On display in the museum was this model built entirely of toothpicks by someone who clearly had too much time on his hands. Anyway, ahead of me was a cute little girl of perhaps thirteen summers who looked at the model briefly then turned to a docent and asked, "Why didn't they use colored toothpicks?"
The gentleman had a look on his face which clearly indicated he had never before heard such a question, nor did he seem to have a ready response in his repertoire.
The placard indicated that the construction required 85,000 toothpicks.
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2 comments:
Holy cow. How long did that take him to do that? And the big question...where did he do that? I can't imagine his wife allowed that anyplace other than the basement or the garage.
It is beautiful though.
Lin, I don't know the answers to the questions. Sorta like the docent. Do we have to assume he had a wife? Maybe not, after he was half-way through the project, anyway.
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