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    As I was digging my flower beds today I found three mousetraps from last year and thought of Emerson's idea for financial success: "Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door." Perhaps there hasn't been a better one, just a multitude of more complicated ones. How many patents have been issued for mousetraps? How many mousetrap millionaires are there?

    Question #81936. Asked by queproblema. (Jun 13 07 8:16 PM)


    lanfranco

    		Just to play around (the play, after all, is the thing), probably the most financially successful "mousetrap" ever is Agatha Christie's:


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mousetrap

    Jun 13 07, 8:31 PM
    queproblema

    		I was actually thinking of a mousetrap designed to catch a Mus musculus specimen, but I would guess you're right on Dame Agatha's having built the most lucrative one.

    I'll have my butler put a dab of Cheez Whiz out to see if we can catch the number of mousetraps registered at the U.S. Patent Office.

    Jun 14 07, 8:52 PM

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