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Instead of simply pushing snow onto your lawn/sidewalk, the city's new snow-clearing machine packs and deposits the frozen water in such a manner as to make snowbrick castle walls, complete with crenellations, across the front of everyone's lawn. (v.2 does window and door openings as well).
To solve
the problem of driveway blocking, turrets are built at the corners.
Prompted by
Street_20gang_20plow
[FlyingToaster, Feb 07 2010]
with prior-art nods to
Ho_20Ho_20Ho_2c_20l...0it_20snow_2e_2e_2e
[FlyingToaster, Feb 07 2010, last modified Feb 10 2010]
and homage to
Tails_20For_20All
[FlyingToaster, Feb 07 2010, last modified Feb 10 2010]
Calvin & Hobbes re snow and the meaning of life.
http://farm1.static...72_4ea2d9e35c_o.gif
Couldn't find the one about snow forts. [csea, Feb 07 2010]
A good start
http://www.youtube....watch?v=gl2j9PY4jGY
Japanese automatic snowshovel makes ice bricks [FlyingToaster, Feb 11 2011]
[link]
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Yes. Neighbourhood snowball fight! |
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//snowball fight//
If the wall is already of sufficient height, it makes and drops pre-packed snowballs inside. |
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Only if I get to have a heated moat. Without heating, it's likely to be frozen, rendering it unsuitable for defensive porpoises. |
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//unsuitable for defensive porpoises// walruses then. § x1 |
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Now with driveway-corner turrets. |
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I like this, but I keep reading it as "snowfarts", which disturbs
me a little. [+] |
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It makes me think of two things at once: snowforts as in castles made of ice and snowforts as in cold comforts. |
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The driveway-corner turret was actually the entire original idea, then I got typing and forgot about it. |
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this would not work in Florida... |
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If combine harvesters can spit out beautifully-formed hay
bales, it follows that snowploughs should be able to make
snowmen. |
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//snowmen// that would be <2nd link> |
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