After thinking for ages (and I mean ages ) I finally came up with another game, so here goes. Someone thinks of an item and the next person thinks of an alternative use for it - that being despite the obvious!

OK scenario time ....

Person A - CDs
Person B - can be used as frisbees

And then they give an item of their own.

Repeat process.

The starting Item is -

Shoes

(enjoy!)

Planting plants in

Sporks

Sporks can also be used as: drum sticks!

Next item: socks

Puppets!

Morons?

I'm sure they'll make good sandbags for regions with regular flooding.

Textbooks.

All books are nice burny materials.

Computers

Computers could also be used as highly accurate, well-programmed, bug-free machines to enrich people's lives.

(definitely an alternative use)

Blu-Tak

All the blu-tac in the world can be clumped together into a big ball, launched into space and used as an alternative home planet for the people who don't like it on this one.

Toast.

Butter the toast, and tie it butter-side-up to a cat. Then throw the cat in the air. As it approaches the floor, the cat will be trying to land feet first - but the toast will also be trying to land butter-side down. Because they both always occur, the cat/toast combo. will never land - and just forever spin around and around. This perpetual motion can be used for a new source of electricity.

Next: Cassette Tapes

The insides of cassette tapes make lovely christmas decorations


Lamp shade

A rain-hat for people that don't like the sides of their head getting wet, but do like the top of their getting wet.

Find another use for:
The Members of Duran Duran

Again with the sandbags?

No, give them jobs in tech. support. Sheer frustration at stupid questions will soon do them in.


Coloured Chalk

A web comic used just this premise a coupla years back... Wish I could remember the name of it...

Grind up the chalk, and blow the dust on surfaces to be fingerpinted (Not very funny, I know, but all I could come up with...).

Yapping Dogs

Nooooo! Books are sacred!

And the topic is still: Yapping Dogs

Kill em and you got an OK door stop.

Mobile Phones

Put lots of mobile phones in a circle, their antennae (or approximate location of potential antennae) pointing into the centre. Place an egg in the middle, then make a call on all the phones. Voila! Your egg will be cooked.

Cheese Grater

Can be used to get rid of foot fungus! Simply grate your toes until it comes off...

chopsticks

Can be used along with a bit of elastic to make a catapult (by sticking the chopsticks into something and tying the elastic to the ends). This has much the same use as the chopsticks but is more fun to use.

Satsumas.

Play food bowls.

Sausages?

My dirty mind jumps to something that perhaps I shouldn't say... so I will hold my tongue...

So I guess the topic thingy is still: sausages

A string of frozen sausages could be cut up and used as temporary nunchucks.

cheerleader pompoms?

wigs for poor clowns

pennies

frizbees for hamsters.

lightbulbs

Additions to hairpieces.

alarm clock

A pet noise-maker.

Xylophones

False teeth for whales.

Walnuts.

Get hundreds of thousandsof them, and stick them together to form a barrier.

Wallnuts, if you will.

Hahahahahahah...

...hah

Next Item: Hearing Aid

It's a huge rock concert with all sorts of bands to fight... deafness?

Monkeys.

With a little training they can make good minions, to make all your evil world domination dreams come true.

Pants (the British kind ).

I like Terry Pratchet's idea of parachutes for the Wee Free Men. Mata's kitten commandos could also use 'em.


Pants (american/canadian version)

Cut them in half, varnish them and the legs make good pipes for...um...something.

Weasels.

Weasels can be used as a back-washer thing while in he bathtub. <nods>

pumpkins

another use for pumpkins, the tasty fruit? hmmm...

We could, I dunno', cut them up to look scary and stick candles in them or something.

oh...

Failing that, pumpkins could be used as headwear so you look really tanned.

-
Cliff Richard

Cliff Richard > Target practice

Blood

Paint.

Safety pins.

Clip lots of them together to make a belt for babies.

Cheese

Smear it on oneself to wear as deoderant.

ipods

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Ooops...I got my games mixed up there.
The headphones can be used to attract muggers, if you wish for the benefits of claming on your insurance and don't mind a bit of pain along the way.
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Red Eyes (*shakes fist at dreams on hiatus' avatar* so evil!).

Shooting energy beams out of a la the X-Men's Cyclops.

Rectal Thermometers.

(and Moop, this isn't the Rate topic. It's the post an alternative Use.)

D'oh, theres not really a lot to distinguish the 2 except for the number coming first in the post. Apart from at it's line of text, newline, single word.

Can be used (after washing) to teach ones self to play the xylophone (or your pet whales false teeth if you're reading the topic obsessively and actually trying this stuff out ) quieter, due to the risk of mercury (or whatever) spilling if one strikes the keys too hard.

Washing lines.

Personal zip wire, across your garden. Weeeee!

Snorkels

Used to suck out people's eyes (among other things)

Capcom!

As capcom is not an item (therefore not following the initial rule) I will post another.

Spray paint cans

In conjunction with a lighter they make a great compact flamethrower.

Hats with propellers on.

Portable Guillotine, baby.

And Capcom works. So I post it again: Capcom.

In what way would Capcom work?!?

Bait for fighting game addicts, in case a large group of people is needed for involuntary experimentation or something .

Dancing Hamsters.

Target practice.

Head expody.

can be programmed to attack people who are obsessed with capcom by deafning them with their high pitched voices.....

teddy bears

Bombing buildings with a political and theological freference (Cowboy Bebop!)

Otaku.