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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 02:30:36 AM EST




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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 02:37:01 AM EST
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A deceased parrot?

No. Black-cap gull?

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 02:57:07 AM EST
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come on it's pining for the fjords.

(I think gull too)

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 03:07:28 AM EST
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A pelican in Wales.

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!
by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 03:09:28 AM EST
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Mystery photographer?



Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 03:08:02 AM EST
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Now who could that be? ;-)

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 03:25:41 AM EST
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The answer will come later!

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!
by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 03:33:45 AM EST
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Here's the answer.



Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 04:17:32 PM EST
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Yeah, now who has a habit of sneaking around LEP's place with a camera?

I can swear there ain't no heaven but I pray there ain't no hell. _ Blood Sweat & Tears
by Gringo (stargazing camel at aoldotcom) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 09:11:40 PM EST
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by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 03:09:00 AM EST
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Airport landing lights at night?
by someone (s0me1smail(a)gmail(d)com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 05:23:00 AM EST
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No! But a hint it is something that will be important in 2008.
by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 05:24:44 AM EST
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Hmmmmm. Swiss football stadium?
by someone (s0me1smail(a)gmail(d)com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 05:26:57 AM EST
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Zut, I should have waited with the hint.

Okay, but where is it?

by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 05:28:42 AM EST
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BASEL, I read : ))

Now if you want to know where in Basel, I dunno.

by Loefing on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 12:41:21 PM EST
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Here the daytime version. there is still construction work going on. As far as I know one of the semi-finals will take place here.

by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 11:21:24 AM EST
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by someone (s0me1smail(a)gmail(d)com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 03:59:34 AM EST
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It looks somewhat like a flash attachment for a camera.

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!
by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 05:00:39 AM EST
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Nope. Hint: It is about 70cm tall.
by someone (s0me1smail(a)gmail(d)com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 05:18:01 AM EST
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Going out on a limb - it looks like it is in a living room with a tv, so my guess is an avantgard lamp made out of plexiglas.
by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 05:23:41 AM EST
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Well... It is now... Material is absolutely correct. But, what was it once used for, before appropriated by me?
by someone (s0me1smail(a)gmail(d)com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 05:25:30 AM EST
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I am at loss, but as it looks like something out of a science fiction thing - okay, Scotty's beamer from the enterprise. :-D
by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 05:29:55 AM EST
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science: yes. fiction: no!
by someone (s0me1smail(a)gmail(d)com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 05:31:39 AM EST
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I forget exactly what sciencey stuff you do now. Is it to do with splitting light or directing light beams? Or other energy?

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 08:51:01 AM EST
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Yes, indeed it is. It's a light collector, made for some detector or other. I found it in the trash.
by someone (s0me1smail(a)gmail(d)com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 09:10:55 AM EST
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Is it a science award? PERL Programmer of the Year or somesuch ;-)

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 06:14:56 AM EST
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No, no, no, no. This thing was built to be used for something. It was not originally decorative!
by someone (s0me1smail(a)gmail(d)com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 07:51:02 AM EST
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air guide for a cooling fan? or something to gather cables together.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 08:02:08 AM EST
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Looks like a snow/ice scraper.

I can swear there ain't no heaven but I pray there ain't no hell. _ Blood Sweat & Tears
by Gringo (stargazing camel at aoldotcom) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 09:14:14 PM EST
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my thought too... or some sort of new age spatula.
by borkitekt on Sat Jan 19th, 2008 at 05:05:21 AM EST
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Hey, Grandma Moses started late!
by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 04:59:36 AM EST
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School-excursion on a bus or a train.
by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 05:10:25 AM EST
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Bravo Fran. I think it's a school bus on the way to Paris to see the Comedie Francaise.

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!
by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 05:18:37 AM EST
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Wow, I am amazed about myself. :-)
by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 05:25:23 AM EST
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That brain, like good wine, is getting better with age.

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!
by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 05:35:35 AM EST
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Thanks, good to know, especially as I turned one year older today.
by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 11:23:34 AM EST
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Happy Birthday!

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 11:30:29 AM EST
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My best Happy Birthday wishes to you Fran!

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!
by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 12:11:05 PM EST
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La breithe shona dhuit!!!!!!!!

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde
by Sam on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 01:12:06 PM EST
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Happy Day and Another Year Better, Fran!

Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. -Charu Saxena.
by metavision on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 01:21:18 PM EST
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Which Paris metro station is this?



Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 06:21:31 AM EST
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Is that a trick question? La Défense, as per sign.
by someone (s0me1smail(a)gmail(d)com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 07:18:45 AM EST
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Not at all. The sign is saying that the next train in the direction of La Defense arrives in 2 minutes and the one after that in 5 minutes.

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!
by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 07:24:17 AM EST
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Flat top, so on Line 1 it's probably under the Champs Elysées. Concorde or Clemenceau ?

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères
by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 09:25:32 AM EST
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Close, but no cigar.
Did you see afew's question about the first photo below (the crowd scene) from the "100 years of color" exhibition.

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!
by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 10:24:18 AM EST
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Georges V

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères
by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 12:23:53 PM EST
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You're getting colder.


Hey, Grandma Moses started late!
by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 12:26:32 PM EST
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tuileries ? Palais Royal ? I thought the eastern part of the line had arched roofs, with the exception of Bastille.

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères
by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 12:30:42 PM EST
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You give up?

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!
by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 12:33:39 PM EST
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Yes... After that is becomes listing the stations, as I don't know ligne 1 that well.

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères
by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 01:21:51 PM EST
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Here's the answer.



Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 02:43:41 PM EST
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Metro line Chateau de Vincennes - La Defense plying the Rivoli Champs Elysée route.

Do I get a price?

by The3rdColumn on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 01:41:12 PM EST
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You have to name which station it is.

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!
by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 01:45:05 PM EST
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Returning from Lyon by car, we were drawn  off the highway- A6, I believe- by the need to---er, drain the snake. we followed some signs, and ended up ---here.

Seems nuts, but we cannot remember the name of this incredibly lovely medieval town.
A sincere query -- where is this?
I have other photos, if anyone is interested--I'd like to go back again.


Capitalism searches out the darkest corners of human potential, and mainlines them.

by geezer in Paris (risico at wanadoo(flypoop)fr) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 12:26:53 PM EST
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Lovely town geezer. Please put some more photos up.

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!
by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 12:35:05 PM EST
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OK



Capitalism searches out the darkest corners of human potential, and mainlines them.

by geezer in Paris (risico at wanadoo(flypoop)fr) on Sat Jan 19th, 2008 at 05:25:19 AM EST
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Such a pretty place.

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Sat Jan 19th, 2008 at 06:15:15 AM EST
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That second picture, uncompressed, might have enough information on the direction panels to find which city it is...

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères
by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Sat Jan 19th, 2008 at 09:03:15 AM EST
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Would it be Saumur?

A free fox in a free henhouse!
by Xavier in Paris on Mon Jan 21st, 2008 at 07:19:03 PM EST
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Is it? I visited Saumur on a school trip when I was 12.  Is it on the Reine?  There was a Da Vinci museum there. Saumur is where I first tried roll mop herrings (to impress my teacher who was trying to get us to eat new things but all the other kids ordered chips).  I loved them and have never found such nice ones in the UK, even on our fresh fish market.

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Thu Jan 24th, 2008 at 04:58:03 PM EST
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For sure.

Saumur's on the Loire. Hmm. Haven't had a rollmop in ages.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Jan 24th, 2008 at 05:02:04 PM EST
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Strike that for sure. Wrong comment.

I tried finding geezer's town, but drew a blank.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Jan 24th, 2008 at 05:06:16 PM EST
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I know I know!!! At first sight!!!

Semur-en-Auxois, it's where my favourite Louis de Funès film, Ni vu... Ni connu... was made!

Come here, Go Away!

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Thu Jan 24th, 2008 at 05:08:19 PM EST
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That's it! Brilliant, DoDo!
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Jan 24th, 2008 at 05:11:06 PM EST
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I wouldn't know it without some prior help by the dearly missed Alex/glomp, who helped me identify the filming location ages ago, but that thread must have been deleted.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Thu Jan 24th, 2008 at 05:39:37 PM EST
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You're right. As soon as I saw the name, it came back to me. Ivonne agrees.
Incredibly lovely town--but whathehell is a rollmop? Sounds more like a cleaning device than an edible treat.

Thanks to all who helped out.

Capitalism searches out the darkest corners of human potential, and mainlines them.

by geezer in Paris (risico at wanadoo(flypoop)fr) on Sat Jan 26th, 2008 at 12:38:15 AM EST
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Where and from where was this taken? It's too easy!



Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 12:52:39 PM EST
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Somewhere in the Beauce from a TGV?
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 01:32:28 PM EST
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Yes. This was shot from a TGV going at full speed(200 kph?) in Brittany on the way to Quimper, this past July.  

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!
by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 01:37:11 PM EST
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There are times when going through my own photographs I come across pictures I've taken very deliberately which, months or years later make me wonder, 'woaw, what the hell is that!?'. :-)

Here's one of them.

 

Ha ha. I figured it out, and some of you ought to be able to, too.

Too, too!

by Loefing on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 01:23:51 PM EST
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Mmmmh, could these be wiskers(?) from a cat?
by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 01:35:42 PM EST
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Your cat's whiskers?

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!
by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 01:38:30 PM EST
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Hop, là, the contest is finished. Fran and LEP are the grand winners!

You will each receive a personal and, moreover, personalized whisker.

by Loefing on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 01:55:10 PM EST
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Will there be a cat attached to the personalized whisker? :-)
by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 02:00:23 PM EST
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I'm afraid that these whiskers come from a very rare breed of bastard tabby. The animal is not included at this time.
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by Loefing on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 02:09:21 PM EST
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but you're welcome to his portrait

by Loefing on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 02:57:20 PM EST
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LOL - you know what? Keep the whisker - I'll take the cat.

Then again he might have his own ideas. Well, nice to meet the boss of you home.

by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 03:04:19 PM EST
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and Happy birthday, Fran!
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by Loefing on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 03:07:51 PM EST
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The inscrutability!

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 03:36:10 PM EST
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too easy


click image for answer

by town on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 01:24:36 PM EST
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Incredible picture. Thanks.

Capitalism searches out the darkest corners of human potential, and mainlines them.
by geezer in Paris (risico at wanadoo(flypoop)fr) on Sat Jan 19th, 2008 at 05:28:09 AM EST
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"Remember the I35W bridge--who needs terrorists when there are Republicans"
by techno (reply@elegant-technology.com) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 03:16:54 PM EST
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glass/plastic cutter/router on a plywood form and or jig?
by borkitekt on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 08:16:46 PM EST
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we have a winner (or close enough).

This is the home made (by me) pin router shown in the original picture.  Here I am using it to create a mold (yes I did look like this in 1980).  Note the parts have not been painted.

Here a mold has been placed into a press and veneers with glue are loaded.  Once the press is closed, radio waves are used to dry the glue lines.

This is the measuring device I created to determine how the chair should fit.

The pin router was modified (original picture) to create the chair parts from the cold molded plywood.  The plexiglass template was attached to the inner surface.  These parts were then assembled to make the following.




"Remember the I35W bridge--who needs terrorists when there are Republicans"

by techno (reply@elegant-technology.com) on Sat Jan 19th, 2008 at 12:05:52 AM EST
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techno, you're not the inventor of the reclining chair, are you?

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!
by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Sat Jan 19th, 2008 at 05:02:35 AM EST
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No.  Wouldn't THAT be a claim to fame ;-)

"Remember the I35W bridge--who needs terrorists when there are Republicans"
by techno (reply@elegant-technology.com) on Sat Jan 19th, 2008 at 01:39:01 PM EST
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at present, our couch has been disassembled in hope that it might come back to life as a different thingy.

Do you still do furniture?

by borkitekt on Sat Jan 19th, 2008 at 09:12:38 AM EST
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Haven't done furniture since the early 1980s.  I still remember a bunch about it if you have some relevant questions.

"Remember the I35W bridge--who needs terrorists when there are Republicans"
by techno (reply@elegant-technology.com) on Sat Jan 19th, 2008 at 01:41:34 PM EST
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nothing in particuliar, but, quite interestingly, my gf is sawing plywood right now as I type to try to make some sort of headboard for our beds.

As an architect, I'm always interested in furniture and have wanted to try it. I also like woodworking, it's so much fun.

by borkitekt on Sun Jan 20th, 2008 at 08:35:58 AM EST
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Where?

I can swear there ain't no heaven but I pray there ain't no hell. _ Blood Sweat & Tears
by Gringo (stargazing camel at aoldotcom) on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 04:43:53 PM EST
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Weesp?

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Sat Jan 19th, 2008 at 04:08:36 AM EST
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Right country, and only a little off target.  The photo was taken on the Amsterdam to The Hague rail line.

I can swear there ain't no heaven but I pray there ain't no hell. _ Blood Sweat & Tears
by Gringo (stargazing camel at aoldotcom) on Sat Jan 19th, 2008 at 04:43:46 PM EST
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