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  • The funniest is "Impossible" by Herval and Aris, featuring a toy airplane with an unrequited crush, though is has some close competition in "Mousetrap" by Johane Matte, Ghislain Barbe, and Eric Baptizat and "The Flying Bride," which seems to be missing attribution, and "Icarus" by Johane and Matte, which indicates that Dedalus's invention of those wings was a long and painful time coming.

    Archive 2007-05-01 2007

  • The funniest is "Impossible" by Herval and Aris, featuring a toy airplane with an unrequited crush, though is has some close competition in "Mousetrap" by Johane Matte, Ghislain Barbe, and Eric Baptizat and "The Flying Bride," which seems to be missing attribution, and "Icarus" by Johane and Matte, which indicates that Dedalus's invention of those wings was a long and painful time coming.

    Book Review: Flight Volume 2 2007

  • Hence the cove was sometimes called Mousetrap Cove, because when the tide reached so high as to touch these two points, a person on the sands within the cove was caught as in a mousetrap, and the only means of extrication was by boat from the sea.

    Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873

  • For 11 years, the Mousetrap has been a mainstay of the D.C. dance scene, drawing both college students with giant Xes on their hands and 30-somethings who remember dancing to Blur's "Girls and Boys" back when it was a brand-new import CD.

    Nightlife Agenda 2010

  • My favorite one was called Mousetrap! and you'd spend all this time building this crazy-ass machine, and when someone landed on the wrong right? spot, a marble would roll out of a cup and initiate a chain reaction that would ultimately drop a little basket on the loser's little game token.

    An evening of intimacy and lessons from Snakes and Ladders Elizabeth McClung 2008

  • Perhaps even within the last few centuries the spot called Mousetrap Cove, scooped out of the peninsula on which the old church stands, was dry land.

    Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873

  • Briggs said The Mousetrap is a classic and was fun to read through the first time because it's a mystery.

    unknown title 2009

  • Take a look at the well known Milton Bradley board game and Rube Goldberg machine "Mousetrap".

    Critical Thinking Exercise: Bad Design 2010

  • Are we all markers in an existential version of "the well known Milton Bradley board game and Rube Goldberg machine 'Mousetrap'"?

    Critical Thinking Exercise: Bad Design 2010

  • Lefkow's "Mousetrap" boasts a Monkswell Manor with the right look of shabby gentility: comfy armchairs, a hearth in a wood-paneled wall, paintings in subdued hues, a window seat, and lots of doors and archways that a killer could slink through.

    1st Stage's 'Mousetrap' is a whodunit worth catching Celia Wren 2010

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