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Extreme Recycling - Cardboard Buildings

Posted by michael on from the cut-along-the-dotted-line dept.

Xenographic writes: "Apparently, someone in the UK got the idea to build a school entirely out of cardboard and Westborough Primary School decided to implement it. The students are even recycling their trash to help construction!"

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  1. I can see the slogan now... by Navius+Eurisko · · Score: 4, Funny

    Cardboard buildings: not for the homeless anymore!

  2. Well... by agusus · · Score: 2, Funny

    And look what happened to the pig who built his house out of sticks when the big bad wolf came by!

  3. DATE of press-release.... by PaulBu · · Score: 2, Funny

    is "01 April 2000"! :)

    I wonder why does /. recycle April Fool's day
    jokes (?) as news? :)

    Paul

  4. And end to grade school pollock jokes ... by OmegaDan · · Score: 4, Funny

    playground whispers of ...screen door on a submarine ... solar powered flashlight ... parachute that opens on impact ... all replaced by

    "Did you hear the one about the brits who made a cardboard school ?"

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    Free Techno/Jazz/DNB/MI Music by guys obsessed with monkeys!
  5. Problems in the Cardboard Age by pbryan · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I see you've been sent to the my office for the fourth time this month."

    Jimmy continued silently staring at the cardboard floor, kicking impatiently at the corrogated ridges under his feet showing through after three months of moderate traffic.

    "Jimmy?"

    Jimmy looked up, feigning a look of innocence.

    "You know matches, lighters and magnifying glasses were banned after we lost the North wing."

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    My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!

  6. come on guys, get with the times! by Telek · · Score: 2, Funny

    will all be fire retardant

    Come on, it's not "fire retardant" it's "thermally challenged".

    Not very PC if you ask me =P

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    If God gave us curiosity
  7. Re:Cardboard and the food chain by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    Don't expect it to survive burning jet fuel, but it should do okay.

    But now the terrorists can apply their cardboard cutters directly to the building instead of doing all that dance with the planes...