Since RC stuff seems to get a good reception around here,
here're some photos of my Dad's cousin's RC stuff. He has a duck that dives, an oil-tanker that sinks, and a submarine that submerges and surfaces again.
And when the caption says he makes all his own stuff: he really does. There's nothing from a kit here: the radios are made from scratch, and he even moulds his own fibreglass.
(EDIT: Apparently, he didn't tell the other people here that the tanker was supposed to sink: they thought he'd just lost it.)
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 10 May 2012, 13:46,
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He is.
If he weren't 70, I'd say that he was a nerd. (I take that to be a term of approbation.) But I'm not sure whether it's possible to have a septuagenarian nerd.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 10 May 2012, 13:52,
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Oh it is,
/Patrick Moore, bless him.
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skeltonator Needs some new daps., Thu 10 May 2012, 14:00,
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Ah, Patrick Moore.
Effortlessly bridging the gap between "nerd" and "dribbling racist".
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 10 May 2012, 14:03,
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He's your hero isn't he you massive racist....
are we still doing the Massive racist thing?
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Thu 10 May 2012, 14:04,
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I forgot about his comments, I just love the glockenspiel.
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skeltonator Needs some new daps., Thu 10 May 2012, 14:07,
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How fitting that you should use its German name.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 10 May 2012, 14:10,
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Yeah well, what else you gonna call it?
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skeltonator Needs some new daps., Thu 10 May 2012, 14:11,
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Oh and he is also an astronomer.
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skeltonator Needs some new daps., Thu 10 May 2012, 14:13,
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HE IS ALSO THE GAMESMASTER.
How did you forget that?!
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Pig Bodine., Thu 10 May 2012, 14:39,
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Fuck yeah! and he's freinds with Brian May.
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skeltonator Needs some new daps., Thu 10 May 2012, 14:43,
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Vertical metal xylophone?
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Thu 10 May 2012, 14:13,
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Personally, I'd call it Bernard.
Wouldn't xylophone do the trick?
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 10 May 2012, 14:14,
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http://bit.ly/KNOCwK
although you could get away with Metallophone.
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skeltonator Needs some new daps., Thu 10 May 2012, 14:17,
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Does the front fall off?
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Thu 10 May 2012, 13:58,
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Not sure.
I've not actually seen any of his stuff in action.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 10 May 2012, 14:02,
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I was thinking of that very sketch this morning :o)
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barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Thu 10 May 2012, 14:07,
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I fear I may have missed a pop-culture reference.
Mind you, I only discovered what your sig alludes to last week.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 10 May 2012, 14:10,
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the front fell off...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcU4t6zRAKg
...and shame on you for not being completely familiar with the Fifth Element
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barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Thu 10 May 2012, 14:11,
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That's marvellous!
EDIT: I did once start to watch The Fifth Element, but I think I fell asleep. I guess I ought to have another go.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 10 May 2012, 14:16,
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They've done quite a few in similar vein...
I think they're like the Aussie equivalent of John Bird and John Fortune
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barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Thu 10 May 2012, 14:19,
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I've seen their analysis of the credit crunch,
and it is painfully accurate.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 10 May 2012, 15:05,
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Don't drink this time
also it's amazing what you miss when are watching a movie in an inebriated condition
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The Scrunt Wants a Dozen Pints, Thu 10 May 2012, 14:19,
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But then you get double the value when you watch it again sober
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P-MONKE We're all fucked, Thu 10 May 2012, 14:40,
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Also worth watching their explanation of banks
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyaitC91hEM&feature=related
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LemonEntryMyDearWatson This time, Moriarty, the hand is on the other foot, Thu 10 May 2012, 15:20,
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MOOOLTIPASS
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(|D[ekionplexis B3ta.com: fictional child porn is OK, Thu 10 May 2012, 15:56,
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Leeloodallasmulteepass
I never noticed it before, but at 0:32 the interviewer is trying desparately not to laugh...
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Fri 11 May 2012, 1:06,
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that's seriously awesome stuff
i'd love to be able to make stuff like that. i'd make glorious contraptions! truly glorious!
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crab_bloke), Thu 10 May 2012, 16:58,
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