Cellphones. Popcorn. "This is your brain on ..."
Thursday, June 19, 2008 2:46:55 PM
The editor is not really current on many things. He sometimes thinks of Victor Herbert as fairly modern, say compared to Engelbert Humperdinck.
Anyway, there is this thing about cell phones and cancer and whatever. (In the 1950's, horror comics were going to destroy the nation.) Aparently, there is this thing about using your cell phone to pop popcorn. As an example, see here at Youtube. Of course, if those two guys really believed the cell phones were that powerful, they wouldn't be standing crotch high next to that table...
Here is one of many rebuttals/explanations of how to do it. If you don't have several years of back copies of Popular Mechanics in your den, you probably should not do it at home.
Anyway, there is this thing about cell phones and cancer and whatever. (In the 1950's, horror comics were going to destroy the nation.) Aparently, there is this thing about using your cell phone to pop popcorn. As an example, see here at Youtube. Of course, if those two guys really believed the cell phones were that powerful, they wouldn't be standing crotch high next to that table...
Here is one of many rebuttals/explanations of how to do it. If you don't have several years of back copies of Popular Mechanics in your den, you probably should not do it at home.






