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These cookie-cutter museums are all the same; they are no better than the carbon-copier museums.
The largest collection of cookie cutters I ever encountered was at the South Pole. We made a wide variety of Christmas cookies.
Also they had the largest VHS tape collection. No thrift stores to donate to.
Oh great, this is what the alien researchers will find after humanity has perished in some catastrophy or other.
“We’re not sure what these were, so we’ll just assume they were used for some ritual purpose” (every archeologist everywhere)
Fertility goddess or some such
How these things are made is quite interesting.
Video that doesn’t break the BBS:
Did anyone else read as far as the first 3 words of that headline, and tremble with excitement that someone had discovered some long-lost piano rag, or the handwritten orchestration for Treemonisha?
Not as such; I briefly speculated about Janis Joplin having had a thing about baking I hadn’t known about.
My uncle once made a cookie cutter from a coffee can.
What shape was it?
It was a hippo. He made it because he couldn’t find (pre internet) a hippo cookie cutter.
Thanks, this video is surprisingly interesting. That machine is really neat. I hope that the operators are in a happy environment.
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