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If people insist on burning Dubya in effigy can they at least burn something that looks remotely like him?
I'm sure there's a willing market for anatomically correct effigies of world leaders, ready to burn.
They should do reasonably well with the usual anti-WTO-G7-globalisation Rent-A-Rabble.
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Here's a marketing opportunity. Open a chain of 'Effigies-R-Us' in foreign capital cities. |
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it is so worth the effort. |
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Most effigies look home-made. Perhaps this is because it's more fun to burn something you've made yourself, or perhaps it's for reasons of cost. Therefore, we either need to teach people to make better effigies, or subsidise the purchase/manufacture of higher-quality effigies. |
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Maybe it would be a good idea to make those recognizable effigies about the size of a ventriloquist's dummy. Encourage the buyer to act out his or her frustrations with the dummy, rather than burning the dummy/effigy. When I was a little kid, the first thing I did with my Jerry Mahoney ventriloquist dummy Christmas present was to take him outside and throw him up into the tree in the front yard, watching him bounce from limb to limb on the way down. His small, plastic countenance stared blankly. His useless arms and legs flailed wildly with each jolt. His two-piece suit and tie became smudged with bark and grass stains. I got to beat up on somebody without actually hurting anyone, and having experienced being a bully in full, moved on to higher purposes. Jerry never stopped smiling. |
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How about effigy kits with high quality, recognizable features? You still get the satisfaction of burning something you made at home. |
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This is halfbaked previously. It will self-destruct in about 24 hours. |
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Thank you, Jutta. Laughed long and hard. |
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Hey Unabubba, i couldnt figure out any other way to contact you other than this. Hope you get it. |
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Firstly, effigies? why pay good money for something that you are just going to burn in front of a camera, and since you(said "bush-burner") probably have little money for anything but food, it seems like a slim demographic to market saleable "Bushes" to for destructive purposes. Perhaps a high quality, boutique Bush for demolition by the discerning terrorist with taste would be more to the point. |
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Anyway, to the point. I read in the article "Schrodingers Duke of York", that you had some idea about light of >400nm to render an object invisible? How does that work, cause i would really like to see your reasoning. Do tell. |
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Well, firstly: If you click on my name at the bottom of an annotation anywhere on this site, it will take you to my profile oage, where you will find my email address. |
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The idea, as I recall it, was not to use light at that wavelength, but to deliver enough energy to the outer electron shells of the component atoms to excite them to higher levels where they would emit light in invisible spectra. There was a considerable irony to the comment made at the time. The energy cost would be incredible, the apparatus would be bigger than the battleship you were trying to hide and any life in the vicinity would likely be forfeit. That enough detail? |
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