The 2INFLATA-PHONE machine.

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The 2INFLATA-PHONE machine.

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INFLATA-PHONE PAGE ONE 001.jpg
This is one of the more ridiculous inventions concocted up by me after a suggestion by a lady.

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apologies as the page with the sketch should be at the bottom Ho Hum!

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Alastair---blown away again..............Great fun !

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Shouldn't you do a book ? :D Thurber would be pleased !

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Shades of Gerard Hoffnung!

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Alastair comes from a long lineage:
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Why does that remind me of Hieronymus Bosch? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnrICy3Bc2U

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CarlosV wrote:Alastair comes from a long lineage:
Heath Robinson in the UK, and Rube Goldberg in the US: great minds think alike. :lol:

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I have been drawing these idiotic sketches for years. In fact I was doodling some of them as a child even before I saw the funny work of Heath Robinson, of whom I have several books now. Idiosyncratic machinery that would never work unless you were a Mensa member with an I.Q.of 150!!

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