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It's been three months since the Christmas decorations came down. Bells, balls, ribbons, angels, etc. In fact, I just found a ball under a sofa, this morning.
I remember spending hours putting them up, trying not to stick too much tape to walls, in case it peeled paint off.
What I'm thinking
is this: Christmas decorations, made from brightly coloured foam, packed very tightly into canisters with a small explosive charge in the centre.
Pull the pin out, toss it into the room and shut the door... WHOOOMMPFF! ... open the door and Viola! there you have it, instant Xmas decorations!
A light coating of low tack adhesive on the decorations and they are easy to remove, just like Post-It notes.
Larger rooms may require 2 grenades. Snow grenades also available.
Xmas Grenade
Xmas_20Baubles_20For_20Guys
Oh, wait, that was baubles. [DrCurry, Apr 14 2006]
Easter Grenade
http://asteroid.divnull.com/?p=70
Also features an appropriate use of the expression "Voilà" [jutta, Apr 14 2006]
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What are the violas for?
Wouldn't violins be hard
enough to stick to the wall
with explosive foam? |
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Damn, thought we'd put that stupid dog
out. |
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//What are the violas for?// |
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<viola player speaking> Mainly for having its players being the butt of jokes for violin players, and for that lovely mellow sound that the low notes produce when you play in tune. |
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And for making irritating Christmas decorations. |
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Make sure the grenade is 1) the Xmas grenade and not the real grenade you store around the house "just in case" and 2) that the grenade has limited field of explosion, more like a mortar, where everything shoots up and away instead of a sphere shape. |
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No problem - the next version is
inflammable. |
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Make one for every holiday! |
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Oh, and can I order that with the holiday light installing machine gun? |
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"Viola" is a HB meme, [nietsch]. Ya hadta be there. It's HBspeak for Voila! |
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You've got this real fixation with grenades and Christmas, haven't you? But this sounds awfully familiar - didn't someone suggest a party decorating bomb or grenade before? |
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"Viola" and deliberate misspellings are far from a "HB meme". There's something memetically attractive about errors - maybe the same brains that make the mistakes also like to repeat them. All it takes is a text-based social forum. In chat rooms and on mailing lists everywhere, people have misspelled things, and either they or others have turned these misspellings into jokes. "Hackerspeak" is rife with it. "Viola" is old, way older than the halfbakery, although I'm sure some of the people who do it think it's local. "Elf" (for "self") I've heard here the first time. |
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Elf - Nah, it's old - "Quick call the Elf inspectors" I used it last week at the Science Museum in London |
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But, outside of SmallTalk, what's a self inspector? |
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national elf is equally ancient. |
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Someone said they'd have to "check themselves" (them elvs), and I said "Are you an elf inspector?" - it was (as is my want) a bad pun. I had a 16 yo and 12 yo with me - I was in a childish mood |
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OK! I stand corrected in detail and affirmed in principle. |
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Thank you! Happy oOo egg-hiding hyperactive oO punny holidays to everybody.
UnaBubba, feel free to clean up the off-topic eggs-mess. |
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And a Happy Passover to everybody else, since that's what started the whole thing off. (Well, maybe not the eggs and bunnies bit; someone was telling me that was Persian.) |
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And for those of us at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, happy overpass! |
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Happy underpants to you, too. |
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Me, I'm not much of a meme-follower. |
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Puns are a different matter. And now that someone else has hopped down this trail already: when I first read this I thought it was too bad that he didn't come up with an "Easter Grenade". I'm sure UrvingBurlin there could have reworked the lyrics as he is wont to do. |
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And a happy polepants to you all! What were we talking about? |
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Ah yes. I had a similar idea for Valentine's Day. Definite bun for the concept of sticky shrapnel, though, and of course, the appropriate use of explosives. |
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In keeping with this weekend's Easter theme, perhaps feathers could be used in place of ornaments. These could be tossed out at work, parties, work-parties... to spread Easter joy. Somewhat like the traditional tar-and-feather ritual, only without the tar, and with a great deal of affection. |
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I probably should have said "meme participant". The word looks like "me me", which makes me think of "me too" behavior. |
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I can't say as I've ever been caught up in custard or pirates or a viola for that matter. Maybe I'm meme-resistant? (Which may be the same as reticent, cynical, anti-social, out of touch or just plain old boring.) |
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Nope, you're just being your alf. |
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The army reports that due to an accident
with a Xmas Grenade, Sgt Rickenbacker
has been posthumously decorated. |
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Onward, Christmas soldiers! |
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Next, New Year Revolutions. |
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