Oh yeah, our chemistry teacher, in 11th grade, was making pure hydrogen adding sulfuric acid to zinc, I believe.  He filtered it through some calcium carbonate and wanted to show how pure hydrogen was not super flammable unlike hydrogen mixed with oxygen.  Anyway, the calcium carbonate tube was stoppered with those rubber stoppers that bounce like super balls.  It had a tiny hole for the "pure" hydrogen to exit.  The teacher got the acid and zinc going and we waited for a few minutes to supposedly allow the calcium carbonate tube fill with only hydrogen.  He lit the end of it, and POW! that calcium carbonate tube exploded and the rubber stopper went bouncing all over the room like ricochet rabbit.  Everyone dove for cover.  Thank goodness no one was injured.  Ahhhh, good times!  

benjoshua wrote:like ricochet rabbit.   

Hmmm....  I see a new nickname in the works....  

ashmire13 wrote:'ricochet rabbit' now thats a blast from the  past, wasnt that a 70's cartoon?

According to Wikipedia:

Ricochet Rabbit (voiced by Don Messick) worked as a sheriff in a Western setting called Hoop 'n' Holler. Ricochet, true to his name, would bounce off all the walls yelling "bing-bing-bing!" His deputy Droop-A-Long Coyote (voiced by Mel Blanc) was never able to be as "jumpy" and would end up crashing through a window.

In addition to his speed, Ricochet was known for using trick bullets against his opponents (for example, a bullet that would stop in mid-flight and hover while striking the bad guy with an impossibly oversized mallet, or exploding after inside bigger compartments of the bullet).

Ricochet Rabbit's catchphrase consisted of three quick bings; "Bing, bing, BING!", followed by him referring to himself in the third person; "Ricochet Rabbit!"

He first appeared in 1963 but most of the episodes appeared in '64 & '65. I am dating myself, aren't I?  

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0377198727



The description on this auction is priceless.  At least shipping is free.  

#1488 in a series of "These are the morons running your school system, can we get vouchers?"

http://www.parentdish.com/2010/02/05/kid-almost-suspended-for-bringing-tiny-toy-gun-to-school

Mike B.

Totally leftfield and un-RPG-related, but would it be possible for one of you US guys to do me a favour.

I own a PS3, but can't purchase anything from the US store. To do so, I need to buy a PSN card, but can't seem to get them shipped to me in the UK.

If I pay one of you guys, who then purchase the card, you could then email me the code from the card for me to then use.

Anyone willing/able to help? If you can, drop me a PM please (I think a few of you chaps dabble in the PS world anyway don't you??)  

Cheers
Dave

Another reason to despise American Airlines:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35302270/ns ... ?gt1=43001

They keep this up, in a couple of years it will cost ten bucks just to take a crap on a domestic flight.  Fifteen dollars if its international.  

This should be good:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,585143,00.html

I dont understand why Iran doesn't just come out and tell everyone what they plan to do like the U.S. does by dropping tens of thousands of leaflets over the Afghan countryside to let them know that we are planning an offensive.  Now the militants are going to hide in plain sight with the rest of the populace which will make it really hard to find and kill them.  I wasnt in the military so I dont believe I have the necessary experience to form the opinion that doing so is really stupid.  

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35293212/ns ... tral_asia/

Maybe our military leaders are hoping that the local populace will rat out the Taliban for us.  Did our government not learn anything during Vietnam?  

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/3 ... 04595.html

D'oh....

sauromatian wrote:
We're still in Afghanistan, so no.

Yes, they did. As General Smedley Butler wrote, "War is a Racket".

War means profits. The longer the war, the more the profit. It's not for 'patriotism' or 'protecting the world from X', its about 'they have something we want, and we have the means to take it'. Always has been. Always will be.

Thumbing your nose at the 'powahs what is' and wishing to remain an independent nation instead of a puppet state are evil things to multi-national corporate interests.