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21 Dec 2004 05:02:18 PM |
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OT: Prank |
I heard someone mention the use of Alum on one of our peers who has a
motormouth that could derail a diesel locomotive carting lead at full
throttle on a straightaway.
I did do a little googling, it's a chemical that comes in many forms
for industrial things, and I'm *not going to do anything that could
*possibly be hazardous to anyone even if I didn't like her.
But, while asking around, someone said there's a fruit that is so sour
that it has the same effect, that is of puckering the mouth such as to
make it impossible to talk for a little while.
The mental image of this person unable to talk has hurt my ribs and my
eyes are still dripping from the laughter.
Anyone know which fruit or food this is?
drift
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| User: "Robibnikoff" |
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| Title: Re: Prank |
21 Dec 2004 05:22:31 PM |
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<drift@lost.net> wrote in message
news:g5ahs05sf4lh5ibdndhur7tnkdl3fqp8ca@4ax.com...
I heard someone mention the use of Alum on one of our peers who has a
motormouth that could derail a diesel locomotive carting lead at full
throttle on a straightaway.
I did do a little googling, it's a chemical that comes in many forms
for industrial things, and I'm *not going to do anything that could
*possibly be hazardous to anyone even if I didn't like her.
But, while asking around, someone said there's a fruit that is so sour
that it has the same effect, that is of puckering the mouth such as to
make it impossible to talk for a little while.
The mental image of this person unable to talk has hurt my ribs and my
eyes are still dripping from the laughter.
Anyone know which fruit or food this is?
I don't know, but I do recall talkative cartoon characters getting slipped
Alum so their mouth would pucker up and they couldn't talk.
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Robyn
Resident Witchypoo
#1557
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22 Dec 2004 06:56:03 PM |
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On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 18:22:31 -0500, "Robibnikoff"
<witchypoo@broomstick.com> wrote:
<drift@lost.net> wrote in message
news:g5ahs05sf4lh5ibdndhur7tnkdl3fqp8ca@4ax.com...
I heard someone mention the use of Alum on one of our peers who has a
motormouth that could derail a diesel locomotive carting lead at full
throttle on a straightaway.
I did do a little googling, it's a chemical that comes in many forms
for industrial things, and I'm *not going to do anything that could
*possibly be hazardous to anyone even if I didn't like her.
But, while asking around, someone said there's a fruit that is so sour
that it has the same effect, that is of puckering the mouth such as to
make it impossible to talk for a little while.
The mental image of this person unable to talk has hurt my ribs and my
eyes are still dripping from the laughter.
Anyone know which fruit or food this is?
I don't know, but I do recall talkative cartoon characters getting slipped
Alum so their mouth would pucker up and they couldn't talk.
I think that's where the idea came from, may be as credible as the
cartoon's "vanishing cream" and other magic stuff, like being blown to
bits and survive. Hmmmmmm.... subliminal....... reli... g i o.......
NO!! I WON'T *not That! it didn't work then and it doesn't work now.
Phew!
But it would be a winner to disable this woman's mouth for a minute or
so. She's a bright, loveable young person who is not lazy, is an asset
to our department, but when you ask what time it is you could get a 3
hour monologue. Sometimes you get a newscast spontaneously, people
have shouted "shut up" to no avail.
Nothing derogatory, even she would find it funny and that in itself
would enhance the prank, as she would try to verbally express THAT.
:) :)
drift
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| User: "walksalone" |
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22 Dec 2004 10:24:10 PM |
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On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:56:03 -0500, wrote:
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 18:22:31 -0500, "Robibnikoff"
<witchypoo@broomstick.com> wrote:
< > wrote in message
news:g5ahs05sf4lh5ibdndhur7tnkdl3fqp8ca@4ax.com...
I heard someone mention the use of Alum on one of our peers who has a
motormouth that could derail a diesel locomotive carting lead at full
throttle on a straightaway.
I did do a little googling, it's a chemical that comes in many forms
for industrial things, and I'm *not going to do anything that could
*possibly be hazardous to anyone even if I didn't like her.
But, while asking around, someone said there's a fruit that is so sour
that it has the same effect, that is of puckering the mouth such as to
make it impossible to talk for a little while.
The mental image of this person unable to talk has hurt my ribs and my
eyes are still dripping from the laughter.
Anyone know which fruit or food this is?
I don't know, but I do recall talkative cartoon characters getting slipped
Alum so their mouth would pucker up and they couldn't talk.
I think that's where the idea came from, may be as credible as the
cartoon's "vanishing cream" and other magic stuff, like being blown to
bits and survive. Hmmmmmm.... subliminal....... reli... g i o.......
NO!! I WON'T *not That! it didn't work then and it doesn't work now.
Phew!
But it would be a winner to disable this woman's mouth for a minute or
so. She's a bright, loveable young person who is not lazy, is an asset
to our department, but when you ask what time it is you could get a 3
hour monologue. Sometimes you get a newscast spontaneously, people
have shouted "shut up" to no avail.
Nothing derogatory, even she would find it funny and that in itself
would enhance the prank, as she would try to verbally express THAT.
Green persimmon, & don't ask.
:) :)
drift
walksalone who notes, green persimmon is not toxic in any way he has ever
heard of, but with it, you can even kiss Aunt Lou.
--
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more
and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and
glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire
at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
-H.L. Mencken, journalist and satirist (1880 - 1956)
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| User: "" |
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23 Dec 2004 05:30:29 PM |
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On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 22:24:10 -0600, walksalone <spam@fcc.gov> wrote:
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:56:03 -0500, wrote:
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 18:22:31 -0500, "Robibnikoff"
<witchypoo@broomstick.com> wrote:
< > wrote in message
news:g5ahs05sf4lh5ibdndhur7tnkdl3fqp8ca@4ax.com...
I heard someone mention the use of Alum on one of our peers who has a
motormouth that could derail a diesel locomotive carting lead at full
throttle on a straightaway.
I did do a little googling, it's a chemical that comes in many forms
for industrial things, and I'm *not going to do anything that could
*possibly be hazardous to anyone even if I didn't like her.
But, while asking around, someone said there's a fruit that is so sour
that it has the same effect, that is of puckering the mouth such as to
make it impossible to talk for a little while.
The mental image of this person unable to talk has hurt my ribs and my
eyes are still dripping from the laughter.
Anyone know which fruit or food this is?
I don't know, but I do recall talkative cartoon characters getting slipped
Alum so their mouth would pucker up and they couldn't talk.
I think that's where the idea came from, may be as credible as the
cartoon's "vanishing cream" and other magic stuff, like being blown to
bits and survive. Hmmmmmm.... subliminal....... reli... g i o.......
NO!! I WON'T *not That! it didn't work then and it doesn't work now.
Phew!
But it would be a winner to disable this woman's mouth for a minute or
so. She's a bright, loveable young person who is not lazy, is an asset
to our department, but when you ask what time it is you could get a 3
hour monologue. Sometimes you get a newscast spontaneously, people
have shouted "shut up" to no avail.
Nothing derogatory, even she would find it funny and that in itself
would enhance the prank, as she would try to verbally express THAT.
Green persimmon, & don't ask.
:) :)
drift
walksalone who notes, green persimmon is not toxic in any way he has ever
heard of, but with it, you can even kiss Aunt Lou.
Thanks!
drift
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| User: "Tak" |
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27 Dec 2004 01:09:20 PM |
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On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 18:22:31 -0500, "Robibnikoff"
<witchypoo@broomstick.com> wrote:
But, while asking around, someone said there's a fruit that is so sour
that it has the same effect, that is of puckering the mouth such as to
make it impossible to talk for a little while.
The Persimmon.
http://www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/persimmon.html
Tak
a#344
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| User: "" |
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27 Dec 2004 07:16:10 PM |
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On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 13:09:20 -0600, Tak
<notanemail@youspambastards.com> wrote:
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 18:22:31 -0500, "Robibnikoff"
<witchypoo@broomstick.com> wrote:
But, while asking around, someone said there's a fruit that is so sour
that it has the same effect, that is of puckering the mouth such as to
make it impossible to talk for a little while.
The Persimmon.
http://www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/persimmon.html
Tak
a#344
Thanks, Tak, I have referred the info to yet another co-worker who is
a very creative chef (and a big eater) if there's an edible anything,
he'll find it.
Thanks again.
drift
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| User: "Fred Stone" |
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21 Dec 2004 05:41:28 PM |
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wrote in news:g5ahs05sf4lh5ibdndhur7tnkdl3fqp8ca@4ax.com:
I heard someone mention the use of Alum on one of our peers who has a
motormouth that could derail a diesel locomotive carting lead at full
throttle on a straightaway.
I did do a little googling, it's a chemical that comes in many forms
for industrial things, and I'm *not going to do anything that could
*possibly be hazardous to anyone even if I didn't like her.
Food-grade alum is used in the making of some kinds of pickles.
http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/malum.html
But, while asking around, someone said there's a fruit that is so sour
that it has the same effect, that is of puckering the mouth such as to
make it impossible to talk for a little while.
The mental image of this person unable to talk has hurt my ribs and my
eyes are still dripping from the laughter.
Anyone know which fruit or food this is?
Persimmon is one possibility. Particularly a not-quite-ripe fruit of an
astringent variety.
http://www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/persimmon.html
--
Fred Stone
aa# 1369
Support bacteria! That's all the culture many people will ever have.
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| User: "" |
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22 Dec 2004 06:59:58 PM |
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On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 23:41:28 +0000 (UTC), Fred Stone
<fstone69@earthling.com> wrote:
I heard someone mention the use of Alum on one of our peers who has a
motormouth that could derail a diesel locomotive carting lead at full
throttle on a straightaway.
I did do a little googling, it's a chemical that comes in many forms
for industrial things, and I'm *not going to do anything that could
*possibly be hazardous to anyone even if I didn't like her.
Food-grade alum is used in the making of some kinds of pickles.
http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/malum.html
But, while asking around, someone said there's a fruit that is so sour
that it has the same effect, that is of puckering the mouth such as to
make it impossible to talk for a little while.
The mental image of this person unable to talk has hurt my ribs and my
eyes are still dripping from the laughter.
Anyone know which fruit or food this is?
Persimmon is one possibility. Particularly a not-quite-ripe fruit of an
astringent variety.
http://www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/persimmon.html
Thanks, Fred!!
drift
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| User: "Robibnikoff" |
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22 Dec 2004 07:19:06 PM |
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<drift@lost.net> wrote in message
news:346ks0djphn9p92c6ho26tvhrfjri79c5s@4ax.com...
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 23:41:28 +0000 (UTC), Fred Stone
<fstone69@earthling.com> wrote:
I heard someone mention the use of Alum on one of our peers who has a
motormouth that could derail a diesel locomotive carting lead at full
throttle on a straightaway.
I did do a little googling, it's a chemical that comes in many forms
for industrial things, and I'm *not going to do anything that could
*possibly be hazardous to anyone even if I didn't like her.
Food-grade alum is used in the making of some kinds of pickles.
http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/malum.html
But, while asking around, someone said there's a fruit that is so sour
that it has the same effect, that is of puckering the mouth such as to
make it impossible to talk for a little while.
The mental image of this person unable to talk has hurt my ribs and my
eyes are still dripping from the laughter.
Anyone know which fruit or food this is?
Persimmon is one possibility. Particularly a not-quite-ripe fruit of an
astringent variety.
http://www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/persimmon.html
Thanks, Fred!!
If it comes right down to it, there's always the staple gun :)
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Robyn
Resident Witchypoo
#1557
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| User: "" |
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23 Dec 2004 05:44:41 PM |
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On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:19:06 -0500, "Robibnikoff"
<witchypoo@broomstick.com> wrote:
<drift@lost.net> wrote in message
news:346ks0djphn9p92c6ho26tvhrfjri79c5s@4ax.com...
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 23:41:28 +0000 (UTC), Fred Stone
<fstone69@earthling.com> wrote:
I heard someone mention the use of Alum on one of our peers who has a
motormouth that could derail a diesel locomotive carting lead at full
throttle on a straightaway.
I did do a little googling, it's a chemical that comes in many forms
for industrial things, and I'm *not going to do anything that could
*possibly be hazardous to anyone even if I didn't like her.
Food-grade alum is used in the making of some kinds of pickles.
http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/malum.html
But, while asking around, someone said there's a fruit that is so sour
that it has the same effect, that is of puckering the mouth such as to
make it impossible to talk for a little while.
The mental image of this person unable to talk has hurt my ribs and my
eyes are still dripping from the laughter.
Anyone know which fruit or food this is?
Persimmon is one possibility. Particularly a not-quite-ripe fruit of an
astringent variety.
http://www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/persimmon.html
Thanks, Fred!!
If it comes right down to it, there's always the staple gun :)
Or Saran Wrap over the toilet bowl. But nobody would be able to
witness the prank.
Once, I put a glass ampule of hydrogen sulfide under the toilet seat
in the basement at work. When someone sat, it broke, and 7 floors up,
the cafeteria was cleared due to the smell. Imagine thinking it was
your own fart that did that!!
NAHH - nothing that could possibly actually cause damage. We all like
this girl. This is all for fun.
But:
Staple gun may be a good self defense device, I'm sure they make gas
(CO2)-charged ones. Not illegal - could out-do a stun-gun since you
still have to make body contact. Remember that a knee bent in a way it
wasn't designed to can be effective, too.
Then there's the Hilti fastener, powered by a .22 charge. But I
digress and disgust, I'm sure!!
::)
drift
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| User: "stoney" |
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24 Dec 2004 01:18:32 PM |
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On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 18:44:41 -0500, wrote:
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:19:06 -0500, "Robibnikoff"
<witchypoo@broomstick.com> wrote:
< > wrote in message
news:346ks0djphn9p92c6ho26tvhrfjri79c5s@4ax.com...
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 23:41:28 +0000 (UTC), Fred Stone
<fstone69@earthling.com> wrote:
I heard someone mention the use of Alum on one of our peers who has a
motormouth that could derail a diesel locomotive carting lead at full
throttle on a straightaway.
I did do a little googling, it's a chemical that comes in many forms
for industrial things, and I'm *not going to do anything that could
*possibly be hazardous to anyone even if I didn't like her.
Food-grade alum is used in the making of some kinds of pickles.
http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/malum.html
But, while asking around, someone said there's a fruit that is so sour
that it has the same effect, that is of puckering the mouth such as to
make it impossible to talk for a little while.
The mental image of this person unable to talk has hurt my ribs and my
eyes are still dripping from the laughter.
Anyone know which fruit or food this is?
Persimmon is one possibility. Particularly a not-quite-ripe fruit of an
astringent variety.
http://www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/persimmon.html
Thanks, Fred!!
If it comes right down to it, there's always the staple gun :)
Or Saran Wrap over the toilet bowl. But nobody would be able to
witness the prank.
I'm sure you'd certainly hear it! :)
[]
--
Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Hello, theocracy with a fundamentalist US Supreme
Court who will ensure church and state are joined
at the hip like clergy and altar boys.
America 1776-Jan 2001 RIP
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| User: "John Popelish" |
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21 Dec 2004 06:38:55 PM |
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wrote:
I heard someone mention the use of Alum on one of our peers who has a
motormouth that could derail a diesel locomotive carting lead at full
throttle on a straightaway.
I did do a little googling, it's a chemical that comes in many forms
for industrial things, and I'm *not going to do anything that could
*possibly be hazardous to anyone even if I didn't like her.
But, while asking around, someone said there's a fruit that is so sour
that it has the same effect, that is of puckering the mouth such as to
make it impossible to talk for a little while.
The mental image of this person unable to talk has hurt my ribs and my
eyes are still dripping from the laughter.
Anyone know which fruit or food this is?
drift
Some kinds of alum are sold in the grocery store in the pickle canning
section.
The fruit that turns the mouth into a puckered pore, lined with
elastic rubber saliva is the persimmon, but you have to get it before
it feels a frost. After that it is cloyingly sweet.
--
John Popelish
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| User: "" |
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22 Dec 2004 07:15:53 PM |
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On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 19:38:55 -0500, John Popelish <jpopelish@rica.net>
wrote:
drift@lost.net wrote:
I heard someone mention the use of Alum on one of our peers who has a
motormouth that could derail a diesel locomotive carting lead at full
throttle on a straightaway.
I did do a little googling, it's a chemical that comes in many forms
for industrial things, and I'm *not going to do anything that could
*possibly be hazardous to anyone even if I didn't like her.
But, while asking around, someone said there's a fruit that is so sour
that it has the same effect, that is of puckering the mouth such as to
make it impossible to talk for a little while.
The mental image of this person unable to talk has hurt my ribs and my
eyes are still dripping from the laughter.
Anyone know which fruit or food this is?
drift
Some kinds of alum are sold in the grocery store in the pickle canning
section.
The fruit that turns the mouth into a puckered pore, lined with
elastic rubber saliva is the persimmon, but you have to get it before
it feels a frost. After that it is cloyingly sweet.
Thanks, John!
drift
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| User: "Glenn Arnold" |
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21 Dec 2004 08:04:57 PM |
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wrote:
I heard someone mention the use of Alum on one of our peers who has a
motormouth that could derail a diesel locomotive carting lead at full
throttle on a straightaway.
I did do a little googling, it's a chemical that comes in many forms
for industrial things, and I'm *not going to do anything that could
*possibly be hazardous to anyone even if I didn't like her.
But, while asking around, someone said there's a fruit that is so sour
that it has the same effect, that is of puckering the mouth such as to
make it impossible to talk for a little while.
The mental image of this person unable to talk has hurt my ribs and my
eyes are still dripping from the laughter.
Anyone know which fruit or food this is?
The first thing that comes to mind is: Dumb Cane, Scientific Name:
Dieffenbachia. A common house plant.
Causes throat tissue to swell inducing a sort of chemical laryngitis.
Considered poisonous. Probably more dangerous than food grade alum.
Glenn Arnold
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| User: "" |
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22 Dec 2004 07:20:13 PM |
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On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 21:04:57 -0500, Glenn Arnold <oldnoah@att.net>
wrote:
drift@lost.net wrote:
I heard someone mention the use of Alum on one of our peers who has a
motormouth that could derail a diesel locomotive carting lead at full
throttle on a straightaway.
I did do a little googling, it's a chemical that comes in many forms
for industrial things, and I'm *not going to do anything that could
*possibly be hazardous to anyone even if I didn't like her.
But, while asking around, someone said there's a fruit that is so sour
that it has the same effect, that is of puckering the mouth such as to
make it impossible to talk for a little while.
The mental image of this person unable to talk has hurt my ribs and my
eyes are still dripping from the laughter.
Anyone know which fruit or food this is?
The first thing that comes to mind is: Dumb Cane, Scientific Name:
Dieffenbachia. A common house plant.
Causes throat tissue to swell inducing a sort of chemical laryngitis.
Considered poisonous. Probably more dangerous than food grade alum.
Glenn Arnold
Thanks for the info, Glenn. Now I know *not to use Dieffenbachia
because the last thing I'd want to do is any harm.
drift
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| User: "Dubh Ghall" |
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22 Dec 2004 10:39:52 AM |
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On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 18:02:18 -0500, wrote:
I heard someone mention the use of Alum on one of our peers who has a
motormouth that could derail a diesel locomotive carting lead at full
throttle on a straightaway.
I did do a little googling, it's a chemical that comes in many forms
for industrial things, and I'm *not going to do anything that could
*possibly be hazardous to anyone even if I didn't like her.
But, while asking around, someone said there's a fruit that is so sour
that it has the same effect, that is of puckering the mouth such as to
make it impossible to talk for a little while.
The mental image of this person unable to talk has hurt my ribs and my
eyes are still dripping from the laughter.
Anyone know which fruit or food this is?
I don't know about fruit, but a house plant (depending where you live, I
suppose) called dumb cane, which has the same effects.
http://www.aspca.org/toxicplants/M01860.htm
http://www.aspca.org/toxicplants/M01929.htm
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/interiorscape/diffenbachiahilo.html
(Or put "dumb cane" , into your browser.
OTOH, you could send her some really sticky toffee, and not only mute her, but
puzzle the heck out of her at the same time. (:-)
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| User: "" |
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22 Dec 2004 07:26:37 PM |
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On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 16:39:52 GMT, Dubh Ghall <puck@pooks.hill.fey>
wrote:
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 18:02:18 -0500, wrote:
I heard someone mention the use of Alum on one of our peers who has a
motormouth that could derail a diesel locomotive carting lead at full
throttle on a straightaway.
I did do a little googling, it's a chemical that comes in many forms
for industrial things, and I'm *not going to do anything that could
*possibly be hazardous to anyone even if I didn't like her.
But, while asking around, someone said there's a fruit that is so sour
that it has the same effect, that is of puckering the mouth such as to
make it impossible to talk for a little while.
The mental image of this person unable to talk has hurt my ribs and my
eyes are still dripping from the laughter.
Anyone know which fruit or food this is?
I don't know about fruit, but a house plant (depending where you live, I
suppose) called dumb cane, which has the same effects.
http://www.aspca.org/toxicplants/M01860.htm
http://www.aspca.org/toxicplants/M01929.htm
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/interiorscape/diffenbachiahilo.html
(Or put "dumb cane" , into your browser.
OTOH, you could send her some really sticky toffee, and not only mute her, but
puzzle the heck out of her at the same time. (:-)
Thanks, Dubh. That's a good alternative, as the toxicity of dumb cane
goes beyond a prank.
Pranks, in my view, must be absolutely non-hazardous.
I don't even consider harming the few people who I could think of as
enemies. Someone else will take care of them someday, while I stay in
the positive loop.
drift
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