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furlie.

"Yir tellin me that yiv built an everlasting furlie and ye canni mak it stop?"

Translated:

furlie: piece of machinery or equipment - especially one that has wheels or revolves.

"You are expecting me to believe that you have built a perpetual motion machine and that you are unable to make it stop?"

[furlie spelled out in the phonetic alphabet.]

05, November, 2003










Weights, magnets, meccano, mad scientists and a wheel.

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