The eleventh miscellany
Having just returned from the CU weekend away, I found that George Bush has a better grasp of the English language than I suspected. I also learnt a wonderful new version of Rock Paper Scissors called Cat Tin Foil Microwave. The cat shreds the tin foil, the tin foil makes the microwave explode, and the microwave… well, you get the picture. (Idea provided by a member of staff at St Ebbes who will be giving half the talks during mission fortnight.) As to the actions, the microwave has a door opening with a “ping” sound, the cat meows and claws the air, and as tin foil russles, my new friend Dave suggested something from Gladiator. Finally, the number of amusing search terms finding this site seems to have dropped – this month’s new arrival was the positively boring “blueberries”.
Matthew @ 17:22, October 29, 2006 to Miscellaneous | Comments (9)
Comments:
Aaron
That’s a great version of Rock Paper scissors! Janken(じゃんけん)always solves fights and disagreements between little kids in Japan.I use it a lot. How does the tin foil make the microwave explode?
Comment added at 13:35, November 1, 2006
Matthew
Have a read of the Wikipedia entry – I don’t quite understand the physics, but basically sparks are created in the metal by the radiation.
Comment added at 16:10, November 1, 2006
Salmon
I put a jar of Nutella in the microwave once, forgetting it still had some tinfoil covering. Pretty conclusive.
Rock-paper-scissors is definitely a great way to solve petty arguments. A friend and I had a quick game to decide who was going to let who go through the door first (we were both being stubbornly polite with the ‘after you’ thing). Another couldn’t decide on her uni choices, so I picked one course and she picked another and we played best of three.
Well, it’s more fun than tossing a coin.
Comment added at 18:58, November 1, 2006
Matthew
Each block here has a microwave and apparently most of them will have been broken, or the fuses in the plugs blown, at least once during the year. (The guys in my block have managed to fuse the plugs twice already, but our microwave is intact.)
Comment added at 21:37, November 1, 2006
Mr E
We managed to get our microwave replaced last year as the door didn’t shut properly. If you looked at the back you could see it was dated “1984”.
Comment added at 22:04, November 1, 2006
Matthew
…any more microwave stories, anyone?
Comment added at 08:36, November 2, 2006
Mark
No, but I regularly get young people and volunteers to decide the outcomes of things by Rock, Paper, Scissors. It’s fair and because you picked your own losing you can’t blame anyone but yourself for losing. Ace.
Comment added at 14:53, November 2, 2006
Mr E
On a related note, for those of you with Facebook: http://warwick.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2203210206&ref=mf
Comment added at 18:34, November 2, 2006
John
Microwaves (like a lot of forms of electromagnetic radiation) are absorbed by metal. Thats why the sides are made of metal and theres a metal grid of some kind in the window on the front, to keep them in there! So when you put something metal in the microwave it is absorbed and creates an electric current in the metal which sometimes discharges to the external box which may blow fuses or further discharge into the microwave internals.
More fun in a microwave are unpierced potatoes, eggs, conkers etc. The microwaves heat up the water in the moist insides making steam and pressure. The potato/egg/conker/other fun thing then promptly explodes! Hurrah!
Comment added at 00:18, November 4, 2006
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