This had me thinking of a few JU members

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Just catching up on some old comics that were in my e-mail Inbox (I really let myself fall way behind).

In one of the Ripley's Believe It or Not comics that was in the bunch there was a note about Ray Ettinger, a gentleman that had been knitting for quite a while.  Quite a while as in over 5 years on the same scarf.  A scarf that apparently measures in at possible world record proportions.[more]

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Ray Ettinger holding his very long knitted scarf
Ray Ettinger shows off the 3,523-foot-long
scarf he knitted in hopes of making
it into the Guinness Book of World Records.
The scarf nearly fills the back of his van.

Katie Laux/The Examiner

/nod to Masonm and Dharma (who I know as regular knitters in the JU crowd).  It's an art and skillset I never acquired, but which I admire the work that goes into.

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
That's not a scarf - it is an escape rope! ;)
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

That's not a scarf - it is an escape rope!
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Funny you go there... some TV watching I was doing (again, catching up a bit on programs I had on the DVRs...) had some advertisements for 'This American Life' on Showtime networks.  One of the segments they kept advertising was on a rope ladder that had been used for escaping at a prison -- a rope ladder that had been made from a very large amount of dental floss.  Strands and strands of the stuff, tied together to make a rope ladder that was easy enough for the prisoners to hide and yet durable enough to serve it's purpose.  Wild stuff.

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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
I bet they could turn him into a mummy with that after he dies.
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
knitting for quite a while. Quite a while as in over 5 years on the same scarf. A scarf that apparently measures in at possible world record proportions.
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Can you say "obsessive compulsive?" I knew you could.

Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
I'm just thinking he could have knit so many other wearables in that time.