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- From: reid@ucs.indiana.edu (Frank Reid)
- Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
- Subject: Restaurant shenanigans (straw wrappers)
- Summary: kid stuff
- Keywords: worms, missiles
- Message-ID: <reid.52.728083933@ucs.indiana.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 21:32:14 GMT
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- Organization: Indiana University
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- from _FM 6-66: TRICKS, NASTY_ by Kentucky Jones:
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-
- Paper wrappers of plastic drinking-straws have several uncouth
- applications:
-
- WORMS-- Tear off one end of the straw wrapper. Carefully
- scrunch the paper down to the other end, trying not to split the
- seam. Remove the compressed paper from the straw.
-
- Using the straw as a pipette, transfer a puddle of beverage
- (about 1" [2cm] diameter) to the table top. By now, your
- associates are wondering what's going to happen.
-
- Drop the paper in the liquid and watch it squirm!
-
- Kids love this! My Victorian maiden aunt Martha taught it to me
- during a rare lapse.
-
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-
- A better-known shenanigan with straw wrappers is to launch them
- as missiles. Tear off one end, blow into the straw. If you
- first dip the forward end of the wrapper into something sticky
- (ketchup, mashed potatoes/gravy, etc), the extra weight and
- modified center of gravity makes it fly farther and straighter,
- and it will stick to the ceiling!
-
- --
-
- Frank reid@ucs.indiana.edu
-