Dear Arachnes --
Possibly some Christmas present ideas from the Web here, easier than making
lace! :<)
Ricci
Utah
Twenty uses for useless CDs.
1) Buy clock guts from a craft shop and make CD-clocks.
2) <shuk shuk> PULL!!! <BOOM!> (plastic pigeons)
3) Deadly missiles, especially when sharpened first with a knife blade
and honed with the diamond-file thingy from your Leatherman.
4) Put fake new labels on them and give them away as "cool games" to
make the losers leave you alone.
5) Put fake new labels on them to make them seem really important.
Leave them around as decoys to prevent damage to your REALLY important
CDs.
6) Cut in half and sharpened as in item #3, they make curiously-shaped
knives.
7) Enlarge the holes and mount them on your glasses. Use as confusion
devices or as prizes to bribe people to leave you alone.
8) Using scotch tape, you can make a Jacob's Ladder thingy that flips
and flops all the way down.
9) Cut in half and connect to a neon-sign transformer to make a Jacob's
Ladder.
10) Place them in strategic locations to bounce a laser beam from your
desk to desks of various people who need to be tortured with lasers
being played all over them.
11) Use one or several to wedge a door shut.
12) When nobody's looking, thread them on various cables and replace the
cables.
13) Cut into bow-ties. Then with your pocket blowtorch, soften them and
twist. Caltrops!
14) Place them in light fixtures to cause irritating glares in strategic
locations.
15) Photocopy them.
16) Sharpen as in item #3 (serrate if desired) and mount on a Dremel for
use as a saw.
17) Cut four notches from outer edge to almost the inner circle. Heat
with pocket blowtorch until soft and mold into a rough cone of about
30 degrees. Keep the notches clear and hole intact. Stick this
gadget into something where a lot of air comes out really fast (like
a car exhause). Listen to the whistling noise.
18) There is no use #18.
19) Use your pocket blowtorch again to soften a CD and wrap it around a
doorknob, mouse, drawer handle, or other small object.
20) Use your pocket blowtorch yet again to form one into a saddle or
taco shape. Fasten to ceiling and pretend it's a spy camera.
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