h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Glue two back to back and then glue sequins on the front, hang up on a piece of string by the window.
Great craft for Guides/Girl Scouts to do.

Good One!
We did somethingsimilar last spring. Took a few hundred (Boy do they ever weigh a lot!) for a walk through some local countryside.
Tied them to tree branches over a 2 mile walk.
You could see the glinting in the sunlight from miles away, quite spectacular.
Even the local paper had a small article on it.
And they do make splendid rifle targets!!!

I've got a couple of hundred lying around the house... My original plan was to clamp them together 30 at a time, then saw six slots around the edges, thus making giant Tazos I could send to Personal Computer World. However, after cutting three of the first six slots I had a very sore arm and an entire pack of (20) blunt junior hacksaw blades... I just keep them on my metal desk now, to insulate my metal coffee mug from it. (They make good heat reflectors!)

Just how many coffee mugs do you own?
Some people get away with it, but free software always did something horrid to my beloved 'Komputor' device. Now I dump the things.
Easy on the coffee!

I own four active Coffee mugs, although three of them are discuised as "Mushroom Soup" mugs. The fourth, and most constantly used one, is a "Cobmaster" 1 pint enamelled camping mug. (I also have 10 cups, but that's another story)

The number of CDs used as coffee mats doesn't directly correlate to the number of mugs owned - I use a stack of at least 3 CDs for optimal insulation/reflection charecteristics, and such stacks are placed about the house anywhere I might have been inclined to lay my mug down in the past. Several such stacks are currently believed lost beneath the archaeological strata of Komputors (sic) into which I am currently digging...

if you dispose of the things, ask your local primary school or guide unit if they can find a craft to use them for instead.

Just take it easy with this Reflectivity stuff, you could set up a sympathetic resonance in the Time Space Continium, that would of course then trigger an irreversible chain reaction in the upper atmosphere!

You could always just chop them into little bits and use them to mosaic.

Failing that, if you keep collecting them until you've got a heavy weight of them, wrap them up and post them back to the company that sent them out, forgetting to include the postage of course

Have you *TRIED* chopping them up? (See post 33)

Oops - finger slip - that was supposed to be "#3"...

Yup I've just spent a very theroputic afternoon doing s

Rather than a hacksaw, try either a pair or medium weight wire cutters, or if you have some, glass or tile cutters are better.

Fair enough - although they wouldn't have helped with my original project...

I have several hanging around my living room walls too; the last occupant left dozens of nails to hang pictures on, but I only have two pictures (and three pewter flying saucers, but that's another story...) and the unadorned nails looked like little black spots of fly-crap or somesuch... A good trick is to hang a cluster together then bounce the light from a desk lamp off them - you can make pretty patterns on the ceiling. ("This is the voice of the Mysterons..." )

Stick two together shiny side out and then cut out a narrow channel to the centre. Before you can say anditisestablishmentarianism you have a wine glass hor d'eurve tray thingy, so you can hold more than one of the little things simultaneously. Be the envy of friends at posh dinner parties!

I think it might be antidisestablishmentarianism actually.

That's the joke