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Flatirons? Holy fuck there are two within eyesight using as door stops.
The door stops near as I can tell pre-date the (not so) Civil War.
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They made us read that shit in school
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http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/~banchoff/Flatland/
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Pyrrho wrote: ↑Sun Dec 20, 2020 12:47 pm Image
That is in fact my grandpa. And yes he's playing with it. It was the hat though that got him banned from family gatherings.
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Ahem, Slick.

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Pyrrho wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 12:06 pm Ahem, Slick.

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Sure, try out some dangerous honkey invention on the black guy. Typical.
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robinson2 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 6:25 pm Image

I thought those things looked interesting so a while back, maybe two years ago, I foolishly clicked on one of the ads.

First of all, holy shit, I thought paraglider wings were expensive. No thanks.

Second, whatever algorithm they're using is worse than an STD. I'm still getting ads for them.
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Sack support is very important
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England 1901:

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John Cleese?

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