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Snetho
08-13-2000, 09:29 PM
What makes Mexican Jumping Beans jump? Gas or worm?
Lord Jim
08-13-2000, 10:04 PM
It's a worm, here's how it works from How Stuff Works (http://www.howthingswork.com/question265.htm).

Jim
Ura-Maru
08-13-2000, 10:13 PM
One of the more pathetic letdowns of my childhood, I might add. Calling the slight wiggle that those guys occasionally manage to pull off "jumping" is an exageration akin to refering to the 20 minute lifespan of a gobstopper as "everlasting."

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"Brought to you by Vermont. The other, smaller, Wisconson."
Homer
08-13-2000, 10:29 PM
Fuckin' sea monkeys.

--Tim
Steve-o
08-13-2000, 10:38 PM
No $h1t Homer... I don't think that I was ever so excited to get something in my life (up to that point ;) ), only to be severly let down. As a matter of fact, I think this is my cue to get a new sig line...
Steve-o
08-13-2000, 10:40 PM
Let's try that again... (see, I knew it wouldn't work... thanks Sea Monkeys ;) )
DougC
08-14-2000, 07:09 AM
- - - Search the archives. - MC
AWB
08-14-2000, 09:07 AM
The Mexican Jumping Beans we got as kids were pretty peppy. I had some jump 3-5 inches, right out of my hand. Maybe we got fresher ones since I lived closer to Mexico... :D:D
Jeep's Phoenix
08-14-2000, 02:07 PM
I had a Mexican Jumping Bean when I was little. It wasn't disappointing at all--that thing could JUMP! One day it quit jumping though. The next time I thought to look at it (I stored it in a little plastic box), the worm had burrowed its way out and had molted, becoming a little moth!

I let the moth go.