chewing gum art. http://www.flickr.com/photos/rahid1/sets/286517/
http://www.gumblondes.com/main.html Harry ----- Original Message ---- > From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <[email protected]> > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > Sent: Wed, June 22, 2011 8:41:26 PM > Subject: Re: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea... > > At 03:21 PM 6/22/2011, Terry Blanton wrote: > > > I don't know if her life is more enjoyable, but her path to the > > theatre is longer. Quoting: "Eeew, that's nasty!" > > Normal girl. > > I found a large spider dead on my bathroom floor, and showed it to my two > young >daughters. Both of them recoiled. It really was a large spider, very ugly. Or >... hey, very beautiful, it's all in how it's framed! Both of them were >interested to see the leg under the microscope. "Daddy, it's way cool that you >have a microscope!" > > So ... gum on the ground, notice how the gum is more plentiful the closer you >get to the waste container. You could teach statistics with this, just right >for >a certain age; the gross factor would actually increase interest. I think it's >great to get kids over this hump of instinctive revulsion. After all, there >are >reasons to be instinctively "jumpy" about a large spider, but no reason to >fear >it once you know it's dead. No reason to get upset over that gum, unless you >are >tasked with cleaning it up! > > And then you give them the right tools and suggest that they approach the >theater to get paid to clean it up.... I could imagine a nice little >contract.... All it would take is a little research into what works with gum >on >that surface. And they can wear gloves. > > And then they start to see the world as being full of interesting stuff and >opportunities. > >
