Inventions.

I don't know if any of you have seen a show that's currently on TV.

It is basically American Idol, but with inventors. It's an exact copy, from the auditions where the contestants show their stuff and it ranges from "very now" to "god awful", to the rude British judge.

Well today I saw something that made my belly jiggle with glee.

A man walked into the audition room and with him he had a box. Something looked like a homemade speaker box that a speaker enthusiast might have in his trunk with a couple of ten inchers. This box also had a speaker, but it was small. The size of a fast food drive through speaker. It sounded like one too.

Above the speaker in the middle of the front panel of the wooden box, there was a hole with a hand sticking out. Not a human hand mind you, more something along the style of the old black and white lost in space TV show robot.

It should have warned of danger like it's 50s Counterpart.

The man goes through his presentation, and during the course of it finally reveals just what this deformed freak of technology actually does.

It pets your pet for you.....

This man couldn't possibly be that lazy could he? I mean after all he went to all the trouble of building the thing. It only got worse when he turned it on. The rubber mechanical hand moved back and forth with the most unnatural of movement. And then I thought Armageddon was upon us from the sound I then heard come from the speaker......

It was absolutely horrid, it was barely identifiable as a man's voice, and somehow I knew it was supposed to be saying words of comfort that you might say to your pet. It sounded so much like it was coming forth from some unholy creature, though, that I could not understand what it said. It could have been proclaiming the fury of its evil masters upon my family for all I know.

Needless to say the judge panel rejected the monstrosity almost instantly. Looking at it with the same disgust they might give a pulsing writhing mass of human parts that were put together by the hands of someone far from skilled. They surely wanted it out of its misery, and out of their site.

And that isn't even the worst part.

The man, dejected and defeated, left the audition room. This man, as many people who have faced an fierce opponent with their unholy weapons and lost, was not willing to admit defeat.

This man's ego was still so large even after having it hacked in two by the judges, that he said something I will probably never forget.

"They laughed at Thomas Edison too........"