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groverpm		2003-10-20 06:50:57 AM

Shight!!! I'm older than lava lamps!!!

memebot_of_doom		2003-10-20 06:58:59 AM

www.giantlavalamp.com

theotherbilly		2003-10-20 07:01:38 AM

breaking one open can be scary when you're trippin'

ComaToast		2003-10-20 07:03:44 AM

I ran out of Xmas gift ideas for my grandmother and got her a lava lamp. She loves it. Unfortunately she's not a stoner (except for her drawer full of meds).

brian72975		2003-10-20 07:10:03 AM

Overrated.

RavinDave		2003-10-20 07:10:18 AM

Whoa.

paz		2003-10-20 07:16:15 AM

Yep. I'm groovin' on mine right now.

postrye		2003-10-20 07:24:39 AM

whoa

2nd_cousin_twice_removed_of_dogface		2003-10-20 07:30:46 AM

Far out man!

flashes peace sign

Shinaynay		2003-10-20 07:34:29 AM

I like my lava lamp, I looooooove my glitter lamp (K-mart clearance, $4.50, oh yeah!)!

Lava_Lump		2003-10-20 07:37:22 AM

Mine's burning bright, along with some other things... I couldn't help but post on this one.

Jay-Tea		2003-10-20 07:39:40 AM

Reminds me that I must get the liquid stuff inside replaced...

So, lets have a colour contest...

Red/Purple vs Green/Yellow

LoneDust		2003-10-20 07:44:03 AM

Woah or Whoa?
forgets

YankinDaneland		2003-10-20 07:46:47 AM

Woah.

Poe		2003-10-20 07:46:57 AM

I had mine on last night. I also figured out that if I take one that is heated up and shake it, so it is all red (in my case) inside, my cat is desperately afraid of it. I have no idea why, but he freaked out

Zilly		2003-10-20 07:47:59 AM

We have a total of 16 burning on our plant shelf...a nice alternative to fake ivy, I think.

b0rg9		2003-10-20 07:49:32 AM

I have an original one from the 60's. I'm sure it was a different color originally. Now the wax is faded to white and the water is a light blue (kind of like Miracle Gro). Still cool though.

b0rg9		2003-10-20 07:53:22 AM

Poe, if you shake them like that you'll ruin them -- at least the original ones. I know because when was a kid I trashed one of my parents' one by doing that.

AgentPothead		2003-10-20 07:58:38 AM

Whoa.

Majik_Smoke		2003-10-20 07:59:48 AM

I love my lava lamps. I had the (dis)pleasure of knocking one over while dusting, and breaking it. The thing took a one hop off of the entertainment center and landed on the edge of one of my iron frame glass table tops. The glass top broke, the lava lamp broke, and I had red oil and glass shards all over the off-white carpet. That bastard cost me a 250 dollar security deposit.

Good times....good times.

virtualmilk		2003-10-20 08:12:18 AM

lava lamps have nothing on winamp and geiss. lava lamps are old and busted. winamp visuals are teh new hotness.

brian72975		2003-10-20 08:13:29 AM

Wo.

TheFiefdom		2003-10-20 08:14:27 AM

Lava lamp juice is delicious.

MrSoftTeeth		2003-10-20 08:14:32 AM

"I have 64 lamps - including 31 Midnights and 16 Centurys."
Wow, 31 Midnights?? Eat your hearts out you lavalamp newbs.

Also, that "artist's concept image" of the huge lava lamp is asking for another photoshop.

TheFiefdom		2003-10-20 08:17:22 AM

Woo.

Hytes Xian		2003-10-20 08:21:52 AM

I used to be a little boy.

productiveslacker		2003-10-20 08:24:58 AM

Duuuuude!

manfish		2003-10-20 08:26:55 AM

Lava Lamps are so passe! Glitter Lamps are the thing now! ;)

the_lorax		2003-10-20 08:29:33 AM

Whoa

Rat		2003-10-20 08:31:15 AM

Former Whoa...but I still have me lamp.

® heya hytes

Eat More Possum		2003-10-20 08:36:13 AM

Once in a while I pull my '60s lamp out of the closet and turn it on. Somehow it's not the same when you're not stoned.

DrKebab		2003-10-20 08:37:34 AM

When I got my first lava-lamp, I pretty much spent every night for a week just staring at it. Yet, I'm not a stoner...
But, whoa, anyway

eyeballjackson		2003-10-20 08:43:42 AM

Glitter lamps are for sissies. Winamp visuals are for losers. Lava lamps FOREVER!

Atari Videomusic is pretty hot too.

Hey, don't bogart that . . .

stankydanky		2003-10-20 08:44:57 AM

WHOA cannabis has medicinal and spiritual value?

worst. headline. ever.

YankinDaneland		2003-10-20 08:52:11 AM

Woe.

sos		2003-10-20 09:11:52 AM

Woah!

PeterGruntmuscle		2003-10-20 09:18:45 AM

I know for a fact that the, "Lava" in a lava lamp isn't really lava!

wuzupperson		2003-10-20 09:19:04 AM

sos
I was thinking of that moron, too.

"Blossom" -- the precursor to "Friends." Need I say more? ;-)

vandamm78		2003-10-20 09:32:58 AM

Whoa

Pizzle		2003-10-20 09:38:16 AM

Sos beat me to it! I was looking for a pic of Joey.

zerkalo		2003-10-20 09:46:57 AM

Twas the big shaker of 2001 that sent my lavalamp to the floor. Luckily, she was more than a match for the Nisqually quake and escaped with just a cracked cap. She now resides at my niece and nephews house to inspire a new generation of slackers.

Wake 'n Bake		2003-10-20 09:51:47 AM

I have three of them in my dorm room :)

They compliment the fractal posters and constant smell of weed very nicely!

suburbanguerilla		2003-10-20 10:01:05 AM

i have one of the originals in my living room,

Hytes Xian		2003-10-20 10:07:58 AM

Goddammit, I love Google. For years I've had this wretched memory of these lamps that oozed beads of oil down fishing line. They made me vomit in the aisles where I stood watching. Madness in the wake of Lava Lamps. Anything that I have hated greatly in my life is held near and dear in my black heart. I want to hold those memories more tightly. I want to know just what to call them.

And today all it took was entering lamp "beads of oil" and I got my answer in know time.

Behold The Rain Lamp:

Adverse18		2003-10-20 10:10:34 AM

Don't trust anyone (or anything) over thirty!

[on, in, out]

brian72975		2003-10-20 10:13:07 AM

Whoa.... (Nelly)

stretching

Adverse18		2003-10-20 10:13:47 AM

Hytes Xian
I think you should have warned those who follow in your Googled footsteps of the really crappy music they would encounter.

LineNoise		2003-10-20 10:19:23 AM

Hytes Xian

Too wild man, I have some friends that have that exact same friggin lamp. The oil it uses is scented, and much to my surprise, extremely hot to the touch.

Its kind of one of those things when you see it, your first thought is "Thats F'ing cool"

The thought quickly passes :)

bump		2003-10-20 10:27:39 AM

Hytes I too was once a little boy... Okay, okay, I was actually a lentle coy..(a shy human bean.)

[/should've worked my steps before taking that hit]