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Some technical help
Posted by: Barefoot Andy (195.188.86.---)
Date: July 11, 2007 01:38PM

Sooo...

Anyone know where I can learn to disintegrate screws using the power of my mind?

I tried google and it wasn't much help.

It came up with naked parachuting women, and that wasn't really what I was after.

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Turn the silliness to eleven!

Re: Some technical help
Posted by: xmorpheus (193.95.170.---)
Date: July 11, 2007 01:55PM

What kind of screws?

You need a special kind of head for certain types - like Philips.......

Re: Some technical help
Posted by: Bonzai Kitten (149.135.106.---)
Date: July 11, 2007 02:47PM

Not technically by esp, but depending on what the screws are put into...

(How about disintergrating the thing *around* the screws?)

Re: Some technical help
Posted by: PrinzHilde (---.dip0.t-ipconnect.de)
Date: July 11, 2007 05:05PM

Trying to fit a slotted screwdriver into a cross-headed scew works wonderfull...wait, that is not using the power of your mind...

Re: Some technical help
Posted by: Bonzai Kitten (149.135.106.---)
Date: July 11, 2007 05:23PM

Paging Mr Geller...

Re: Some technical help
Posted by: xmorpheus (193.95.170.---)
Date: July 12, 2007 08:47AM

Have you tried turning your brain off and turning it on again?

Re: Some technical help
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: July 12, 2007 09:10AM

If you just want to escape from prison, try imagining a tunnel rather than killing people.

(If your cell is not at ground level or lower, or you are on a boat then the tunnel option may not be the ideal solution)

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My computer beat me at chess, but I won at kickboxing

Re: Some technical help
Posted by: MartinB (---.cache.isnet.net)
Date: July 13, 2007 06:38PM

I can warm or cool down items?

Might make it expand enough that you can change it....

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"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Re: Some technical help
Posted by: Lymond (---.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com)
Date: July 14, 2007 01:42PM

try getting a small drill bit, smaller than the shaft of the screw. Drill the screw out and try to collapse it

Re: Some technical help
Posted by: 198505 (---.cable.ubr04.pres.blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: July 14, 2007 05:20PM

More info needed if I'm to use my vast engineering talent to help.

What is the screw in for starters?
But Lymonds is the most helpful so far.

Re: Some technical help
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: July 14, 2007 05:35PM

Lymond Wrote:
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> try getting a small drill bit, smaller than the shaft of the screw. Drill the screw out and try to collapse it

but which bit (sorry) is the "power of the mind" ?

Re: Some technical help
Posted by: MartinB (---.cache.isnet.net)
Date: July 15, 2007 12:01PM

He never said to use a drill. Just to use a drill bit.

That bit can still be done mentally.

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Re: Some technical help
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: July 15, 2007 01:39PM

But using the mind to get a drill bit was not what BA wanted to do! If that was all he wanted to do we could have given him an answer earlier. Everyone can do that, can't they?

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Re: Some technical help
Posted by: Bonzai Kitten (149.135.106.---)
Date: July 16, 2007 05:08AM

I posed this question to a couple of people in my class. Just for kicks, as you do.

One person suggested, in all seriousness, to light some white candles, stare at a crystal and visualise the screw disintergrating, while chanting at it.

She also added that it might help to have a whalesong cd on while you are doing it.

Re: Some technical help
Posted by: xmorpheus (193.95.170.---)
Date: July 16, 2007 09:31AM

Chanting what at it?

"disintigrate you bugger"?

Re: Some technical help
Posted by: MartinB (---.cache.isnet.net)
Date: July 16, 2007 11:51AM

Skid: but it merely an extension of your mind. The bit is but the focus of your effort.

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Re: Some technical help
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: July 16, 2007 12:10PM

Martin, as I said, we can all do that, so why would Andy need to ask?

I will contemplate an unpierced navel and see if I can disintegrate the prison officer in question.

Re: Some technical help
Posted by: Ptolemy (---.public.mod.uk)
Date: July 16, 2007 04:43PM

I disintegrated my mind with a screw once...



<small voice>Sorry, that wasn't very helpful, was it really?</small voice>

Re: Some technical help
Posted by: Lymond (---.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com)
Date: July 16, 2007 06:17PM

In defense of myself it was never really specified what "the power of my mind" actually involves.

Also to all those who suggested some way of disintergrating the screw using the power of the mind you also got the wrong answer or answered the wrong question however you choose to look at it or think about it.

"Anyone know where I can learn to disintegrate screws using the power of my mind?"

the correct answer is thus: (and must, according to Leslie Phillips, be a bachelor)

"Somewhere in Tibet"

Re: Some technical help
Posted by: MartinB (---.cache.isnet.net)
Date: July 16, 2007 08:15PM

Why not here?

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

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