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As well as letters, pasta should be
available in various other shapes, for
example:
- the boxes and lines
used for process
maps
- electrical circuit
symbols
- clipart
So then
the
bored electrical engineer might be idly
stirring a plate of Diagrammatic Pasta
alle
Vongole and suddenly leap up in the
realisation that they've stumbled across a
radical new amplifier design.
Baked for Jello
http://www.yankeeha...en.com/qwiggle.html
Would you like some brain, sir? [kbecker, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
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Hey, anything that will justify billing for my lunch hour... + |
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That's using your noodle. |
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Top idea, hip. Beats me why no-one's every made pasta in the shape of body parts before (less gruesome than it sounds). Think of the fun kids woud have making little people on their plates. Then eating them. |
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You could also make animal parts (wings, tails, etc), which kids would then use to make their own mythological meals. Then eat them. |
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Or machine parts, so that kids could build small pasta locomotives or printing presses. Then eat them. |
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Nice. The really clever kid would make a working pasta pasta-making machine. By, the way, who boned this? I say we track them down. Then eat them. |
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Any shape can be made with a bit of spaghetti and ALOT of time... |
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I actually recently saw how they make the shapes. It's really quick. The machine just looks like an enormous mincer but the holes are letter or BTB-character shapes instead of being round. The pasta dough is pressed through and then cut off by a giant whizzing blade about 4 times a second. Neat.
I would like to expletive-bleeping symbols included in alphabetti-spa-f§%*"?g-ghetti, too. |
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I'm surprised that 'speghetti reading' never caught on with psychics. |
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How about a pasta based erector set? Build things with the specially shaped pasta. Then boil the whole thing. |
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[zigness] Yes, I had thought of a sort of
pasta welding kit as an extension to this
idea. This would be a small gun which
could deliver a controlled amount of
flour-and-water paste to glue together
two bits of spaghetti and then a blast of
hot air to cure the joint |
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Could we make the pasta
conductive, so that we can build
working models? Then eat them? |
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<bad engineering pun>
Do I get a breadboard to test my pasta circuits on?
</bad engineering pun> |
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