"If at first you don't succeed, change the packaging and sell it as something else."
~sig94
There are any number of inventions that started off as an attempt to accomplish one purpose, failed but were then realized as accomplishing something completely different. WD-40 is perhaps the most well known (a water displacer), but there are others.
Super Glue - developed to be used for clear plastic gun sites during WWII.
Listerine - surgical antiseptic and treatment for venereal disease.
Kotex - battlefield dressing for soldiers.
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I do not or have ever had venereal disease in my mouth ... I don't think.
ReplyDeleteOdie - I don't doubt it for a second. Your teeth are dazzling white.
ReplyDeleteI carry Kotex in my CERT emergency bag, as a dressing for wounds. We also stocked some when my husband was on blood thinners just in case he nicked himself and started bleeding a lot.
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