Comments on: #1601 – Splintered (2 Comments) http://www.thebookofbiff.com/2012/08/07/1601-splintered/ new adventures every monday through friday Mon, 20 May 2013 16:50:36 +0000 hourly 1 By: kingklash http://www.thebookofbiff.com/2012/08/07/1601-splintered/comment-page-1/#comment-100953 kingklash Tue, 07 Aug 2012 17:47:30 +0000 http://www.thebookofbiff.com/?p=4389#comment-100953 Other uses for picks of tooth: Poking recessed Reset/ACL buttons on certain electronics, if the hole isn't too small. Making Bucky-like sculptures when you soak dried peas long enough to be poked into with a toothpick, firm, but not mushy. Let it dry and the peas will shrink into solid joins for the picks. Build you a model molecule with green atoms! Of course, the ones with the cellophane fringes make great blow gun darts. Short javelins for GI Joes. But you can't use a toothpick for getting a metal splinter out of your skin. It just don't work that way. Other uses for picks of tooth:

Poking recessed Reset/ACL buttons on certain electronics, if the hole isn’t too small.

Making Bucky-like sculptures when you soak dried peas long enough to be poked into with a toothpick, firm, but not mushy. Let it dry and the peas will shrink into solid joins for the picks. Build you a model molecule with green atoms!

Of course, the ones with the cellophane fringes make great blow gun darts.

Short javelins for GI Joes.

But you can’t use a toothpick for getting a metal splinter out of your skin. It just don’t work that way.

]]> By: RoguesAndGhosts http://www.thebookofbiff.com/2012/08/07/1601-splintered/comment-page-1/#comment-100952 RoguesAndGhosts Tue, 07 Aug 2012 11:37:43 +0000 http://www.thebookofbiff.com/?p=4389#comment-100952 I didn't understand that when I was a kid either. I only thought that picking your teeth was something you'd do to show everyone that you just ate something, and nothing more useful than that. I guess I didn't get shards of popcorn kernels stuck between my teeth until I was a bit older (or maybe I just didn't care when I was a kid). Guess what I'm using toothpicks for most often nowadays? ...As a little tool for the small details when I'm sculpting with Fimo clay! They're incredibly useful for that! I didn’t understand that when I was a kid either. I only thought that picking your teeth was something you’d do to show everyone that you just ate something, and nothing more useful than that. I guess I didn’t get shards of popcorn kernels stuck between my teeth until I was a bit older (or maybe I just didn’t care when I was a kid).

Guess what I’m using toothpicks for most often nowadays? …As a little tool for the small details when I’m sculpting with Fimo clay! They’re incredibly useful for that!

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