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From: john@stiatl.UUCP (John DeArmond)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Ammonium Triodide (was Re: 9-volt / rocket launcher?)
Message-ID: <2545@stiatl.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 89 04:50:40 GMT
References: <683@eplunix.UUCP>
Reply-To: john@stiatl.UUCP (John DeArmond)
Organization: Sales Technologies Inc., Atlanta, GA
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In article <683@eplunix.UUCP> raoul@eplunix.UUCP (Otero) writes:
>In article <368@avsd.UUCP>, childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers) writes:
>> Interestingly enough, my brother tells me this is a very popular gag at
>> MIT, except there they put it under toilet seats ...
>
>NO! NO! NO! I've been at MIT around 8 years now: nobody but an 
>uneducated freshman from Harvard would do something so silly and
>dangerous. To get enough to produce an appreciable effect, you
>have to put, say, an ounce of the precipitate under the seat.



An OUNCE ????  Are you kidding??  An ounce would blow the whole 
stall down.  I take it you've never made or used ammonium triodide.
It works much better painted as a film on a doorknob but a few swipes
of slurry on a toilet seat should be a blast.

My favorite toilet trick used to be to take some metallic potassium
and (with rubber gloves) stick it under the rim of a toilet.  A
real blast !!!  Especially in the womens' bathroom with flush-while-
sitting users.  I can still see the girl running out of the bathroom
with her panties around her ankles and smoke comming out from
under her dress  :-)


john


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