One of the ways in which we while away the winter hours in the lab is to place a few pieces of dry ice in a latex glove and then tie it shut. Over the next hour or so, the dry ice sublimes and the glove gradually expands to beach-ball dimensions. Eventually (if it has no pinhole leaks) it makes a satisfying bang.

MaxCo Office Brightening, Inc., is now proud to bring this harmless fun to the boardroom. The MaxCo Slowly Inflating Exective Pen looks like a classy fountain pen, but is actually a black latex balloon stretched over a cylindrical wire frame.

As you go into the meeting, simply unscrew the end of the SIEP and pop in a few pieces of dry ice before placing it nonchalently on the table. As you review the month's sales figures in Powerpoint, your SIEP will slowly expand to become a large pennish marrow, to the bewilderment and consternation of your colleagues.

NOTE: MaxCo Office Brightening, Inc., is a firm with Family Values. We actively discourage the use of double-entendres regarding slowly inflating cylinders.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Nov 04 2009

I would give the entire presentation in the style of Frankie Howerd.
-- wagster, Nov 04 2009


Is that a Slowly Inflating Exective Pen in your pocket, or ...?
-- hippo, Nov 04 2009


Will it go bang ?

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-- 8th of 7, Nov 04 2009


"Let me have pens about me that are fat" with apologies to William Shakespeare
-- xenzag, Nov 04 2009


2b or not 2b - oh sorry, that's pencils.
-- zen_tom, Nov 04 2009


lots of uses for dry ice in the bored-meeting: slowly raising the table while tilting the chairs back, for instance.
-- FlyingToaster, Nov 04 2009


dry ice is inconvenient.
-- WcW, Nov 04 2009


We can use stuff from the poles.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Nov 04 2009


lots of uses for dry ice in the bored-meeting: singing "Total eclipse of the heart" whilst standing on the misty boardroom table
-- wagster, Nov 04 2009


I think it should have a remote activated plug at the end, so that at a critical moment it can be sent rarting around the room while deflating madly.
-- pocmloc, Nov 04 2009


Hippo, Wagster, Pocmloc: if you're not going to take this seriously then neither shall I.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Nov 04 2009


// rarting //

Sp. ranting (?)
-- 8th of 7, Nov 04 2009


//if you're not going to take this seriously// My annotation was 100% deadly serious; I never jest, least of all on here. Now I feel hurt.

[8th of 7], I spelled it as I intended, thankyou very much.
-- pocmloc, Nov 04 2009



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