| 101 Uses For All Those AOL Disks We Get In The Mail And From Magazines |
| 1. |
Mini cutting board (great for the office or the car, use metal door for knife). |
| 2. |
Attach it to a ruler and presto! - you've got a fly swatter. |
| 3. |
Construct a life size replica of Stonehenge. |
| 4. |
At a restaurant, shove one under a wobbling table leg. |
| 5. |
Money clip (use the metal door and discard the plastic case...the "rich nerd" look is
IN this year). |
| 6. |
Eye patch (for one-eyed software pirates). |
| 7. |
Christmas ornaments (the more the merrier). |
| 8. |
Give them to young children to use as building blocks. |
| 9. |
Glue them to the bottom of the space shuttle and use them as re-entry burn tiles. |
| 10. |
Dentures (melt & form them into new teeth for grandma). |
| 11. |
Room dividers for hamsters. |
| 12. |
Drink coasters. |
| 13. |
Use multiple disks to create an ideal door stopper. |
| 14. |
Ice scraper. |
| 15. |
Bathroom tile. |
| 16. |
Bookmark. |
| 17. |
Mini frisbee. |
| 18. |
Air hockey puck. |
| 19. |
Dog chew toy. |
| 20. |
Dart board. |
| 21. |
Pooper scooper. |
| 22. |
Grill scraper. |
| 23. |
Use them for karate board-breaking demonstrations (save a tree). |
| 24. |
Wrist slicer - after receiving first AOL bill (use metal door). |
| 25. |
Conversation piece for coffee table. |
| 26. |
Destroy them - smash, burn, or run over to relieve stress. |
| 27. |
Light switch cover. |
| 28. |
Chinese throwing stars (tape 2 together). |
| 29. |
Clay pigeons for target practice. |
| 30. |
Greeting card (bind two together at one end). |
| 31. |
Halloween treat (give them away all night long). |
| 32. |
Bullet proof vest (arrange together in triple thickness). |
| 33. |
Firewood. |
| 34. |
Bird house. |
| 35. |
Paper weights. |
| 36. |
Pen holders (make a box without a top). |
| 37. |
Post it-notes holder. |
| 38. |
Refrigerator magnet (glue a magnet to the back). |
| 39. |
A very sturdy base for putting the motorcycle sidestand on when parking on soft surfaces. |
| 40. |
Keep 'em in the trunk for extra traction in the snow. |
| 41. |
Solar Eclipse Glasses (open door and look through disk at the (sun/moon -actually works). |
| 42. |
Placing one in each back pocket helps children who get paddled by the coach. This spreads
the force to a wider area. |
| 43. |
Make an AOL disk pasta casserole. |
| 44. |
Incense burners (put stick in hole of disk hub and light the incense. |
| 45. |
Bug Shield (glue a bunch to the front of your car's hood). |
| 46. |
Put them on car windshields at the mall (along with this list). |
| 47. |
Melt the plastic of the disks into a giant sculpture. |
| 48. |
Hand them out as party favors. |
| 49. |
Hidden/spare key holder (crack open 1 side, insert key and then place near door. Completely
safe...who would want an AOL disk?) |
| 50. |
Vertical blinds. |
| 51. |
Be an AOL diskette surgeon and disect a diskette. |
| 52. |
Bench press weights (I can press 120). |
| 53. |
Grind 'em up and refertilize the front lawn. |
| 54. |
The new "Domino's stuffed-crust pizza" filling. |
| 55. |
Tell the kids to leave warm milk AOL disks for Santa. |
| 56. |
Brake shoes. |
| 57. |
House insulation. |
| 58. |
Recycle them for the scrap metal. |
| 59. |
Kitchen tile for Bill Gates' new mansion in Seatle (walk all over the competition) |
| 60. |
Hockey Puck. |
| 61. |
Add water and special plant life to make a Chia-Disk. |
| 62. |
Noise maker for your bike spokes (why damage your valuable baseball cards). |
| 63. |
Put one on a leash and drag it along as you walk...makes the perfect pet. |
| 64. |
Poker chips. |
| 65. |
Baseball practice (throw them up in the air and hit them with the bat). |
| 66. |
Keychain (Put a key ring through one of the writeprotect holes and you've got a snappy
executive bathroom keychain for the office). |
| 67. |
Mail to 10 friends-start an AOL chain-letter (add a disk with each link). |
| 68. |
Earmuffs (glue some fur on one side, then attach a U-shaped piece of bent coathanger to
both disks). |
| 69. |
Grind them up to make fake snow. |
| 70. |
Earrings (put loop into write-protect hole). |
| 71. |
Dental floss (use actual disk). |
| 72. |
Use them for zipper pulls (instead of ski lift tickets). |
| 73. |
When your collection of disks reaches 52, use them for a deck of cards. |
| 74. |
Use them to fill potholes. |
| 75. |
Hood ornament. |
| 76. |
Snow blower replacement blades. |
| 77. |
Put them in your shirt pocket to make you look smart. |
| 78. |
Make two stacks of 10 and use them as heels for platform shoes. |
| 79. |
Rubic's cube case (make into box). |
| 80. |
Shipping material (keeps your photos from being bent in the mail). |
| 81. |
Protect your table from burns caused by hot pots and pans. |
| 82. |
Snack trays (great for holding hors d'oeuvres at parties). |
| 83. |
Give them as stocking stuffers to all those people who piss you off. |
| 84. |
Fly paper (use actual disk and put string through middle, hang 2" apart and apply honey
to disks). |
| 85. |
Pocket protector (gee Gilbert I really like your new pocket protector -thanks Lewis). |
| 86. |
They make a dandy addition to a #$*+&% neighbor's back yard. Better yet, get
them to actually install it on their computer. |
| 87. |
Use them as elbow and knee pads. |
| 88. |
Wax scraper for snowboards. |
| 89. |
Use them to decorate your aquarium and create Computer City under water. |
| 90. |
Tape a few together and use them as a mouse pad. |
| 91. |
Collect a large mass and detonate a supernova. |
| 92. |
A wind clacker (similar to a wind chime). |
| 93. |
Soap dish (remove metal to prevent rusting). |
| 94. |
Row markers for your vegetable garden. (carrots, beans, peas....) |
| 95. |
Makes the perfect dance floor for your ant colony. |
| 96. |
Bread roller (use actual disks and put rod through center-use about 100). |
| 97. |
Hot glue gun resting/protecting pad. |
| 98. |
Baby mobile. |
| 99. |
Fence (may need a few thousand). |
| 100. |
Toe tags for mortuaries. Great for identifying dead computer nerds. |
| 101. |
Wonderbra inserts for that Madonna-techno look. |