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1: Method of Swinging on a Swing

Remember your parents pushing you on a swing when you were a kid? Well, this is nothing like that. Nothing like that, you hear?

Go on and read the patent; it explains the whole "pumping" method you were probably taught as a child (old school) and even goes on to describe twirling around in the swing (mere child's play).

Luckily, we now have an innovative, fresh method for those who have tired of the old swinging ways. So what is this groundbreaking method? Well, it involves - get this - tugging on the left, then the right, chain of a swing to move from side to side.

It's something you've probably seen 10-year-olds do before - perhaps you yourself once swung from side to side on a swing.

Yes, it's a little untraditional, but groundbreaking? In need of a patent? "A new method of swinging on a swing," promises this patent, "would ...represent an advance of great significance and value."

Well, who are we to argue?