Bob, I know you posted these. I love em.

I did no such thing! I used a couple of wires and a light bulb.

It did glow briefly before ALL the lights went out. Science will not be held back mere safety concerns!

Besides everyone knows knives are for toasters.

IIRC I used a bobbie pin.

Murray, I did the same thing. Almost caught the circuit box on fire as a bonus. My Mom's face went white, then purple, then a brilliant crimson when she found out about it...

As for the banana one...that's just plain disturbing.

--TwoDragons

My father was laughing his ass off.

He was of the evolution is the best teacher school of thought unlike the cottonwool approch taken these days.

I still have alomst everything I and much of it still works so I guess I passed.

I have a kid, but my Poultry-geist is worse. The alarm clock went off one morning, and she broke out of her 'hut' and chewed through the cord. There was a huge explosion and there was the bird stunned with a huge soot mark on her forehead and on the electrical outlet. She managed to utter her usual remark, "Hi stupid". And waddled off to bed. The kid came running in, I didn't do it, do we still have to pay for her?...I still want a triceratops...