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that gate just as the pilot wished him a very pleasant flight. Outside the gate, he waits for his flight...which is only getting kicked off the same high cliff where the king kicked off all his scientists several years ago. The short ends with the line his the king saying, "Nope, still not got it."
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The scene then switch to a "certain country" where a "certain king" gathers his finest scientists at a research center on a high cliff to try and break the flight barrier, but all the king does is kick the scientists off a high cliff all the while loudly commanding "FLY!". But on July 27, 1643, it
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to lift him up into the air. From below, people watch in astonishment, while one elderly woman throws bread crumbs on the pavement, muttering, "Nice little birdies." This ends the man's flight, as the gulls dive bomb to the ground.
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attempts flying by flapping his wings, only to land on top of his sheep. Another man constructs a suit shaped like a bird to fly, only to crash upon leaping off a cliff.
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