I do this with my guns. I always test to see if they’ll fire by first trying to shoot myself in the head. If I get shot, then great, the gun works and now I can use it. If I don’t get shot then I know the gun is broken and I’ll give it away to some child to use as a toy.
Perhaps she just wanted yuan for the road…
You should always put sugar in the gasoline tank of your car before a long road trip. Don’t want to drive a vehicle with a fuel system that can’t withstand clogging.
You know that within a month Snopes is gonna have to write a whole page debunking this.
This really is one of the lesser-thought-out posts I’ve read here on the Dope.
nm, ninja’d!!
Ah, yes, the “Pennies from Heaven” disaster.
Maybe she’s an undercover airline safety inspector, or a saboteuse employed by a rival airline. Maybe she’s a heavy user of hallucinogens and thought the engine was a giant beggar’s cup. Maybe she planned to fill the entire plane with coins and then break it open with a hammer later and buy herself a Komodo dragon from an animal smuggler who only accepts coins as payment. There are far too many equally plausible explanations to list them all.
Starring Tom Hanks as the plucky and keen eyed son.
jtur88, you don’t have to stretch to play devil’s advocate just for the sake of being devil’s advocate. In certain situations, you can give it a rest.
Well, that would have been stupid since they were avoiding roads by flying…
My thought was "Not only was she pathetically stupid, but…
…she was stupidly pathetic!"
She couldn’t hit a 6ft diameter circle with a 1in diameter coin?!?:dubious:
“When 80 years old you reach… throw as good, you will not.”
Not necessarily. Remember Niels Bohr and the horseshoe?
If you don’t: Niels Bohr had a horseshoe hanging on the wall of his office. A visitor remarked that, surely, the great physicist didn’t believe that a horseshoe would bring him luck? Bohr replied: “Of course I don’t believe in it. But I’m told that it works whether you believe in it or not.”
When you think about it, magic is like airplane engines. I don’t have to *believe *that airplane engines work. They still do, or they don’t, irregardless.
ETA: IANAcoin-into-engine-thrower. That does seem stupid. I tend to limit myself to fountains.
Ahhhhh! it burnssssses!
Sorry about that. I know it’s not a particularly cromulent word. I just kind of like it in a weird way, despite of, or perhaps indeed because of, its non-cromulentness.
Won’t do it again, though. Promise.
ETA: Can I still keep “amazeballs”?
I believe the correct word for the state of being non-cromulent is non-cromulentude.
Now let’s all run away before the descriptivists get here.
You can keep…that…word as long as you never share it with anyone.
Yes but only if you promise that you will only use it ironically.
How do you get a fountain into an engine? 
The correct word is “acromulescent”. Or, at least, should be.