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Koohii stories:

1) [kyldyyr] 25-11-2005(176): An absurd image, but what the heck - worked for me. Imagine a car going across a plain at a fast speed. Suddenly a single sprout (the only one to be seen) gets stuck to the car's wheels, causing the car to fly around its axis.

2) [smithsonian] 4-3-2007(130): The Germans manufactured so many cars during World War II that it was almost as if they were sprouting from the factories of the Axis.

3) [samuize] 13-12-2007(51): Left side is the car, right side is a zoomed in picture of the car showing the detail of the axle/axis.

4) [dukelexon] 30-12-2007(27): George W. Bush placed a great deal of Middle Eastern countries in his "Axis of Evil" … perhaps because that region is the sprouting origin of what we have to put into our cars (let's bring back the electric car, eh?).

5) [etpan] 23-11-2008(25): James Bond has guns that sprout from the wheel axes of his car.

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