front, and seniors ride free.

-- The handicap bus will also pick me up if I fake a decent limp.

-- Ride the church bus free on Sundays.

-- For a change of scenery, take the airport shuttle bus and eat at one of the nice restaurants there.

-- While you're at the airport, fly somewhere. - Meanwhile, the cash keeps building up.

-- It takes months to get into decent nursing homes. On the other hand, Holiday Inn will take your reservation today. And you are not stuck in one place forever. -- You can move from Inn to Inn, or even from city to city.

-- Want to see Hawaii? They have a Holiday Inn there, too.

-- TV broken? Light bulbs need changing? Need a mattress replaced? - No problem. - They fix everything and apologize for the inconvenience.

-- The Inn has a night security person and daily room service. The maid checks if you are OK. If not, they will call the undertaker or an ambulance.

-- If you fall and break a hip, Medicare will pay for the hip, and Holiday Inn will upgrade you to a suite for the rest of your life.

-- And no worries about visits from family. They will always be glad to visit you, and probably check in for a mini-vacation. The grandkids can use the pool.

-- What more can you ask for?

-- When I discussed my plan with friends, they came up with even more benefits that Holiday Inn provides retirees.

-- Most standard rooms have coffee makers, reclining chairs, and satellite TV. All you need to enjoy a cozy afternoon.

-- After a movie and a good nap, you can check on your children (free local phone calls), then take a stroll to the lounge or restaurant where you meet new and exotic people every day.

-- Many Holiday Inns even feature live entertainment on the weekends.

-- Often they have special offers, too, like the Kids Eat Free program.

-- You can invite your grandkids over after school to have a free dinner with you. Just tell them not to bring more than three friends.

-- Pick a Holiday Inn where they allow pets, and your best friend can keep you company as well. If you want to travel, but are a bit skittish about unfamiliar surroundings, you'll always feel at home because wherever you go, the rooms all look the same. And if you're getting a little absent-minded in your old days, you never have to worry about not finding your room - Your electronic key fits only one door and the helpful bellman or desk clerk is on duty 24/7.

-- Being natural skeptics, we called a Holiday Inn to check out the feasibility of my plan. I'm happy to report that they were positively giddy at the idea of us checking in for a year or more. They even offered to negotiate the rate. We could have easily knocked them down to $40 a night!

-- So, when I reach the golden age, I'll face it with a grin.

-- Just forward all your emails (for me) to the Holiday Inn!