StarDestroyer.Net BBS

Just wondering. Proper uses I've come up with so far include:

1) Coasters
2) Mobiles.
3) Tanning mirror components.
4) Frisbee
5) Install it just to look up a different provider, then cancel your subscription right away. Listen to some poor little wench on the other end of the line whine as she tries to cajole you into trying it anyways.

i used to do the following:

Install for a month, then cancel. Reinstall for a month, cancel. continue doing so, and get the internet for free. technically you're not breaking the law, you're just abusing a loophole so kindly presented to you.

I liked it when they sent their CDs out with boxes. Was good for useful CDs to store

I've got a little mobile of them hanging in my home office.

Oh, I almost forgot one:

-Microwave Fireworks Display

Eat them

I think a guy in my class is trying to make a table out of them.

some dumbass in the AOL PR-management apparantly thought it would be good idea to give them away in huge amounts after soccer games here right outside the stadium.

drunk soccer fans + free AOL CDs = Warzone

Darth_Zod wrote:i used to do the following:

Install for a month, then cancel. Reinstall for a month, cancel. continue doing so, and get the internet for free. technically you're not breaking the law, you're just abusing a loophole so kindly presented to you.

Just makes it hell with those email addresses. Damn AOL is stupid.

We got one with a nice, shiny metal case. Sadly, we can't take off the AOL crap and customize it.

Been getting them with DVD-style cases. Use the cases for my recorded-off-the-telly DVD collection.

If you get enough of them and glue them to your wall, they make a funky mirror.

Mobiles for babies.

Were this not a densely populated residential neighborhood, I could use them for clay pigeons.

RedImperator wrote:Were this not a densely populated residential neighborhood, I could use them for clay pigeons.

Indeed, I was thinking of putting something along the lines of "PULL!" in here, but I didn't think many people would have gotten it.

I'm considering making thermite over spring break. Maybe I could toss 'em in the fire.

If you throw one into the air and then slash it with a meter stick, it explodes into a shower of jagged plastic shards and metallic confetti. Relatively cool.

I take the free samples from Wawa and Acme, then throw them at friends. Folding them until they break is also fun, though that usually happens when I'm trying to launch them at people as well.

Tom_Aurum wrote:Just wondering. Proper uses I've come up with so far include:

1) Coasters
2) Mobiles.
3) Tanning mirror components.
4) Frisbee
5) Install it just to look up a different provider, then cancel your subscription right away. Listen to some poor little wench on the other end of the line whine as she tries to cajole you into trying it anyways.

6) Earrings (look very funny)
7) CO2 model car wheels (you need a lot of 'em)
Firestarters
9) Air hockey passing thingies
10) Very fun frisbees (you just need some razor wire)

Sharpen the edge, throw like a frisbee. 'nuff said.

Fill a tree with them then tell you mom the "AOL tree bloomed again" after the first wind storm.

Make a suit of "CD-mail" armor.

Yes, I've done all of those with various friends and my ex.

I've used some ones lying around my friends house as coasters before, very handy, also shiny!

We had an AOL bonfire one time. I couldn't stop them from doing it so I gave up.

hurl them at people.

I use the DVD-style cases for X-wing and TIE Fighter. Also, coasters...

I shoot them with my bb gun.

A friend of mine made a lamp shade with some. Its very shiny.

Darth_Zod wrote:i used to do the following:

Install for a month, then cancel. Reinstall for a month, cancel. continue doing so, and get the internet for free. technically you're not breaking the law, you're just abusing a loophole so kindly presented to you.

But...its AOL! I don't want a provider that sometimes blocks all email from Britain, or whose NAP boxes sometimes don't work with less games.

Seggybop wrote:If you throw one into the air and then slash it with a meter stick, it explodes into a shower of jagged plastic shards and metallic confetti. Relatively cool.

On a related note, here at the MIT Science Fiction Society where I'm holding library hours now, for meetings we have a gavel and block. But not any gavel and block, the gavel is a meter long steel wrench and the block is a 45cm by 30 cm by 10 cm hunk of titanium. Thus, when we get free CDs we put them in a plastic bag and bang them with the gavel with varying levels of force. All in the name of science, of course.