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Awesome. Thank goodness they have enough time waiting for the next job to develop this important skill set. American ingenuity at its best.


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As somebody quite proficient at launching pennies from my digits I can appreciate how these skills come about. Not trying to come down on them so much as enjoy it for how funny it is! :)

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Imagine what he could do with a laser!

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This reminds me of the awesome skill I learned in architectural school of throwing push pins across the room and sticking them in tackboard or a wall...or someone's backside. Anybody else learn that one?

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Bill, I don't see how that is possible unless you had rubber bands!

in my spare time, of which there is so little, I occasionally go to this site in order to improve my eye/hand coordination:

http://www.tredz.co.uk/game.aspx

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John - It works best with the silver push pins with the longer point. You lay it across your middle finger on the first joint with the point toward your pinky. Then, keeping your palm facing upward, you give it an underhand/side arm throw, kind of like skipping a stone. That makes it spin properly. you can get it to stick nearly every time. With practice, you can get deadly accurate. Well, sort of accurate.

Let's get together for some push pin throwing. You can hold a balloon in your teeth and I can pop it from across the room. It will be so awesome. I'll bring the economy sized box of band-aids. We can put it on YouTube.

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nice technique!!!!

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I recall that a freshman or sophomore class had a project involving ping pong balls and string.

One morning the rest of us showed up for class and got a great surprise.
They strung up the four story atrium at TAMU with long double string troughs for the pong balls to glide down to the ground floor and then were shot up through taped together paper towel cores powered by hair dryers for a sort of 'perpetual motion' machine.

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Oh, those were the days when design was fun.

Another useless thing we did was to make blow guns out of the tubes from tracing paper. (bumwad, if you will). You had to use the smaller tubes. We'd make a cone out of Bristol board and cut it to just fit in the tube. The we'd jam some clay in the tip of the cone to give it some weight. With a healthy blast of air, you could sent that thing on a line clear across the studio. We ended up in an arms race. When you came into the studio, you were greeted with a fusillade of cone-darts. Things started getting out of hand when someone intoduced the pushpin tipped cone. They put a pushpin in the clay with the point sticking out. If throwing a pushpin was fairly accurate, this was amazingly accurate. It started with targets on the wall. Of course, sooner or later, these darts were used to wake up someone sleeping on their drawing board. Ultimately, a cease fire was called.

Does anyone know what "wingies" are? That was another dangerous studio weapon.

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