ツ No liquid nitro? Acetone party baby!!!

ツ No liquid nitro? Acetone party baby!!!

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When I was at WSU as a frosh, there was a lot of partying as you can imagine. Sitting in a dorm room, listening to Queen and dipshits bragging about whom and how they shagged the hottest chick on campus the night before got pretty old quickly. I think there were even a few farts ignited in this circle. Time to find something more entertaining.

Sling shooting frozen oranges from Orton into Rogers windows was fun until it almost killed somebody. OK, what next?

I was on the 9th floor and crank calling chicks in Stevens through a telescope and using a 128K Mac with Macintalk as the voice, freaked people out. Voice synthesis hadn’t yet trickled down to the masses in the 80′s unless you knew what you were doing. Needless to say, it was too creepy, so I had to shut that down before the fuzz caught up with me.

Now what? Studying? I think not. Time to get creative. Ever seen a scientist dip something in liquid nitrogen for a few seconds, pull it out of the solution and shatter that object? New objective for the dorm room party has been achieved!

A couple problems ensued. Liquid nitrogen isn’t cheap, and you need a cryobox to carry it in. Hmmm…

Acetone is cheap and has a freezing point of -140 degrees. Dry ice has a temperature of -110.

Problem solved! Take a metal bucket of acetone and drop a chunk of dry ice in! Let the fun begin!

I had to shut that rodeo down too after submersing many items over many parties. Flowers and bananas are OK, but when you shatter a hot dog and can’t find all the pieces, the room will start to stank in a few days.

It was fun while it lasted!