Another favorite pastime was digging a tunnel under his home; he attributed the secret of his success to “visits by elves” while he worked in the tunnel: “While I’m digging in the tunnel, the elves will often come to me with solutions to my problem.”

Wikipedia cited a rather entertaining Time article as a citation for this.

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He Cray.

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Cray!

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Who doesn’t understand the urge to dig?

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The children yearn for the mines, but many of us lose that sense of wonder as we get older.

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TIL I’m a 30 year old child

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Thank god the Republicans are ushering in a new era of children working mines

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“It’s Adam and Sneezy, not Adam and Stevey!”

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My wife, unfortunately.

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My wife wanted to go mining for her birthday. We’re sitting in a hotel five hours from home right now after a lovely Day swinging picks and with a bucket of rock to show for it.

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I wonder if he is at all related to Colin Furze (who also seems to love digging under his house)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp68_FLety0O-n9QU6phsgw

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Hehe, I was about to mention Colin. XD

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Something, something, a series of tubes.

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I remember sitting on the Y’s bench :)

Who else?

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