h a l f b a k e r yContrary to popular belief
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Place two large mirrors at right angles in one corner of the room. Insert a quarter-section of a tree between the mirrors. It looks like a whole tree but takes 75% less time to decorate.
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Nothing makes Christmas more fun for kids than cheap lazy parents. |
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Grow a whole forest for 1/4 the price. |
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I wonder if that trick would work for the gifts too? You could $ave 75% |
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You'd have to grow more mirrors, though. |
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why are we all talking about christmas? - bah! |
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not when the friggin' auditors are in town. |
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Get one of these trees and start a fire. In tandem with the mirrors, smoke will throw the auditors off. |
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they won't let me play with matches.. |
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Hmmmm.
Presumably you only want to decorate the front of
the tree, in which case the reflections would be of a bare tree.
Or ... if you decorate the back to get the decorations reflected, the bit facing out would be bare ... so to
realise your dream, you would need to decorate the
whole tree, which rather defeats the object - unless of course the 1/4 tree is pushed right into the angle
of the mirror in which case you can't walk round and
see the "back" anyway ... |
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I appreciate the space saving feature of this idea since I have a small space. I like that at the holidays there will also appear to be more people at your parties than there actually are. More jolly, less clean up! + |
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Wearing this would mean faster dressing in the morning and no need to cover your ass at work. |
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Methinks he means 'Kaleidoscopic clothing.' |
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Yeah, one just needs clothes over the front 90 degrees between the wearable mirrors. |
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You would also have to slice off a quarter-round section of yourself. |
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Your angles are all off, surely? (Kaleidoscopes work at 60°, not 90°) |
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[AO] Or cut them to fit your "profile". |
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[DrCurry] I beg to differ. 90 degrees still gives four reflections instead of six. Even a half tree against a flat mirror (180 degrees) would give the illusion of a whole tree. |
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poetic licence, I think DC. |
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Dr, 60 degrees would be better, but unless you live in a Dymaxion house you are unlikely to have a room with a 60-degree corner. |
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Speaking of poetic license (which may be revoked soon): |
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This k’leidoscopic tree of mine
Saves floor space during Christmastime
And makes the gifts stacked on the floor
Seem to be multiplied by four |
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Even my bird eventually realizes the bird in the mirror is him. If you could just block the nasty reflections of the observers, the illusion would work. |
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Then again, I haven't put up a tree in my adult life. I occasionally threaten to open a brightly colored umbrella and put an angel on it. |
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