474/730: When post-it notes were invented

The world would have you believe that it was Spencer Silver and Art Fry that invented the post-it note back in the 1970's.

 

That's plainly false.

 

I have photographic proof that mad uncle mad Mc Flibble the mad clearly invented post-it notes before that.

 

Sure... there are no dates on the picture, but er... on the back of the photo there's a hand-written date that clearly says 1871.

 

Yup.

 

And yes... there will clearly be pedants that claim that 1871 was before they really got going doing colour photos and stuff... but he invented that too. And those naff photography backgrounds you got in school. And time travel. Actually yes... he invented time travel.

 

Yes.

 

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Bowens Gemini Pro 500 with brilliantly big softbox above camera pointing down at 45 degrees, set on 3.0. Two other Bowens with disappointingly smaller softboxes camera left and right at 45 degrees pointing at Mr. Post-it note, both set on 3.0. Triggered by PC cord cable.

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Taken on April 19, 2011