On Tuesday, September 9, 2014 11:35:49 AM UTC-7, Jim Wilkins wrote:
"Ed Huntress" wrote in message

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On Tue, 9 Sep 2014 13:04:29 -0400, "Jim Wilkins"

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"Ed Huntress" wrote in message

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On Tue, 9 Sep 2014 12:08:54 -0400, "Jim Wilkins"

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBXXtvyZaVY





Ha-ha! 'Good one.



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Ed Huntress



This gross misuse of machinery is more relevant to rcm:

http://www.traktorclips.de/liebherr-...ter-turm-hoch/



So what was the point of that stunt? It looks nuts.



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Ed Huntress



The announcer talks fast in an Austrian accent and dialect I had

trouble following. "Wetten, dass" is a TV reality show that translates

to "Wager, that...", though the Liebherr company obviously set up that

stunt for publicity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetten,_dass..%3F



Did you notice the Spice Girl?



Germans have a strange (to us), absurdist and existential sense of

humor.



-jsw

Maybe that's because they killed all their funny people.