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I love camping. I enjoy roughing it even more but when the whole family goes we find ourselves needing just a few more amenities than you can fit into a back pack, like mattresses.
Inflatable mattresses just don't seem to survive more than a season when you have kids and I don't find them very comfortable
so the best alternative is a thick foam one, but they take up way too much room in my opinion. So how about a foam mattress encased in a durable air tight rubber coating that you could hook a reverse foot pump to and evacuate all the air collapsing the mattress into a rectangular pancake. When you get to your campsite just unscrew the valve cap and "fwssshh" insta-bed.
(?) Vacuum Packed Foam Mattresses by FlexyFlex
http://www.thesleep...cked_mattresses.htm
Though not necessarily re-pack-able. [phoenix, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
(?) Self-Inflating Foam Pads
http://www.rei.com/...Inflating+Foam+Pads
Wayyyyy baked [Klaatu, May 05 2008]
(?) Seal goes off
http://binarybonsai.com/images/seal.jpg
Inflating spontaneously [normzone, May 05 2008]
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But then... when the seal goes it'll
inflate spontaneously, causing your
backpack to explode. |
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Have you vacuumed your pants to your legs or are you just yadda, etc.? |
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//But then... when the seal goes it'll inflate spontaneously, causing your backpack to explode.// |
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//when the seal goes it'll inflate
spontaneously// |
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I challenge the collected halfbakers to
place that phrase into nine distinct
contexts. |
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[MB]: Antarctic fisherman catches elephant seals by using fish stuffed with gas canisters as bait on the line. When the seal goes off it'll inflate spontaneously and float to the top. |
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[Jinbish]: The Norwegian delicacy
"fiskenkjøtt" is traditionally prepared in
June, to be eaten by the family at
Christmas. It is related to the Swedish
"surstromming". Uncooked seal meat is
tinned, and then thrown into a lake, the
spot marked by a bundle of reeds tied
to a stone. The family knows that,
when the seal goes off, it'll inflate
spontaneously and the tins will rise to
the surface to be reclaimed and eaten. |
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Well, the easy three have been accomplished. Now it gets interesting. |
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How baked is Wayyyy baked [Klattu]? Do you think they have been around since before my posting? I found nothing when I searched at the time. |
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...and here the elephant seal can be seen expelling a surprisingly large volume of mucus into the blowhole of a sleeping Narwall. When the seal goes it'll inflate spontaneously. |
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//Do you think they have been around since before my posting?// |
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By about 20 years or more. Very common here with the camping types. |
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1) On what appears to be an ordinary American dollar bill, mounted on a wooden plaque, the Seal of the President of the United States conceals an evacuated noollab (reverse-balloon) ... |
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2) An un-opened sauce jar has been suspended opposite an unsuspecting puffer-fish... |
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3) ...or maybe a bullfrog... |
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4) One of those newfangled bondage practice dolls has been delivered in a discreet package, bound with ribbon whose main knot is covered in signet-stamped red wax... |
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The US Navy are helping us with making stealth approaches over water. Two-person teams comprising one Navy Seal and one Marine have been training with BAMONRIB's - Backpack Mounted Non Rigid Inflatable Boats which automatically construct themselves on the tugging of a ripcord. |
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When on training and carrying a BAMONRIB, do NOT give the ripcord to your navy buddy or else... |
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I make that 6, which is encouraging. Feel
free to use foreign languages. |
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OK, like, this is sooo awesome. You are totally like not going to believe what happened to me last night.
I met this Navy dude - he was like some diver or something, and wanted me to call him seaman - ewww, gross. Anyway, he kept talking about, like, his equipment and stuff, and how he was some radical special forces dude, but I just totally wanted to skip to the fun bit.
OK, so here is the most awesome part. Ready? OK. We went back to his room, and he was still like totally talking about all is stuff, you know, and anyway, I managed to strip him down, and he was like staring at himself - you know, like looking down. If it was anyone else but him, i just sooo wouldn't get it, but when the SEAL goes "it'll inflate spontaneously", i just couldn't stop laughing. |
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<sitting in boring conference barely controlling mirth> |
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My Rube Goldberg machine has a chute
that feeds a seal herring laced with
laxative. Under the seal is a bucket on a
pivot that pulls the cord on a life raft when
it is filled. The life raft expands inside of a
glass box ... |
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I'm pretty sure they had these back in 1999, and maybe as early as 1993. |
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