Pointless ExperimentsPavlov's Frog writes: I once spent 20 minutes with my eyes closed to see what it was like being blind. I smashed my knee on the kitchen cupboard, and decided I'd be better off deaf as you can still watch television.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 12:00)
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SlugtricityEXPERIMENT 1: Summer 1981
EQUIPMENT: Empty matchbox, tin/aluminium foil, 1.5V D-size Duracell, battery holder, 2 x crocodile clip leads (1 red, 1 black), 3cm copper rod, slug.
METHOD: Use empty matchbox "drawer", line with foil. Connect foil to one side of battery using crocodile clip lead. Connect other terminal to copper rod. Insert slug into tray. Prod slug with copper rod.
RESULTS: Pissed off looking slug with a horrible criss-crossed network of ugly white scars. No spasming muscles, like the frog's leg we did in biology last week.
CONCLUSION: Edison had much more fun with an elephant and high-voltage AC electricity.
EXPERIMENT 2: Summer 1981 (a bit later)
EQUIPMENT: Snail, heavy duty ceramic door knob, bangers from France smuggled back from school trip.
METHOD: Place banger in hole running through door knob. Light banger. Place snail on top of hole. Retire to safe distance.
RESULTS: The amazing disappearing snail trick.
CONCLUSION: There will never be a snail in space, as the acceleration required to leave the earth's gravitational field turns them into a sort of flaky grey snow.
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Doctor When May your wife shat and chipper, Fri 25 Jul 2008, 15:56,
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experiment 3, Summer 1997trying to listen to the Babbling Brook talk about his sex tourism trip to Amsterdam without retching.
I expect having glasses people would say 'you have an enquiring, if unconventional mind for a youngster' and not 'this one'll end up in Borstal' :-)
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Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Fri 25 Jul 2008, 16:06,
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