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This is too funny not to share. Last weekend my friend (Gordon Miner) and I attended the John Blue Cotton Festival with our model engines exhibits. My Otto-Langen model was front and center of my exhibit and it ran pretty much the whole day with only occasional stops to check to see that no potential problems were brewing. With all those hours of running I met some interesting people who had some interesting comments. I’ll share one of them with you.This guy walks up and says “That’s the funniest pump I’ve ever seen”.I politely informed him that it wasn’t a pump at all but rather it was a model of the first successful internal combustion engine, the full size built by two German inventors in the 1860’s. As he (I thought) intently listened, shaking his head (I thought) to indicating that he grasp what I was saying I continued to give him details regarding the original full size engine as well as details regarding the model he was viewing. (With 24 years at an educational institution I guess I’m still looking for that “teachable moment”). When I finished my explanation he thanked me. Walking away and shaking his head I heard him mumble, “Funniest pump I ever saw”.