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I stood, transfixed, as I watched the gigantic scissors extend slowly from the side of the tall, red building.
The scissor arms were set open, and the shadow they cast on the ground showed the time.
A bell rang and an enormous corkscrew levered out of the side of the building, disgorging people
to the ground in what was obviously a fire drill. They simply slid down the corkscrew, as one would a giant slipperydip.
An enormous magnifying lens protruded from the other side of the building, concentrating solar energy on a single spot, and heating water for the building.
Like all of the other tourists standing about, gawking at the many features of this building, I wanted one.
The helicopter that stuttered noisily into the sky from the top of the building was the clincher, for me.
Obligatory Claes Oldenburg SAK Image
http://www.scottzag...ery/210_swiss_t.jpg
That could be UnaBubba (way back in his mullet days) taking a photo of this sculptural piece which might have provided the inspiration for this idea. [jurist, Sep 08 2005, last modified Sep 09 2005]
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Don't care bout the idea, as water from eyes has moistened my thought process; Welcome home.
"You can never leave" |
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His mind is bakery twisted... |
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Had to record it, before it slipped out of my mind again. |
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The relevant snatch... of verse, [bliss] |
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Her mind is 'bakery twisted
She's got the Blue Heron bends
She's got a lot of nutty, smutty boys
That she calls friends |
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//Space for bowing, stupid, aol icon, insert here. // |
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There are no words. But to jutta. Gracious. |
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Is waugs now considered a smutty , nutty, part of my friends? eehhh. not gonna go over big. |
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It's ok, he did check out, and will probably never return:-( |
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He's always with us, in spirit, [bliss]. I thought of him as the Genghis Khan / HL Mencken of the 'bakery. |
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I yanked him back by a leg once, I remember. |
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Um, you on the same idea as the rest of us, po? |
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I always pictured waugsqueke as Oscar the Grouch (that was after I understood that his name was not actually Native American, of course). |
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oh yes - flippin' silly and not up to a UB idea at all! |
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England to retain the Ashes - YES! |
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[po]'s right, definitely not up to your usual standard, [UB]. Take no more breaks, they clearly do you no favours ;) |
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Could be the Bakery equivalent to the 'Hall of Justice,' where 'the Superfriends' used to hang. |
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Not up to standard? I'm seeing this thing at forty stories, filled with 2500 diligent Swiss workers! |
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If that's UnaBubba, then I'm AfroAssault's great aunt. |
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What does the thing that gets Boy Scouts out of horses hooves do? |
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If you're referring to the photo in the link, [lurch], it would have been many years ago when UB was briefly shipwrecked in LA following his failed transglobal ballooning venture...But that's another story altogether, and the records are merely anecdotal, in any case. |
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Naw, the putative [UB] in the photo would have been off hectoring someone over the lack of insignia on the boat, but he ain't the one I'm talking about. |
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Well, you'd be correct to notice that the idea itself is uncharacteristically lacking in references to ninjas, Shakespeare, sonnets, legalisms, medical prognoses, cutting-edge cuisine, haute haberdashery, or swishbuckling ponces named Roland, but I'm convinced it's genuine Unabubbery, nonetheless. |
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[jurist] you add so much. :-) |
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You know you've arrived when you have your own noun. |
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I understand that several Bakers have begun circulating a petition requesting that I stop "adding so much." But thanks for the kind words, nonetheless. |
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I'd never spotted the Roland thing before today... |
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//If that's UnaBubba, then I'm AfroAssault's great aunt.//
Oh my God! Aunt Lurch?! We thought you died in the train robbery! |
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Oops! I oughta be more careful of the ID's I steal, maybe. |
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