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A Comprehensive List Of Things That Don't Exist

Tue Jun 05, 2007 12:21 am

Let's make a comprehensive list of things that don't exist!

Current Presidents who are deceased
Video games which use only pen and paper
Spherical coasters
Square wheels
Living rocks
Opaque windows
Non-burning paper
A llama debate team
Invisible barcodes
Cameras which record audio rather than images
Edible pants
Non-light-producing lamps
Hand-drawn photos
Zero-gravity polo
A country called "Oh Yeah"
Store-bought homemade things

Add to the list!

Tue Jun 05, 2007 1:19 am

Moons made of cheese.

Tue Jun 05, 2007 2:24 am

Charged massless fermions
Instant Water
Genuine Fakes

Tue Jun 05, 2007 2:36 am

The grandchildren of Grand Pianos

A 'free' puppy

Dr. Salt

Tue Jun 05, 2007 2:39 am

Actually, there are edible pants.

Re: A Comprehensive List Of Things That Don't Exist

Tue Jun 05, 2007 3:32 am

Uncle Xyzzy wrote:Edible pants
Non-light-producing lamps
Store-bought homemade things
I'm going to have to refute this...

There may not be at this moment fully functional edible pants, but once I made a cookie shaped like a pair of blue jeans, and I think that ought to count...

According to the OED, "lamp" has the alternate (but obsolete) meaning of "a plate". Also, I would venture that a lamp could be unlit and therefore not actually producing light right at the moment, but it does eventually...

And I've actually bought home-knit scarves from a local junk store...it's certainly possible.

Tue Jun 05, 2007 3:41 am

A Flux Capacitor
*oh how i wish it were true*
Dragons
Unicorns
Martians

Re: A Comprehensive List Of Things That Don't Exist

Tue Jun 05, 2007 3:47 am

I have a camera with an audio-recording setting.

Re: A Comprehensive List Of Things That Don't Exist

Tue Jun 05, 2007 4:02 am

Uncle Xyzzy wrote:Let's make a comprehensive list of things that don't exist!

Square wheels
Non-burning paper

Add to the list!


in this large world i am pretty sure square wheels exist somewhere, at least as novelty.

And non-burning paper is simply a matter of making it fire kittens. (i'm pretty sure anything can burn given enough energy, so i think "kittens" is close enough)

Tue Jun 05, 2007 4:45 am

Narwhals!

Wait, I think I messed up...

Re: A Comprehensive List Of Things That Don't Exist

Tue Jun 05, 2007 8:11 am

Keakealani wrote:
Uncle Xyzzy wrote:Edible pants
Non-light-producing lamps
Store-bought homemade things
I'm going to have to refute this...

There may not be at this moment fully functional edible pants, but once I made a cookie shaped like a pair of blue jeans, and I think that ought to count...


They do exist. They're a bit too... uh rude to show on this forum but I think you can work it out.

Tue Jun 05, 2007 6:44 pm

The second to last digit of the square root of six

Tue Jun 05, 2007 7:22 pm

Jelly World.
*insert nionja smiley here*

Tue Jun 05, 2007 8:34 pm

A complete list of things that don't exist.

Tue Jun 05, 2007 9:15 pm

dry water
2-sided polygon
smell recorder
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