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Babble Blocker

For treatment of verbal diarrhoea
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Breath freshener spray can, filled with a mild paralysing agent, to render the user's vocal cords inoperable for ten to twenty minutes.

May be administered by squirting a cloud of it in front of the target, if they stop to take a breath.

Useful for treating motormouth kids; offensively loud yobbos at sporting events; people who sing tunelessly while wearing their iPod/Walkman on the bus or train; Ol' Uncle Havachat, etc...

UnaBubba, Sep 13 2009

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       Tidy. I think this could also possibly come in an expanding foam option for that more permanent calming effect in persistent cases.
riknite, Sep 13 2009
  

       I think you've got something here, except nobody ever owns up to being mouthy.
blissmiss, Sep 13 2009
  

       it's used defensively bliss, not voluntarily   

       I wish I'd had the purse size version a few years back. I won't bore you with the details.
dentworth, Sep 13 2009
  

       Guaranteed to find a niche market among rapists and assassins, and probably illegal since paralyzing agents of the type you envision are usually controlled substances. (Neutral)
21 Quest, Sep 13 2009
  

       I'd be happier with legalising pick-axe handles.
AbsintheWithoutLeave, Sep 13 2009
  

       ...
nineteenthly, Sep 13 2009
  

       Knives, alcohol, rope, handcuffs and handguns also have a ready market among rapists and wrongdoers, too. That doesn't curb their availability if you really want to obtain them, [21Q].   

       I shudder to think how many times people would use this on me, if they got the chance.
UnaBubba, Sep 13 2009
  

       Yeah, me too! [-]
21 Quest, Sep 13 2009
  

       Market research at the School Management Committee meeting tonight would indicate this product may sell faster than lifeboats on the Titanic.
UnaBubba, Sep 15 2009
  

       There was a scarily unhinged old lady on the bus today who took umbrage at a schoolboy who she thought was looking at her funny, and launched into a 5 minute racially sensitive tirade to tell him so.   

       Often (though I've not seen him for a while) there's another chap who sits at the front of the bus, taking up two seats who talks his thoughts out loud between taking sips of his large McDonalds drink. He sometimes rocks back and forth and occasionally the thoughts he (apparently unknowingly) shares with the rest of upper deck are of a violent, or sexually explicit nature - he usually gets to keep the spare seat next to him.   

       So there are times when I might have welcomed a waft of this stuff at various points during my rides on public transport - and while the commuter experience certainly isn't known for its chatty and communicative nature, sometimes it really is just better for everyone that way.
zen_tom, Sep 15 2009
  
      
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