<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> Ohhhh there is big money to be made here,</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">big. spike</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Hey! Where did everybody go? Are you off trying to invent something based on my idea and get rich? Stealing my ideas, eh? Shame on you.<br></span><div class="" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><div id=":dj" class="" tabindex="0"><br></div><div id=":dj" class="" tabindex="0">Did anyone figure out the cost of home lasers that would do the jobs we want, or is that something else you are hiding from me? </div><div id=":dj" class="" tabindex="0"><br></div><div id=":dj" class="" tabindex="0">You should be careful around us paranoids - we overthink things big time. </div><div id=":dj" class="" tabindex="0"><br></div><div id=":dj" class="" tabindex="0">I'll let you know where you can send my checks.</div><div id=":dj" class="" tabindex="0"><br></div><div id=":dj" class="" tabindex="0">bill w<img class="" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif" style=""></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 12:34 PM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
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Subject: Re: [ExI] save the art tech<br>
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</span><span class="">On 10 August 2016 at 17:20, spike wrote:<br>
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> If we get right on this, we could have several ready for gift buying<br>
> season for those who have everything, including a 6 meter open space<br>
> in their house to stand an enormous nekkid guy. We could create<br>
> improved versions of David, decircumcised, buffed up a bit for our<br>
> steroid age and such. There is a fortune to be made here, a cool buttload<br>
of money.<br>
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</span>>...Have you looked at ebay?<br>
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<a href="http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_sacat=&_mPrRngCbx=1&_udlo=&_udhi=&_sop=12&_f" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.<wbr>html?_sacat=&_mPrRngCbx=1&_<wbr>udlo=&_udhi=&_sop=12&_f</a><br>
pos=&_fspt=1&_sadis=&LH_CAds=&<wbr>rmvSB=true&_nkw=david+statue&<wbr>rt=nc&_dmd=2><br>
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BillK<br>
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</span>Ja, eBay shmeeBay BillK! These are all tiny things, too small to work with<br>
an idea I have been forming. Read on please at your own risk.<br>
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Imagine a scaled down David, not these tiny eBay things but about 2 meters,<br>
so it fits in a typical American home and can be transported by pickup<br>
truck. Cool, now imagine an accessory, which is a cone-shaped tent-like or<br>
apron-like structure which buckles around his neck and has a ring around the<br>
bottom about 2 meters diameter, green nylon cloth with Velcro patches all<br>
over it. Now think of clusters of simulated greenery with LED ornaments<br>
attached, such that artificial trees are made, with battery powered LED<br>
flashing lights.<br>
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We sell these 2 meter Davids with the green nylon cone accessory, the proles<br>
stick the greenery on it to make a low-cost low-effort, easily-stored<br>
environmentally-conscious simulated Christmas tree in December. We sell<br>
another accessory which is a hat with a flashing LED star on top, with a<br>
Simpsonsesque digital HO-HO-HO sound effect, everything battery powered so<br>
no need for unsightly tacky electric cords, but while maintain the popular<br>
tacky flashing lights theme so popular these days, creating an effect<br>
similar to a boring standard-issue simulated Christmas tree. Well, except<br>
for the guy's head sticking out at the top with the flashing star hat. That<br>
part is a little different.<br>
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The supporting sculpture underneath invokes Italian artistic aesthetics, the<br>
delightfully garish add-ons would represent American tech-innovation<br>
culture. The resulting union of these would honor Italian Americans. We<br>
could even do themes in the flashing ornaments: monster truck, Sturgis<br>
Harley rally, championship rasslin, that sort of thing. Trump followers<br>
would buy them by the millions. Ohhhh there is big money to be made here,<br>
big.<br>
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spike<br>
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