Fun with Silly Putty

[Tarkus]

Silly Putty is some pretty wacky stuff, let me tell you. Not only does it take up the color of a comic book or newspaper picture when pressed onto it, but it has other uses. It bounces higher when it is cold for instance, and tends to "break" when smacked with a hammer.
Now for the trippy stuff. Take a wad of it and slap it on top of a book shelf. Put it on the side so it has a place to run down. Overhang half of it so it is hanging off the edge of the book shelf. Give it plenty of time, a few days should work, and it will start to run down the side of it. I am sorry I do not have any pictures, but it will run seemingly for ever. It just drips down the side, and the blob on top will always stay there. It never seems to spill all the way over the side. I had some that I left for 3 months, and man, it was cool. Cut stripes into it or divert a portion, it just looks awesome. About 2 weeks ago I smashed some into a circle and placed it on top of the egg container (it comes in a plastic egg) forming a little "hat" if you will. It is almost completely covering the egg now, and it looks badass!
I am sure I am not the only one to play with Silly Putty, so I hope other people have some good ideas. Again, I am sorry I do not have any pictures to show ya'll, maybe I should add a few. It is really quite cool to watch the progress over a few days.

 

[Safari]

What have you been smoking? It must be really good.

No offense intented, but this is one of the most random posts in the history of ICMAG!

 

[Irishslappop]

im gonna go buy some.

 

[Tarkus]

Yeah, I realize it is pretty random....got nothing to do with weed, except maybe the things I do when high. I just think Silly Putty is some nifty stuff, and most people I meet barely know what it is.
Plus it picks up pet hair very well, but so does those sticky hands that you get out of a $.25/$.50 thing at, oh say, CiCi's.

 

[Haps]

I abused mine, and it got taken away from me.............45 years ago.
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[genkisan]

I have about 25 packs of glow-in-the-dark Silly Putty, got it fer 50 cents an egg....




Life time supply, man!

 

[Tarkus]

Silly Putty is by far the most underrated viscoelastic liquid in my book. I like the glow in the dark stuff, it is real cool. Although, I found that mine would lose its glow-in-the-darkedness after awhile. Maybe it got old? Or maybe overused, who knows. I used to have some of the 50th anniversary gold putty, lost it or something...who knows.
Anyone remember Gak? Now that stuff was weird. Made your hands smell like glue for awhile afterwards though. And damned near impossible to get out of shag carpeting....

 

[bongasaurus]

haha, gak. that stuff was funny.

reminds me of the nikelodeon green goop shit aswell

but nothin beats silly putty

 

[Guest]

wasn't gak that slime shit? i never liked that stuff. it tasted like shit!
know who else eats paste here?
JK LOL

 

[pipeline]

Haven't messed with it for a while. Pull it apart slow and stringy, or pull it fast and break it even....Weird...I'm going to hunt mine down and set it on the shelf.

 

[Guest]

I remember some cruchy shit called floam or something lol that was made by the same people as gak.

I actually just found an egg of silly puddy.....I use to chew on it hah its got a nice texture, who knows wtf that stuff is though...

 

[Nikijad4210]

Floam? Shit, my brother took my mom out for her birthday for dinner, and we all ended up wandering around Wal-Mart, and the kids (my hubby and brother) decided they just had to have Floam.....I wasn't too fond of it, stickier than it looks, stinks....But the boys fuckin' loved it. I'm glad my man tired of it. I think he left the container open, it ended up dried out.

 

[Tarkus]

Yeah, Nickelodeon made Gak. It was part of their Nickelodeon Compounds stuff made by Mattel in the 90s. They also made Skweez, similar to play-doh but not the same. They made a whole lot of stuff in the 90s....
Anyone ever combine all thier Play-doh to try and make different colors, and just end up with the horrendous brown Play-doh? It just looked ugly.

You can also make your own Silly Putty type stuff with Boric acid and silicone oil...just is not the same though.

 

[Snowdog27]

I had silly putty once in my life got it in my moms rug, she still brings it up from time to time. After 20 years she still wont let it go.

 

[Fire On High]

I did a report on silly putty in science class in 7th or 8th grade and if i remember correctly, it was invented by a man trying to design a hard rubber substitute for the shortage of products during WWII and he fucked up and got silly putty. He marketed it as a party novelty for adults and it was a long time before it was actually sold as a childrens toy. Im sure that information is all on wikipedia and more accurate than mine, however it is an interesting thing to know. Last time i played with silly putty was at my dealer's house; thats the putty marijuana connection for you guys.

...FOH

 

[Tarkus]

Yeah, they were trying to make a substitute for rubber. By they I mean two people, they both came up with it apart from each other at similar times. James Wright of General Electric and Dr. Earl Warrick of Dow Corning Corporation, both came up with it when trying to find a rubber substitute. Made in 1943, first marketed in 1949 I believe.
I have also used it to seal a crack in a bong...worked well I guess.