Fishing for INFO~

[My Erotic Tale]

I am doing homework, (research) for a project I am playing with. Where else would I ask for some help and info, <grin>

I am searching for any 'uncommon' knowledge, facts, humor, poetry, jokes, etc on bubble gum <grin> yep you heard me right...hehehe chew on this chapter two perhaps but also some optical illusions, not in the form of graphics,(unless you just want to post some cause they are intriguing) I can get those, but such as...

illusion~
place two index fingers pointing at each other, approximately 3 inches out from your nose and you will see a floating finger...eye trick!

I am searching but was hoping some one might know of a bubble gum joke or an eye trick or ...thanks....Art~

 

[WickedEve]

It's not bubble gum but it's an empty gum wrapper that sold for $660.02 on ebay.

gum

 

[CharleyH]

I am doing homework, (research) for a project I am playing with. Where else would I ask for some help and info, <grin>

I am searching for any 'uncommon' knowledge, facts, humor, poetry, jokes, etc on bubble gum <grin> yep you heard me right...hehehe chew on this chapter two perhaps but also some optical illusions, not in the form of graphics,(unless you just want to post some cause they are intriguing) I can get those, but such as...

illusion~
place two index fingers pointing at each other, approximately 3 inches out from your nose and you will see a floating finger...eye trick!

I am searching but was hoping some one might know of a bubble gum joke or an eye trick or ...thanks....Art~

No jokes or facts other than memory. Sorry MET. Tell me what you are after and then maybe I can pick my brain? Eve has a good one?

 

[My Erotic Tale]

wow eve...perfect, why did it attract such a high prize?

thats what I was wanting grinin....

thanks charley~

fun facts would sum it up ...bubble gum if possible but if it is a good one then I would just love to read it...

like when is 99 more than 100?

on a microwave, 99 seconds is more than 1:00 minute <grin>

also I found where they make figurines out of chewed gum and make pictures from the wrappers.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

How about an Urban Legend, MET?

The Seven Year Glitch

 

[Jennifer C]

Hows this?

The Bubblegum Brigade


In your hair, on my shoe,
Everywhere... sticky goo!

On the toys, around your thumb!
Oh... the joys of bubblegum!

On the wall, on your face,
Down the hall... a bubble race!

In your nose, out your ear,
And so it goes throughout the year.

Chew it up and spit it out
Now clean it up and look about...

See any more? Look really hard.
Hey! Gum galore... there in the yard!

Get the rake and the shovel too.
Make no mistake, you bubble crew;

You're now the Bubblegum Brigade!
You've got to put it in the can...
If Daddy sees the mess you made,
He'll declare a bubble ban!


By ~Eden Marie

 

[Du Lac]

how bubble gum came to be...

In 1928, bubble gum was invented by a man named Walter E. Diemer. Here's what Walter Diemer, the inventor himself, said about it just a year or two before he died: "It was an accident." "I was doing something else," Mr. Diemer explained, "and ended up with something with bubbles." And history took one giant pop forward. What Mr. Diemer was supposed to be doing, back in 1928, was working as an accountant for the Fleer Chewing Gum Company in Philadelphia; what he wound up doing in his spare time was playing around with new gum recipes. But this latest brew of Walter Diemer's was -- unexpectedly, crucially -- different. It was less sticky than regular chewing gum. It also stretched more easily. Walter Diemer, 23 years old, saw the bubbles. He saw the possibilities. One day he carried a five-pound glop of the stuff to a grocery store; it sold out in a single afternoon,
Before long, the folks at Fleer were marketing Diemer's creation and Diemer himself was teaching cheeky salesmen to blow bubbles, to demonstrate exactly what made this gum different from all other gums.
Dubble Bubble, they called it. It bestrode the bubble-gum landscape unchallenged for years, at least until Bazooka came along to share the wealth. Walter Diemer stayed with Fleer for decades, eventually becoming a senior vice president.
He never received royalties for his invention, his wife told the newspapers, but he didn't seem to mind; knowing what he'd created was reward enough. Sometimes he'd invite a bunch of kids to the house and tell them the story of his wonderful, accidental invention. Then he'd hold bubble-blowing contests for them.

taken from:
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/story084.htm

du~

 

[Jennifer C]

Every year North American kids spend about half a billion dollars on bubble gum. Forty million pieces of bubble gum are chewed every day, 26,000pieces of bubble gum chewed every minute, and 444 pieces chewed every second.

 

[Jennifer C]

*The largest bubble ever blown was 23 inches in diameter, set in 1994 in California.

 

[My Erotic Tale]

How about an Urban Legend, MET?

The Seven Year Glitch

urban legend? curious, I'm gain for a good read <grin>

thanks du....jennifer, cool jelly beans...<grinin>

 

[Jennifer C]

urban legend? curious, I'm gain for a good read <grin>

thanks du....jennifer, cool jelly beans...<grinin>

You're welcome Art, I hope it's helpful

 

[Trent_Dutch]

The "Eye Tricks" I might be able to help with.... I studied a lot (and remembered a little) visual perception.

Saccades.
A saccade is a little jump that your eye makes when looking across a surface or at stationary objects, moving vision from one object to another, or one part of an object to another (it comes from the French verb Saccader, meaning "to jerk", which opens up some interesting literary possibilities). Hold a blank piece of paper infront of someones eyes and ask them to look smoothly from the left to the right hand side of the page. You can even draw a straght line from one end to the other, and ask them to look smoothly from one end to the other. You'll notice that no matter how hard the person tries they are unable to move their eyes smoothly across the page or along the line. Instead their eyes and vision moves in tiny jumps, saccades. Now put a small dark dot on the pad of your finger and hold your finger up infront the persons face and ask them to track/follow the movement of the dot on the finger. Move the finger slowly across the field of their vision, and lo... they can track the object smoothly, without the saccades.

The Mona-Lisa's smile.
Want to know why the Mona-Lisa's smile is so enigmatic and mysterious? One theory is because there isn't actually a smile there, some of the time. Have a look at a good, high quality image of the painting (or the painting itself if your ever in the Louvre). First look at the mouth itself. When you look directly at the lips, no smile appears. Now look at a different part of the face, the nose or eyes... and you can then make out the smile in the periphery of your vision. Look back at the smile and it fades away, to a straight set of lips... The reason for this is that the fovea or central part of your vision is excellent at picking up details, but is less capable of seeing tonal/colour differences (and hence light and shadow). On the other hand your peripheral vision is better at seeing the slight tonal differences and the light/shadow contrast. Da-Vinci was so astute in the way the human mind perceives visual images that he was able to paint the smile so perfectly that we can never look directly at it without it dissolving away.

Early night vision experiments.
Around the end of the second world war, Allied scientists experimented with producing night-vision in their soldiers. Instead of feeding them lots and lots of carrots as I would have done, they decided instead to inject fish enzymes directly into the soldiers eyeballs. The enzymes in question came from a species of fish reputed to have good night vision. When given the injections the subjects reported that they could see in the dark. However the practice never quite caught on as the wholly less gruesome idea of night-vision goggles came to fruition.


I can dig through some books and come back with more if your needing any.....

 

[WickedEve]

Instead of fishing for information, shouldn't you be blowing and popping for it?

 

[Jennifer C]

So what exactly is this project anyway Art?

 

[My Erotic Tale]

Good question JC ...hehehe

check this out...

I am proud to announce that ...
"Chewing Gum for the Mind!" Volume One
By Art ...has been excepted for review for publishing. <grin>
I submitted a small sample to Lit, but the illustrations
seem to be causing a delay in posting. That or there are a
lot of submissions these days. Now the dreaded 6-8 weeks
for the reply.

So I need to build material for volume two, please send me PM
any "unique and un-common knowledge" of GUM facts,
body illusions, zen tales, and or brain teasers.
(Mental 'work-out' Manual volume two .,..
Chewing Gum for the Mind! The 2nd gumball)

Thanks Art~

here's a very small taste...
of an Illusion Gumball

Say the color of the word rather than read the word.
blue ... green ... purple

*Zen Gumballs = zen tales of enlightenment
*Inspector Gum shoe = you solve the mystery
*Illusion Gumballs = body and mind illusions
(also optical, drawn by moi!)
*Bubble busters and grey matter of facts

scientist have stated, simply that, chewing gum expands the mind, so I bought myself a Zen Gumball Machine. Gathered some mind expanding material and building a bigger mental dojo, for mind arobics and thought tae bo with jaw push-ups and ying yang gum balls. It is simply any thing for the mind to chew on ... chewoing gum for the mind. and yes, even poetry <grinin>

 

[Jennifer C]

Good question JC ...hehehe

check this out...

I am proud to announce that ...
"Chewing Gum for the Mind!" Volume One
By Art ...has been excepted for review for publishing. <grin>
I submitted a small sample to Lit, but the illustrations
seem to be causing a delay in posting. That or there are a
lot of submissions these days. Now the dreaded 6-8 weeks
for the reply.

So I need to build material for volume two, please send me PM
any "unique and un-common knowledge" of GUM facts,
body illusions, zen tales, and or brain teasers.
(Mental 'work-out' Manual volume two .,..
Chewing Gum for the Mind! The 2nd gumball)

Thanks Art~

here's a very small taste...
of an Illusion Gumball

Say the color of the word rather than read the word.
blue ... green ... purple

*Zen Gumballs = zen tales of enlightenment
*Inspector Gum shoe = you solve the mystery
*Illusion Gumballs = body and mind illusions
(also optical, drawn by moi!)
*Bubble busters and grey matter of facts

scientist have stated, simply that, chewing gum expands the mind, so I bought myself a Zen Gumball Machine. Gathered some mind expanding material and building a bigger mental dojo, for mind arobics and thought tae bo with jaw push-ups and ying yang gum balls. It is simply any thing for the mind to chew on ... chewoing gum for the mind. and yes, even poetry <grinin>

Great stuff, thanks Art