jbtubman@water.UUCP (Jim Tubman [LPAIG]) (07/30/85)
In article <9446@ucbvax.ARPA> mayfield@ucbvax.ARPA (Jim Mayfield) writes: >In college, we kept a bowl of jello with ``whipped cream'' around for an >entire school year. The jello hardened into a cloudy lump, but the topping >remained completely unchanged, either in consistency or color, for the >duration of the experiment. Makes you wonder what it does when you eat it. > > - Jim Mayfield At Marquis Hall, at the University of Saskatchewan, we had "the whipped cream test." You needed a plate, a glass, and a glob of so-called "whipped cream." After putting the "whipped cream" in the centre of the plate, you would press a glass down onto it and then lift the plate up. The "whipped cream" was an amazing adhesive -- you could wave the glass around and it wouldn't get unstuck from the plate. Once someone hung a glass upside down on the bottom of a table using only "whipped cream" as adhesive. It stayed there for many months. Jim Tubman University of Waterloo
csc@watmath.UUCP (Jan Gray) (08/04/85)
In high school, a friend of mine decided he'd get even with someone by filling this person's locker with a can of two year old whipped cream. It was only after emptying the entire can that my friend realized he'd filled *his* *own* locker... Letter: "Dear Dave: lately you have been telling too many in-jokes to the studio audience, leaving us poor home viewers in the dark!" D.L.: "Sounds like this guy came on the bus with Marsha!"
larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) (08/05/85)
> At Marquis Hall, at the University of Saskatchewan, we had "the whipped > cream test." You needed a plate, a glass, and a glob of so-called "whipped > cream." After putting the "whipped cream" in the centre of the plate, you > would press a glass down onto it and then lift the plate up. The "whipped > cream" was an amazing adhesive -- you could wave the glass around and it > wouldn't get unstuck from the plate. > > Once someone hung a glass upside down on the bottom of a table using only > "whipped cream" as adhesive. It stayed there for many months. The high school I went to had a cafeteria with tables having hollow tubular legs. It was possible to reach up underneath the table where the legs fastened and drop food into the legs. This was a popular pasttime. I would imagine that a vertical cross section of such a table leg would give a pretty good history of the cafeteria food (sort of like a geological core sample). Larry Lippman Recognition Research Corp. Clarence, New York UUCP {decvax,dual,rocksanne,rocksvax,watmath}!sunybcs!kitty!larry {rice,shell}!baylor!kitty!larry syr!buf!kitty!larry VOICE 716/741-9185 TELEX {via WUI} 69-71461 answerback: ELGECOMCLR "Have you hugged your cat today?"