Comments on: IT’S NEW!

By: StanFlouride

StanFlouride — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 03:51:48 +0000

Randy-
One of the reasons I love this blog is that there are so many random people with all kinds of arcane and unusual knowledge, i.e., someone who can tell the difference between two variants of a Swedish fighter plane.

(that and remarkably few trolls)

Stan

By: Randy

Randy — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 23:27:30 +0000

Actually, the SAAB is the 210A, the first 70% proof-of-concept prototype that eventually led to the Draken. You can tell it’s the A and not the later B because the air intakes are way up by the nose…

By: Toronto

Toronto — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 04:12:53 +0000

Yeah, put those kids in an SUV and let ‘em help kill the planet instead. Sheesh.

Anyway, I want that NSU motorcycle. And the Draken would be nice too. Mach 2 and STOL, with rough-road take offs and landings rolled into the design. If only it had more trunk space. :0)

By: John M. Hanna

John M. Hanna — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 03:08:43 +0000

That bicycle wins the “Brittney Spears Irresponsible Parenting Award”.

By: jayessell

jayessell — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:14:50 +0000

Is the kid wearing the helmet backwards?

I can’t tell if the space helmet has antennas on top or if that’s
a pole in the distance.

Is that the type of helmet Ed Norton wore to watch ‘Captain Video’?
(The Honeymooners, TV or Not TV, 10/01/1955, Season 4, Episode 80.)

By: Don

Don — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:45:50 +0000

I hadn’t seen your comment when I posted mine! How did I know?? (Cue woo-woo music . . . .)

By: StanFlouride

StanFlouride — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:51:14 +0000

Aw shucks, I missed fishbowl boy!
While they do make lights with remote controls for ambulances, police, and fire, that ain’t one of them.

By: Don

Don — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:04:29 +0000

“…radar-equipped young man…”? It looks like he’s wearing a fishbowl!

By: StanFlouride

StanFlouride — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:37:58 +0000

Okay, definitely my favorite MM post of all time (and Charlie can attest that I’ve been here since almost the beginning).

1) Love the bicycle- three year olds are an often over-looked form of crumple zone.
2) Hey Santa- I WANT A NUKE-PROOF TIE!
3) I can’t imagine a 16 story exterior fire escape- does it move to other floors and windows?
4) Ah, the first device to block commercials
5) The first Oxygen Bar!
6) Aluminum belted radials? Um, no.
7) GM is about to dump the company that built that jet.
They are planning to take that cobalt from Long Island to Ohio, I wonder how radioactive it was. and how they are going to transport it.
9) I want a big black disc in my living room too!
10) Petunia seed @ $75/oz. Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
11) G.A. Baum went on to become a recognized materials expert
12) I have one of those touch lamps, it’s only a couple of years old
13) I WANT A COMBO WALL GADGET THAT sharpens pencils, knives, seals crown caps, opens cans, beer cans, pulls corks, opens all kinds of bottles SO-O-O-O BAD!
14) A HOME-MADE cyclotron! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betatron
15) Maybe the first motorized wheelchair?
16) I have bird sounds on my alarm clock but they’re digital
17) I wonder what Bill Hoffman ended up doing since that neat little trap doesn’t seem to made him a household name.
18) Inflatable tents: http://www.airzonetents.com/
19) Here’s the Babson Globe in the 1960s:
http://www3.babson.edu/Archives/babsonglobe60s.cfm
And here it is in 1994 after a major ‘restoration’ (I think it is a huge improvement)
http://www3.babson.edu/Archive.....lobe94.cfm

I hope you all enjoyed that, I sure did.