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• Has anyone worked out the meaning of life yet?
  

  Children…
  - written 1 year, 10 months ago

• So I’m 18 years young, and I don’t know what to do with my life!
  

  Jessie+ You have PLENTY of time to figure your life out, I am 26 with eight years in my current field and have recently decided this is just not for me. It is never to late to change your mind. Just make sure you also plan far enough ahead for your retirement…
  - written 1 year, 10 months ago

• i need help!
  

  They are better left alone…
  - written 1 year, 10 months ago

• i need help!
  

  [quote vandawn]I saw my stepbrother break through some fishing twine after being tied up and locked in a closet for operating one alone. Parker Brothers may have made the stupid things but they are WEIRD![/quote]
  
  Parker Brothers may have made one, but they have been around much, much longer than Parker Brothers has.
  From Wikipedia
  “According to some sources, the first historical mention of something resembling a Ouija board is found in China around 1200 B.C., a divination method known as Fu Ji (扶乩).[citation needed] Other sources claim that according to a French historical account of the philosopher Pythagoras, in 540 B.C. his sect would conduct séances at “a mystic table, moving on wheels, moved towards signs, which the philosopher and his pupil, Philolaus, interpreted to the audience as being revelations supposedly from an unseen world.” “The first undisputed use of the talking boards came with the Spiritualism movement in The United States in the mid-19th century. Methods of divination at that time used various ways to spell out messages, including swinging a pendulum over a plate that had letters around the edge or using an entire table to indicate letters drawn on the floor. Often used was a small wooden tablet supported on casters. This tablet, called a planchette, was affixed with a pencil that would write out messages in a fashion similar to automatic writing. These methods may predate modern Spiritualism.
  
  During the late 1800s, planchettes were widely sold as a novelty. The businessmen Elijah Bond and Charles Kennard had the idea to patent a planchette sold with a board on which the alphabet was printed. The patentees filed on May 28, 1890 for patent protection and thus had invented the first Ouija board. Issue date on the patent was February 10, 1891. They received U.S. Patent 446,054 . Bond was an attorney and was an inventor of other objects in addition to this device. An employee of Kennard, William Fuld took over the talking board production and in 1901, he started production of his own boards under the name “Ouija”.[6] The Fuld name would become synonymous with the Ouija board, as Fuld reinvented its history, claiming that he himself had invented it. Countless talking boards from Fuld’s competitors flooded the market and all these boards enjoyed a heyday from the 1920s through the 1960s. Fuld sued many companies over the “Ouija” name and concept right up until his death in 1927. In 1966, Fuld’s estate sold the entire business to Parker Brothers, who continues to hold all trademarks and patents. About 10 brands of talking boards are sold today under various names.”
  - written 1 year, 10 months ago

• I really can’t believe that people ask for financial help on here!
  

  Yes it does, always happy to have a way to justify thier extravigant spending.
  - written 1 year, 10 months ago

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