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So God Made A Farmer
In case you missed it here is one of the best commercials from Super Bowl Sunday. It was the Dodge ad based on the “So God Made A Farmer” speech by Paul Harvey.
And on the eighth day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, “I need a caretaker.” So God made a farmer.
God said, “I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, milk cows, work all day in the field, milk cows again, eat supper, then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the school board.” So God made a farmer.
God said, “I need somebody willing to sit up all night with a newborn colt and watch it die, then dry his eyes and say,’Maybe next year,’ I need somebody who can shape an ax handle from an ash tree, shoe a horse with hunk of car tire, who can make a harness out hay wire, feed sacks and shoe scraps. Who, during planting time and harvest season will finish his 40-hour week by Tuesday noon and then, paining from tractor back, put in another 72 hours.” So God made the farmer.
God said, “I need somebody strong enough to clear trees and heave bales, yet gentle enough to yean lambs and wean pigs and tend the pink-comb pullets, who will stop his mower for an hour to splint the leg of a meadowlark.”
It had to be somebody who’d plow deep and straight and not cut corners. Somebody to seed, weed, feed, breed, and brake, and disk, and plow, and plant, and tie the fleece and strain the milk, . Somebody who’d bale a family together with the soft, strong bonds of sharing, who would laugh, and then sigh and then reply with smiling eyes when his son says that he wants to spend his life doing what Dad does. “So God made a farmer.”
The Original Batmobile Sells For $4.2 Million At Barrett-Jackson
Holy Taxes Batman! I’m sure a “One-Percenter” like Bruce Wayne can cover the Capital Gains tax.
The Batmobile scored big at Barrett-Jackson on Saturday night, hammered sold at $4.2 million and bringing the standing-room-only crowd in the giant auction tent to a state of cheering, clapping, picture-taking pandemonium.
The authentic, original Batmobile from the 1960s Batman TV show was expected to spark some excitement, but the raucous Scottsdale reception was far bigger than anyone expected.
So was the final bid. The buyer is businessman, car collector and lifelong Batman fan Rick Champagne of nearby Ahwatukee, Ariz., who said he’s wanted to own the Batmobile “ever since I was a kid. I had a toy model of it.”
Vintage Models Made from Trash
Martin Heukeshoven is an amazing artist.
German artist Martin Heukeshoven makes miniatures of antique cars, but with a special touch. Instead of making shiny, new and all-chrome cars, Heukeshoven uses aged and rusty materials for his models creating incredibly detailed representative of what you will find rotting in scrapyards and barns somewhere. Heukeshoven’s collection includes models of Porsche, Jaguar and Citröen as never seen before.
This 48-years-old German artist started concerning himself with antique cars during the 1970’s, when his brother restored those kinds of vehicles at his job. From there, Heukeshoven started to collect unusable materials as a hobby, transforming them into unique objects. His passion for the old and ruins provided a special touch for his sculptures, giving them an aspect of decay with steampunk reminiscences.
Martin Heukeshoven uses parts of cylinders, cameras, typewriters, used cartridges, etc for his models. His reproductions of cars like the Porsche 356 Renntransporter, the Bugatti Type 57 Stelvio are between 50 cm to 98 cm, but are so detailed in and outside – the upholstery, the engines, the dashboards and the flywheels.
Heukeshoven doesn’t build more than 2 or 3 cars per year and each piece takes up to 4 months to complete. Today he receives orders from all over the world and his pieces are worth 25 thousand euros each.
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