Life is Tough but it's Tougher when you're Stupid

[mikewint]

That would feel strange as HELL when it melted and ooozed out.

But it would smell purtty!!!

 

[mikewint]

Space Dust was first on the scene in the 70's soon followed by Pop Rocks.

One thing I clearly remember, is my friend pouring a whole pouch of Space Dust in his mouth and then taking a big swig of Coke.

If you've ever seen what a Mentos can do to a 2 liter of soda, then you know how his stunt turned out...

Space Dust and Pop Rocks are one and the same. Pop rocks/Space dust contain SMALL amounts of Carbon Dioxide gas surrounded by sugar. Dropping them into water or a carbonated soda melts the sugar and releases the VERY SMALL amount of carbon dioxide contained within the pop rocks and essentially none of the carbon dioxide dissolved in the beverage. Such a small amount of gas hardly makes a good belch. The "explosive" effect is an Urban Myth
Mentos tablets on the other hand contain no carbon dioxide of their own BUT do provide nucleation sites for the LARGE amount of carbon dioxide gas dissolved in the beverage to suddenly come out of solution as a gas, hence the explosive effect of that large amount of gas being suddenly released.

 

[GrauGeist]

Unlike Pop Rocks, which had that hard coating, Space Dust was more like the Lik-A-Stix (fun dip) powder.

Pouring an entire packet into your mouth and taking a swig of warm Coke certainly won't create an explosive reaction like a flying 2-liter soda bottle, BUT the reaction was enough to make my buddy's cheeks swell and coke to come shooting out his nose (much to our amusement).

Taking a drink of coke with a mouthful of Poprocks did produce a greatly enhanced popping experience when chewed and of course everyone was trying to see who could make the loudest popping sounds while eating them.

Sort of like who could make the loudest crunching sounds while eating a mouthful of Fritos during lunch in the Cafeteria. At least until the cafeteria ladies came around and scolded us...

 

[mikewint]

Good Times Dave, Good Times!!!

I remember Pop Rocks but not the Space Dust. With further research:
In the late 1976, General Foods really took the novelty candy world by storm with it's new candy, Pop Rocks. It was a hit, so a few years later, they released a new candy (which was similar) called Space Dust. It was basically Pop Rocks, just crushed up into a fine powder.

The fine powder would indeed provide the nucleation sites to release the carbon dioxide dissolved in the beverage hence the Mentos-like reaction

 

[Tieleader]

I remember an occasion at USAFA where I saw in the laundry room, an upper classman propped up with his butt in the air and his roomie lighting his farts after gorging nothing but beans at the evening meal. As I recall, the blue flame was 2 to 4 inches long. The next day, he couldn't sit because of burns. They both went on to fly F-4s in Nam.

They were just testing the afterburner thrust rating...

 

[mikewint]

 

[Gnomey]

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Now who hasn't tried this in some shape or form...

 

[Tieleader]

me.

 

[at6]

I've never tried that. I prefer having an uncooked anus.

 

[The Basket]

Polyembolokoilamania

oddly I would rather stick things up my ass than spell that again.

 

[mikewint]

I prefer having an uncooked anus.

No worries, A typical fart is composed of about 59 percent nitrogen, 21 percent hydrogen, 9 percent carbon dioxide, 7 percent methane and 4 percent oxygen. Only about one percent of a fart contains hydrogen sulfide gas and mercaptans, which contain sulfur, and the sulfur is what makes farts stink (thus the deaf can enjoy them too).
The flammable gasses are hydrogen, methane, and hydrogen sulfide. Lake any other combustion oxygen is required in the correct stoichometric quantity.
So until the fart enters the atmosphere, mixes with oxygen and encounters an ignition source, no combustion. Now since heat rises you would want your nether regions pointing up at the time of ignition

 

[Zipper730]

Because I'm into high-brow humor...

 

[Tieleader]

Because I'm into high-brow humor...

Now I'm amused AND thirsty.
Plus all the wildlife in that area are going to be up all night on a sticky caffeine high.

 

[Gnomey]

Impressive!

 

[Zipper730]

Polyembolokoilamania

That has to do with inserting into any body orifice. That said, there is a medical term called a foreign rectal body...

 

[Shortround6]

If you are six years old and stick a bean up your nose that is one thing.

If you are old enough to vote and you stick strange things up your butt.............................wait...................that explains a lot about modern elections

 

[swampyankee]

When my wife was an RN in the local hospital's SICU, a radiologist came jogging up with an X-ray he thought hilarious, in a rather dark way: a person had mistaken a soda bottle for a rectal suppository. Unsurprisingly, illicit drugs were involved.

 

[The Basket]

There are 2 schools of thought on the insertion of foreign objects into the rectal passage.
Some call it a mental illness and some call it a Saturday night.
Either way, I am not here to judge.

 

[Bernhart]

had a patient with a shot glass shoved up there, and yes drugs were involved

 

[mikewint]

Then there are Gerbils, according to Sylvester Stallone!!! (Yea I know that it's not true but funny none-the-less)