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12-10-2004, 03:48 PM
> a) For those with no children - this is totally
> hysterical!
>
> B) For those who already have children past this
> age, this is hilarious.
>
> c) For those who have children this age, this is not
> funny.
>
> d) For those who have children nearing this age,
> this is a warning.
>
> e) For those who have not yet had children, this is
> birth control.
>
> The following came from an anonymous Mother in
> Austin, Texas...
>
> Things I've learned from my Boy's (honest and not
> kidding):
>
> 1.) A king size waterbed holds enough water to fill
> a
> 2000 sq.ft. house 4 inches deep.
>
> 2.) If you spray hair spray on dust bunnies and run
> over them with Roller blades, they can ignite.
>
> 3.) A 3-year old Boy's voice is louder than 200
> adults in a crowded restaurant.
>
> 4.) If you hook a dog leash over a ceiling fan, the
> motor is not strong enough to rotate a 42 pound Boy
> wearing Batman underwear and a Superman cape. It is
> strong enough, however, if tied to a paint can, to
> spread paint on all four walls of a 20x20 ft. room.
>
> 5.) You should not throw baseballs up when the
> ceiling fan is on. When using a ceiling fan as a
> bat, you have to throw the ball up a few times
> before you get a hit. A ceiling fan can hit a
> baseball a long way.
>
> 6.) The glass in windows (even double-pane) doesn't
> stop a baseball hit by a ceiling fan.
>
> 7.) When you hear the toilet flush and the words "uh
> oh", it's already too late.
>
> 8.) Brake fluid mixed with Clorox makes smoke, and
> lots of it.
>
> 9.) A six-year old Boy can start a fire with a flint
> rock even though a 36-year old Man says they can
> only do it in the movies.
>
> 10.) Certain Lego's will pass through the digestive
> tract of a 4-year old Boy.
>
> 11.) Play dough and microwave should not be used in
> the same sentence.
>
> 12.) Super glue is forever.
>
> 13.) No matter how much Jell-O you put in a swimming
> pool you still can't walk on water.
>
> 14.) Pool filters do not like Jell-O.
>
> 15.) VCR's do not eject "PB & J" sandwiches even
> though TV commercials show they do.
>
> 16.) Garbage bags do not make good parachutes.
>
> 17.) Marbles in gas tanks make lots of noise when
> driving.
>
> 18.) You probably DO NOT want to know what that odor
> is.
>
> 19.) Always look in the oven before you turn it on;
> plastic toys do not like ovens.
>
> 20.) The fire department in La Mesa, CA has a
> 5-minute response time.
>
> 21.) The spin cycle on the washing machine does not
> make earthworms dizzy.
>
> 22.) It will, however, make cats dizzy.
>
> 23.) Cats throw up twice their body weight when
> dizzy.
>
> 24.) 80% of Men who read this will try mixing the
> Clorox and brake fluid.
>
> 25.) Women will pass this on to almost all of their
> friends, with or without kids.

Peaches
12-10-2004, 04:49 PM
Perfect! :)

A few more:

Bouncing a glass marble on a glass table top will shatter it

Bouncing the same glass marble on a TV screen will shatter it

Putting a medium powered magnet to a color TV will screw up the colors for at least 24 hours

If you take a clock/radio/VCR/phone apart, please know how to put it back together

Gerbils should never be taken out of their cages "just to play"

Too many crank calls about you being in an accident will make your mother not believe it when you're in a REAL accident until the hospital calls and it shows up on caller ID

Hanging all the pictures at an angle, taking doors off their hinges (and then hiding the doors) changing the kitchen cabinet doors where the handle is out of your mother's reach and taping down toliet paper and paper towel rolls so they spin and you never get something to latch on to us cruel.

And those are just the ones I can remember off hand. :unsure:

Nickatilynx
12-10-2004, 05:03 PM
> 24.) 80% of Men who read this will try mixing the
> Clorox and brake fluid


ahahahaha I was literally thinking: "No way...wonder if we have some"

LOL

JR
12-10-2004, 06:25 PM
Originally posted by Nickatilynx@Dec 10 2004, 02:04 PM
> 24.) 80% of Men who read this will try mixing the
> Clorox and brake fluid


ahahahaha I was literally thinking: "No way...wonder if we have some"

LOL
hahaha.

thats what went through my mind too.

"really?... why?..... does it explode?..... huh!.....interesting..." <while looking around the house to see if there is clorox or brake fluid handy>

LAJ
12-10-2004, 06:30 PM
Ha! I guess I'll take all this as a warning! :o

grimm
12-10-2004, 07:00 PM
Originally posted by JR+Dec 10 2004, 03:26 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (JR @ Dec 10 2004, 03:26 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Nickatilynx@Dec 10 2004, 02:04 PM
> 24.) 80% of Men who read this will try mixing the
> Clorox and brake fluid


ahahahaha I was literally thinking: "No way...wonder if we have some"

LOL
hahaha.

thats what went through my mind too.

"really?... why?..... does it explode?..... huh!.....interesting..." <while looking around the house to see if there is clorox or brake fluid handy> [/b][/quote]
the Chemistry education comes into play...to answer

its not smoke, it is vapor. the chlorine in bleach mixes with the brake fluid, which is not a water based liquid, but more of an ether based, like gasoline. under certain circumstances, the law of conservation of energy would come into play as when the chlorine breaks down the bonds of the ethanol and carbon in the gasoline, it would superheat the brake fluid, causing a grey, very hot mist, which is igniteable at the fume level, not the liquid (vapor) layer just like gasoline. because of the superheating, you could end up with what is, in essence, a fireball.

so i would keep the brake fluid locked up away from the bleach if i had a kid:)

grimm
12-10-2004, 07:02 PM
oh, and it works:)

*KK*
12-10-2004, 10:31 PM
Originally posted by grimm@Dec 10 2004, 04:03 PM
oh, and it works:)
So does Clorox and Windex. ;)

Oh, the 25 I could post if I took the time to sit down and recall.

grimm
12-10-2004, 11:07 PM
Originally posted by *KK*+Dec 10 2004, 07:32 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (*KK* @ Dec 10 2004, 07:32 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-grimm@Dec 10 2004, 04:03 PM
oh, and it works:)
So does Clorox and Windex. ;)

Oh, the 25 I could post if I took the time to sit down and recall. [/b][/quote]
nope.... windex has ammonia, which when mixed with bleach produces chlorine oxide gas. which will burn your throat and eyes, and if continually exposed in an enclosed environment, death.

mind you this is not chlorine gas, which is instantly fatal even if inhaled in a small dose.

But the exothermic reaction of the brake fluid and bleach is caused because brake fluid is based on an ethanol group liquid, which is much harder to compress than a water based liquid. the heat is caused by the bonds breaking at a molecular level, the fireball by the very flammable gas being superheated.


so if you are combining bleach and windex, you are combining a solvent with a chlorine group hydroxide, releasing oxygen and chlorine. and a bad smell and noxious gases.


anyone whos ever cleaned a bar bathroom knows this. it is a very fast reaction and very good at cleaning urine off of bathroom floors ( urine being composed of keytones, proteins, water, and ammonia:)



so after all that babble.. bleach + ammonia = not hot, no smoke

bleach + brake fluid= very hot, no smoke, lots of vapor that looks like smoke.


anyone ever try an aluminum or magnesium sulfate with drain cleaner in a compressed space?:)

i loved college... from the lab to the keg party, to the ER;)


:yowsa: :yowsa: :yowsa:

Opti
12-11-2004, 12:28 AM
Originally posted by grimm@Dec 11 2004, 10:03 AM
oh, and it works:)
And mixed inside one of those really thick 20litre plastic industrial chemical containers... it produces a "bang" like an huge artillary round firing :D