Thread closed      Thread closed My profile login | | Directory | Search | FAQs | Board home   Printer-friendly view   » Ship of Fools   »   » Oblivion   » Engineer This! (Page 10) Email this page to a friend or enemy.   Pages in this thread: 1  2  3  ...  7  8  9  10    Source: (consider it) Thread: Engineer This! Carex Shipmate # 9643 Posted                     9. Stepstool to reach the shelf that is just out of reach. Posts: 1425 | Registered: Jun 2005  |  IP: Logged Sir Kevin Ship's Gaffer # 3492 Posted                        9. Wine storage! -------------------- If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession. Posts: 30517 | From: White Hart Lane | Registered: Oct 2002  |  IP: Logged Chorister Completely Frocked # 473 Posted                       How radical of you, Sir Kevin! 10. As a fundraising game for church fetes - mark each section with a different number and score points when you try to pot Ping-Pong balls. Highest score of the afternoon wins a prize. Piece of tinfoil. -------------------- Retired, sitting back and watching others for a change. Posts: 34626 | From: Cream Tealand | Registered: Jun 2001  |  IP: Logged ArachnidinElmet Shipmate # 17346 Posted                     1. You can make a hat to keep out the voices. So I hear. [ 23. May 2013, 22:52: Message edited by: ArachnidinElmet ] -------------------- 'If a pleasant, straight-forward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres' - Kafka Posts: 1887 | From: the rhubarb triangle | Registered: Sep 2012  |  IP: Logged Chorister Completely Frocked # 473 Posted                       2. Shiny wrapping paper for a present. -------------------- Retired, sitting back and watching others for a change. Posts: 34626 | From: Cream Tealand | Registered: Jun 2001  |  IP: Logged Sir Kevin Ship's Gaffer # 3492 Posted                        3. Something to keep the pan of your broiler cleaner -------------------- If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession. Posts: 30517 | From: White Hart Lane | Registered: Oct 2002  |  IP: Logged Boogie Boogie on down! # 13538 Posted                    4. Make little people! Posts: 13030 | From: Boogie Wonderland | Registered: Mar 2008  |  IP: Logged Pearl B4 Swine Ship's Oyster-Shucker # 11451 Posted                     5 Scrunch some (little or much as required) around the base of a candle to prevent it wobbling -------------------- Oinkster "I do a good job and I know how to do this stuff" D. Trump (speaking of the POTUS job) Posts: 3622 | From: The Keystone State | Registered: May 2006  |  IP: Logged Carex Shipmate # 9643 Posted                     6. I used to make simulated aircraft wreckage for the Search and Rescue team to locate. Posts: 1425 | Registered: Jun 2005  |  IP: Logged Mamacita Lakefront liberal # 3659 Posted                     7. Tinsel for your Christmas Tree. -------------------- Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it. Posts: 20761 | From: where the purple line ends | Registered: Dec 2002  |  IP: Logged Pearl B4 Swine Ship's Oyster-Shucker # 11451 Posted                     "base", not bass. See #5 -------------------- Oinkster "I do a good job and I know how to do this stuff" D. Trump (speaking of the POTUS job) Posts: 3622 | From: The Keystone State | Registered: May 2006  |  IP: Logged mark_in_manchester not waving, but... # 15978 Posted                     8. DIY electromagnetic shielding for your purse/wallet, to prevent unwanted reading of your contactless credit/debit card. (recently recommended on BBC Radio 4...) -------------------- "We are punished by our sins, not for them" - Elbert Hubbard (so good, I wanted to see it after my posts and not only after those of shipmate JBohn from whom I stole it) Posts: 1596 | Registered: Oct 2010  |  IP: Logged Pooks Shipmate # 11425 Posted                    9. Use it to sharpen your scissors. Posts: 1547 | Registered: May 2006  |  IP: Logged Carex Shipmate # 9643 Posted                     10) Step on it to make a copy of your shoe print for the Search and Rescue team in case you get lost. next up, a wooden pencil Posts: 1425 | Registered: Jun 2005  |  IP: Logged Sir Kevin Ship's Gaffer # 3492 Posted                        1. Something for the kindergarteners to keep the teacher busy with. -------------------- If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession. Posts: 30517 | From: White Hart Lane | Registered: Oct 2002  |  IP: Logged Leorning Cniht Shipmate # 17564 Posted                     2. Flagpole for sandcastle. Posts: 5026 | From: USA | Registered: Feb 2013  |  IP: Logged Carex Shipmate # 9643 Posted                     3) When I had to improvise a battery charger for my calculator in a logging camp in Alaska, it included the lead in a pencil with two clips to slide along it to adjust the output level. Posts: 1425 | Registered: Jun 2005  |  IP: Logged Golden Key Shipmate # 1468 Posted                       4. Emergency chopstick! (As demonstrated on the old "Barney Miller" police sitcom.) -------------------- Blessed Gator, pray for us! --"Oh bat bladders, do you have to bring common sense into this?" (Dragon, "Jane & the Dragon") --"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train") Posts: 18601 | From: Chilling out in an undisclosed, sincere pumpkin patch. | Registered: Oct 2001  |  IP: Logged ArachnidinElmet Shipmate # 17346 Posted                     5. Create a tree rubbing. -------------------- 'If a pleasant, straight-forward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres' - Kafka Posts: 1887 | From: the rhubarb triangle | Registered: Sep 2012  |  IP: Logged The5thMary Shipmate # 12953 Posted                     6. A weapon! Seriously! I once used a pencil to defend myself from a very aggressive bum who was harassing me in downtown Seattle. I kept warning him and he kept ignoring me... I put it into his exposed arm. With force. -------------------- God gave me my face but She let me pick my nose. Posts: 3451 | From: Tacoma, WA USA | Registered: Aug 2007  |  IP: Logged Golden Key Shipmate # 1468 Posted                       7. Emergency knitting needle. -------------------- Blessed Gator, pray for us! --"Oh bat bladders, do you have to bring common sense into this?" (Dragon, "Jane & the Dragon") --"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train") Posts: 18601 | From: Chilling out in an undisclosed, sincere pumpkin patch. | Registered: Oct 2001  |  IP: Logged Carex Shipmate # 9643 Posted                     8. Debugging electronic circuits. My team leader came down to the lab one day and found me sitting in front of $100K of fancy test equipment running the tip of a pencil around the traces on a circuit board. "We need to add a part... here." We did, and the board started working properly. That was not a technique she had learned at university for some reason. [ 02. July 2013, 19:36: Message edited by: Carex ] Posts: 1425 | Registered: Jun 2005  |  IP: Logged ArachnidinElmet Shipmate # 17346 Posted                     9. Lubricating a stuck zip. Just rub the graphite up and down the teeth. -------------------- 'If a pleasant, straight-forward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres' - Kafka Posts: 1887 | From: the rhubarb triangle | Registered: Sep 2012  |  IP: Logged Golden Key Shipmate # 1468 Posted                       10. The stem of a pinwheel. A wok that's scene better days. -------------------- Blessed Gator, pray for us! --"Oh bat bladders, do you have to bring common sense into this?" (Dragon, "Jane & the Dragon") --"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train") Posts: 18601 | From: Chilling out in an undisclosed, sincere pumpkin patch. | Registered: Oct 2001  |  IP: Logged TomOfTarsus Shipmate # 3053 Posted                    Leave it on a bench on a nearby green - it'll be a wok in the park! No, seriously, 1. Upside down on my head, my new chapeau. -------------------- By grace are ye saved through faith... not of yourselves; it is the gift of God; not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath ... ordained that we should walk in them. Posts: 1570 | From: Pittsburgh, PA USA | Registered: Jul 2002  |  IP: Logged Carex Shipmate # 9643 Posted                     2. Leave it under a dripping tap in the garden as a watering spot for birds and other animals. My grandfather used to plow up Native American grinding rocks occasionally in his orchard - basically a rock about the size of a bowling ball with a hole worked in one side to use as a mortar for grinding acorns. These were placed under water taps around the farm, and my mother brought one with her for our garden. Posts: 1425 | Registered: Jun 2005  |  IP: Logged TomOfTarsus Shipmate # 3053 Posted                    3. Polish it well. Use it to concentrate the sun's rays and place your solar cell at the focus. Carex - very interesting! Wish I had one of those... -------------------- By grace are ye saved through faith... not of yourselves; it is the gift of God; not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath ... ordained that we should walk in them. Posts: 1570 | From: Pittsburgh, PA USA | Registered: Jul 2002  |  IP: Logged ArachnidinElmet Shipmate # 17346 Posted                     4. Panning (woking?) for gold. -------------------- 'If a pleasant, straight-forward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres' - Kafka Posts: 1887 | From: the rhubarb triangle | Registered: Sep 2012  |  IP: Logged Sir Kevin Ship's Gaffer # 3492 Posted                        5. A bad substitute for a frisbee. -------------------- If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession. Posts: 30517 | From: White Hart Lane | Registered: Oct 2002  |  IP: Logged L'organist Shipmate # 17338 Posted                        6. A coracle for a doll. -------------------- Rara temporum felicitate ubi sentire quae velis et quae sentias dicere licet Posts: 4950 | From: somewhere in England... | Registered: Sep 2012  |  IP: Logged Smudgie Ship's Barnacle # 2716 Posted                     7 An irresistible bed for a cat Eleven months is a long time for a little thread in the circus to keep going without a rest. Before someone calls in the RSPCT, I'm going to prepare a resting place for this one for the time being and give you all chance to hone your creative juices on engineering some new ideas for games we can play in the meantime. Smudgie - Circus Host That was number seven... we'll give it to number 10 So come one... three more uses for an old wok. -------------------- Miss you, Erin. Posts: 14382 | From: Under the duvet | Registered: Apr 2002  |  IP: Logged Chorister Completely Frocked # 473 Posted                       8. a replacement satellite dish -------------------- Retired, sitting back and watching others for a change. Posts: 34626 | From: Cream Tealand | Registered: Jun 2001  |  IP: Logged Imaginary Friend Real to you # 186 Posted                     9. An dance partner for when you have the irrepressible urge to wok around the clock. -------------------- "We had a good team on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass." Brian Clough Posts: 9455 | From: Left a bit... Right a bit... | Registered: May 2001  |  IP: Logged Ariston Insane Unicorn # 10894 Posted                        10. Hang it up by one handle from a tree, it becomes a redneck rifle target, complete with that nice little "ping" when you hit it! The ricochet should make things even more fun, right? Okay, enough dubious ideas. Time to take this one out back and shoot it. Have more fun elsewhere. Thread CLOSED —Ariston, Circus Host -------------------- “Therefore, let it be explained that nowhere are the proprieties quite so strictly enforced as in men’s colleges that invite young women guests, especially over-night visitors in the fraternity houses.” Emily Post, 1937. Posts: 6849 | From: The People's Republic of Balcones | Registered: Jan 2006  |  IP: Logged Smudgie Ship's Barnacle # 2716 Posted                     Thread opened and closed again. Because I can. THREAD CLOSED SMUDGIE - CIRCUS HOST -------------------- Miss you, Erin. Posts: 14382 | From: Under the duvet | Registered: Apr 2002  |  IP: Logged Sir Kevin Ship's Gaffer # 3492 Posted                        Boomerangs - what are they good for> -------------------- If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession. Posts: 30517 | From: White Hart Lane | Registered: Oct 2002  |  IP: Logged Ariston Insane Unicorn # 10894 Posted                        Not much, really. And Smudgekins, close the gate already! Clown move, bro. Clown move. Thread CLOSED...at least until IF decides to get in on the action. —Ariston, The Host -------------------- “Therefore, let it be explained that nowhere are the proprieties quite so strictly enforced as in men’s colleges that invite young women guests, especially over-night visitors in the fraternity houses.” Emily Post, 1937. 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