[709]

Those fridge magnets have no idea what's in store for them....

[Windswept]

Originally Posted by 709 Those fridge magnets have no idea what's in store for them....

OMG! You shouldn't have said that!

From the zoo, I have one shaped like a parrot flapping its fully-extended wings (ACK!!!), and one shaped like the head of a wildebeeste, with huge curving horns (double ACK!!!).

(I take that back. I think it's a cape buffalo. Equally huge horns. )

EEK!

[Kickaha]

Originally Posted by Windswept (I take that back. I think it's a cape buffalo. Equally huge horns. )

Somehow I knew this thread was going to end up horny.

[Banana]

A pair of one-hundred Tesla magnet, please! :d

At work, I've put my steel toed boots between two plates of electromagnets to see if itd do anything weird. So far, nada.

[DMBand0026]

w00t! My magnets are in Des Moines! And the girlfriend still doesn't understand their appeal. When I told he she couldn't play with them, she got slightly upset. Lousy girls.

[crazychester]

Anyway, getting back to the question......Turn it off until it goes away (can take a day or so). Don't get it friggin' degaussed. It shouldn't be necessary.

Dust lumps?

[Kickaha]

Yeah, like I said, I was dusting, and a dust clump from the duster fell off and got attracted to the TV screen from the static.

[oldmacfan]

Originally Posted by Windswept Hmmm. Wonder if magnets have any weird *cough* internal effects? *goes off whistling innocently*

Now you know that magnets are used as a ah healing device with different parts of the body, they claim to draw greater circulation (iron in blood) to the part with the magnet near in it.

[InBestParrotVoice] errrrak, Polly whan-a cracker [/InBestParrotVoice]

[DMBand0026]

I'm more intrigued by these things than ever.

Now if they'd hurry up and leave Iowa I'd be happy. I swear, the stupid package tracker is ruining my life. I figured it would be nice to see where my stuff is at a glance, now I hit the dashboard corner every 5 minutes to see if they've moved, haha.

[atomicbartbeans]

I'm not buying them, though, because I would constantly worry about where I leave them. Knowing my luck... try as I might to be careful, I know one day I'll do something incredibly stupid, like throw them in my Mac bag.

I would never be able to live with myself again after that.

[DMBand0026]

Haha. Believe it or not, I thought about that. That's why I'm glad the site I ordered them from has a carrying case that comes free with them. I have to be really careful though. The warning on the site I ordered from said to not get them within 20 inches of any magnetic sensitive electronic equipment.

[Kickaha]

Yeah, I almost laid them next to my laptop one day, then realized what I was doing, thankfully. Keep them far away from your hard drive.

[windowsblowsass]

i used to have a tv that was a good 20 years old and every time you touched the volume nob you would get a shock and a pretty bad one two

[DMBand0026]

My parents had a TV like that! How very odd, maybe they were the same brand?

Update: As of 10:35 CDT, my magnets are in Chicago. Needless to say, I'm geeked.

[DMBand0026]

The magnets are here! I can't put them down, but I kinda had to so I could surf teh interweb. They don't get along well with my powerbook.

[Wrao]

Originally Posted by DMBand0026 The magnets are here! I can't put them down, but I kinda had to so I could surf teh interweb. They don't get along well with my powerbook.

Right, I would no doubt destroy my 'book(read: HD) in like 12 seconds of having those magnets, so I am not buying them. nosir

[Kickaha]

Cool little buggers, ain't they DMB? Have you done the amazing squeaky noise in flight trick?

[DMBand0026]

Yes, the reaction on my mom's face when I showed her was priceless. It was a mixture of, WTF?, I want those, and get back Satan! I'm pretty engrossed by them right now, they're a lot of fun.

[Wrao]

Applenova should sell uberorbs

[Kickaha]

Originally Posted by DMBand0026 Yes, the reaction on my mom's face when I showed her was priceless. It was a mixture of, WTF?, I want those, and get back Satan!

You know, that's the exact same reaction(s) my cat had...

She is *fascinated* by them when I do the spinning trick on the floor. Get one spinning to get her attention, spin another one in the opposite direction about a foot away from the first. Then she watches the second one. Then, when the second one affects the first, and causes it to slow, stop, and reverse direction, she freaks out, convinced the first one is now possessed.

[DMBand0026]

Haha! I would have loved to see my bird's reaction to them, sadly he passed away about six months ago. He would have flipped out for a few minutes, than became really fascinated, than probably would have gotten mad when I tried to take them away.