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I bet your pet plastic elephant was highly disappointed..

We once had a supplier that packed in popcorn. No, not the plastic kind, REAL popcorn. Somehow they dried it out so that it wasn't oily. The birds loved it ... they would start to flock any time the UPS or FedEx truck pulled in to the parking lot.

Jim

Air popped popcorn isn't oily but it's still food. Critters would love to hitch a ride into your house in the box. IMO, this isn't a good idea.

that foamed corn packing stuff is food too, yeah best not to keep food around in cardboard boxes.

I don't want to meet the critter that's eating formaldehyde foam. ;-)

The military used to do this all the time. At a certain unnamed aerospace company in Goodyear, Arziona, I was watching a general enthuasiastically munching their way through the packing popcorn.

Until they got to the little note that said it was poisioned.

"...unnamed aerospace company in Goodyear, Arizona..." ?:-)

Bwahahahahahaha! I designed hybrid circuits there for awhile.

Remember when they had to switch to _frozen_ chickens?

Also when the GM greeted late arrivals at the guard gate and chewed them out? Unfortunately for him, I was one of those... had an early morning dental appointment. When he started chewing on me, I gave him my usual GFY salute and told him, "I quit." Called in to my boss and told him I'd quit. GM had to apologize to me and seriously kiss-up ;-) ...Jim Thompson

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Salt water taffy? Dental Appointment? Does anyone see the connection here?

Nope. Cleaning.

At age 72, I have only three fillings. I grew up in WV with awful-tasting naturally-fluorided water.

How many fillings do you have ?:-)

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(Board only, I wasn't allowed to take a stuffed board :-)

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Remember the old HP's Spectrum Analyzer line 140/141 mainframe using the 8554 and 8552 IF. Inside the 8552 circuitry was isolated by putting each into a 'can'. A molded aluminum set 'cans' [like an ice tray] that hold the stage electronics do NOT have their tops lined up at the same heights, but are staggered. Originally over each top there was an individual lid that bolted down with a seal to make a 'Faraday' cage to isolate the electronics inside. Unfortunately with the sensitivities involved the 'slot antenna' formed by the seal at the top of each can would talk to the adjacent electronics! Thus, we had to stagger their tops. Then each seal 'looked' either at open space, or at a solid wall of aluminum.

Save it and give it out at Halloween.

What? And call it "Rock Candy" ?:-) ...Jim Thompson

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Only if you keep it in the freezer. It would melt in the Arizona sun.