336 Comments Posted by Dark-Star

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@Icewox - smell of sawdust brings back many happy memories of me, my dad and granddad working on something wooden. Love it.
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@elokid - you'd need an absolute monstrosity of a tree to be able to hold the weight of the bucket and chain.
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More reliable too - awfully hard for the whole chain drive to go bust so bad you can't fix it. An engine? Not so much.
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@Icewox - these things come in many different sizes. Ones in mines aren't nearly this big.
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Nothankyouverymuch! I'll take the stairs!
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When I was little I wondered WTF things like these could be.
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Don't make too many spring jokes or there'll be a lot of *tension*.

hahaha.
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Woooh-hooh! New gallery and an industrial one!
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What the...?!?!

WHY?
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Wonder if "gone for good" meant release or transfer. Man I REALLY wish I knew who wrote this and what happened to him.
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Make that one phone call to your secret laboratory, where a very humanlike computer-generated voice answers the phone, and use the innocent-sounding codewords to send a helicopter to the rec yard at such-and so coordinates.

Or alternately, launch a missile and just blow the place to kingdom come because you've despaired of escaping.
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The comments on this site just crack. me. up.
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Brrrr. Wonder what that means...maybe I'm happier not knowing.
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It's just crazy how everything - even the gears - is just so BIG.
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That would be the place to keep very quiet (Larry is right - big echo potential), keep your ears open, and flatten yourself behind a pillar the instant you heard something.