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

Get a single sheet of rolling paper and roll it around your little finger to make a sort of cone shape and stick it tohether.
Place on a flat surface (pointy end up, natch)
Light top and wait.
When the lame gets to about 1/4 the way down the cone, it will lift off and float gracefully upwards until it burns out....or it will burn the beermat, table and pub right down and you'll do bird...but its worth a go

These directions, you two, are compelling evidence of misspent youth

Not only evidence of a mis-spent youth, but also of having just too much time on your hands - get out, get a life - or, alternatively, start a collection of the most useless bits of information a person is ever likely to need....starting with paper planes/rockets and working your way upwards to instructions on packets of peanuts on airplaces (open packet, put contents in mouth, chew, swallow)!

And don't forget that the peanut packaging will contain the message: 'Warning: This product may contain nuts'......

Remove the string and staple. Empty out tea. Twist one end together. Light top.

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JOTD: Guns don't kill people. Bullets kill people.

Praise The Lord !!!! I finally got some feedback!! (and recognition! ) I can't wait to try the 'rocket' deal!

And when you show the tea bag thing to people that has never seen it before, you can tell the story of the nation with the less than intelligent people (in Sweden, this means Norway, and vice versa) that tried their first rocket launch, and it didn't work because it was too heavy.

You start with the whole tea bag, commenting what I just stated above: "When (enter unintelligent nation of your choice here) tried their first rocket launch, they found the rocket was too heavy, and therefor couldn't fly. Because of this, they thought they'd get rid of the fuse they used."
At this point, remove the string of the bag. Then continue the story:
"Even though the rocket became lighter when they cut away the fuse, they still couldn't get it to fly, so they started thinking about what they could change to make it fly. Then someone thought that if they removed all the fuel of the rocket, it would be even lighter, and that it may fly because of this. So they emptied all the fuel out."
At this point, remove the staple and empty out all the tea in the bag and place the tea bag back on the table. Then continue the story:
"After they had disposed of all the fuel, they realised that they couldn't get the rocket flying without the fuel, and they didn't know what else to do, so they cancelled the project and burned the rocket...."
Light the bag and wait....

Now, that is definitely the result of someone having too much time on his hands, don't you think? It does make a good story to impress kids with, though.

I'll get back to work now.

Very nice. Now if I wasn't so drunk, I'd try it, but right now i'd probably burn the house down!!

Burning the house down while making a tea bag fly is usually not considered a good idea. There are so much other stuff that flies around when the house is on flames, that it's hard to spot the tea bag.

With very very light cigarette papers (Rizla blue) the entire thing is consumed by the flame - no ash or nothing.

I like Club papers. Especially the big rolls so you can make as big a 'cigarette' as you like. I'll have to check out Rizla blues though. Thanks.