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skyhook (thing)

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by mneek

Sun Dec 31 2000 at 1:56:18

In Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, skyhooks are, according to Willy Wonka, what hold the Great Glass Elevator in the air. They can be damaged by vermicious knids.

Skyhooks	Left-handed smoke-shifter	space elevator	aerogel
Exquisite Dead Guy	spineshank	Sikorsky Skycrane	mother ship
jerkin	Prince Xizor	rotavator	tartan paint
Jane's Fighting Nodes	centrifugal force	Snipe Hunting	webhook
Uncle Panic's Sugar Nodeshells	E2 Annex	The Need for Speed	SA-10 Grumble
Mowing at night	glam rock

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