Music CD's (alternative uses for...)
Created | Updated Mar 7, 2002
The humble CD ROM has been much maligned by the 'for God's sake keep your coffee away from my vinyl collection' brigade. Advantages such as reduced rumble, practically no hiss and the holiday you can buy with the money you save on styluses, amount to nothing.
However, this attitude is entirely unjustified. The humble CD has many alternative uses which now plainly make up for the fact that you can now hear Mike Oldfield sniffing an illegal substance between guitar passages in Tubular Bells I. For those vinyl audiophiles (or anyone not made of vinyl too), I include the following small list. Please feel free to add to this at any time.......
1) A shaving mirror (ideal for those people stranded upon a desert island with no running water or en-suite facilities)
2) A template for use when cutting out beefburgers (Tesco - £1.19 for four)
3) A small frisbee (note: the fact that it doesn't fly very well can be overcome by fitting the CD to the back of a modest model aircraft. However, care should be taken when re-catching the object that you do not cut your fingers off in the propeller blades)
4) A wheel from one of Professor Heinz Wolff's mobile creations from the late lamented 'Great Egg Race'
5) A temporary doggy pooper-scooper (nb. only applies to CD's by the Smiths or Bert Weedon - watch your fingers with the hole in the middle)
These are just more common examples. Can you think of any other uses they can be put to?
However, this attitude is entirely unjustified. The humble CD has many alternative uses which now plainly make up for the fact that you can now hear Mike Oldfield sniffing an illegal substance between guitar passages in Tubular Bells I. For those vinyl audiophiles (or anyone not made of vinyl too), I include the following small list. Please feel free to add to this at any time.......
1) A shaving mirror (ideal for those people stranded upon a desert island with no running water or en-suite facilities)
2) A template for use when cutting out beefburgers (Tesco - £1.19 for four)
3) A small frisbee (note: the fact that it doesn't fly very well can be overcome by fitting the CD to the back of a modest model aircraft. However, care should be taken when re-catching the object that you do not cut your fingers off in the propeller blades)
4) A wheel from one of Professor Heinz Wolff's mobile creations from the late lamented 'Great Egg Race'
5) A temporary doggy pooper-scooper (nb. only applies to CD's by the Smiths or Bert Weedon - watch your fingers with the hole in the middle)
These are just more common examples. Can you think of any other uses they can be put to?
