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ReverendEd Scrappy Doo	posted August 01, 2001 12:38 AM Putting it in my computer BAD idea! BAD! Lets E it and move on. Throw them Ah, the classic. Except they don't really fly all that well, or else I'm just a scrawny weakling. They're too small to see easily in the air, tend to get lost on the ground when the shiny side blends in with surounding grass or dirt, and one has to really force it to get a huge shower of shards like we all really want to see. It's much more likely that a window or skull will shatter first. Regardless of what shatters there's a safety hazard there ... gee whillikers this is looking like a bad idea! D Elton John glasses Cheap glasses + cheap CDs = cheap laughs as I have learned. Sadly, these Eltonian accoutremants lasted no longer than a bare flame in a stiff breeze, but they served their purpose at the time. Good Sir Elton seems to have toned things down recently, but these glasses were the highest of comedy back it the fully glittered days. 'The highest of comedy' being defined as 'the comedy performed by the tallest person in the group' of course. C A deck of cards No, really, I did this. After amassing 52 CDs, and one container each of red and black nail polish, I hand painted the suits and numbers on each disk. Because they all have an identical backside (it's the 6.0 version with a yellow stick man) they can be used to play actual card games. Admittedly, shuffling has proven difficult for most, but I have been blessed with hands not unlike expensive cuts of meat, so I can handle it. B+ A suit of armour Sadly, a work in progress, but an impressive one indeed. Currently it is but a vest, but a great one, carefully crafted out of pure CDs and high grade string. It can confound my enemies with its blinding light, stop most projectiles from reaching my soft underbelly, and hey, it's just damn stylish. Oh yeah. It's a bit longer now than in the photo below, but I had nothing more recent.A for now, with a + upon completion Here, Mr. T models the fashionable CD armour. I'm not positive, but I think he feels some sort of pity towards fools right here. ------------------ There are two types of people in the world, those that can finish their thoughts. IP: Logged
Treasure Self-Made User	posted August 01, 2001 01:34 AM Awwwww, is a cute puddy cat behind the AOL playing cards! Sorry. Other things to do with CDs that come unbidden into your life. Drinks Coaster The old classic. Everyone has at least one. My current one is Genie, and there's a virgin one somewhere. C for unoriginality Vanity curtain You know what I mean, to screen off one corner of the room. I think I saw Laurence Llewellyn Bowen or someone similar do this on Changing Rooms, and it does look surprisingly good, if you mix the CDs up, or make stripes or patterns of various issues. But it featured LLB, so only a C- I'm being mean today - I just don't like free CDs. IP: Logged
IndigoBoy Scrappy Doo	posted August 01, 2001 07:12 AM Skeet Shooting Pull! BLAM and another disc that locks unknowing people into a horrid service meets its doom. A+ Did anyone see the SImpsons intro where they mocked AOL? Quite hilarious. [This message has been edited by IndigoBoy (edited August 01, 2001).] IP: Logged
Angel Fish Self-Made User	posted August 01, 2001 07:46 AM Bird Scarers Gave all mine to my gran to hang in her fig tree & scare off the birds. Most effective. A- ------------------ Trust me, I may be a doctor someday. IP: Logged
Acsumama Self-Made User	posted August 01, 2001 01:15 PM Only an E for putting it in your computer? I think AOL is one of the few things in this world worse than Scrappy Doo. F--- IP: Logged
SpcChick Self-Made User	posted August 01, 2001 01:49 PM Creating a room decoration Turning them shiny-side out, tacking them along the ceiling/wall edge all around a room. Pretty darn neat. A- IP: Logged
DarKrow Self-Made User	posted August 01, 2001 02:43 PM I hate the AOL CDs. AOL should go back to Floppy Disks - that's where the REAL fun was. Things you can do with AOL Floppy Disks Reformat them: Ah, free disks! You can never have enough free disks. It's also fun to scribble all over the label. - A Crush them: This is the most fun, especially when you get an AOL Disk that won't reformat. "Abort, Retry, Fail THIS! HAHAHA!" CRUNCH - A+ That's all I can think of. IP: Logged
Zog Self-Made User	posted August 01, 2001 03:41 PM Microwave: Pop any CD in a microwave for a second, watch the sparks, then use it as a pretty sun catcher. Botched CD-R's work best (like when you try to copy Myst III and the anti-piracy thingy messes it up), but AOL CD's are just fine. I'll have to post a picture. A ------------------ This message was printed on recycled electrons. IP: Logged
Mara's Revenge Self-Made User	posted August 01, 2001 09:59 PM I need to make a bead curtain out of 'em. I recently got two in honest-to-Pete DVD boxes. I've also got a very nifty little flat tin that had two in it. What really needs to happen is for some artistic Bruncher to collect all our discs and make a political art-statement. Kind of like "The Truth" did with the body-bags commercial in New York. "This is how much plastic these people are wasting!" ------------------ "'Right, right,' he agreed. 'Must look serious. All business here as I'm standing in three foot of money while people in pajamas pelt me with eggs. Very serious business.'" - Lisha Goldberg [I was Mara, but the man got me down.] IP: Logged
Fast Learner Self-Made User	posted August 02, 2001 02:53 AM Christmas Tree Ornaments: About 3 years ago or so we hung about 50 free CD's on the 15' Goldwater Pine growing in the front yard at Christmastime. It was beautiful, it was holy (yah, yah, that joke), and the repeatedly blinded the neighbors across the street. B+ (Lost points for being a real hassle to take back down.) IP: Logged
Nevah Altavaris Entitar Self-Made User	posted August 02, 2001 07:27 AM Pyromania: You know, line the CD with firecrackers, tape one of those little spinner thingiees on the edge, make an extra-long fuse go through all of them... BAHBLAM-SKI! Toasted AOL disc. For added fun, strap a lego man on there with rubber cement- it's highly flammable- or dump some white-out on the thing. Variations of style give it an A to C ------------------ �Suffering with god is called religon, but as soon as there's suffering without religon everyone gets all angry.� - Melissa Schoof IP: Logged
TheMadDefenestrator Self-Made User	posted August 03, 2001 04:39 AM I have more than 300 AOL CDs, shiny side out, covering the walls in my apartment. I also have a swastika made of AOL CDs it's a great conversation piece I have a friend with a digital camera, I'll get some pictures [This message has been edited by TheMadDefenestrator (edited August 03, 2001).] IP: Logged
Meaghz Scrappy Doo	posted August 03, 2001 06:18 AM Glue-gun AOL CD to a stretchy headband. Apply to head so CD is right on forehead. Instant Doctor Costume! IP: Logged
aslum Self-Made User	posted August 03, 2001 11:20 AM for this craft you also need one of those plastic bubbles you get crappy toys from quarter vending machines at grocery stores. Clear top, colored bottom. you know what I'm talking about. Take 2 AOL cds and glue 'em together with shiny side out. Glue bottom of toy bubble on bottom, find a little alien or monster and glue it on other side with clear plastic bubble on top. The little plastic finger monsters you sometimes get in the plastic bubbles work great. Viola insant UFO... (; I've made a game using these things, but it's still in testing. ------------------ Credo nonnullos hic mortuos esse. I think that several people here are dead. IP: Logged
Brutha Self-Made User	posted August 03, 2001 11:46 AM That is very creative! I like the visuals above too -good job on the Mr T photo shop smiles I was thinking of making a potatoe-gun like contraption for these disks -much like the small star trek toy guns that fired a little round disk. This gun would be larger and have some velocity. Just thinking how violent that sounds i Wouldn't shoot it at anyhing -that didn't deserve it ------------------ Vaya con Carne Amigo [This message has been edited by Brutha (edited August 03, 2001).] IP: Logged
Bennyboy Self-Made User	posted August 03, 2001 10:08 PM Make it multi loading, like those old disc shooting guns from the 80s (or before, I'm too young.) Build the magazine vertically. ------------------ We don't need no education... Are you kidding me?!?! Look at that grammar!!! IP: Logged
annenayne Self-Made User	posted August 04, 2001 10:29 PM quote: potatoe-gun like contraption Mr Quayle? < /bitchy picking on the new guy > IP: Logged
TreeHouse Scrappy Doo	posted August 08, 2001 10:04 AM Has no one ever used one as a mirror? I've used one when shaving, and Rich next to me has one in his keyboard to aid the insertion of his contact lenses. IP: Logged
Brutha Self-Made User	posted August 08, 2001 10:16 AM You say potato i say pot-ah-toe Lets call the whole thing off ------------------ -Which is a good idea in theory, but they'll probably screw it up, just like communism. -Dave in a car IP: Logged
jglascoe Self-Made User	posted August 08, 2001 10:36 AM brake pads on my '71 AMC Gremlin IP: Logged
TreeHouse Scrappy Doo	posted August 09, 2001 10:18 AM After he'd used the CD to insert his contacts (see above) Rich + me tried to play indoor frisbee with it. Its thin, it spins and its nigh-on impossible to see it coming. And its not very stable. Not a good usage. F- IP: Logged
MsChilePepper Self-Made User	posted August 09, 2001 04:02 PM He needs a mirror to put his contacts in? Amateur! ~~~~~~~~~~~ Jeanine IP: Logged
TreeHouse Scrappy Doo	posted August 11, 2001 11:29 AM Ah, he's only a part-time contact-wearer. We tried another game of CD-frisbee (see above) and the damn thing smashed. F---<\b> IP: Logged
I_like_cheese Cereal Subunit	posted August 12, 2001 01:21 PM Start an Urban Legend - OK, so I didn't exactly start it, and none of the URLs here work anymore, but I did play a big part in it and it was fun while it lasted. A IP: Logged
ecc25 Scrappy Doo	posted August 13, 2001 03:38 AM Tie them together with wire to make pretty geometrical shapes IP: Logged
TheLizzbian Scrappy Doo	posted August 14, 2001 08:49 PM i think people should constantly mail random CDs to AOL...hahaha yanni and kenny g CD's would really piss them off. ------------------ -The Lizzbian IP: Logged
Maverick Self-Made User	posted August 21, 2001 08:51 AM http://www.nomoreaolcds.com/ They want to send 1,000,000 AOL CDs back to AOL. They have 25 so far... IP: Logged
supernathan Self-Made User	posted August 21, 2001 01:29 PM That is awesome, just awesome. I am going to start collecting as many of them as I can. ------------------ www.supernathan.com Tell a funny joke just to get some play then you try to make your move and she says 'No Way' - Young M.C. IP: Logged
Calilasseia Scrappy Doo	posted September 05, 2001 03:23 AM I've briefly experimented with the use of AOL CDs as props in Pavlovian-style behaviour experiments. They work quite well with budgerigars, who treat them as yet another variation on the mirror theme (although the diffraction effects caused when sunlight grazes the little pits results in unforeseen responses), and I am about to test the effects of AOL CD exposure upon my tropical fish. However, before doing so, I need an answer to one simple question - are CDs safe to immerse in an aquarium for any length of time? Or will they decompose or undergo some other hideous chemical reaction and wipe out the fish? Not only would I not wish to be responsible for others accidentally poisoning their fish, if they thought that this was a good idea, but I'm rather fond of my own fish, as their intelligence level is considerably higher than that of my neighbours. A colleague of mine is conducting similar experiments with invertebrates. He does not anticipate much in the way of responses from his particular subjects (assorted molluscs, insects, crustaceans etc) but who knows, one of those creatures may surprise us, and display some hitherto unsuspected manifestation of intelligence ... and try to destroy the AOL CD. Results to follow in due course ... IP: Logged
liqwid Scrappy Doo	posted September 06, 2001 10:06 AM Fast Learner: I also thought it was a good idea to use AOL CDs as Christmas ornaments. Especially when I saw them on the giant Christmas tree put up by the city in the middle of downtown. Ha ha. I guess the city council in Homestead, FL hates as much as I do. Go figure. ------------------ Aloha -Grant ><> IP: Logged

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