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+ Thu, August 12

How Not To Stave Off Boredom

When one is at work and slightly bored, the mind is want to wander.  Lollygagging, dilly-dallying, boondoggling and other such acts of puttering and dawdling are not uncommon outlets for rogue energy and creativity.  Magnets however are not — and should not be — viable means of output.

Especially not neodymium magnets.

For instance, taking a stack of 1/4” magnets, placing one behind your lower lip and six outside your lip may seem like a wonderfully amusing gag (especially when suspending a multiplicity of screwdrivers on said setup), but the truth of the matter is that this brings more pain than one might anticipate.  Furthermore, earrings — not such a good idea.

You see, fair reader, opposites attract and they do so most certainly when one is discussing opposite ends of highly polarized magnets.  The gentle flesh of one’s earlobe is no decent barrier to this brand of potent love.

The next time you are sitting bored with a stack of magnets, take heed: they are a beauty better seen than touched.

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1 → hachacha  –  (Aug 12 2004,  3:20 PM)

FIRST POST W00T!

2 → jess  –  (Aug 12 2004,  5:50 PM)

thanks for the warning, cuteness.

3 → r vod  –  (Aug 12 2004,  6:27 PM)

creepiest man alive…

4 → Evan  –  (Aug 12 2004,  7:11 PM)

Phil I told you not to play with neodymium… but you just wouldn’t listen……

5 → Eric  –  (Aug 13 2004, 11:34 AM)

what exactly possessed you to decide you needed these in your lips?

6 → Laura A  –  (Aug 13 2004, 11:48 PM)

Sometimes I wonder about my choice to go to an all-women’s college… and then sometimes I don’t… (it depends somewhat on the things I read in Phil’s posts) Phil, your brain is not a hard drive; keep the magnets away.






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