Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2016/10/07/rubber-band-ball-for-3.html
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What happened to hard work, elbow grease and moxie? Back in my day we had to make our own rubber band balls!
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making the ball was half the fun!
(actually, thinking back, the fact that I only ever did it once may be evidence that it’s actually pretty tedious)
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What was the other half?
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The Film Shipping desk at Universal Studios used to take the tape off film cans they’d receive and stick those chunks of 1" gaffer’s tape onto a ball beside the desk. When last I checked in 1996 or so, the ball was three and a half feet in diameter. I wonder how big it eventually got by the time all the productions switched to digital cameras.
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throwing it out of an upstairs window and being astonished at how high it would bounce
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I would wind them TIGHT and until I’d need to chain multiple rubber bands together just to fit them around the ball. Yeah, that sucker’s gonna bounce.
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From the headline I actually thought you were joking about purchasing a rubber band ball pre-made. I was thinking that the contents of the article would be more along the lines of “Gentleman sells rubber band balls for $4 each.”
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Your colleague is Korean?
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A boy named Soo
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There are two kinds of rubber band balls: ones like these, which exist as a form of packaging for new rubber bands, and ones that you make yourself from used rubber bands. I suppose one could buy the former to play the role of the latter (or even as a source of material for the latter), but that would be kind of silly.
My problem is that I don’t use enough rubber bands to exhaust either a ball or a bag of them before most of them deteriorate, but I don’t like to throw them away either.
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Actually, with tape, it’s more fun to just stick to the wall, and let it grow there. I did that in my college dorm room years ago. I called it “Rose With Adhesive.”
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I only use handcrafted rubber band balls made of organic free trade rubber sourced on etsy.
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Or, to be really Etsy, posted as being handcrafted rubber band balls made of organic free trade rubber but actually bought in bulk from Alibaba for ten cents each.
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One does not purchase a rubber band ball, one makes one. Mine is nearly 60 pounds.
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So, the $3 one is a heck of a lot cheaper, eh?
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But I can kill a rabid squirrel with mine, if circumstances called for it. I have been trying to talk my Dad into dropping it from an airplane, to film what happens. There is a bunch of potential energy in that thing.
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$3.29 and wait a few days for it to be delivered, or just pay $2.99 at Office Depot and have it immediately. Gee, that’s a tough one.
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Your car or public transit system must be awsome if you can round trip to Office Depot for $0.29 
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