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Re: It has been an explosive morning...

enhzflep5-Mar-15 19:24

enhzflep

5-Mar-15 19:24

Wow, gee this brings back memories. Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

I had a mate in high-school that was extremely studious, courteous and generally speaking - wouldn't say "boo" to a mouse. Boy oh boy, how appearances can be deceiving..

For the last lesson of Physics in year 12, he'd planned something with similar devices too. (they're sold as 'party poppers' here - the one's that resemble the shape of a champagne bottle. They contain the devices you show, but also have some streamers in them too)

The blackboards in the classroom were sliding units, 3 one-in-front of the other. You'd pull them all down to the bottom, write on one and then slide it up to the top of the track. He asked me to watch the corridor during recess so he could slip inside the room and "set up a little joke". Knowing John as well as I did, I figured it'd be pretty tame and obliged.

Since we were the next class to use the room, I not only had the pleasure of imagining what shenanigans he got up to, but also of anticipating the result. Remember, I still had absolutely no idea what he'd done..

About 15 minutes into the class the first board was filled-up and our poor teacher thrust it to the top of the rails with a gentle push. *BANG!* 20 startled heads looked up from their desks at the source of the noise, only to discover a falling cloud of streamers and that he'd raided his dad's collection of gentleman's magazines the night before and staring back at us was the centerfold of a Penthouse.

The look of horror on our teacher's face was priceless, as was the fact that the girls were laughing as much if not more than the guys were. I was prime suspect #1 but without any proof nothing further was done about it.

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In later years, I discovered (the hard way D'Oh! | :doh:

) the fun that can be had by putting sticky-tape over the optical sensor of computer mice. Fun that was only made 'better' by drawing on the black rubber mouse wheel with gel-ink.

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Product innovation idea of the day

Johnny J.4-Mar-15 20:41

Johnny J.

4-Mar-15 20:41

I just threw a pizza box from yesterday in the trash this morning, and then it came to me in a brilliant flash:

Why doesn't anybody make air freshener that smells of pizza? Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

Why does it always have to be boring sea or forrest or bloody meadow scent? Sigh | :sigh:

Goes for toothpaste as well by the way (that's the innovative thought of the day for tomorrow in advance): Why does it always have to be bleedin mint. Why not pizza there as well - or beer? Beer | [beer]

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