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A skeleton marionette - I don't know why it makes me laugh

By Hank Campbell in Science 2.0
August 21, 2010
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Submitted by Hank on Sat, 08/21/2010 - 08:12
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This guy is really talented.   

As Anita Ashbaugh wrote, "As I was watching this I was thinking "how cool" because it's a skeleton. If the marionette had been a clown, for instance, I'd have wanted to claw out my eyes in an attempt to unsee the horror":

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