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Posted by Xenocreator_PG_ on Sep-12-2005 05:38:

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Originally posted by tribu
If you can substitute a whale for a tennis ball, why can't you substitute, say, an armadillo for a baby whale? Their hard shell would prevent their damage from the repeated blows, and their hilarious apperance could add a light heartedness to tennis observers that a baby whale might not be able to achieve.

there are little kangaroos in Australia that are called "Quockas" (that are more similar to wallabies). They are the size of a football. It is actually illegal to play Quocka soccer in Australia. A guy has even been given a 2 year jail term for playing quocka soccer; the red card was raised & everything. It was a hot local news story.

Posted by tribu on Sep-12-2005 05:50:

According to google.com's 'Im Feeling Lucky' button a Quocka is "A very rare marsupial, the butt of much molestation by camping Bruces� on the only island in the world on which it exists; such as:

'Quockas on the bbq' or 'quocka soccer'"

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� The term 'Bruce' is unfamiliar to me. Urbandictionary defines it with a cavalcade of meanings such as a heterosexual male, a child molestor, or a phallus

Posted by Xenocreator_PG_ on Sep-12-2005 05:59:

quote:
Originally posted by tribu
According to google.com's 'Im Feeling Lucky' button a Quocka is "A very rare marsupial, the butt of much molestation by camping Bruces� on the only island in the world on which it exists; such as:

'Quockas on the bbq' or 'quocka soccer'"

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� The term 'Bruce' is unfamiliar to me. Urbandictionary defines it as a heterosexual male, a child molestor, or a phallus

yes. Rottnest Island. The place where school leavers party like it's 2999.

50% of all people who visit the island are coincidently named Bruce. hmmmm

Posted by Kaidreas on Sep-12-2005 17:02:

form follows function... think about it.

allways get you function right, and afterwards start thinking about the form.

when I was in studying interiordesign
I made a scale of a chair that you could turn around and then it became a table for ironing you clothes

they didn't like it though

Posted by jdat on Sep-12-2005 17:18:

Very rarely can both be achieved at the same time.

I do have an exemple that came close:

Cashmere & Goretex blend jacket.
Practical but difficult to make into a fashionable item.
610 bucks ain't a bad price for a jacket either

I guess what I'm getting at is that too often form is used to mask lack of function.

Posted by djeternal on Sep-12-2005 20:37:

Airplanes need form to function. Aerodynamics not only looks sexy, its the only reason why some things work. Other than that...form just makes the object sell....which serves as a function of the economy, which on some piece of paper says the economy functions for us.

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