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(draxxmenvone - from the makers of Coco Pops Straws, Thu 27 Apr 2006, 18:03, archived)

how distressing
edit: wait a minute - is that yours?
( urbane legend i have known the inexorable sadness of pencils, Thu 27 Apr 2006, 18:04, archived)

Yup.
yup - it's mine. Plenty more where that came from.
(draxxmenvone - from the makers of Coco Pops Straws, Thu 27 Apr 2006, 18:10, archived)

it is very good.
woo.
( urbane legend i have known the inexorable sadness of pencils, Thu 27 Apr 2006, 18:12, archived)

Thank you.
Now everyone hit the "I like this!" button. I want to be on the front cover of TIME magazine by June.
(draxxmenvone - from the makers of Coco Pops Straws, Thu 27 Apr 2006, 18:31, archived)

blimey
form the site, you're a bit top pro, aren't you? Wow.
( drunkenoaf, Thu 27 Apr 2006, 18:22, archived)

Yup.
Yup...now someone hire me...
(draxxmenvone - from the makers of Coco Pops Straws, Thu 27 Apr 2006, 18:28, archived)

erk
what are you using for modelling?
( Tikoloshe, Thu 27 Apr 2006, 18:14, archived)

materials
It's a good old fashioned hand made model. polycarbonate Vac-formings over necupur forms. Loads of beads. It's a little light on the comedy though.
(draxxmenvone - from the makers of Coco Pops Straws, Thu 27 Apr 2006, 18:16, archived)

Very woo
How did you get started with this kind of stuff?
( Tikoloshe, Thu 27 Apr 2006, 18:20, archived)

behind the telly
I used to have a wee space behind my folks' TV when I was a kid. I made stuff there every day. One day I stuck a steel rod in the back of the TV and lit up like a cheap set of fairy lights. I never stopped making stuff. I stopped sticking steel rods into TVs.
(draxxmenvone - from the makers of Coco Pops Straws, Thu 27 Apr 2006, 18:24, archived)

and you fried yourself?

( drunkenoaf, Thu 27 Apr 2006, 18:25, archived)

Uh-huh.
I only told my folks this year. I thought they'd be mad but they thought it was as funny as hell.
(draxxmenvone - from the makers of Coco Pops Straws, Thu 27 Apr 2006, 18:30, archived)

Was the TV
ok?
( routine and Pantene, Thu 27 Apr 2006, 18:31, archived)

Yeah
There was some kind of Western on. I remember getting the shock (I couldn't let go of the steel rod) and then sitting on the sofa with my family all round. I was totally dazed but I never told them. Ha - they were all watching the TV when I got the shock. I wonder if the screen dimmed...
(draxxmenvone - from the makers of Coco Pops Straws, Thu 27 Apr 2006, 18:34, archived)

You are Salvador Dalí but without the melt-ness
AICMFP
(thick as a brick I think a no, I mean a yes, but it's all wrong, Thu 27 Apr 2006, 19:05, archived)

thanks
...or the moustache
(draxxmenvone - from the makers of Coco Pops Straws, Thu 27 Apr 2006, 21:24, archived)