# Lava Lamp Inventor melts away..

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 20, 2000, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lava-lamp-inventor-melts-away/30061 "2000-08-20T16:41:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2000, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lava-lamp-inventor-melts-away/30061/1 "2000-08-20T16:41:51Z")

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[http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20000819/us/obit\_walker\_1.html](http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20000819/us/obit_walker_1.html)  
…and he was a nudist as well…\<write your own punchline\>

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**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2000, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lava-lamp-inventor-melts-away/30061/2 "2000-08-20T17:22:34Z")

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Funny, my lava lamp bulb burnt out last night. Seriously. Coincidence? I think not.

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**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2000, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lava-lamp-inventor-melts-away/30061/3 "2000-08-20T23:26:31Z")

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The Wherehouse has new lava lamps, small ones, called Blob Lamps [$18]. Same idea, new brand.

They also have fog machines [90], strobe lights [18] etc

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**Author:** ![The\_Asbestos\_Mango](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@The\_Asbestos\_Mango](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Asbestos_Mango)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2000, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lava-lamp-inventor-melts-away/30061/4 "2000-08-20T23:50:33Z")

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I have a real, honest to God, nineteen seventies model lava lamp. Picked it up an an antiques store last summer.