Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site kitty.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!rochester!rocksanne!sunybcs!kitty!larry From: larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) Newsgroups: net.bizarre Subject: Re: Re: refugee donuts & whipped cream behaviour Message-ID: <234@kitty.UUCP> Date: Sun, 4-Aug-85 22:31:13 EDT Article-I.D.: kitty.234 Posted: Sun Aug 4 22:31:13 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 7-Aug-85 04:15:44 EDT References: <471@h-sc1.UUCP> <9432@ucbvax.ARPA> <9446@ucbvax.ARPA> <742@water.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Recognition Research Corp., Clarence, NY Lines: 28 > At Marquis Hall, at the University of Saskatchewan, we had "the whipped > cream test." You needed a plate, a glass, and a glob of so-called "whipped > cream." After putting the "whipped cream" in the centre of the plate, you > would press a glass down onto it and then lift the plate up. The "whipped > cream" was an amazing adhesive -- you could wave the glass around and it > wouldn't get unstuck from the plate. > > Once someone hung a glass upside down on the bottom of a table using only > "whipped cream" as adhesive. It stayed there for many months. The high school I went to had a cafeteria with tables having hollow tubular legs. It was possible to reach up underneath the table where the legs fastened and drop food into the legs. This was a popular pasttime. I would imagine that a vertical cross section of such a table leg would give a pretty good history of the cafeteria food (sort of like a geological core sample). Larry Lippman Recognition Research Corp. Clarence, New York UUCP {decvax,dual,rocksanne,rocksvax,watmath}!sunybcs!kitty!larry {rice,shell}!baylor!kitty!larry syr!buf!kitty!larry VOICE 716/741-9185 TELEX {via WUI} 69-71461 answerback: ELGECOMCLR "Have you hugged your cat today?"