Who here used to lick 9 volt battery terminals as a kid?

[LeftyFingerPop]

Why did you do it?

I used to hate it, but I would do it anyway.

[XemaSab]

1. Note for the folks at home:

Don't lick the computer cord. x(

[LeftyFingerPop]

11. Especially when it is plugged in.

[arcadian]

2. Well, I HAVE done that before.

The way you said makes it sound like a regular thing.

[LeftyFingerPop]

3. I used to do it whenever I saw a free 9 volt battery.

If it wasn't hooked up to something, it was gonna get licked.

[Art_from_Ark]

29. I used to recharge 9-cent 9 volts

and lick them to see if they were actually recharged. That was back when regular dry cell batteries could actually be recharged.

[AlCzervik]

4. yup, right after i got done chewing on tinfoil.

[LeftyFingerPop]

Damn!

Don't put that thought in my head....

[arcadian]

13. Did you get that notion from the post I made?

The time stamp has us both at the same time, I don't know how a judge would call that one.

[AlCzervik]

17. do you also have a post about chewing tinfoil?

[arcadian]

27. Here. sadly nobody has responded. I suck royal

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x8258164

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

5. I guess I am still a kid, huh?

Just did that the other day for the amusement of my daughter and 2 of her friends.

[LeftyFingerPop]

6. I remember it as being a compelling metallic shock?

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

10. yep... I think it wards off evil spirts and

cancer

[AlCzervik]

8. well, is it the same as adult as it was when you were a kid?

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

12. different... see now I am making sure they

have charge in them, to uh, protect the family from fire, see?

[AlCzervik]

15. that's a good idea, i have one in a thermoscan thermometer that i know is fairly new

i am tempted to walk down stairs and remove it.

My smoke detector batteries always seem to go in the middle of the night, the chirp every 30 seconds and then it echoes so it takes me an hour to figure out which one it is.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

16. see, if you licked them every now and then

you would know which are weak... I suppose with practice and more patience than I, you could learn to detect voltage with your tongue.

[AlCzervik]

18. what a fun party trick and kind of naughty sounding as well.

[DarkTirade]

7. I tried it a couple times, but I never made a habit of it.

[LeftyFingerPop]

9. You don't know what you are missing.

[ogneopasno]

14. Is it the same as putting two pennies together and then sticking your tongue between them?

Odd.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

19. We were a hardy breed. We did all kindsa cool shit like that.

The answer to your query, of course, is "Why NOT do it?".

[LeftyFingerPop]

22. Exactly. Did you ever break open the little glass tubes with the mercury in them...

and play with the beads on the floor?

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

25. I'm surprised our generation has a single brain cell left

after doing all that shit. Mercury, lead- I've handled it all.

I also used to jump off roofs, and I've been known to go for a rousing game of Jarts. :shrug:

[LeftyFingerPop]

26. Oh jesus...we all used to carry jack knives...

And two guys would stand maybe 8 feet apart, facing each other with legs spread.

Then, you would flip your knife and try to stick it in the ground between their legs.

You were considered a "chicken" if their aim was off and you moved your foot out of the way.

I used to move my foot, because some of those fuckers would TRY to stick it.

[darkstar]

20. Geek here raising hand.

It's called "testing" them. Part of trouble shooting in microphone and guitar pedal land. Oh, and I always had to test them, even straight out of the wrapper. Just to make sure. Yeah. Mmm...the briefest of discrete, mannered touches to my quivering tongue....

But I *never* licked them, pev.

:hug:

[LeftyFingerPop]

23. Well, I never "made love" to them...

well, once maybe...

:rofl: :hug:

[Inchworm]

21. Me

I thought I was testing to see if the battery was worth pocketing :D

:hi:

[LeftyFingerPop]

24. I think that's why I started doing it...

then I would do it for the hell of it. :hi: :D

[mopinko]

28. me

took everything apart, tried to put them together, but rarely succeeded. can fix most things now, tho.
my college chemistry teacher convinced me that tasting things is not a good way to gather information.

[JVS]

30. It was always a good way to check the charge

[mwooldri]

31. Only the LITTLE PP3 batteries.

The stonking big ones used in big flashlights? Please do not do that at home. Not good.

I only did it to see if it was a good battery. If it was a case of a quick buzz then yep good battery. If I could hold it there and experience the sensation quite happily - sorry, dead battery.

Mark.

[Bake]

32. Yeah, but they never really gave me much of a buzz ...

Bake