{"id":300,"date":"2006-12-16T00:18:12","date_gmt":"2006-12-16T07:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=300"},"modified":"2006-12-16T00:19:15","modified_gmt":"2006-12-16T07:19:15","slug":"great-moments-in-stupidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=300","title":{"rendered":"Great Moments In Stupidity"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been famously reported<\/a> that Charles H. Duell, a Commissioner of the U.S. patent office in 1899, said:<\/p>\n

“Everything that can be invented has been invented.”<\/span><\/p>\n

What a monumentally stupid thing to say. The only problem is that there is no evidence that he ever said any such thing. Consequently, Daryl Plummer, of Gartner, Inc., has one less competitor in the Monumentally Stupid Sweepstakes. Amongst his top 10 predictions for 2007, is that blogging has reached a peak<\/a> and will now taper off:<\/p>\n

“Most people who would ever dabble with Web journals already have. Those who love it are committed to keeping it up, while others have gotten bored and moved on.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Right. And everything that can be invented…Oh Nevermind. I just hope Plummer is never hired at the Patent Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It has been famously reported that Charles H. Duell, a Commissioner of the U.S. patent office in 1899, said: “Everything that can be invented has been invented.” What a monumentally stupid thing to say. The only problem is that there is no evidence that he ever said any such thing. Consequently, Daryl Plummer, of Gartner, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-4Q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9543,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9543","url_meta":{"origin":300,"position":0},"title":"NewsBusters Nutcase Ties George Soros To “Gun Control” Groups","author":"Mark NC","date":"4\/24\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Monitoring right-wing media is a full time job that offers innumerable opportunities to expose blatantly dishonest bias and manipulation. 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