I THOUGHT it was self evident that the nature of my post was in "Good
Humor" (pun intended)
It seemed to me that the stright-man setup was the best approach for
the comical video punch line. Maybe I need to make it more obvious
in the future.
Smile. It's painless.
(Unless you have chapped lips, of course. I don't want to misinform
anyone.)
;)
--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, "Charmaine Taylor"
<dirtcheapbuilderbooks@...> wrote:
>
> hahah some silly person came up with a bike powered mixer 9
> years ago. I still have the drawing.. it was posted on the Organic
> Architecture list I think--
> this was a total joke of course and leg power could not translate
to a
> full chopping machine. mixing ...well maybe, but not with human
> power.
>
> It was like those pedal powered Video machine Players, TVs, and
wash
> machines.. to make electricity to power the motor. ( they have this
up
> at HSU campus in the Appropriate technology house called CCAT
>
> Nobody there wants to pedal to watch TV, and clothes washing by leg
> power was way too hard.. easier to wash by hand.,. but they tried
at
> least! and they do and teach a lot of very cool classes on all
sorts
> of natural build, homesteading, organic foods, etc.
>
> a simple wringer washer machine cannot chop or shred paper, just
> m,ix the pre shredded stuff ( or my sawdust mixes-- it does that
> beautiful!)
>
> so please NOBODY please do not waste time designing such a
bike/mixer
> it was designed and failed, it just could not give the ?oomph"
> needed.
>
> ( now you naysayers with too much time on your hands.. before you
yell
> at me for being agqaint invention---.. go BUILD one, then I will
> humbly apologise-- but not until a working model is proven. no
> notepad engineers-- real hardware that works...)
>
>
> --
> Ms. Charmaine Taylor/ Taylor Publishing
> 707 -441-1632
> www.dirtcheapbuilder.com www. papercrete.com
> PO Box 375, Cutten CA 95534
>
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