Tuesday, January 08, 2002
|11:22 AM|
Educational. The "How Stuff Works" website is incredibly dangerous.
Remember those little sponges that came in a gelatin capsule? It looked like a big pill, but when you put it in hot water the gel would melt away and a dinosaur or some other child-exciting creature would spring forth into fully inflated being. Those were pretty neat, but what were more interesting and harder to define were the creatures that grew in tanks of water. You'd get a rubbery alligator or a dinosaur of some kind, measuring only a couple inches long. When placed in a tank of water it would begin to absorb it, and grow in size.
Though my family never used anything much larger than a bucket, in high school a friend of mine "boosted" a very large trashcan and managed to grow the biggest damn rubber foam animal thing I had ever seen. Touching it's slimy, water soaked flesh was an experience I do not think I could duplicate any other way. Touching the creature gave the impression that if it was removed from it's watery home it would fall apart like a handful of mud. Despite our best efforts at work we cannot find an explanation of how those worked, nor can we even find a name for them. It is frustrating.
I came up with an odd idea, should I happen to find a place that sells the sponge capsules on a wholesale basis. They were per pill fairly cheap, even in museum gift shops. I wonder how long I could get away with selling them to ravers. "It's called sponge...no, not the birth control. No, not the 'midnight at the well of souls' sponge. Oh for God's sakes, it puts the power of the dinosaur into you! Now eat it!"
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