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101 Uses for an AOL CD?
Richard C asks: "I've just seen, for the first time, the newest AOL advert on UK television. One section depicts a man phoning AOL to ask for a free CD. As he speaks, he picks up his coffee mug, to which an AOL CD is stuck - he's been using it as a coaster. "Oh, don't worry - I've already got one" he adds. The irony of this amused me, to say the least, thought probably not in the way AOL intended. In any case, and in the true '101 uses for a dead cat' style, I thought it would be amusing (if not productive) to ask the Slashdot readership for their '101 uses for an AOL CD'. Be imaginative!"
You could throw the CD at idiots who make a big deal out of getting the first post.
Send them to Alan Ralsky !
Most interesting one I've ever heard of...get a blowtorch and melt an even ring in the middle so it droops down, let it cool, and you have a flower pot. It even has a hole in the middle for drainage. :)
I'm sure it takes a while to perfect the art of flower-pot-making, but hey...we all have plenty to practice on, right?
What? You want a sig?
I'm sure this hasn't been covered by people who want to make fun of AOL's CD spamming policies. In fact, I'm sure using a major search engine would fail to produce any results
but I just throw them away...
After releasing all my years of pent up anger on them with a heavy, blunt object.
"When all else fails, there's always delusion." -Conan O'Brien
When you can microwave them for a fireworks show
One of my favorite things to do with CD's after I don't need them any more is to make the lovely soup in the following recipe (it's a kind of minestrone).
CD Soup
Ingredients:
4cupsvegetable soup stock
2 clean, discardable CDs, preferably newish (unused AOL CD's are perfect!)
2(14.5 ounce) cansstewed tomatoes
1largepotato, cubed
1onion, chopped
2stalkscelery, chopped
2carrots, chopped
1large headcabbage, finely chopped
2tablespoonsItalian seasoning
1(15 ounce) cankidney beans
3cupsfresh corn kernals
1largezucchini, sliced
1cupuncooked orzo pasta
salt and pepper to taste
Preparation:
1. In a large soup pot combine the vegetable stock, the undrained tomatoes, potato, onion, celery, carrot, cabbage and Italian seasoning. Bring to a boil and reduce heat. Simmer for about 15 minutes.
2. Stir in the beans, corn, zucchini and pasta; simmer for 10 to 15 more minutes until the vegetables are tender. Kill heat, add CDs and stir vigorously for about three minutes.
Allow to set for five minutes.
Season with salt and pepper.
Note: The CD's are not edible.
Have a friend throw them into the air everytime you shout "PULL!" and open fire.
Glue them to the rims of your ghetto-ride.
Stack them in bulk (think a few hundred) and slap them on the ends of a metal bar and start bench-pressing.
Line your roof with these. Cut your cooling costs by 80% for those in the sun-belt. Reflect sunlight into your home and save on lighting. Relfect sinlight onto a dark bit of metal and enjoy the no-cost no-noise heating system.
Break them up into bits and make a disco-ball.
Use the left-over bits and make a tasteful [yeah right] mosaic.
There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Simply attach an AOL cd to the neck of your boring old pet lizard, and voila! you have a perfectly good frilled-neck lizard. (For all you non-australians out there, a frilled neck lizard is a native australian reptile, and a tasty treat for aboriginals in the aussie outback). mmmmmmmmmm frills.
Were when AOL came on floppies (and I still used floppies). I'd just place a new label on top of the AOL label, erase its contents, and voila! An empty disk! I think I had at least half a dozen of them. They must have been worth at least a dollar combined. I felt like I was really ripping them off.
Andy
Hey, now THATs a use, but do we really want to be giving those trolls free internet access?
X(7): A program for managing terminal windows. See also screen(1).
Oh My God, this is probably the first slashdot article in a while without the obligatory "In Soviet Russa..." post.
I feel somewhat obliged to say that In Soviet Russia, AOL CD's have 101 uses for you!
Can I get an eye poke?
Dog House Forum
The Cleansing Ritual for AOL CDs
From the earliest days of people recieving AOL CDs in the mail, there has been a need to cleanse these foul devices of their evil, and this is the only true way of excorcising the beast from the essentially innocent soul of the acryllic disk.
What you will need for this ritual:
1 (or more) AOL CD
1 Holy Urn of Isanël Umâhar of the proper diameter to fit a CD (suficiently sized and pre-blessed mixing bowl may be substituted)
1 (or more, proportionat to the number of CDs) bottle of holy water (religion of blessing entirely by choice of the person perfoming the cleansing)
1 Unholy Priestess (may be substituted by a suficiently versed hooker, or the pink ranger)
1 wooden alter (may be substituted by cheap IKEA knockoff microwave shelf)
1 2.4ghz radio frequency cooking device (microwave oven)
making sure the microwave is sitting on the altar, first place the CD into the Urn, fill the Urn with the holy water, while having the Unholy Priestess dance around the chanting the words "pa limat wi vuim irumo uv tajelac" five times, while the Unholy Priestess is chanting, place the Urn within the microwave, and with the chant "Ë lamacha dra drui sucud vuim uv taisuk", set the microwave for 1 minute and press "Start".
Afterwards do as you will with the Unholy Priestess.
Get a few million of them and create a companion for the Great Wall - Spell out "AOL SUCKS!" large enough to be seen from space.
Stuff them into body bags and dump them on Phillip Morris's front step.
SD
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