Guest: The world's greatest inventions

A couple of days ago, I retrieved one (of about a hundred) of our family doglets’ chew bones from the seemingly unreachable chasm under my youngest and quietest daughter’s bed using an ingenious invention of my own making – namely a straightened-out wire clothes hanger.

This same apparatus also comes in handy for retrieving various undergarments (along with a metric ton of lint) that some...