# What should I do with an annoying slinky? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 29, 2006, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-with-an-annoying-slinky/386031 "2006-12-29T21:20:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![brewha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-with-an-annoying-slinky/386031/1 "2006-12-29T21:20:36Z")
In the cube next to mine, there’s a guy with a slinky. It is driving me insane. All day he plays with it and it makes an annoying shliink - shliiink - shliiiink noise. I’m thinking I’ll take a cue from The Office and imbed it a bowl of jello and leave it on his desk. I could steal it today, but he gets in before me in the morning and I don’t know how I would sneak it in. Maybe I’ll just steal it and replace it with a plastic one. At least it wouldn’t make so much noise. What would you do with an annoying slinky? Someone else did complain about it to him, but he just laughed about it. And, of course continued to shliiink away. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-with-an-annoying-slinky/386031/2 "2006-12-29T21:33:49Z")
Are you handy with an arc welder? ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-with-an-annoying-slinky/386031/3 "2006-12-29T21:40:10Z")
The plastic ones are just as annoying. Different noise, same grating on the nerves. I’d find the two ends of the wire and twist them together really tight, essentially sealing the slinky shut. Or strangle him with it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gukumatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@Gukumatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gukumatz)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-with-an-annoying-slinky/386031/4 "2006-12-29T21:44:54Z")
When he is in the hypnotic trance-like state in which most slinkers live, quietly guide him over to a mall. If my calculations are correct, slinky + escalator = endlessly unoccupied cubicle. ---
**Author:** ![brewha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-with-an-annoying-slinky/386031/5 "2006-12-29T22:27:26Z")
I am handy with an arc welder, but I only have an Oxy/Actylene welder at my disposal. Why do you ask? 🙂 I do like the other suggestions, but I fear destroying the slinky is out. I’m fairly new to this job and he is my supervisor. I really shouldn’t strangle him. If I could get him to the mall, I think that would take care of it. ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-with-an-annoying-slinky/386031/6 "2006-12-29T22:38:48Z")
Kink it every morning when he isn’t looking. ---
**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:** [December 29, 2006, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-with-an-annoying-slinky/386031/7 "2006-12-29T22:59:19Z")
Metal slinky, eh? Magnetize it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-with-an-annoying-slinky/386031/8 "2006-12-29T23:07:09Z")
I guess I’m the only one who would enjoy the sound. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-with-an-annoying-slinky/386031/9 "2006-12-29T23:29:29Z")
Crazy Glue. 10,000 & 1 uses. Think about it. ---
**Author:** ![notthatagain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@notthatagain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notthatagain)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-with-an-annoying-slinky/386031/10 "2006-12-29T23:34:51Z")
This sounds like a delightful opportunity for some creative super-glue application. Glue 5 or 6 of the bands together so it will sound like shliiink-clunk-shliiink, or if you can time it properly, perhaps you could apply said glue to the coil ends just before he picks it up… ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-with-an-annoying-slinky/386031/11 "2006-12-29T23:35:34Z")
Push it down a flight of stairs? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-with-an-annoying-slinky/386031/12 "2006-12-29T23:40:48Z")
[QUOTE=JThunder] Push it down a flight of stairs? [/QUOTE] Alone? Or in pais? ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-with-an-annoying-slinky/386031/13 "2006-12-29T23:41:16Z")
Let me borrow it so I can wrap it tightly around the neck of a neighbor that’s been in need of a good nose-blowing for the past, oh, month and a half. All day long, it’s _snorrk, snuchhhck, snucksnucksnuch_ ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-with-an-annoying-slinky/386031/14 "2006-12-29T23:42:17Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] Alone? Or in pais? [/QUOTE] That’s “pairs”. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-with-an-annoying-slinky/386031/15 "2006-12-30T00:01:37Z")
I suppose it would be unreasonable to politely ask your coworker to knock it off with the slinky? ---
**Author:** ![A.R.Cane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@A.R.Cane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A.R.Cane)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-with-an-annoying-slinky/386031/16 "2006-12-30T00:03:17Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] That’s “pairs”. :smack: [/QUOTE] I thought it was supposed to be “Paris”, and I was thinking Eiffel Tower. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Random](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/57b2e6/32.png) [@Random](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Random)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-with-an-annoying-slinky/386031/17 "2006-12-30T00:05:12Z")
[QUOTE=A.R. Cane] I thought it was supposed to be “Paris”, and I was thinking Eiffel Tower. :dubious: [/QUOTE] Wouldn’t that annoy the French? ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-with-an-annoying-slinky/386031/18 "2006-12-30T00:30:24Z")
[QUOTE=Gukumatz] When he is in the hypnotic trance-like state in which most slinkers live, quietly guide him over to a mall. If my calculations are correct, slinky + escalator = endlessly unoccupied cubicle. [/QUOTE] Hm.. Has this been done? I’d like to see a vid of someone who’s been successful at it. Off to youtube… [QUOTE=JThunder] Push it down a flight of stairs? [/quote] At first glance I thought you wrote “Push _him_ down a flight of stairs?” ---
**Author:** ![NJ\_Kef\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b487fb/32.png) [@NJ\_Kef\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NJ_Kef_1)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-with-an-annoying-slinky/386031/19 "2006-12-30T00:45:22Z")
What is your real reason for hating Slinkies? It’s a wonderful toy, or haven’t you heard? _A Slinky, a Slinky, what a wonderful toy. A Slinky, a Slinky, it’s fun for a girl or a boy. Everyone knows it’s Slinky._ ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-with-an-annoying-slinky/386031/20 "2006-12-30T01:33:54Z")
[QUOTE=A.R. Cane] I thought it was supposed to be “Paris”, and I was thinking Eiffel Tower. :dubious: [/QUOTE] It was “pairs”, but we’ll always have Paris. Wait, that was Bogart & Bergman. Never mind. 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-with-an-annoying-slinky/386031.md?page=2)