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Larry Kraus
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For some reason,this brings to mind Monty Python's skit of Flying Sheep."They don't so much fly as plummet" and "Think of the commercial possibilties should they succeed!".I have to admit that laying out the design took some thought.Too bad she didn't think of using lots of starch.
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Is it just me or do all German chicks look like female sprockets? Still, she looks kinda hot in this video. I've done alot of really dumb stuff but I never put much thought into those dumb actions and projects. She really must have worked hard on this concept. Notice the room furnishings, very sprocket like. The choice of a Stuka seems odd. I think we should take this as a challenge but I'm not sure what the answer to a limp carpet Stuka would be. What's that line in Animal House, "it's time for somebody to do something really stupid" or something like that.

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You ought to see the C-119 I made out of used gum I found. Now that baby is really something. All in all, I think there is alot of fooling around that goes on in the aviation world, and it is needed to vent out the stress that we all have. I thought it was funny.

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Is it just me or do all German chicks look like female sprockets? Still, she looks kinda hot in this video.

While you look like a cutout. :roll:
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I've done alot of really dumb stuff but I never put much thought into those dumb actions and projects. She really must have worked hard on this concept. Notice the room furnishings, very sprocket like.

It's college, collage. ;)
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The choice of a Stuka seems odd.

The Stuka's often underestimated for it's status in pop culture. Without the Stuka, no Andy Worhol. :shock:
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I think we should take this as a challenge but I'm not sure what the answer to a limp carpet Stuka would be.

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East meets west maybe? = German origami?
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In the words of John Blutarsky:

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Hay JDK, these blokes are walking all over your carpet thread.
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Hay JDK, these blokes are walking all over your carpet thread.

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The funny thing is I thought afterwards, if she'd reinforced the structure with some rods, it would stay 'up'.


OK, that makes two of us, and now I don't feel so crazy...

So I guess she laid the entire thing out on a computer first, perhaps based on one of those 3D paper kits or something, then tweaked the design, then did a trial run or two, plus laid the design out on the carpets as well....so I'm guessing about 24 to 36 hours of time, plus some blades and a few carpets?

Should we take up a collection and send her a nice Guillows kit or two?

Truly strange in the extreme, but I guess much better than watching soaps...

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Hello,

This all reminds me of an old item in MAD Magazine, where the assembly instructions were in typically MAD verse, beginning "put tab A into slot B" and proceeding to "your Sherman Tank now is done" ... in the drawing was a model of the Eiffel Tower.

Maybe somebody still has that MAD piece to share?

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Are those the Stukas the Germans used when they attacked Pearl Harbor?

Must be a real biatch to vacum!
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I kind of thought it was cool. I admit, not sure why, but for me, anything that has to do with a warbird... I like it!!! :D

Besides, it is not really a model of a Stuka, it is a crashed Stuka!
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Now there's a gal I could cut a rug with...


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