« Happy New Year! | Main | Friday five »
January 1, 2003
The Electric Pickle
Every year on New Years Eve I electrocute pickles. How and why this tradition started no one really knows, being that we are generally very drunk at the time. There is a good description of why pickles light up when electrocuted here, so I won't bore you with the details. It's fun to do, but rather stinky. Lysa managed to capture one of this years sacrifices as a movie. Enjoy!
Posted by ed at January 1, 2003 1:36 PM
Trackback Pings
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://weblogs.litmusgreen.com/mt-tb.cgi/92
Comments
Yeah, but next year, we need better pickles. Those sad little pickles we sacrificed just couldn't give that spectacular display.
Posted by: lysa at January 1, 2003 8:11 PM
My kids were watching "Rugrats: All Growed Up" yesterday and they actually did an electric pickle as a science experiment in class. Scary, Ed's influencing children's entertainment now.
Posted by: Linda at January 2, 2003 8:45 AM
I teach a bio class and was wondering how you did this. I have tried many things but have not been able to do it. I would appriciate your responce.
Mr. Groff
Posted by: Mr. Groff at November 16, 2004 9:14 AM