<p>For a broken-arm splint.</p>
<p>ninja sword (husband doesn’t like this idea as he has concerns the sliderule would get damaged)</p>
<p>oversize bookmark</p>
<p>straightedge for creasing flyers</p>
<p>baton practice (seems like there might be some problems with this)</p>
<p>shoehorn</p>
<p>ice scraper</p>
<p>mouse diving board</p>
<p>After that last one you know it’s time for me to go to sleep.</p>
<p>Straightedge to draw straight lines.</p>
<p>My sliderule is on a bookshelf next to my abacus and T square (no joke). Both were from my dad and my kids loved to work with them (or try, anyway)…until they got older and got fancy calculators.</p>
<p>Garlic clove crusher.</p>
<p>Mini, I have one for you. You could use it to conduct an orchestra. When you get really good with the thing you’d know just how vigorously to thrust it for partial or maximum slide extension. What do you think? Visual emphasis.</p>
<p>I’m not sure if it would require more of a thrusting or flinging motion.</p>
<p>A smurf ball bat.</p>
<p>property marker</p>
<p>Prop a window open. (You can tell I live in an old house. 
)</p>
<p>I like garlic clove crusher. I think it’s too lightweight to pound veal.</p>
<p>yad </p>
<p>10 char</p>
<p>I’ve contributed 14 ideas. That’s 41 backwards.</p>
<p>Frame it in a shadow box with an abacus. Make sure that somewhere these words appear:</p>
<p>In case of emergency, break glass.</p>
<p>“In case of emergency, break glass. It will not help, but at least you’ll feel like you’ve done something!”</p>
<p>Glue four of them together and use it as a picture frame.</p>
<p>Put into a box to help you find something to talk about with your elderly engineer father (sorry if that’s sad, but I foresee a repeat of my 9th grade lessons might be a way to interact once my dad starts slipping…)</p>
<p>In the case of D…search for on in antique stores…gift to engineering BF…watch him spend hours figuring out how to actually use it.</p>
<p>Reminds me of this: <a href=“20 Things To Do With Matzah - YouTube”>20 Things To Do With Matzah - YouTube;
<p>20 things to do with matzah</p>
<p>Decorate the wall of
a tech college bar</p>