Amuse Your Friends


This is the page for the lesser amusements and entertainments, things you can resort to when you're at a party or bar and your friends are afraid you're going to start talking about HTML 6.2 or JavaScript 5.8. That's exactly the moment to break out a bunch of matchsticks, lay them on the table, and challenge anyone in the room to move four matches to create a likeness of Jack Klugman. Send your favorite "bar bets" and close-up amusements to bob@chairboy.com and I'll post them here. But here's one to get you started...
Matchsticks

Sex-o-meter

This one's a load of laffs: attach a penny on the end of a string and suspend it over a man's hand. It swings back and forth in a straight line. Try the same thing over a woman's hand. It swings around in a circle. How does it work? All you need to do is think "circle" over the woman and "straight line" over the man, and the string will behave in the correct way!

Take me back to the World o' Fun, please