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#180122 - 08/22/09 10:54 PM Re: Improvised uses for a newspaper [Re: Compugeek]
dweste Offline
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Registered: 02/16/08
Posts: 2463
Loc: Central California
Meant drinking straw, but either use works.


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#180127 - 08/22/09 11:36 PM Re: Improvised uses for a newspaper [Re: dweste]
dweste Offline
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Registered: 02/16/08
Posts: 2463
Loc: Central California
Guantlet/vambrace for bite / knife defense

Turn short into long sleeves / pants

Cold or hot compress


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#180140 - 08/23/09 04:32 AM Re: Improvised uses for a newspaper [Re: dweste]
dweste Offline
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Registered: 02/16/08
Posts: 2463
Loc: Central California
diaper / "depends"

fruit / nut / berry knocker-downer [thrown]

gasket


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#180143 - 08/23/09 05:35 AM Re: Improvised uses for a newspaper [Re: dweste]
dweste Offline
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Registered: 02/16/08
Posts: 2463
Loc: Central California
toothpick

nail cleaner

broom

brush

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#180151 - 08/23/09 01:44 PM Re: Improvised uses for a newspaper [Re: dweste]
Compugeek Offline
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Registered: 08/09/09
Posts: 392
Loc: San Diego, CA
Originally Posted By: dweste
diaper / "depends"


Okay, THAT one provoked an "EWW!"

smile
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#180152 - 08/23/09 01:46 PM Re: Improvised uses for a newspaper [Re: dweste]
dweste Offline
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Registered: 02/16/08
Posts: 2463
Loc: Central California
seat protector , yours and a vehicles

pocket protector

plastic bag / liner / heat sheet protector




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#180162 - 08/23/09 02:33 PM Re: Improvised uses for a newspaper [Re: Compugeek]
AROTC Offline
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Registered: 05/06/04
Posts: 604
Loc: Manhattan
Cutting board, sheath (folded or taped).
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#180167 - 08/23/09 03:08 PM Re: Improvised uses for a newspaper [Re: AROTC]
scafool Offline
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Registered: 12/18/08
Posts: 1534
Loc: Muskoka
Armour!
The protesters at world trade summits have been using newspapers and duct tape to make arm guards, greaves for their legs and body armour capable of protecting them from police batons.
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#180232 - 08/24/09 05:18 AM Re: Improvised uses for a newspaper [Re: scafool]
dweste Offline
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Registered: 02/16/08
Posts: 2463
Loc: Central California
whiteout mask

wind chill mask

visor

ear cleaner


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#180246 - 08/24/09 03:04 PM Re: Improvised uses for a newspaper [Re: dweste]
Susan Offline
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Registered: 01/21/04
Posts: 5163
Loc: W. WA
I have heard that freshly-opened newspapers are fairly sterile (at least of extreme nasties), and newborn babies have been wrapped in them when no blanket was available.

And that leads me to think they would make good emergency cold-weather protection for small children, even if it's just full pages with holes in the center, wrapped at the waist with a vine or cord. A hood or helmet could probably be formed, too -- maybe a whole-head wrap with just an opening for eyes.

I just tried the straw and it didn't work. It absorbed too much moisture at once and collapsed. Then I tried half a sheet of printer paper, and it didn't work very well, either. Pity.

If you manage to catch something that has any fat on it at all, try to trap any grease on the newspaper and hoard it for firestarting.

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