# Now help Topaz decide what to do with these AOL CDs. ^\_^" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 7, 2003, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-help-topaz-decide-what-to-do-with-these-aol-cds-_/186677 "2003-07-07T01:27:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![StanDup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@StanDup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StanDup)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2003, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-help-topaz-decide-what-to-do-with-these-aol-cds-_/186677/1 "2003-07-07T01:27:36Z")
Ok, from this post: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=195781](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=195781) I want to do something with these hell-sent AOL CDs. Blowing them up to smithereens, throwing them in urine ::winks at Giraffe:: or melting them, as long as it’s what most people here would go with, I’ll do it. ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2003, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-help-topaz-decide-what-to-do-with-these-aol-cds-_/186677/2 "2003-07-07T01:30:47Z")
Sorry to double post, but I guess I missed the “let’s start a new thread” thing. So, [here you go](http://www.nomoreaolcds.com/). ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2003, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-help-topaz-decide-what-to-do-with-these-aol-cds-_/186677/3 "2003-07-07T01:39:59Z")
Put them in the microwave. Very cool light show, trust me. ---
**Author:** ![Electronic\_Chaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2003, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-help-topaz-decide-what-to-do-with-these-aol-cds-_/186677/4 "2003-07-07T01:41:18Z")
Well, since the Fourth just passed, I imagine you can find someone with an excess of firecrackers. Or, you could just stick them on your toe, you big goofball. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2003, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-help-topaz-decide-what-to-do-with-these-aol-cds-_/186677/5 "2003-07-07T02:32:10Z")
Frisbees. Probably will want to wear gloves, though. Alternately, I’m told that if you melt them properly you can make lovely (and colorful!) platemail. ---
**Author:** ![StanDup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@StanDup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StanDup)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2003, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-help-topaz-decide-what-to-do-with-these-aol-cds-_/186677/6 "2003-07-07T02:33:27Z")
Platemail? ---
**Author:** ![StanDup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@StanDup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StanDup)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2003, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-help-topaz-decide-what-to-do-with-these-aol-cds-_/186677/7 "2003-07-07T02:37:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by xgxlx \* > \*\*Well, since the Fourth just passed, I imagine you can find someone with an excess of firecrackers. Or, you could just stick them on your toe, you big goofball. \*\* Ahh… I can picture it now…calling 911 Dispatcher person (I guess):911, what is your emergency? Me: I seem to have my big toe stuck around a stack of AOL CDs. DP: Excuse me?.. ---
**Author:** ![elephant\_shoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c77e96/32.png) [@elephant\_shoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elephant_shoes)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2003, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-help-topaz-decide-what-to-do-with-these-aol-cds-_/186677/8 "2003-07-07T03:07:05Z")
You can save them for when you finally decide to go on Trading Spaces. Somebody could paint them and put them on your walls! ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2003, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-help-topaz-decide-what-to-do-with-these-aol-cds-_/186677/9 "2003-07-07T03:33:23Z")
PULL! ---
**Author:** ![Searching\_For\_Truth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Searching\_For\_Truth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Searching_For_Truth)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2003, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-help-topaz-decide-what-to-do-with-these-aol-cds-_/186677/10 "2003-07-07T03:39:16Z")
**pesch** , you’re my hero! Good luck to you and your wife on your project! [in regards to link provided in other thread–he’s lining his ceiling with AOL cds] I’ve been collecting the darn things for a while now. All kinds, not just AOL. Some of them have hilarious pictures on the fronts and besides, they have shiny backs. I always figured I’d think of SOMETHING creative to do with them! Maybe next semester I’ll use them to decorate my dorm room and embarrass my roommate. [https://secureweb.qcsn.com/pipermail/discuss/2001-February/000044.html](https://secureweb.qcsn.com/pipermail/discuss/2001-February/000044.html) This is kind of hard to read (because it’s written in annoying Courier font), but very interesting. AND it has links to cool sites about what to do with the dratted things, and mostly how to destroy them in fun ways, it seems. I am pissed because [Toasties: Data Destruction](http://toast.ardant.net/gallery.shtml?action=view&cd=-1) is not loading. Man, that’s a great site. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-help-topaz-decide-what-to-do-with-these-aol-cds-_/186677/11 "2003-07-09T16:31:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Topaz \* > **throwing them in urine ::winks at Giraffe::** Cripes. You dip _one_ little sandwich in urine and eat it, and no one lets you hear the end of it. As for the CDs, I think you should get a big stack and then whip them at the heads of Time-Warner executives.