I have a friend
who, amazingly, has grown into a well rounded individual. When we were wee tots, you could quite easily have imagined him growing into some sort of serial murderer. As a matter of fact I haven't seen him for a while so it might be the case, but I digress.

My mate was very fond of experiments. He once made home made alcohol (we were about 14 at the time) and when he discovered the resulting "liquid" was an undrinkable yeasty poison, poured it in some grass across from his house. All 2 litres of it. The whole street reeked of yeast for two weeks.

But his best experiment ever was the one which makes me think he may have a secret stash of dead bodies somewhere. I had gone to his house one day to play his PC. "Wait til I show you this" he grinned, between hula hoops and led me to the kitchen. Opening the freezer, he reached in and pulled out a plastic box misted over with frost. Opening it, he reached in and carefully lifted out a frozen daddy long legs (cranefly, not the spider. Or jenny meggy as we call them). He carefully transported his frozen subject to the kitchen worktop, where he produced a square battery and two wires. He proceeded, in silence, to attach the wires to the battery and attempt to revive the still frost jenny meggy.

I stood there aghast as he said "I haven't managed it yet...."

I suspect by now he has a chest freezer.
( baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Fri 25 Jul 2008, 15:43, Reply)