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Lamar, we are very eager to see the new cable car system you’ve designed for our highest mountain, nearly 10,000 feet. May we take off the blindfolds now?
Absolutely. If you look through your binoculars toward Zugspitze, you’ll see the sleek, shiny cable cars of…
Excuse me, Lamar, it doesn’t look like there’s anyone inside that cable car. My GOD, there are people on TOP of it!
That’s right. That way, there’s a much better view and they can breathe in the mountain air.
But…but…what is inside the cars?
Luggage and schnapps.
Lamar! What if people don’t WANT to perch on a slippery cable car roof, desperately holding on for dear life?
Then I guess they shouldn’t be heading for a two-mile-high Bavarian mountaintop, should they? These folks should be happy they’re in First Class.
First Class? There’s also an Economy Class?
Yeah. You see that guy balancing himself on the cable as he walks?
Lamar, this is beyond belief! All we asked you to do was design a safe and simple cable car system to get people up the mountain and back down!
Back down? Say, can I talk to you privately for a minute?
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Freddy Nock from Switzerland balances on the ropeway of a cable car leading on Germany’s highest mountain, the 9,718 feet Zugspitze, near the southern Bavarian resort of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, August 20, 2011. REUTERS/ Michaela Rehle
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Nock, Nock, Nock-in on Heaven’s Door…
I love to go a-wandering
Along the mountain track;
And as I go I love to sing,
My knapsack on my back.
…
Valderi, Valdera, Valderi
Valdera-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
Valderi, Valdera
My knapsack on … wait, oh crud!
Is that the Basler Turbo 67 painted on the side of the cable car?
It looks to me like getting down the mountain is the easy part. As long as you have a parachute… And as long as Lamar didn’t pack said parachute. Or you can be wearing a very nice pair of shoes, as long as you don’t mind losing one.
Don’t Nock it until you’ve tried it. That last step’s a doozy. Thanks BG for fair and balanced reporting.
Do you think that Freddy Nock knows Basil Basler from Basel?
http://blogs.reuters.com/oddly-enough/20 11/04/30/stoke-the-boiler-boys-were-bali ng-basil/
http://blogs.reuters.com/oddly-enough/20 10/12/28/seeing-the-world-with-strings-a ttached/
I humbly offer two haiku:
Walk up the cable
Much fresh air and scenic views
Save some money, too
Riding on the car
With luggage inside the car
Efficient first class
Wow … and I thought I had a bad commute to work.
Lonnie! Lonnie come down from there!
I am a pretty birdy!
Lonnie! We told you not to look Hulga directly in the eyes! She’s warped your brain man!
Tweet tweet!
Lonnie….umm…Polly! Polly want a cracker? Got a cracker for Polly here!
Ohhh cracker! Be right there! Tweet tweet!
@Ifly: Hilarious! Best of all, you remmebered the name Hulga Fekrat:
http://blogs.reuters.com/oddly-enough/20 10/10/21/remember-the-name-hulga-fekrat/
It’s that cable guy again with a new show “Suvivor Cable”. Last one up is a rotten splat. And, Wow, two non flying planes in one day.
Please excuse my former dementia and mis-speak. I could not believe my eyes, that it is not a cable car but the new BT-105 THUD ordered by that airlane Hulga Fekrat is the COO of, you know Kas… something or other in Siberia.
@Spin, once you know the name Hulga Fekrat you can never un-know it!
Lol Malt and Mr.Pilot!
Much needed laughs for a hump day..
My pleasure. It’s a hard nock life out there, we all need a laugh.
Couldn’t that Nock guy spice it up a little by juggling while he was at it? Maybe bowling balls? Or maybe ride a bike across the wire or do a cartwheel on it?
Spin, is this a zap-trap? “..or maybe ride a bike across the wire…”
I would tell you he’s actually planning to do it in the coming weeks in Austria and Switzerland but that would be…shift!
Said too much already…
@Malteser: You are quite kNOCKledgeable.
Spin, knock it off. You might earn me a zapping!
Really? There are people who DON’T want a go on top of a cable car?!