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I saw a LEGO turing machine video on YouTube a number of years ago. The original (The LEGO Turing Machine - YouTube[^]) has been plagiarized numerous times, but in my opinion, noone has been able to improve on it.
Until now: Mechanical Turing Machine in Wood - YouTube[^]. This is a true beauty! I am not thinking of its computational capabilies, but I never imagined that I would be captivated by the beauty of a Turing machine. Not at the physial level!
This impressive work really deserves to be known, and honred, by both computer and woodworking guys.
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So we now have computers made of brass (Babbage's Difference and Analytical Engines), plastic, silicon, and wood. Any other takers? 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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We need: Bacon, Coffee, and Pizza to complete the Computational Engine Set.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Isn't human are Turing machines made of all these?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Well developers seem to be (with added trace elements1) so it has to be relevant!
1: Like Beer2 and Chocolate3
2: OK, so not so much "trace" as "copious quantities"
3: OK, so for "trace" read "all of the"
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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You only need pizza for the GUI, and bacon is only needed for its FAT.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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And coffee for it's scripts?
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Don't forget alcohol for the power. 
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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As usual - easy peasy 
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It seems to be on the increase in the UK
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
modified 10-Aug-16 5:44am.
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It's got to be one of these 
acrophobes
actomyosin
advertency
afterdecks
auxotrophs
auxotrophy
bandwidths
baptistery
birthstone
bloatwares
bouncingly
broadtails
camerlengo
censorship
chairlifts
chartering
cloudburst
consulship
contextual
contritely
covariates
dauntingly
defalcator
depictions
deprograms
detachably
deviations
devotional
disconcert
divergency
dogcatcher
dysenteric
egoistical
endoprocts
eurhythmic
expiations
flycatcher
grainfield
granduncle
gynophobes
gynophores
habergeons
halobionts
hauntingly
hemoglobin
hypermedia
imperfects
junglegyms
karyolymph
karyotyped
karyotypes
karyotypic
lithophane
lockmakers
luminaires
lustrating
lustration
mediations
mesothorax
microbrews
micrograph
muckraking
multistage
multistory
mycoflorae
mycofloras
myeloblast
nightshade
overcuring
overdaring
overstrain
overstrung
overturing
pandowdies
panickiest
peduncular
periodical
persuasion
pilothouse
plesiosaur
postdating
postmating
practicums
pretasting
protecting
protesting
quartering
ravelments
relictions
saxophonic
scarpering
shortbread
socialized
socializer
soundingly
superheavy
superhelix
synergetic
thrombosed
underheats
unrhythmic
upstarting
variolites
vauntingly
voluptuary
watermelon
wheatlands
xenophobia
xenophobic
xenotropic
xylophones
yohimbines
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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that a lot of xB/xW's to work out if it isn't. 
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That's a short list - actually there are much more...
Words with all letters different[^]
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Not really - there are two 4's if you notice.
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Yep
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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So we have a winner then. 
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Nope - and I'm not scoring all that lot
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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pkfox wrote: I'm not scoring all that lot
Alright. So a tiny shiny, easy peasy hint may be?
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.....
upstarting
variolites
vauntingly
voluptuary
watermelon
wheatlands
xenophobia - The Answer here
xenophobic
xenotropic
xylophones
yohimbines
The answer is in the list, this was correctly answered by Agent__007 11 minutes after it was posted.
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ABCDEFDGHI
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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1B, 2W
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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0B, 3W
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Not entirely sure how these work but XENOPHOBIA seems to fit both the pattern and the hint.
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