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[conuly]

Poll #29247 Useful things

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 49

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Which of these is the most useful?

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A chocolate fireguard
3 (6.4%)

A chocolate hammer
25 (53.2%)

A chocolate teapot
19 (40.4%)

If we open the field a little wider...

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Anything made of chocolate that isn't supposed to be made of chocolate
18 (40.9%)

A glass hammer
10 (22.7%)

A screen door on a submarine
5 (11.4%)

An inflatable dartboard
8 (18.2%)

A waterproof teabag
3 (6.8%)

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Comments

[dewline]

At least anything made of chocolate ought to be edible.

Thus will it remain useful...eventually.

[lilysea]

If you have a screen cover on your submarine HATCH (further inside the submarine than the solid steel hatch),

then when you surface, you can get fresh air without getting mosquitoes

[conuly]

Are there many mosquitos in the middle of the ocean?

[lilysea]

There would be a lot in the narrow strip of sea between mainland China and Taiwan, and similar near-shore bits of sea in South East Asia.

Not a problem in the Atlantic Ocean, admittedly...

[marahmarie]

*facepalm*

[larryhammer]

I pretty much had to select anything hammer-related, natch, but those also seem the most useful of the options.

[sabotabby]

Not a submarine with 18 bolts but they only close 17 because the 18th is hard to reach?

[conuly]

That's a horrifying image, thanks.

[readerjane]

A chocolate teapot because it might get through one use before melting. An inflatable dartboard because, even though it would deflate after the first dart, you could still hang it and throw darts at it and score your aim. And neither of those are deadly like the screen door would be.

[brokenallbroken]

It doesn't specify the darts are sharp. It might be one of those velcro jobs for the beach.

[readerjane]

Good point! Um, pun not intended, ouch.

[spikethemuffin]

I would buy and gift the sneg out of teapot-shaped hot chocolate “bombs.”

[steorra]

Chocolate teapot: because you can use it as a pitcher to pour cold liquids.

Anything made of chocolate that isn't supposed to be made of chocolate: because at least you can eat it and it will be tasty.

[gwydion]

I can eat things made of chocolate even if I can't use them for the intended purpose, so they have an inherent use if not the intended one.

[marahmarie]

See, that's where I was going with it.

[agoodwinsmith]

Because a chocolate hammer is mundane enough that I won't have any compunction about breaking it up and eating it. Chompy chompy chomp. Both the fireguard and the teapot might be too pretty.

[solarbird]

A glass hammer, properly made, would be food-safe, and as such, useful for tenderizing meat. You would of course have to watch for chips, but that too is part of being food-safe.

A chocolate fireguard could be a useful one-time-trigger fire alarm system.