While we're on the subject of borrowing and stealing ideas, let's look at prior art for the award-winning dog crap plastinization idea we mentioned yesterday.
A blogger who goes by the handle "Sciatica" found this Al Jaffee comic from a 1975 issue of Mad that is almost exactly the same idea as WeiWei He, Chuan Shi and Wen Ying Lu's "Dog Poo Spray."
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