Gene wrote:

measured in minutes to hours. Some projects are useless, like the
mushrooms mentioned. We call them "art" or "craft" depending on whether
you have your lathe in a shop or studio

Not useless. Tie a couple of them to a string and you have a bola. Put one
on your desk and you have a paperweight. Put a bunch of them in a bag, and
you have a weapon almost as good as a sack of doorknobs.

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Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan
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