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                        | Created by Captian Generic |
                        | With Help from The Genetic |
                        | Mishap.  This File Created |
                        | November 24th, 1986, 19:08 |
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     Please bear with me, as the construction of this box will seem rather 
     silly.  This box was found in a construction site.  Or rather, it found 
     us at a construction site.  We were using a $5 Radio Shack phone out of 
     a semi-completed office building.  One afternoon during a holiday, and 
     immediately following a storm, we found our bus in shambles.  To our 
     suprise, we also found that one of the phone connections we were tapping 
     had been draped through a murky puddle.  The fact that suprised us even 
     more was that this line still worked and now posessed some great 
     capibilities.

Materials:

2 tupperware or similar 8oz contianers
1 small bag earth (dirt) (12oz)
1 pint water
2 lantern batteries
1 nine volt battery
1 battery clip
2 SPST switches
4 ounces of iron shavings
2 polar magnets
5 feet wire
1 set soldering equipment

     This is the part you won't believe.  Take the tupperware containers, and 
     fill them with a mixture of the earth and the iron shavings.  Make sure 
     that the mixture is well done.  (*NOTE* for best results, use the sand in 
     fine ash trays.)  Cut the cut the red and green wires and splice the 
     switches into them.  From the switches, solder wire to the magnets.  
     Connect the red to the + (positive) side of one magnet, and the green to 
     the - (negative) side of the second magnet.  From the other poles of the 
     magnet, solder wires the battery & clip.  Make sure the + (positive) and 
     - (negative) are correct.  Set the nine-volt battery between the two 
     tupperware containers and place the battery end of the two magnets into 
     the tupperware.  Now connect wire to the two poles of the lantern 
     battery, and place them in the same containers as the poles of the 
     magnets/9-volt battery.  You are almost done.  Finally, add just enough 
     water to the two pots, and let them sit in the sun and bake like bricks.
     at this point, you have a MAUVE BOX.

Explaning and Using What You Have:

     The red and green wires have been places into a magnetic field which is 
     being charged continually be a lantern battery.  (It is necessary to 
     change this battery every one to one and a half months.)  This will 
     literaly pull in the nearest phone conversatiion.  (Don't try this in a 
     big apartment or dorm.)  When the 9-volt battery is connected, this will 
     now create enough current for the poles of the magnets to reverse 
     themselves (perhaps you're seen Mr. Wizard do this.  It's just like with 
     the soap).  At this point, you have a phone transmitting to one (if not 
     more) of the nearest phones.  (Again, if you're in a dorm, don't try 
     this.)  I suppose this just accomplishes what a tap would do, but with a 
     MAUVE BOX, your fingerprints never will show on a terminal or on 
     someones telephone lines.  

Notes and Addendum:

     This will only work with a touch-tone phone connected to a phone line.  
     When the switches are pulled, it's off your line and into the air.  This 
     is named a MAUVE BOX, becuase this is the most disgusting box, and I find 
     mauve to be the single most disgusting colour I know of.  Also, this file 
     is for information purposes only.  This is not to be used in an illegal 
     mannar.  Perhaps one of these by the pool, sending to your sethe co-author, accept no 
     responsibility for your actions with the MAUVE BOX.  Thank you...