James
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Don't try this at home!
http://www.wiseguysynth.com/larry/day.htm
Check this out. If you click the picture it loads a video that's well worth seeing! It's only 9 seconds so should be ok even for
dial-up.
If it wasn't for all the explanantion I might think it a fake.
Cheers,
James
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liam.mccaffrey
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| posted on 19/1/04 at 12:33 PM |
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that is pretty cool,
re: don't try this at home
there is a way where you can make proper lightning in your microwave, I cant remember how to do it off hand.
Does anyone know?
(its not just putting metal in it)
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theconrodkid
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| posted on 19/1/04 at 12:49 PM |
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looks like me welding
who cares who wins
pass the pork pies
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liam.mccaffrey
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| posted on 19/1/04 at 12:55 PM |
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apparantly wire wool sprinkled with carbon dust will produce ball lightening effects! which are meant to be quite good!
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ijohnston99
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| posted on 19/1/04 at 01:51 PM |
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An old CD makes lightening too when placed in the micro.
Disclaimer: Only a complete idiot would actually try this, and I accept no responsibility for the consequences 
[Edited on 19/1/04 by ijohnston99]
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JoelP
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| posted on 19/1/04 at 03:20 PM |
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light bulbs light up in the micro, again though, not very clever if it goes poop!
Beware! Bourettes is binfectious.
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stephen_gusterson
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| posted on 19/1/04 at 04:39 PM |
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small flourescent tubes might..... if you hold one anywhere near one of those plasma ball thingies, they glow, I have done it
atb
steve
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kingr
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| posted on 19/1/04 at 05:10 PM |
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If you cut the top off a foil lined juice carton and put that in the microwave you can get some lovely lightning effects.
Kingr
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blueshift
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| posted on 19/1/04 at 05:41 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by ijohnston99
An old CD makes lightening too when placed in the micro.
Disclaimer: Only a complete idiot would actually try this, and I accept no responsibility for the consequences
I must be a complete idiot then, I've done it several times (mostly with NT CDs at work) with no ill effects to myself or the microwave (the CD,
however, does not survive the operation intact)
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Deckman001
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| posted on 19/1/04 at 07:23 PM |
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As I only have the one Micro jobby, do any of the above tricks adversly affect the cooker, as i don't want to sample the Wifes wrath !!
Jason
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 19/1/04 at 10:18 PM |
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The risk of injuring your microwave is fairly high!
These tricks are best done when you've just bought a new one, and the old one's still working...
rgds,
David
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Roland
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| posted on 19/1/04 at 10:30 PM |
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Bulbs in Microwaves
Here's todays recipe.
Take one glass, put small amount of water in, then place one 60 watt bulb in glass.
Place on turntable in microwave, close door and start, watch it light up. We used to do this to demonstrate mirowave ovens to customers. Be
careful, not to leave in microwave too long or........BANG!
Roland
ps
I take no responsibility for anyone getting injured etc, etc
The faster you go, the bigger the grin !
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Deckman001
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| posted on 19/1/04 at 10:34 PM |
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Many thanks David, will wait a bit longer to try it then 
Jason
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blueshift
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| posted on 20/1/04 at 03:59 AM |
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deckman, I have done the CD trick several times in various microwaves without them suffering any damage. it doesn't explode or anything. You see
the effect briefly after a couple of seconds, then nothing else interesting happens. stop the microwave once you've seen the effect or little
holes start burning in the CD (not as pretty, and nasty smell).
I've never heard of this damaging a microwave, but don't blame me if you manage to break yours 
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Peteff
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| posted on 20/1/04 at 10:19 AM |
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Slice a green grape almost in two and open it so it just holds togetherwith a little bit of skin. Microwave it on full power and the joining piece
arcs and its safe. Not quite as spectacular as the clip but it amuses me.
yours, Pete.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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tadltd
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| posted on 21/1/04 at 12:31 AM |
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how the f*ck did you find out about the 'grape thing'??!!!
(off to buy grapes in the morning...)
Steve.
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steve m
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| posted on 21/1/04 at 01:32 AM |
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you lot really do need to get out into the garage more often
you are all F*****g mad
I have a spare microwave!!!
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Deckman001
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| posted on 21/1/04 at 08:32 AM |
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Not for much longer i suspect steve !!
Jason
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