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    The Thousand and One Drinking Straw Lamp

    Chopsticks Roll Into Rings and Straws and...Well, That's Actually It

    Straw Lamp Seems Like a Sucky Art Project (In a Good Way)

    DIY Drinking Straws Make Sucking Fun

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    Image of Bokusatsu_Tenshi Bokusatsu_Tenshi
    08/17/09

    In reply to The Thousand and One Drinking Straw Lamp
    That's what... uh... HE said?
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    08/17/09

    In reply to The Thousand and One Drinking Straw Lamp
    So, a bunch of machines running Vista, and some mojitos?
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    Image of Mike Mike
    08/17/09

    @Lite: killed Dumbledore: Ah, that is a FINE comment! Props to you good sir! This one, however, sucks. Put that in your punch line!
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    Image of TailsNZ TailsNZ
    08/17/09

    In reply to The Thousand and One Drinking Straw Lamp
    On the artists website you can also see a chair made out of 10,000 drinking straws. Visit [www.scottjarvie.co.uk] and click the image showing straws.
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    Image of North Star North Star
    08/17/09


    @TailsNZ: Here it is.
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    Image of The Donut Pirate The Donut Pirate
    08/17/09

    In reply to The Thousand and One Drinking Straw Lamp

    Whoa...
    Edit: Please click on picture for maximum sexiness. Thank you.
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    Image of Mike Mike
    08/17/09

    @The Donut Pirate: I wish the comment system would just shrink large photos, not crop them.
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    Image of The Donut Pirate The Donut Pirate
    08/17/09

    @Mike: Hear, hear.
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    08/18/09

    @The Donut Pirate:

    I actually liked the cropped version...allows more for the imagination. gave me a good laugh nonetheless. Thanks
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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    05/26/09

    In reply to Chopsticks Roll Into Rings and Straws and...Well, That's Actually It
    Who in their right-mind uses napkin rings anymore?
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    Image of Nick Nick
    05/26/09

    @Geisrud - MS150 fundraising time!: left handed people?
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    05/26/09

    @Geisrud - MS150 fundraising time!: Me and all my friends still do. Well...er...not in the dining room.
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    Image of anoteoftruth anoteoftruth
    05/26/09

    In reply to Chopsticks Roll Into Rings and Straws and...Well, That's Actually It
    anyone that eats a lot of korean food will tell you.. metal chopsticks are harder to use than wood/plastic chopsticks as they slip out of your hand more. Just a little warning to you sweaty handed people out there that are dieing to get one of these rings ;)
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    Image of Nick Nick
    05/26/09

    @anoteoftruth: they are also flat. worst. invention. ever.
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    05/26/09

    In reply to Chopsticks Roll Into Rings and Straws and...Well, That's Actually It
    in all honesty -- people keep referencing sushi as a test for chopsticks, it is not. the true test is trying to eat wet noodles.
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    Image of switchblade saints switchblade saints
    05/26/09

    @does the aero shake_Nick:ie: pho, udon.
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    05/26/09

    @switchblade saints: si
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    Image of dimsum4u dimsum4u
    05/26/09

    In reply to Chopsticks Roll Into Rings and Straws and...Well, That's Actually It
    As a user of chopsticks on a daily basis I deem Fail on design and concept. I mean it seems like a great idea BUT I don't think it's practical. @switchblade made some very good points on passing food along and the fact they have less grip.


    I don't see how it can hold a perfect seal for a straw and the fact that while I'm eating what is stopping it from rolling up and smacking me in the face with my food.


    I think someone should design the switchblade utensil. Knife, Fork, Spoon, Chopstick, straw All in one easy to carry unit.

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    Image of Nick Nick
    05/26/09

    @dimsum4u: i call them . . . dun dun dunnnnn


    Hands

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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    05/26/09

    In reply to Chopsticks Roll Into Rings and Straws and...Well, That's Actually It
    Sir,


    I've used sporks. A spork was a good friend of mine. These, Mr. Wilson, are no spork.

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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    05/26/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Don't even get me started on how my Titanium Spork changed my life...


    These chopsticks however are CRAP!


    That's a nice render, but until I SEE these being used, I call vaporware...

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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    05/26/09

    @Mark Wilson:


    Mr. Wilson,


    You won't need anything in the record when I finish telling you this. Until this moment, Mr. Wilson, I think I never really gauged your cruelty, or your recklessness. The spork is a combination of a spoon and a fork which has been used by grade schoolers nationwide and is starting what looks to be a brilliant point in Americana. When I decided to comment for this site, I asked Kaiser-Machead, who sits on my right, to be my first assistant. I said to Kaiser, "What would be best to eat either macaroni and cheese or succotash." He chose a spork, and a full case of them was shipped on an afternoon plane. That night, when we had taken a little stab at trying to see what else we could do with sporks, Kaiser and Buick and I went to dinner together.


    I then said to these two young men, "Boys, I don't know anything about you, except I've always liked you, but if there's anything funny in the life of either one of you that leads you to think of other ways to use a spork, you speak up quick."


    And Kaiser said, "Ponies, when I was in grade school, and for a period of months after, I thwacked people in the ear with the back of a spork," as you have suggested, Mr. Wilson. He went on to say, "I am Secretary of the Young Commenter's League in Newton with the son of [the] Massachusetts governor, and I have the respect and admiration of my community, and I'm sure I have the respect and admiration of the twenty-five star commenters or so at Gawker."


    And I said, "Kaiser, I just don't think I'm going to ask you to comment excessively. If I do, one of these days that will come out, and go over national television, and it will just hurt like the dickens." And so, Mr. Wilson, I asked him to go back to Boston.


    Little did I dream you could be so reckless and so cruel as to do an injury to the slander you have done to the spork.


    It is, I regret to say, equally true that I fear the proud name of the spork shall always bear a scar needlessly inflicted by you. If it were in my power to forgive you for your reckless cruelty, I would do so.


    I like to think I'm a gentle man, but your forgiveness will have to come from someone other than me.


    You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?


    I weep for the sporks of my youth and for the sporks of our nation's children.

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    Image of Nick Nick
    05/26/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: it's libel.


    just sayin'

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    05/26/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: and speaking of our nation's youth. did you know they make a pre-packaged PB&J sandwich with the crust already cut off? it's amazingly brilliant and may drive the spork to obsolescence.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    05/26/09

    @does the aero shake_Nick:


    "It's tremendously useful and feels good going in but I fear it may harm the lining of my colon."


    - Oscar Wilde, On Packaged Convenience Foods

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    Image of Nick Nick
    05/26/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: phew. i thought that was a Prop 8 reference for a second there.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    05/26/09

    @does the aero shake_Nick: "If I fastidiously avoided offending people at all times, I do not think that I would ever have opportunity for intercourse."


    Oscar Wilde on lovemaking or possibly selecting the best produce

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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    05/26/09

    In reply to Chopsticks Roll Into Rings and Straws and...Well, That's Actually It
    The fact that you can roll it implies that it is flexible/soft. However, using it as chopsticks requires it to be rigid. What mechanism does it use to alternate between soft and hard?
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    Image of Nick Nick
    05/26/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: c'mon now walrus. i am sure you have rolled enough things in your day to know they get rigid when in said form. stop playin' coy.
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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    05/26/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: Well, of course you will be required to keep a few full-time fluffers on staff, but I don't think most people would have a problem getting used to the service...
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/26/09

    In reply to Chopsticks Roll Into Rings and Straws and...Well, That's Actually It
    That's all fine and good, but how good would they be in a game of hand-to-hand sushi bar mini-Samurai? I have trouble believing that these will stand up to the tried and true wooden or plastic chopsticks.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    05/26/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: i hate plastic and metal chopsticks. with a passion.
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    Image of kagekiri kagekiri
    05/26/09

    @does the aero shake_Nick: I agree, they're too slippery most of the time. Plain unvarnished bamboo has waaay better grip. Yet I do appreciate my metal extendable chopsticks when the only alternative are those short and splintery take-out disposables.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/26/09

    @kagekiri: @does the aero shake_Nick:


    Ditto. However, my comment on plastic chopsticks pertained mainly to play fighting with them at the table. Strictly on the eating part, bamboo is superior.

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    Image of Nick Nick
    05/26/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: my momma would slap my face if i did that at the table. i am afraid of my momma good sir.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/26/09

    @does the aero shake_Nick: Yeah well that's why you save those sorts of shenanigans for when you're paying for your own lunch and hang around siblings that like to engage in silly shenanigans during outings.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    05/26/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: way to call me out for living with my mom and not having friends. thanks kaiser.
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    05/26/09

    In reply to Chopsticks Roll Into Rings and Straws and...Well, That's Actually It
    Roll n' Roll??


    i appreciate your effort Mark, but it's actually Rrow un' Rrow

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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    05/26/09

    @does the aero shake_Nick:

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    Image of Nick Nick
    05/26/09

    @bpapa9013 - Is full of ぶっちぎり, probably...: oh geez. i started laughing so hard everyone turned and looked at me.
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    Image of J. Nadeau J. Nadeau
    05/26/09

    In reply to Chopsticks Roll Into Rings and Straws and...Well, That's Actually It
    Reminds me of those slap bracelets.


    [en.wikipedia.org]

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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    05/26/09

    @J. Nadeau: And these would probably be just about as stable during use. Imagine having a big helping of noodles fly all over because your chopsticks just accidentally snapped shut.
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    Image of fuchikoma fuchikoma
    05/26/09

    @J. Nadeau:

    Same here, and the concept pic shows them uncoated, so I can only imagine trying to pick up a heavy piece of food, only to have razor-sharp slap bracelets coil around your fingers, haha...
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