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Bush_Eats_Beef Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 10:35 AM
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Fox: "Wanted: Volunteers to Get Butts Kicked"
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,119532,00.html

"We were in a meeting and someone said we needed a device that would let a client kick our butts," company head J. Reese Leavitt explained to the newspaper. "I sketched out a drawing and sent it around the room."

Leavitt's firm normally designs industrial plants, bridges and commercial buildings, but the butt-kicking idea grew rapidly into an official schematic diagram detailing a "size 15 steel-toed boot filled with concrete for impact."

"We changed that to a red high-top tennis shoe, which seemed appropriate since engineers are nerds and would likely wear something like that," said Leavitt. "It's the most expensive part. It was $40 at Foot Locker."

"Groups can use this to put someone dressed up like, say, Usama bin Laden, and charge $1 to kick his butt," office manager Sandy Burmeister told the newspaper."

Even someone dressed up like, say...



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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 10:38 AM
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1. I should put my boot in his ass for saying engineers would
wear red high-tops. :grr:
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Wickerman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 10:43 AM
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2. Red high tops rock
though I am not an engineer
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