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Couldn't do that again if I tried...

Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 8:52 pm
by markbt73
I just pulled a couple of 1/16" roll pins out of a bag and dropped them on my work table. And here's how one of them landed:

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Maybe I should go buy a lottery ticket or something...

Re: Couldn't do that again if I tried...

Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 9:00 pm
by SFC K
8) Might not be a bad idea.... :mrgreen:

Re: Couldn't do that again if I tried...

Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 9:42 pm
by slapshot1979
Judgeing by your avatar it happens quite regular

Re: Couldn't do that again if I tried...

Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 10:20 pm
by THEYTOOKMYTHUMB
There was an old episode of The Twilight Zone in black and white where a guy pitches a bum a nickel and it lands in the box on it's edge. After that he could read people's minds, or something like that. But sometimes I remember things that never happened and forget things that did... :? :lol:

Re: Couldn't do that again if I tried...

Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 2:18 am
by Sixtysixdeuce
This made me think of stacking golf balls. Most I could ever get before Jenga was 9.

Re: Couldn't do that again if I tried...

Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 2:52 am
by Diamond Dave
You can stack nine golf balls? I want to see that!

Re: Couldn't do that again if I tried...

Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 6:55 am
by marlo
I once went to but a cigarette out, and it landed like that on the floor :?

Re: Couldn't do that again if I tried...

Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 12:34 pm
by Sixtysixdeuce
You can stack nine golf balls? I want to see that!
Would be a long video. lol. Need a very level, very stabile surface, and even with that, it's many tumbles of 4, 5, 6 high stacks before you get it just right. The dimples act as tiny sockets on the bottom, and create a little point at the top; the trick is getting them oriented perfectly (and having balls that give you a socket and a point exactly 180* from each other).

Re: Couldn't do that again if I tried...

Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 1:06 pm
by DennisM
If Darwin was around, he´d choose the upright