Yet another use for the Pringles Tube

[major_clanger]

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"CINCINNATI (AP) — The man who designed the Pringles potato crisp packaging system was so proud of his accomplishment that a portion of his ashes has been buried in one of the iconic cans.

Fredric J. Baur, of Cincinnati, died May 4 at Vitas Hospice in Cincinnati, his family said. He was 89.

Baur's children said they honored his request to bury him in one of the cans by placing part of his cremated remains in a Pringles container in his grave in suburban Springfield Township." (full article)

I knew you could make a high-gain wifi antenna out of a Pringles tube; a funeral urn is a relatively mundane application, although deeply appropriate in this particular instance. (And I wonder if Mr Baur knew Gene Wolfe?)

Comments

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure they met.

[drpete.livejournal.com]

Take one Pringles can, poke a 2cm diameter hole just above the metal bottom, and stick the other end of the tube into one end of a 4'piece of guttering pipe. Insert nozzle of Easy Start* aerosol into the small hole, and give a generous squirt. Insert tennis ball into the end of the drainpipe. Take a lit match, and insert into the small hole. If you've got the mixture right, there will be a reasonable report, and the tennis ball will leave the drainpipe with considerable muzzle velocity, and travel up to 200 metres.

Great things Pringles cans.


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