Invention Exchange #3

[itsjustashow]

Hey everyone! With the prospect of starvation and all its unpleasantness looming upon the New York horizon, I thought it'd be high time to put some of the stuff I've got lying around to good use. As everyone knows, when you're in an apocalyptic situation, the only kind of food that will survive is cockroaches and twinkies. Given that cockroaches

Comments

[loopmein]

The Twinkienator? Sounds like a premise for a bad movie. But hey, if we're all going to be half-starved, I'd rather resort to Twinkies than munching on my roommates.

[itsjustashow]

I dunno, I would buy a movie with the premise of a rabid twinkie terrorizing a town. Stranger things have gone rabid.

As would I, my friend.

[loopmein]

Know what? You're absolutely right. Would it have legs, too, or just burrow its way underground like a giant earthworm? Got to say, it's a better premise than giant galloping boneyards trying to kill you.

[itsjustashow]

I'd say it burrows underground or kinda slithers along like the blob. Special effects budget can't afford to stick legs on it. I dunno if I should ask what a boneyard is.

[doctor_of_time]

It wouldn't be easier to, well, just chop them up into wee little bits? Seems like that would serve the same purpose, only without having to take the time necessary to build that flashy machine. Although I am rather fond of a good flashy machine.

...Except that would take away the fun of having each of them individually wrapped, though. So there is at least one advantage to using the machine, I'll give you that!

[itsjustashow]

Yeah it'd probably be easier, but it's a whole lot more fun this way. Plus half the fun is the individual wrapper bit. And in makin' these inventions themselves.

[thescienceguy]

Sounds good to me! Takes all the guesswork and arguing out of splitting a Twinkie in half. Nobody likes getting cheated out of perfectly good Twinkie.

[itsjustashow]

Glad to see it gets a seal of approval, good sir.

[valetudochamp]

There's something already out there that does pretty much the same thing. It's called a knife.

[itsjustashow]

Maybe so, but the whole point of an invention exchange's to make somethin' new. Sorta.