[TheForge] need help on a project

[peter fels]

It's a fine proposal!
On Aug 6, 2011, at 9:39 PM, Jerry Frost wrote:

> DANG indeed Mike. So many opportunities missed. <sigh>
> 
> Jer
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mike Spencer" <mspencer at tallships.ca>
> To: <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 1:40 AM
> Subject: [TheForge] Re: need help on a project
> 
> 
>> 
>>> The gimmick of adding a practical application to a bit of art has
>>> kept food on my table for many years.
>> 
>> Dang!  I missed the chance for an Art Prank.
>> 
>> I've walked under or around this:
>> 
>>   http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/bigsail/bigsail.html
>> 
>> a hundred times during the decade I was making regular visits to Boston.
>> 
>> I could have surreptitiously epoxied one them CocaCola bottle openers
>> -- the chromed kind that used to be screwed to the wall next to the
>> pop cooler at the general store -- onto it in an inconspicuous place
>> and at a suitable height.  Then I could have circulated the rumor on
>> the net that Calder had been obliged to turn it into a bottle opener
>> in order to get MIT to buy it.
>> 
>> People would have actually travelled to Cambridge to see it it was
>> true!
>> 
>> Dang!
>> 
>> 
>> - Mike
>> 
>> -- 
>> Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~. 
>>                                                          /V\ 
>> mspencer at tallships.ca                                     /( )\
>> http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/                        ^^-^^
>> 
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