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some_beer_drinker		2012-06-23 04:06:14 AM

coooooooool

CPT Ethanolic		2012-06-23 06:23:38 AM

Gonna have to see about buying me some of this!

markie_farkie		2012-06-23 10:24:44 AM

Looks like one of the ingredients in those fireworks snake pellets.

I think there are STILL black marks on the driveway from 10 years ago.

Lord Jubjub		2012-06-23 12:10:43 PM

CPT Ethanolic: Gonna have to see about buying me some of this!

Every aspect of that demonstration is capable of killing you, including the snake itself. Be VERY careful.

markie_farkie: Looks like one of the ingredients in those fireworks snake pellets.

I think there are STILL black marks on the driveway from 10 years ago.

The Pharaoh's Serpent was the original snake. They started using safer ingredients after kids were eating the snake and dying.

calbert		2012-06-23 12:40:37 PM

Lord Jubjub: The Pharaoh's Serpent was the original snake. They started using safer ingredients after kids were eating the snake and dying.

true, but the deaths were only among first-born males.

PacManDreaming		2012-06-23 12:53:28 PM

markie_farkie: Looks like one of the ingredients in those fireworks snake pellets.

I think there are STILL black marks on the driveway from 10 years ago.

Yeah, when I saw the video, I was quite underwhelmed...especially after lighting up numerous Pharaoh's Serpents from 30+ years ago. Those were usually the last things we set off after we ran out of all the fun(translation: dangerous) fireworks.

xanadian		2012-06-23 01:00:28 PM

I wonder what the final chemical composition of the snake is... couldn't find it in Wikipedia...

Lord Jubjub: markie_farkie: Looks like one of the ingredients in those fireworks snake pellets.

I think there are STILL black marks on the driveway from 10 years ago.

The Pharaoh's Serpent was the original snake. They started using safer ingredients after kids were eating the snake and dying.

Ah, it's just Darwin doing his job.

indarwinsshadow		2012-06-23 01:32:28 PM

Approves.

Saberus Terras		2012-06-23 01:47:24 PM

Tetsuo!

amo		2012-06-23 02:07:58 PM

calbert: Lord Jubjub: The Pharaoh's Serpent was the original snake. They started using safer ingredients after kids were eating the snake and dying.

true, but the deaths were only among first-born males.

*slow clap*

Well done, my friend.

scalpod		2012-06-23 02:34:27 PM

xanadian: I wonder what the final chemical composition of the snake is... couldn't find it in Wikipedia...

Lord Jubjub: markie_farkie: Looks like one of the ingredients in those fireworks snake pellets.

I think there are STILL black marks on the driveway from 10 years ago.

The Pharaoh's Serpent was the original snake. They started using safer ingredients after kids were eating the snake and dying.

Ah, it's just Darwin doing his job.

Chemistry behind The Pharaoh's Serpent.

studebaker hoch		2012-06-23 02:48:41 PM

Snake burns on the sidewalk were as much a part of childhood in the US as lite-brite pegs getting lost in the shag carpet.

InfrasonicTom		2012-06-23 02:54:13 PM

Skip the first 1:20 unless you get a tingle in your naughty bits watching someone spoon out some powder.

mooseyfate		2012-06-23 02:58:26 PM

Reminded me of Poison Ivy's little vine-pods she'd always throw at people on Batman TAS.

stiletto_the_wise		2012-06-23 03:10:29 PM

Did we really need to see 1:20 of scooping¿

TheMega		2012-06-23 03:34:40 PM

stiletto_the_wise: Did we really need to see 1:20 of scooping¿

Apparently so... apparently so... apparently so... apparently so... apparently so... apparently so... apparently so... apparently so... apparently so... and so on and so forth.

/scoop

Sylvia_Bandersnatch		2012-06-23 03:46:42 PM

No one will be seated during the gripping minute-long Spooning The Stuff Into The Terrarium scene. I think the live coda of "Free Bird" was shorter than this.

Joking aside, that is one freakish reaction all right. Even the noise is creepy.

Sylvia_Bandersnatch		2012-06-23 03:47:45 PM

StoPPeRmobile		2012-06-23 04:08:44 PM

markie_farkie: Looks like one of the ingredients in those fireworks snake pellets.

I think there are STILL black marks on the driveway from 10 years ago.

Came to say, snakes and sparklers are the good stuff.

maxheck		2012-06-23 04:30:45 PM

That was... Lovecraftian... :)

I was talking with a friend about a book they had in my junior high... No way in heck they'd publish that nowadays. It was called "Science Magic" and had all sorts of stuff involving toxic stuff like mercury or highly reactive stuff like 80% hydrogen peroxide. You know... The fun stuff!

Anyway, one of the recipes was for ash snakes. Older farkers will know what I'm talking about. Little asprin-sized tablets that made twisty ash trails. Except this book didn't fark around, they described making cones the size of your fist to make ash friggin' anacondas.

Really wish I could find a copy of that book.

Gonad the Ballbarian		2012-06-23 04:39:29 PM

Oceanside, CA

Stile4aly		2012-06-23 04:42:54 PM

So that's how Prometheus ended.

BumpInTheNight		2012-06-23 05:04:26 PM

AKKKIIIIIIIIIRRRAA!

Devolving_Spud		2012-06-23 05:09:34 PM

More proof that "science" is of the Devil!!!!11!!11!!!!666!

Dear Jerk		2012-06-23 05:10:10 PM

One more thing that would be cheaper and safer would be to cook a bar of Ivory soap in a microwave.

Dialectic		2012-06-23 05:33:23 PM

It's alive!

Dakai		2012-06-23 05:53:34 PM

markie_farkie: Looks like one of the ingredients in those fireworks snake pellets.

I think there are STILL black marks on the driveway from 10 years ago.

Came to say this

Nuclear Monk		2012-06-23 05:55:51 PM

I had one of those removed from my spine last year. I don't recommend it.

ultraholland		2012-06-23 06:37:43 PM

those poor, little cacti

StoPPeRmobile		2012-06-23 06:56:21 PM

Sylvia_Bandersnatch: No one will be seated during the gripping minute-long Spooning The Stuff Into The Terrarium scene. I think the live coda of "Free Bird" was shorter than this.

Joking aside, that is one freakish reaction all right. Even the noise is creepy.

THAT is why I am the SHAMAN!!!!!!

Bow to me.

Mister Peejay		2012-06-23 07:12:53 PM

GonzoNihilist		2012-06-23 08:19:33 PM

mooseyfate		2012-06-23 08:48:58 PM

Dear Jerk: One more thing that would be cheaper and safer would be to cook a bar of Ivory soap in a microwave.

.......you know, I need a new microwave anyways...

/off to buy a bar of ivory soap and a new microwave!

Paris1127		2012-06-23 09:09:15 PM

Awesome... Another great experiment is dehydrating sugar with concentrated sulfuric acid.

zerkalo		2012-06-23 09:11:40 PM

LeroyB		2012-06-23 09:11:41 PM

It looks like a series of tubes.

... just like the Inter-web

Tyrone Slothrop		2012-06-23 09:12:11 PM

zerkalo		2012-06-23 09:13:09 PM

studebaker hoch: Snake burns on the sidewalk were as much a part of childhood in the US as lite-brite pegs getting lost in the shag carpet.

And stepping on 20-sided dice in one's bare feet

PacManDreaming		2012-06-23 09:39:33 PM

zerkalo: And stepping on 20-sided dice in one's bare feet

Meh, those four-sided dice made better caltrops.

Sylvia_Bandersnatch		2012-06-23 10:48:25 PM

PacManDreaming: zerkalo: And stepping on 20-sided dice in one's bare feet

Meh, those four-sided dice made better caltrops.

The 4-siders are the most painful, to be sure. But the 20's are big enough to take you down. My brother had a 30-sider; we called it the 'golf ball'.

DutchDynamite		2012-06-23 11:35:04 PM

imagine lighting up 100 kg of that stuff

Dear Jerk		2012-06-24 12:33:19 AM

DutchDynamite
imagine lighting up 100 kg of that stuff

Spooning out that much would be like watching an Andy Warhol film.

Ghastly		2012-06-24 01:14:34 AM

Saberus Terras: Tetsuo!

KANEDAAAAA!

The All-Powerful Atheismo		2012-06-24 02:15:44 AM

Ghastly: Saberus Terras: Tetsuo!

KANEDAAAAA!

TETSUOOO!

maxheck		2012-06-24 02:21:13 AM

The All-Powerful Atheismo:

Ghastly: Saberus Terras: Tetsuo!

KANEDAAAAA!

TETSUOOO!

Aaaaaand the laser sputters out.

Why the fark you'd call someone's attention to the fact that you're about to zap them, I'll never know. Me, I'd just shoot the SOB.

Paris1127		2012-06-24 04:11:43 AM

I see your Mercury(II) thiocyanate decomposing and raise you Ammonium dichromate and Mercury(II) thiocyanate decomposing together...

Monkeyfark Ridiculous		2012-06-24 06:16:14 AM

Paris1127: I see your Mercury(II) thiocyanate decomposing and raise you Ammonium dichromate and Mercury(II) thiocyanate decomposing together...

Nice.

tetsoushima		2012-06-24 09:53:11 AM

Saberus Terras: Tetsuo!

www.freewebs.com

May I help you?

Saberus Terras		2012-06-24 11:34:11 AM

tetsoushima: Saberus Terras: Tetsuo!

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May I help you?

O_O

...please don't kill me.

Elvis Da King		2012-06-24 11:49:58 AM

studebaker hoch: Snake burns on the sidewalk were as much a part of childhood in the US as lite-brite pegs getting lost in the shag carpet.

The minute I read that, my foot started aching.

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