Guten Abend! Do you like my new poem?

Question

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AXLEROD von FENDERFLAIR, NOTED EXPLORER

AND NATURALIST, ENJOYS HIS VISIT

WITH THE GRANDCHILDREN

I’ve got a 1/64 scale working model

of the Universe,

with cyclic action.

It is the wind-up kind,

you crank it for few eons

then let her go…

It is so much fun to watch the kids

contemplate their fates while the thing

spins and flips.

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Answer 1

God at home.

Answer 2

I don't like cranks. Insert batteries...

Answer 3

Sounds like a gyro-scope to me.....Oh, the toys (joys) of childhood...

Pull the string!

Answer 4

Schwarze comedy, sehr gut! Danke.

Answer 5

I hope F.A.O Schwartz will have them on sale for Christmas...

I also hope it is rewindable!  Good toymakers are hard to find.

Answer 6

I am completely offended. Where in the name of God should I ask the explorer for another scale work?

Answer 7

Ausgezeichnet! I look forward to a few cycles of fun mit meine kleine Kinderlein, watching them got through the spins and flips! Ah, the wonders of grandkids! Just wind them up and watch them go and grow! Mine usually dump out the toys and then the box becomes a wonderful plaything!

Answer 8

Guten morgen.  Ja!

Answer 9

That was, by far, the best laugh of the day--Thanks man; I needed that.

1/64 scale--that thing must be huge.

Yes--yes, the question. Yes.

Answer 10

It seems sorta dark and very wonderous to me. And it's like in a way it's filled with hopes of the young and inocennt, you know?

Answer 11

As my old friend Archimedes used to say, "Give me someone clever and I can move the Earth." He would then turn to me after we had eaten and ask, "Are you full, crumb?"

Answer 12

i like... how... existentialist...

deep in a 'lets make fun of ourselves' kind of way

provoking

nice and short

7/10

-sts

Answer 13

Is that the 2007 model with detachable Pluto?

(Props to Duncan W - good call!)