Exploding film container curtain horror
Its fun and simple to make, just get on old 35mm film container, puncture a hole through the lid and push two bits of wire through the hole and seal any gaps with blu-tac.

Bend the wires so the ends point at each other with a small gap in between them ('bout 5mm should do it). Attach the other ends to the contacts of a piezo unit ripped from a used clicky flintless lighter, and you ready to go.

Get the deoderant that you got last christmas as part of a toiletries set, you know the one that smells like tramps piss, or lynx atlantis if you can't find that particular brand. Spray a short burst into the cannister and quickly seal it with the lid wire combo. Aim away from your face and click the lighter piezo. All being well the deoderant should ignite with an audible pop propelling the cannister a short distance.

Now if you don't get it right, like i did, you'll proabably keep spraying deoderant into the cannister and trying to re-ignite it until it does. This is approximately after you've emptied half the can into the incendiary bastard. Then instead of an audible pop, you get a door rattling bang, and instead of it going a short distance it will flying across your Uni halls room before embedding itself in the blackout curtains Unis seems to bedeck all student rooms with.

It's then with horror that you will realise that all the residue from the half can of atlantis is merrily burning away with a bright blue flame out the back of the cannister directly onto curtains you do not own.

You'll probably scream like a girl and have visions of dying in the ensuing inferno, or jus probably run and try and put the fiery twunt out, hopefully without too much damage. With a bit of luck your room will smell like melted draylon and lynx atlantis for the rest of the semester.

The following year I graduated to trying the above with pringles tubes, doesn't work as well.
(northern seth back is giving him jip again, Mon 7 Nov 2005, 13:49, Reply)