How do you properly use AOL CDs?

Tom_Aurum · Post by **Tom_Aurum** » 2004-03-31 05:36pm

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.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-03-31 05:37pm

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.

Dahak · Post by **Dahak** » 2004-03-31 05:39pm

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

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2004-03-31 05:39pm

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

Tom_Aurum · Post by **Tom_Aurum** » 2004-03-31 05:40pm

Oh, I almost forgot one:

-Microwave Fireworks Display

Sharp-kun · Post by **Sharp-kun** » 2004-03-31 05:44pm

Eat them

Thag · Post by **Thag** » 2004-03-31 05:56pm

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

salm · Post by **salm** » 2004-03-31 06:20pm

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

Kamakazie Sith · Post by **Kamakazie Sith** » 2004-03-31 06:25pm

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.

Post by **Dalton** » 2004-03-31 07:09pm

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

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2004-03-31 07:18pm

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.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2004-03-31 07:22pm

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

Dorsk 81 · Post by **Dorsk 81** » 2004-03-31 07:31pm

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.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2004-03-31 08:18pm

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

Seggybop · Post by **Seggybop** » 2004-03-31 08:24pm

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.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2004-03-31 09:05pm

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.

YT300000 · Post by **YT300000** » 2004-03-31 09:54pm

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)

Hyperion · Post by **Hyperion** » 2004-03-31 10:18pm

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.

AnimeJet · Post by **AnimeJet** » 2004-03-31 10:24pm

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

Cornelius · Post by **Cornelius** » 2004-03-31 10:42pm

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

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-03-31 10:44pm

hurl them at people.

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2004-03-31 10:50pm

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

SpacedTeddyBear · Post by **SpacedTeddyBear** » 2004-03-31 11:47pm

I shoot them with my bb gun.

Symmetry · Post by **Symmetry** » 2004-03-31 11:49pm

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.

Symmetry · Post by **Symmetry** » 2004-03-31 11:53pm

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.

StarDestroyer.Net BBS

How do you properly use AOL CDs?

How do you properly use AOL CDs?

Re: How do you properly use AOL CDs?