I like to run over empty pop cans with my car.

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The smush sound is very satisfying.

I’d like to try running over a pumpkin. Especially if it’s been hollowed out. It would have to be a small to medium sized one, though. A big one wouldn’t fit beneath the wheels well enough to smush properly.

But no matter what size the pumpkin is, I don’t think it would be as good as running over an empty pop can. The aluminum in the pop can I think offers just enough resistance to the squish to build up the smush. I think the pumpkin would be too feeble to smush very well.

I just ran over a couple of pop cans after I dropped D18 Jr. off at hockey practice.

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Plastic soda bottles make that crunch sound too. Not that I’ve run over any innocent soda bottles…lately.

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You know what else is cool? Throwing soda bottles into a fire with the cap on…oh man, I love that sound!

Running them over with the tops on is great too, since occasionally you get to watch the top shoot off after the satisfying pop noise.

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Hmm. We’d better not start talking about whether soda bottles are innocent or not. I don’t want this moved to Great Debates. It would be a very heated argument, and I think they have enough to occupy themselves with as it is.

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Never tried this. Next summer for sure.

Juice packs have a pretty good effect at times, too.

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You should try slugs a nice satifying squelch , esp Seattle slugs those are BIG damned things , that’ll teach you to eat my Strawberries etc.

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Hey - I saw my first West Coast slug this summer - although it was of the Vancouver variety, not the Seattle sub-species. Yep. They looked like they’d squish real good. But if we start talking about live critters, the mods are gonna close this down.

But then again, it looks like cruelty to slugs is a topic that Cecil himself has been tolerant of in the past.

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What’s to debate? One minute the soda bottle is sitting in the middle of the street, minding its own business and the next minute…SPLAT!

Then again, what is it doing in the middle of the street? My guess is trying to pick up the single shoe.

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*Originally posted by Grace *
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What’s to debate? Good Lord we could debate all day:

  1. Can soda bottles ever really be innocent, or do they possess original sin?
  2. And even moving out of the realm of theology, let’s talk about their culpability of being in the street - I mean, sure someone threw the soda bottle there in the first place, but doesn’t it have a responsibility to at least try to move out of the way?
  3. And to your point about picking up the shoe - for crying out loud, how could anything that’s looking to cross species like that be in any way considered innocent?

Innocent soda bottles, indeed. I think not!

Smush 'em I say. They’ve got it coming.

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Bwahahahaha! I’m impressed you came up with three things. :smiley:

Now let’s go smush some cans. Bonus points if you step on a ketchup packet in the parking lot on the way to the car.

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You’re amazing, Grace!

And I love stepping on ketchap packs, too!

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You know what would be cool? If they did an armpit noise version of that song. I mean, come on, if a barking dog can do Jingle Bells why can’t I have Amazing Grace?

BTW, no more squishing ketchup and Taco Bell sauce packets for me! I’m reformed. I am, however, saving them to hand out at Halloween next year to teenagers who come Trick-or-Treating but don’t wear a costume. I figure if I pretend like I’m giving them candy, they won’t realize they got ketchup and sauce packets until later.