The Bubble Wrap Game
Bubble wrap generally has dozens and dozens of raised bubbles to pop but ... instead of popping them, as some people would do to relieve stress (which I'll add is another good use for bubble wrap).
Here is my idea in reusing bubble wrap. And you only need two different colored marking pens, one pen/pencil and sheet of paper to keep score.
The game itself isn't new and has been around forever, and you may know it better as "Connect the Dots" Only here, instead of dots, connect every four bubbles into a square. Each square is worth 5 points. When you reach 50 points, then each square is worth ten points. When you reach 100 ponts, each square is worth 25 points.
A square must be done in one color only. If you look closely at the picture, you can see where I made a freeble attempt to draw a square to cconnect four bubbles in red.
The object of course is to keep your opponent from creating a square and you can block someone by using your colored pen in doing so.
This can be a lot of fun, and somewhere along the way, you'll have a few laughs.
Life’s Handouts
When life handed me bubblewrap
I crafted a soft place for you to land
Surrounded it with castle walls
Of translucent circles
Surrounded that with a moat
Complete with plastic crocodiles
Between the sheets
A drawbridge of course
Pointless
But functional
A forest of bubblewrap trees
A field of flowers
With bubblewrap bees
A bubblewrap crown
A bubblewrap gown
You played in your bubblewrap kingdom
You asked for a bubblewrap throne
You played in your bubblewrap kingdom
Until suddenly, you were too grown
What can you do with bubblewrap
Things to do with bubblewrap
1. Pop specific bubbles out of a line , to make binary code message.
2. If the bubbles are big, inject them with hydroponic gel , and make a verticle garden.
3. Babyproof everything!! alternatively, you can make a rage room when the blood runs high...
4. Make a windbreaker or a rain poncho.
5. Use strips and individual bubbles, to teach kids about numbers, and distance.
6. Cover the bubblewrap in non-soluble chili oil. teach marine animals to avoid eating plastics.
7. Heat sheild for the reentry menuvers.
8. Fake decoration seaweed for aquariums.
9 . Create a golem.
10. Prosthetic suction cup implants for octopus with third degree burns.
11. Sell them on ebay to some pervert, who gets off of prosers.
12. Cut in shapes of clothes. insert magnets,.use as clothing for plush toys.
13. Emotionally extort someone into taking up all your bubblewrap. make sure they recycle properly. no trash compactors allowed!!
14. Protect the fragile ecosystem.
15. By laying down a thick layer of unpopped material, create the illusion at a distance that a lake is still covered by ice.
16. Hoard bubblewrap. one day , after it’s discontinued, it will be very valuable.
17. Eat it- it can be a good , low-calorie alternative.
18. Print all your posts on prose.com, bind it, and wrap it in bubblewrap layers of inceeasing bubble size.
19. Cover exposed surfaces of cars, boats, and airplanes to significantly increase drag, and reduce speed, and fuel efficiency. similarly, putting up a slip and slide that is intentionally slower, or on a steeper incline, can be acheived with replacing the standard material with bubblewrap.
20. For those who are oparating a large menagerie / private zoo in cold climates- large, mostly hairless mammals can be covered with bubblewrap to increase thermal insulation, and create the illusion that the animals are ice age megafauna. this also has the benefit of reducing heating expense in the winter months.
21. Create accurate 1:1 models of national monuments out of carefully folded bubblewrap. in times of emergency or natural desaster these temporary approximations can be used to fool the invaders of which targets they need to demolish. as the scale models are easily transportable, they can also be used on the public, to create the illusion that everything is ok.
22. Tightly roll large sheets , with the bubbles facing inward. Once you have a tube of the desired length and girth, tightly wrap it in seran wrap or scotch tape, to create cheap , home made pool noodles that can then be reused in all sorts of home improvement projects..
23. wrap them around carefully carved, long pieces of granite. until they have a thick, round shape. roll them slowly, until you get to the canal, then float them all the way up the Nile, until you reach the pyramid you are constructing. roll again, and then carefull pop the bubbles in select places, until the obelisk is erect.
24. sell it to the unsuspecting natives in exchange for land, or gold.
Spring Back
I think when life hands you bubblewrap you can me a mattress re-enforcement mattress. This is alot of old bubble wrap put into a huge plastic bag and put under someone's old mattress or a childs mattress to bring it back up to the bounce. It could be glued together to make a
platform for the mattress as well. But no doubt in my mind it will be
good backup for any spring failing mattress on a child's bed or your old but comfortable bed. The price should not be high at all.
Efficient and affordable equals WIN WIN!
Extremists!
I think that the overwhelmingly most useful purpose of bubblewrap is for completely wrapping up all the extreme climate change activists and particularly those who make the absurd proposal that the world would be a better place if there were no humans on it! Then MAYBE we could get some peace and quiet so we could enjoy this beautiful amazing incredible unique world and make it a better place for our families, friends and acquaintances without the threats, taxes and negative scare-mongering of the obsessed extremists.
Maybe then we could torture them even more by popping the bubblewrap day and night until they recanted and realised that making the world a better place does not involve intense negativity pessimism and fear. Quite the opposite! Let's make life wonderful glorious and happy and have some positive constructive and worthwhile aims instead!
GangsterBubbleWrapAid
"We are barely making enough bubbles to stay afloat. I don’t think bubble wrap is going to take off as hoped. Why won’t it Pop! Like? It’s something simple. Like a dimple. Is a beauty mark a mole?
It should make people snap to when crashing thru. Splash! Now we’re the biggest brightest fish in the bowl. I’d sell my soul"
"Would you really?"
"Now your being silly. Whomever you are? In the shadows not far. That can make note of the whispers still within me"
"Seriously. You know me. It is thee. I whom the heaven’s had designed to tempt you. I who cannot tell a lie to save his own life. If I could have. I’d still be up there. Living the hood life. You ain’t seen debauchery till you get your menagerie"
"A what? Devil"
"-ish" (bitch) "What have you got to lose? But this Ms? Look at how Packing Peanuts are living. Flying out of limo’s. Taken by the wind they’ve been given. This could be you. Living high on the hog Or? Christmas comes and god forbid a bubble wrapper losses a thumb. And you lose it all.
Because they couldn’t propose a paper that properly presents the present. And cracked under the pressure. Injuring customers and employees alike. Now your paying workman’s comp. While waiting for the other shoe to drop. And your sued for your gross negligence as well. But Bubble that’s not a worry. Because your going to join. Team Surely"
"That’s Mrs Bubble wrap to you. If you can deal with that? Mr Mack in the hat. What’s the catch?"
"Just your soul. And everything that comes and goes. Goes with it. You’ll be the Bee’s knees. The talk of every warehouse around. In nearly every household where Amazon products are found. Just sign the dots on the spotted line. And I’ll even remind you. Your free will cost me a piece of my mind. And ain’t no-one else out there paid you any. Which has or had you in this bind?"
"Blood signed. Dotted line. Show me the cash thats worth The Catch?"
"If you would then ma’am please take my arm and I shall lead us to act.
ACT - 2
"Pop! Pop! Pa papa pop!"
"Sounds good. Like daft dancers in tap shoes. Bubble rappers? Again from the top! A one and a two and a one two three......"
SOLD OUT for a fortnight and a moon the Broadway phenom BUBBLERAP the Musical from the producers of WRAP CITY RHAPSODY
EPILOGUE:
It would be remiss of me to fail to mention the dark side of this story. What’s become of our silent minority? Where’s that famous air of superiority? Once the major player. Packing a punch stopping the crunch in shipping game. Now playing second fiddle having fallen into ruins. Shame...
Foam packing peanuts couldn’t fight the funk of fake found in their game. How quick the peanut gallery put the breaks on their increasing fame. The biodegradable police have spoken. FP’s are lame. And bubble wraps so hot it’s smoking.
They smelled a rap. Cat got its tongue. And that was that. The peanuts foam shell game was cracked! But not all crack is wack. '.
Until wordplay distorted the wrap game. Nut had a lock you couldn’t crack. Now barely a footnote because they don’t pop and talk back. Pop Stop drop and roll. Pop pop pop pop! Bubble rap sounds like rice crispy’s. Just add milk ice cold.
Doublebubblewrap it. Bubblewrap it up. We started from the bottom. Boxing what? Now we out here like you out there. So we taking good care of your stuff.
And this is how it happened. Like you couldn’t make this up. I had nightmare. I couldn’t handle going to work the next day. Then I ran into an advertiser friend. Who ran this by me. Then ran with it per say. (for this I owe him my soul?)
We had been ridiculed as the more expensive natural enemy of foam peanuts. Though we shared the same passion. Why such animosity? When we cared for the same. Fashions and fine commodities. Now the script has been flipped. And packing peanuts are in dire need of our help. So we bought them out. And now they to can rest easy. Cause now their made from biodegradable ORGANIC kelp.
From everyone to everyone at WRAPAID!
Thanks for the KELP! Natures way of saying.
The devil himself couldn’t have done it better
The end.
anything but popping
Spot test all sheets of bubblewrap with gasoline and pretend that the ones that melt are definitely not napalm. Do not burn anything down.
Use remaining, non-melted sheets as insulation for homeless housing, raft building supplies, tree house roofing, or basement soundproofing.