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Uses for those old CD's you keep forgetting to throw away

#1 Post by Gio » Sat Dec 01, 2007 3:42 pm

Mini cutting board (great for the office or the car, use metal door for knife).
Attach it to a ruler and presto! - you've got a fly swatter.
Construct a life size replica of Stonehenge.
At a restaurant, shove one under a wobbling table leg.
Money clip (use the metal door and discard the plastic case...the "rich nerd" look is IN this year).
Eye patch (for one-eyed software pirates).
Christmas ornaments (the more the merrier).
Give them to young children to use as building blocks.
Glue them to the bottom of the space shuttle and use them as re-entry burn tiles.
Dentures (melt & form them into new teeth for grandma).
Room dividers for hamsters.
Drink coasters.
Use multiple disks to create an ideal door stopper.
Ice scraper.
Bathroom tile.
Bookmark.
Mini frisbee.
Air hockey puck.
Dog chew toy.
Dart board.
Pooper scooper.
Grill scraper.
Use them for karate board-breaking demonstrations (save a tree).
Wrist slicer - after receiving first AOL bill (use metal door).
Conversation piece for coffee table.
Destroy them - smash, burn, or run over to relieve stress.
Light switch cover.
Chinese throwing stars (tape 2 together).
Clay pigeons for target practice.
Greeting card (bind two together at one end).
Halloween treat (give them away all night long).
Bullet proof vest (arrange together in triple thickness).
Firewood.
Bird house.
Paper weights.
Pen holders (make a box without a top).
Post it-notes holder.
Refrigerator magnet (glue a magnet to the back).
A very sturdy base for putting the motorcycle sidestand on when parking on soft surfaces.
Keep 'em in the trunk for extra traction in the snow.
Solar Eclipse Glasses (open door and look through disk at the sun/moon -actually works).
Placing one in each back pocket helps children who get paddled by the coach. This spreads the force to a wider area.
Make an AOL disk & pasta casserole.
Incense burners (put stick in hole of disk hub and light the incense.
Bug Shield (glue a bunch to the front of your car's hood).
Put them on car windshields at the mall (along with this list).
Melt the plastic of the disks into a giant sculpture.
Hand them out as party favors.
Hidden/spare key holder (crack open 1 side, insert key and then place near door. Completely safe...who would want an AOL disk?)
Vertical blinds.
Be an AOL diskette surgeon and disect a diskette.
Bench press weights (I can press 120).
Grind 'em up and refertilize the front lawn.
The new "Domino's stuffed-crust pizza" filling.
Tell the kids to leave warm milk & AOL disks for Santa.
Brake shoes.
House insulation.
Recycle them for the scrap metal.
Kitchen tile for Bill Gates' new mansion in Seatle (walk all over the competition)
Hockey Puck.
Add water and special plant life to make a Chia-Disk.
Noise maker for your bike spokes (why damage your valuable baseball cards).
Put one on a leash and drag it along as you walk...makes the perfect pet.
Poker chips.
Baseball practice (throw them up in the air and hit them with the bat).
Keychain (Put a key ring through one of the write protect holes and you've got a snappy executive bathroom keychain for the office).
Mail to 10 friends-start an AOL chain-letter (add a disk with each link).
Earmuffs (glue some fur on one side, then attach a U-shaped piece of bent coathanger to both disks).
Grind them up to make fake snow.
Earrings (put loop into write-protect hole).
Dental floss (use actual disk).
Use them for zipper pulls (instead of ski lift tickets).
When your collection of disks reaches 52, use them for a deck of cards.
Use them to fill potholes.
Hood ornament.
Snow blower replacement blades.
Put them in your shirt pocket to make you look smart.
Make two stacks of 10 and use them as heels for platform shoes.
Rubic's cube case (make into box).
Shipping material (keeps your photos from being bent in the mail).
Protect your table from burns caused by hot pots and pans.
Snack trays (great for holding hors d'oeuvres at parties).
Give them as stocking stuffers to all those people who piss you off.
Fly paper (use actual disk and put string through middle, hang 2" apart and apply honey to disks).
Pocket protector (gee Gilbert I really like your new pocket protector -thanks Lewis).
They make a *dandy* addition to a #$*+&% neighbor's back yard. Better yet, get them to actually install it on their computer.
Use them as elbow and knee pads.
Wax scraper for snowboards.
Use them to decorate your aquarium and create Computer City underwater.
Tape a few together and use them as a mouse pad.
Collect a large mass and detonate a supernova.
A wind clacker (similar to a wind chime).
Soap dish (remove metal to prevent rusting).
Row markers for your vegetable garden. (carrots, beans, peas....)
Makes the perfect dance floor for your ant colony.
Bread roller (use actual disks and put rod through center-use about 100).
Hot glue gun resting/protecting pad.
Baby mobile.
Fence (may need a few thousand).
Toe tags for mortuaries. Great for identifying dead computer nerds.
Wonderbra inserts for that Madonna-techno look.
Dumb Bells, simply add more to each end of a bar as you get stronger.
Fire lighters.
Hide the AOL CDs for extra Easter fun!
a mirror for ugly people (non-reflective side only)
place between bottom lip and teeth (in sympathy for those dodgy-looking jungle tribesmen...)
Hi-tech bird box for the hi-tech bird!
Take them to the beach to use as skimmers in case the rocks are not flat enough
Use instead of broken glass in concrete on top of security fence
Build Life Raft to help Castaways get off Gilligan Island
candle holder
attach the disk to a high speed drill for use as a cutting disc
Cut slits in a bunch of them, all the way to th center, connect them around a whole one, to make a disco ball suspend from ceiling aim colored lights at it whalla you have a disco tech.
Place under nostrils of inert nerd to check for breath as a sign of life
use as things to drop in a tickertape parade (you should probably cut it up first.)
Use as wheels for boxcar.
use as a frisbie
cd pigeon shooting!
throw them off your roof to hit cars with.
give them to grads school kids for art projects
shingle a small roof
checking whether cd rom drive is good or ........
make a toast rack
Sell them to Blue Peter presenters for use with sticky-backed plastic tape.
Tie 20 or 30 of them equally spaced on a piece of string and hang them across your newly seeded lawn to scare the birds off.
use them as target practice for your air-rifle when waiting for the little birds to land on your lawn! G.L.
bird scarer, hang on canes to scare birds (this REALLY WORKS!)
Cubicle decorations - use pushpins to post them all over your cube in a fancy pattern (works best with AOL CDs)
Use them as those thingys that Xena uses (whatever they're called) to keep away angry mobs/policemen/telemarketers.
Need a pizza cutter? Use a CD-ROM!
Use them to irritate the people who send them to you unsolicited by posting them back to them. See how they like to get 50 worthless items a day from the postman.
BUY FIRECRACKERS AND WATCH THEM FORM (OR WATCH THEM BLOW IN TO PIECES) REAL FUN
Mini cutting board (great for the office or the car, use metal door for knife).
fill in the middle and use it as a plate
Use As Decorations. Hang them up on the ceiling and watch them spin and sparkle in the wind. aaaaaaah
reflectors on your bike (slides in nicely between the spokes)
Take out x-mas light bulbs put shiny cds between light bulb and wire and you have a reflector
Use them instead of bombs to confuse terrorist countries.
A small fireworks display - place in microwave, label side up, slightly raised for 4 seconds - lovely sparks!!
large earings
make into a map measurer
hooplah (with small items)
Pretend you've won an olympic medal
make an attractive mobile
a ring for your little finger
a mousey neck collar
stack about 15-20 to make a barrel
a toilet seat for a hamster
reflect sunlight into peoples eyes - just to be annoying
a pissing game - get it through the hole in the middle
Use CD as a vanity mirror to fix your rockstar hairdo...when you can't get a record deal.
burn them so we don't have any more winters
when working on your car or other place one needs some light directed, use the CD as a device to get the light where you need it.
Place them around your driveway as reflectors.
Coal is a limited resource, why waste it on bad little boys and girls? Santa can give them all those annoying CDs everyone receives in the mail every other day.
Roll them on the ground, as a toy for your dog (works on some cats too!)
Cut them into small pieces and glue them to your clothes for New Year's Day sparkles :-b
cut stars with them and throw them at people things birds cats dogs on those boring rainy days
MAKE A JUMPER OUT OF THEM
Use AOL CDs with double sided tape to mirror-tile your ceiling
One word: COASTERS!
you can use it in art decoration
ou can make a trolley by bolting some CDs' to the four corners of a square/rectangular piece of ply-wood
Cut a bunch of disks and CDs into irregular shapes, and you have instant mosaic tiles for the bottom of your swimming pool.
I am gluing them to my walls, shiny side out, like wall paper. It looks really cool when the light reflects off it.....
tie them on tring and a stick and tell little kids you have a real ufo
as dental mirrors for kids with big mouths.
use as ear covers for that c3po look
African tribal lip extenders
Become a James bond,use them to see round corners
Forget the euro,start your own monetary system
Start your very own "Cadillac ranch" with aol discs
play coits with them
strap explosives to it and watch it fly.
repaint covers and sell on ebay as various software.
practice you card thwoing technique.
race them down hills into streets.
Ear Muffs
Fire Lighters
You should remove all the thing that will not actually work, which is most of them. The disks are far too brittle for most of these projects. How about actual practical things? Great to scare away birds from your veggies. Arrange them with christmas lights in front of them for a staggering effect. Make holes in the edges, and connect them together in a huge reflective ball. Glue them back to back, and interconnect them with brass fishing spinners and line and bamboo pieces to create a huge impressive mobile for hanging in a shopping mall or a record store; incredible effect if hung in a restaurant atrium from the skylight.
As a painting pallet!

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#2 Post by Viking » Sun Dec 02, 2007 11:27 pm

Did anyone actually read all that?
It's the V-twin thing. There's just something about it that inline-4s don't have at all, and V-4s don't have enough of.

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#3 Post by HowardQ » Sun Dec 02, 2007 11:29 pm

Gio, you are very sad :smt009 :smt009 :smt009

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#4 Post by Samray » Sun Dec 02, 2007 11:50 pm

Viking ......no
Howard.....yes

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#5 Post by Gio » Mon Dec 03, 2007 8:43 am

Viking wrote:Did anyone actually read all that?
Even I didn't, I just skimmed down the list :smt005

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#6 Post by HowardQ » Mon Dec 03, 2007 12:37 pm

That's only an acceptable excuse if you simply cut and pasted this lot from somewhere else, if you sat and typed this lot in you are very very sad! :smt009

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Re: Uses for those old CD's you keep forgetting to throw awa

#7 Post by D-Rider » Mon Dec 03, 2007 1:08 pm

Gio wrote: play coits with them
Surely there's a "U" missing ..... and unless the "C" is replaced by a "Q" (with the "U" in a different place), the meaning is very different !

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#8 Post by Gio » Mon Dec 03, 2007 2:28 pm

HowardQ wrote:That's only an acceptable excuse if you simply cut and pasted this lot from somewhere else, if you sat and typed this lot in you are very very sad! :smt009
FFS what do you think I am?

Type that lot, you are off your trolley :smt005

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Re: Uses for those old CD's you keep forgetting to throw awa

#9 Post by Gio » Mon Dec 03, 2007 2:29 pm

D-Rider wrote:
Gio wrote: play coits with them
Surely there's a "U" missing ..... and unless the "C" is replaced by a "Q" (with the "U" in a different place), the meaning is very different !
Excuse me I didn't read them all, only the top 6 or so

Yes its spelt Quoits.

HTH :smt003

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#10 Post by gempip » Wed Dec 05, 2007 10:29 pm

:smt002 You know amongst that lot there was actually some ideas, heh heh heh :smt003

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#11 Post by Kwackerz » Wed Dec 05, 2007 11:13 pm

Gio wrote:Mini cutting board (great for the office or the car, use metal door for knife). Attach it to a ruler and presto! - you've got a fly swatter.
Construct a life size replica of Stonehenge.
At a restaurant, shove one under a wobbling table leg.
Money clip (use the metal door and discard the plastic case...the "rich nerd" look is IN this year).
Eye patch (for one-eyed software pirates).
Christmas ornaments (the more the merrier).
Give them to young children to use as building blocks.
Glue them to the bottom of the space shuttle and use them as re-entry burn tiles.
Dentures (melt & form them into new teeth for grandma).
Room dividers for hamsters.
Drink coasters.
Use multiple disks to create an ideal door stopper.
Ice scraper.
Bathroom tile.
Bookmark.
Mini frisbee.
Air hockey puck.
Dog chew toy.
Dart board.
Pooper scooper.
Grill scraper.
Use them for karate board-breaking demonstrations (save a tree).
Wrist slicer - after receiving first AOL bill (use metal door).
Conversation piece for coffee table.
Destroy them - smash, burn, or run over to relieve stress.
Light switch cover.
Chinese throwing stars (tape 2 together).
Clay pigeons for target practice.
Greeting card (bind two together at one end).
Halloween treat (give them away all night long).
Bullet proof vest (arrange together in triple thickness).
Firewood.
Bird house.
Paper weights.
Pen holders (make a box without a top).
Post it-notes holder.
Refrigerator magnet (glue a magnet to the back).
A very sturdy base for putting the motorcycle sidestand on when parking on soft surfaces.
Keep 'em in the trunk for extra traction in the snow.
Solar Eclipse Glasses (open door and look through disk at the sun/moon -actually works).
Placing one in each back pocket helps children who get paddled by the coach. This spreads the force to a wider area.
Make an AOL disk & pasta casserole.
Incense burners (put stick in hole of disk hub and light the incense.
Bug Shield (glue a bunch to the front of your car's hood).
Put them on car windshields at the mall (along with this list).
Melt the plastic of the disks into a giant sculpture.
Hand them out as party favors.
Hidden/spare key holder (crack open 1 side, insert key and then place near door. Completely safe...who would want an AOL disk?)
Vertical blinds.
Be an AOL diskette surgeon and disect a diskette.
Bench press weights (I can press 120).
Grind 'em up and refertilize the front lawn.
The new "Domino's stuffed-crust pizza" filling.
Tell the kids to leave warm milk & AOL disks for Santa.
Brake shoes.
House insulation.
Recycle them for the scrap metal.
Kitchen tile for Bill Gates' new mansion in Seatle (walk all over the competition)
Hockey Puck.
Add water and special plant life to make a Chia-Disk.
Noise maker for your bike spokes (why damage your valuable baseball cards).
Put one on a leash and drag it along as you walk...makes the perfect pet.
Poker chips.
Baseball practice (throw them up in the air and hit them with the bat).
Keychain (Put a key ring through one of the write protect holes and you've got a snappy executive bathroom keychain for the office).
Mail to 10 friends-start an AOL chain-letter (add a disk with each link).
Earmuffs (glue some fur on one side, then attach a U-shaped piece of bent coathanger to both disks).
Grind them up to make fake snow.
Earrings (put loop into write-protect hole).
Dental floss (use actual disk).
Use them for zipper pulls (instead of ski lift tickets).
When your collection of disks reaches 52, use them for a deck of cards.
Use them to fill potholes.
Hood ornament.
Snow blower replacement blades.
Put them in your shirt pocket to make you look smart.
Make two stacks of 10 and use them as heels for platform shoes.
Rubic's cube case (make into box).
Shipping material (keeps your photos from being bent in the mail).
Protect your table from burns caused by hot pots and pans.
Snack trays (great for holding hors d'oeuvres at parties).
Give them as stocking stuffers to all those people who piss you off.
Fly paper (use actual disk and put string through middle, hang 2" apart and apply honey to disks).
Pocket protector (gee Gilbert I really like your new pocket protector -thanks Lewis).
They make a *dandy* addition to a #$*+&% neighbor's back yard. Better yet, get them to actually install it on their computer.
Use them as elbow and knee pads.
Wax scraper for snowboards.
Use them to decorate your aquarium and create Computer City underwater.
Tape a few together and use them as a mouse pad.
Collect a large mass and detonate a supernova.
A wind clacker (similar to a wind chime).
Soap dish (remove metal to prevent rusting).
Row markers for your vegetable garden. (carrots, beans, peas....)
Makes the perfect dance floor for your ant colony.
Bread roller (use actual disks and put rod through center-use about 100).
Hot glue gun resting/protecting pad.
Baby mobile.
Fence (may need a few thousand).
Toe tags for mortuaries. Great for identifying dead computer nerds.
Wonderbra inserts for that Madonna-techno look.
Dumb Bells, simply add more to each end of a bar as you get stronger.
Fire lighters.
Hide the AOL CDs for extra Easter fun!
a mirror for ugly people (non-reflective side only)
place between bottom lip and teeth (in sympathy for those dodgy-looking jungle tribesmen...)
Hi-tech bird box for the hi-tech bird!
Take them to the beach to use as skimmers in case the rocks are not flat enough
Use instead of broken glass in concrete on top of security fence
Build Life Raft to help Castaways get off Gilligan Island
candle holder
attach the disk to a high speed drill for use as a cutting disc
Cut slits in a bunch of them, all the way to th center, connect them around a whole one, to make a disco ball suspend from ceiling aim colored lights at it whalla you have a disco tech. Place under nostrils of inert nerd to check for breath as a sign of life
use as things to drop in a tickertape parade (you should probably cut it up first.)
Use as wheels for boxcar.
use as a frisbie
cd pigeon shooting!
throw them off your roof to hit cars with.
give them to grads school kids for art projects
shingle a small roof
checking whether cd rom drive is good or ........
make a toast rack
Sell them to Blue Peter presenters for use with sticky-backed plastic tape.
Tie 20 or 30 of them equally spaced on a piece of string and hang them across your newly seeded lawn to scare the birds off.
use them as target practice for your air-rifle when waiting for the little birds to land on your lawn! G.L.
bird scarer, hang on canes to scare birds (this REALLY WORKS!)
Cubicle decorations - use pushpins to post them all over your cube in a fancy pattern (works best with AOL CDs)
Use them as those thingys that Xena uses (whatever they're called) to keep away angry mobs/policemen/telemarketers.
Need a pizza cutter? Use a CD-ROM!
Use them to irritate the people who send them to you unsolicited by posting them back to them. See how they like to get 50 worthless items a day from the postman.
BUY FIRECRACKERS AND WATCH THEM FORM (OR WATCH THEM BLOW IN TO PIECES) REAL FUN
Mini cutting board (great for the office or the car, use metal door for knife).
fill in the middle and use it as a plate
Use As Decorations. Hang them up on the ceiling and watch them spin and sparkle in the wind. aaaaaaah
reflectors on your bike (slides in nicely between the spokes)
Take out x-mas light bulbs put shiny cds between light bulb and wire and you have a reflector
Use them instead of bombs to confuse terrorist countries.
A small fireworks display - place in microwave, label side up, slightly raised for 4 seconds - lovely sparks!!
large earings
make into a map measurer
hooplah (with small items)
Pretend you've won an olympic medal
make an attractive mobile
a ring for your little finger
a mousey neck collar
stack about 15-20 to make a barrel
a toilet seat for a hamster
reflect sunlight into peoples eyes - just to be annoying
a pissing game - get it through the hole in the middle
Use CD as a vanity mirror to fix your rockstar hairdo...when you can't get a record deal.
burn them so we don't have any more winters
when working on your car or other place one needs some light directed, use the CD as a device to get the light where you need it.
Place them around your driveway as reflectors.
Coal is a limited resource, why waste it on bad little boys and girls? Santa can give them all those annoying CDs everyone receives in the mail every other day.
Roll them on the ground, as a toy for your dog (works on some cats too!)
Cut them into small pieces and glue them to your clothes for New Year's Day sparkles :-b
cut stars with them and throw them at people things birds cats dogs on those boring rainy days
MAKE A JUMPER OUT OF THEM
Use AOL CDs with double sided tape to mirror-tile your ceiling
One word: COASTERS!
you can use it in art decoration
ou can make a trolley by bolting some CDs' to the four corners of a square/rectangular piece of ply-wood
Cut a bunch of disks and CDs into irregular shapes, and you have instant mosaic tiles for the bottom of your swimming pool.
I am gluing them to my walls, shiny side out, like wall paper. It looks really cool when the light reflects off it.....
tie them on tring and a stick and tell little kids you have a real ufo
as dental mirrors for kids with big mouths.
use as ear covers for that c3po look
African tribal lip extenders
Become a James bond,use them to see round corners
Forget the euro,start your own monetary system
Start your very own "Cadillac ranch" with aol discs
play coits with them
strap explosives to it and watch it fly.
repaint covers and sell on ebay as various software.
practice you card thwoing technique.
race them down hills into streets.
Ear Muffs
Fire Lighters
You should remove all the thing that will not actually work, which is most of them. The disks are far too brittle for most of these projects. How about actual practical things? Great to scare away birds from your veggies. Arrange them with christmas lights in front of them for a staggering effect. Make holes in the edges, and connect them together in a huge reflective ball. Glue them back to back, and interconnect them with brass fishing spinners and line and bamboo pieces to create a huge impressive mobile for hanging in a shopping mall or a record store; incredible effect if hung in a restaurant atrium from the skylight.
As a painting pallet!

Loads of repeats. Christ Gio! Couldve saved a whole page if you'd edited the fekker before posting!

Admittedly it'd have took you nigh on a week to edit!

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#12 Post by Samray » Wed Dec 05, 2007 11:36 pm

Bloody ell Kwackerz. You read it all?!! :smt005

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#13 Post by Kwackerz » Thu Dec 06, 2007 12:08 am

No... Im a geek. I went edit-> find on this page
then entered a few of the things that i thought i saw twice when quickly scanning through the list. Quick edit with colours n there ya go..

Did I read it all...?!? when do I ever read something properly? It took me two and a half hours to crack War n Peace and I still dont know WTF it's on about :smt003 :smt005 :smt005
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#14 Post by snapdragon » Thu Dec 06, 2007 6:41 pm

you missed one - I've made them into spindles for spinning sheeps wool into yarn
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#15 Post by Gio » Thu Dec 06, 2007 8:45 pm

Kwackerz wrote: It took me two and a half hours to crack War n Peace and I still dont know WTF it's on about :smt003 :smt005 :smt005
Bloke assists the commy revolution, gets married, goes off to fight "the great patriotic war", turns yank informer, dies.

2 1/2 mins :smt003

Oh forgot between getting married and the "GPW" has an affair :smt005

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