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Malabarista - now with added pony Posted Oct 7, 2008
Neither a fountain nor a swimming pool (we've had those 
)
It is something moveable, and no bigger than the rowboat.
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Oct 7, 2008
A wheel of some kind - if it has to move too many corners might be an impediment.
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Malabarista - now with added pony Posted Oct 7, 2008
None of the above, though I like the giant teapot
While the boat used metal rods, this project used a wire mesh.
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TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office Posted Oct 7, 2008
Not quite a bird bath. Hmm. A swimming pool for penguins? A movable penguin pool? No, that's just silly.
Why would anyone want a mobile concrete water tank?
TRiG.
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Icy North Posted Oct 7, 2008
It could rumble around on its caterpillars (or even any other caterpillars), firing water to disperse crowds.
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Malabarista - now with added pony Posted Oct 7, 2008
Not any of them, no. Especially not the sattelite dish, in 1848
But as for the mobile water tank... Joseph Nr. 1, the [yet to be guessed] who spent some time as a gentleman farmer experimented with cement water tanks, and then apparently decided they could keep water out as well as in, so built a cement rowboat. In order to be strong enough not to break, it was far too heavy to float - so he built the next rowboat out of thinner cement, reinforced with iron rods.
So yes, in a way, that one can be seen as a mobile water tank
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