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This is your garden variety umbrella except it has been fitted with a 360 degree gutter which re-directs the rain water into a shower-head situated directly over the user.
vfrackis' earlier foray into the territory
attention_20getting...0umbrella_20reverso [jutta, Jun 11 2010]
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To be used as a gate-way to stoicism, or to illustrate futility... |
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<apologies to Rihanna... and MikeD> |
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"Burgess wrote that the title was a reference to an old
Cockney expression, "as queer as a clockwork orange".
Due to his time serving in the British Colonial Office in
Malaysia, Burgess thought that the phrase could be used
punningly to refer to a mechanically responsive
(clockwork) human (orang, Malay for "man")". |
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I don't think MikeD meant the movie, but the said
expression. Notice how he didn't capitalize it the way you
did, 21. |
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I always took the meaning of a clockwork orange to be something elaborately useless, like my idea. |
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Truth be told, I was unaware of the pun. |
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