Daily Archives: February 16, 2009

Pranks For The Simple Minded

What is a Monday morning without something to look forward to later in the week?  Pranksters, start plotting your victims today!

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Human Ingenuity Shovel

Human ingenuity is what has fueled survival since inception.   Sometimes making life just a little easier, and sometimes making monumental leaps.  Sometimes making a small local splash, and sometimes making worldwide revolutionary change.

As the adage goes, “Need is the mother of invention.”

Folk Forms in Russia in the arsenal.

“Lopatkos. инструмент, лопата на костыле. Tool, shovel on the crutch.”
Image courtesy of http://folkarsenal.artinfo.ru/items/lopatkos.htm.

Clever use of materials that still have use, but only if modified.  From the Soviet Union.  A shovel is mounted to a metallic crutch.

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