...I used a nicer word for it, of course. All in my delicate nature, don'cha know.

The glory of it is, he *really* points out their bone-jarring stupidity by getting a patent on something that there's so many millions of examples of "Prior Art" for: Who here *didn't* sometimes swing sideways as a kid?!?

And we didn't *all* learn it by imitation; some kids have a swing of their own, and few friends their own age. I'd bet this technique has been independently discovered at least tens, perhaps hundreds, of millions of times throughout the ages.

And that's so glaringly obvious, I really can't believe anything but that he applied for this patent as a joke on the patent office. (Anybody want to bet against the possibility that the guy turns out to be an FSF / OSS anti-business-process-patents activist...? :-)