I have 137 aol disks. Suggestions?

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MajesticMoose

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I don't know why i do it, but every time i walk by a aol display i just can't help taking atleast five disks. I'm trying to think of something to do with them all now, cause there no good for internet and i can't burn them. I got two ideas: 1 throw a big party with souvenir coasters, or 2 wait til i get about 500 and dump them in a mailbox(although that's probly something that would get me in tropuble) Any one got any ideas.

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NoreagaCNN

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Get a gun, any gun
Shoot em in the air and take score, bring a couple of friends, whoever wins gets money, hehe

Laterz,
Nore
 
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Tominator

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I've probably gotten that many in the mail!

Christmas ornaments?

Send them to people you don't like.

My favorite...target shooting for cash! 22 caliber pistols at 25 feet. Put every round through the middle....they don't last long..;)
 
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for a little bit of money, you could probably get an artist to make a nice piece of sculpture for you... it'd be a conversation piece, no doubt...
 
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Wow, my memory is streched to its limit.

However, I remember a post awhile back that the coast guard(?) was taking them to put into safety kits to be used as signaling reflective mirrors for emergencies at sea.

Can anybody else confirm this?
 
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ArkAoss

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at my work we have an old piece of netowrk cabling bout 2 ft long strung with aol and other junk cd's . . .thinking of rigging a skeet shooting device for cd's and go to town
 
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Yo Ma Ma

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Saw them used on a Christmas tree this year, in a display at Domino Farms. They are a perfect size to use on a medium or large strand of indoor/outdoor bulbs, you just unscrew the bulb, place the CD over the socket, and screw the bulb back in - voila - a lovely holiday effect ;)
 
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How about making them into candy/trinket dishes by putting them in a home-made mold and then putting them into an oven (250F)? The bottom piece of the mold would be a wooden disk a little large than a CD, with a short dowels inserted in holes drilled along its rim. The spacing between adjacent dowels should be experimented with but I would start with five or six dowels only. The circle formed by the dowels should be large enough that the CD just sits on top with the dowels at the edge of the plastic (experiment here too). The top piece should be a thick wooden round disk (with a dowel in the middle to act as a handle so you can remove it when it is hot) slightly smaller in diameter than the CD (how much will dictate how easily the CD forms to the mold and how much of the edge of the CD is turned up. The CD would be placed upon the circle of dowels of the bottom mold and the top of the mold placed on the CD. This will leave a wavy edge after proper application of heat.

Kids, do this at your own risk... keep an eye on the project the whole time! I do not know what the heat will due to the metal substrate or the label. Those may have to be sanded off with a power sander and fine sandpaper if a fire is created (whoa!!!).

BTW, the micowave thing does work... do not leave the CD in for more than a couple seconds since the sparks will quickly lead to the plastic catching fire (I thought everybody had done this. The metal substrate reacts rather violently to the microwave RF energy.
 
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Cover your walls with them. Gives a very nice effect :)

I've done it for one wall of this room I'm in now, and it looks really... flashy ;)
 
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I have put many a AOL CD in the microwave but, sadly, they do not fry well because they have a thin plastic coating on top of the CD does not allow for pretty patterns. cheap CD-R's are much better for this type of thing. One thing that you might like to do but I personally havent done due to laziness/cheapness is to either take a Digital photo of the CD after it is "burnt" :) and send it along with an email or a letter with the CD attached to AOL with a huge rant saying that you got this CD in the mail and you decided to try it out on your brand new spanking 16x pioneer DVD drive and you heard this crunching /crackling sound so you decided to take the disk out and found that the edges had been take out (remember to manually chip out the edges). You then looked into the drive and you saw bits of shiny things which you never saw before. You though nothing of it but for the past 2 months your DVD drive has been behaiving erratically and has finally died 2 days ago. Proceed with big rant and threat to sue etc... and see if you can get a brand new DVD drive from AOL otherwise you will spread the story that "AOL let out a crappy CD (and has no quality control) which killed my computer" threaten with "friends who are in powerful places in the media" etc..

If you are lucky enough to get a free drive let me know by PM so I can get in the act as well :)

Oh, and just for that authenitic touch, create and account like I_love_britny_speers4536@hotmail.com
 
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MajesticMoose

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Tinneric: Yes i do have a problem, but it is oh so fun.

Yakko: That would be a good idea except it might be a bit uncomfortable. On the plus side it would make a rather bold statement of how i feel.

moose
 
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