Sunday, February 19, 2006
Another 17 (out of 101) Household Uses for Brenda Coulter's Forthcoming Novel, A Family Forever
We're halfway through the list now, and I hope you might have found a reason by now to preorder a copy (or two) of Brenda Coulter's forthcoming novel, A Family Forever. (Yes, I'm trying to game Google's search ranking by placing keywords early and often in my posts; thanks for noticing.) If you haven't already, you probably will today: #41 is especially useful.
101 Uses for Brenda Coulter's Forthcoming Novel, A Family Forever, continued--again
- Hole plugger for drafty doors and windows.
- Fling at TV set power button when batteries in remote are dead.
- Glossy cover makes a decorative mini dry-erase board.
- Wadding for Revolutionary War-era blunderbuss.
- Cover with fabric, use as new mattress for Skipper doll.
- Crumple up pages, stuff in pillowcase for faux buckwheat pillow.
- Disposable ballast if you attach giant dirigible balloon to roof, fly house cross country and need to gain elevation while crossing the Rockies.
- Remove cover, use as pancake flipper.
- Cut pages into 1cm x 5cm strips for litmus paper in child's pretend lab set.
- Stopgap measure to plug leaky roof.
- Implement to remove cobwebs from hard-to-reach ceiling corners.
- Chewing gum to wean Nicorette addicts.
- Attach folded cover to bicycle tire fork to make cool machinegun rat-a-tat.
- Comfy pillow if you're chained to wall in cement-floored basement.
- Roll into tube, use as piratey spyglass.
- Margins make great space for cryptic notes on mathematical theorems.
- When moving to new home, stuff in cardboard box to keep valuable books from shifting in transit.
Mikesell
