When I first came across the idea of nailing Jello to a wall, I thought it was pretty funny. Strange, but funny. Now that an alert reader has pointed out to me that this was not an isolated incident and that many people out there devote time to the very same thing, I have to admit that I am a little disturbed.
My Science Project has taken their love for all things Jello and conducted a study into the "feasibility of securing Jell-O to a vertical surface by means of manually impacted cylindrical metal fasteners." In other words, they attempted to nail jello to a wall. They tried the standard recipe, jello with holes molded into it, jello with straw supports and jello with fruit. The best recipe was one they termed "ballistic jello," which involved about an ounce of gelatin in 2 cups of water.
I'm thinking that this challenge could be some sort of a party game. Possibly at the same types of parties that serve lots and lots of jello shots early in the evening.
[thanks, Eric]
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2-08-2007 @ 9:07AM
Allison said...
You seem to be missing the point that this is motivated by testing the aphorism "you can't nail jello to a wall". Since it sounds silly and easy to test, I'm sure that's why people have picked it over less accessible ones like "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink."
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2-11-2007 @ 3:27PM
MDL said...
Hammer+Nails+Alcohol=bad party game :)
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