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MineralMan

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3. Yah, the 60s. I once ate a sugar cube back then.

Reply to lapucelle (Reply #2)

Fri Jul 7, 2017, 03:22 PM

Jul 2017

I probably shouldn't have. Made me feel real wierd for a while.

On your point, though, I'm sure it was intended to be a performance piece, but the guards and maybe the museum itself had lost sight of that. Why else was it plugged in and had a button with that label. I made it perform, but maybe the performance was over already.

They didn't seem to get the irony of the thing. Oh, well.

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With Regard to VP Pence touching what he was told not to touch: [View all] MineralMan Jul 2017 OP

So, DUers, what have you touched that you were not supposed to touch? MineralMan Jul 2017 #1

Press to activate the guards, perhaps? lapucelle Jul 2017 #2

Yah, the 60s. I once ate a sugar cube back then. MineralMan Jul 2017 #3

So Did I Leith Jul 2017 #8

Hmm...Nobody told me anything. MineralMan Jul 2017 #9

Those circular scars are odd csziggy Jul 2017 #15

I also had a sugar cube and was told it was for polio...... kerry-is-my-prez Jul 2017 #18

Quite possibly the unwitting appearance of the security guards and the discombobulation of the tblue37 Jul 2017 #4

No, I don't think so. They seemed very sincere in their MineralMan Jul 2017 #5

The guards' freak out doesn't necessarily mean the artist did not intend it to happen. tblue37 Jul 2017 #12

When our kids were young an elderly driver damaged the passenger door of our minivan. hunter Jul 2017 #6

Yup. And after Pence touched that part, it will have to MineralMan Jul 2017 #7

At least in the case of the part Pence touched MindPilot Jul 2017 #11

I did a similar thing once, touched a piece at an art museum. MindPilot Jul 2017 #10

I guess it could have been worse... lapucelle Jul 2017 #13

At least there isn't a video tape of you, MineralMan lapucelle Jul 2017 #14

My son SAT on one of these at the DMV SoCalDem Jul 2017 #16

When I was four, I tried to hold the elevators door open as it was closing to be helpful Tiggeroshii Jul 2017 #17