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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2>Nils from Norway<SPAN
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<DIV>Yes. I teach technical writing, and I always start the course with
the </DIV>
<DIV>famous Gyro Gearloose quote "Nobody can make a machine so </DIV>
<DIV>smart that some jerk won't be too dumb to run it." <SPAN
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<DIV dir=ltr><SPAN class=990354621-04062003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>There is a nice German book (Josef Spiegel: <SPAN
class=990354621-04062003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>"Dem Ingenieur
ist nichts zu schwör"</FONT></SPAN>) which shows comics inventions built in real
life. The book is an exhibit catalog of an exhibition presented in 2001 in
the artists village Schöppingen. The artists took inventions from comics and
rebuilt them in 3D. The result are over 70 great looking (but not working)
models. Most are taken from Gyro's office, a handful from other
comics.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><SPAN class=990354621-04062003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Cord</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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