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18 pointsby tomaacabout 11 years ago

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aspensmonsterabout 11 years ago
PHB: &quot;That&#x27;s it. Now you&#x27;ve confused everyone. So what exactly is stopping us from doing this?&quot;<p>Anderson the Engineer: &quot;Geometry.&quot;<p>Client: &quot;Just ignore it.&quot;<p>PHB: &quot;We have a task. Seven red lines. It&#x27;s not 20. It&#x27;s just seven! Anderson I understand you&#x27;re a specialist of a narrow field; you don&#x27;t see the overall picture. But surely it&#x27;s not a difficult task to draw some seven lines.&quot;<p>Walter the PM: &quot;Exactly! Suggest a solution. Now, any fool can criticize --no offense-- but, you&#x27;re an expert. You should know better.&quot;<p>It&#x27;s a shame that this will die in &quot;new&quot; submissions. Because it&#x27;s fuckin&#x27; hilarious.
johnlbevan2about 11 years ago
Solution:<p>Use red paper.<p>Draw the straight lines in parallel to one another then fold the paper diagonally so all lines cross all lines.<p>Draw the transparent lines with transparent ink (e.g. an ink corrector pen).<p>Using a green pen draw long thin boxes; i.e. outline of the resulting red lines.<p>Kittens &#x2F; birds: have it in the shape of a kitten or bird approaching a blackhole (spaghettification) - or draw in a straight line whilst moving the paper to create the shape &#x2F; do some really creative folding.<p>Kitten Balloon - put the deflated balloon into a (small) kitten shaped mould and blow it up in there (leaving it in) - or pose as a kitten whilst inflating the balloon (so you&#x27;re inflating it in the shape of a kitten, rather than the inflated balloon being in the shape of a kitten).<p>Or... Based on Randall Munroe&#x27;s strip <a href="http://xkcd.com/1351/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;1351&#x2F;</a>, an even better solution to the ink colour problem.