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101 Uses For A Black And Decker Workmate
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As played in the Furcation Game (plug). Could the panel please suggest uses for a Black and Decker Workmate?
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12. An instrument of interrogation. Should anyone refuse to tell you how best to use it to torture people, threaten them with it until they do. If you don't know how to use it to threaten them, it doesn't matter. They do.
13. A lucky charm. It can be for good luck or bad, it's your choice. It's your workmate, after all!
14. A handy place to store 10,000 Celerity CDs.
16. Yes, 16, count them The best way to burst many balloons at once, as done by the BBC sound efefcts department.
17 - A great seat for one or more when watching cricket at the local village green.
18 - It would make a handy interrogating instrument for the wife to grill me on where exactly I've been until 3:00 am.
19. Instrument for pinching out a long line of candles. Dujon] Excellent suggestion, and you ignored my "efefcts" too! Much kudos.
20. A spelling dictionary for the words "Black," "Decker," and "Workmate."
21 A handy vice grip to ensnare Tuj by a suitable protruding bodypart (TBC) until he understands that it was his unusual choice of following my conventional '2' counting mechanism with '2b' at the top of this game that threw several players out of synch with true order, and that being all cutesy about having his 'efefcts' typo ignored will not constitute any valid defence against said bodypart (TBC) being squished with a Black and Decker Workmate until he weeps.
21 b A handy V-Day present a week after V-Day. She'll love it and forgive you...
21 c Device for raising and lowering encasted or enslinged bodyparts (TBC) when in hospital.
21 d ... or, if adjusted at high speed, excellent for flicking wellwishers' grapes into your invalid mouth.
25 Cut a suitable set of semicircular holes in the jaws and use it as a pair of stocks.
26 When in the lowered position, as a prayer kneeler (for instance when begging 'Lord, pleeeease give me strength and forebearance when dealing with these idiots')
27. Lower legs at one end. Attach elastic band to handles at other end. You now have a launch ramp with which to propel Matchbox cars into the ether.
28. A clamp to help one keep a stiff upper lip.
29. If one were to attach a series of rod-mounted beads, it could form a basic abacus.
30. With one end tilted lower than the other, an extremely short but rather portable dry-ski slope
31. Partly opened, it can be used as a tribute to Robert Recorde.
32. Impromptu stumps for an impromptu game of cricket. Other suggested items: ball made of sellotape, 3/4 full bottle of water, players.
33. An accomplice in providing excuses for acquiring power tools.
34. An artificial woman, for the extremely lonely.
35. Portable crazy-golf kit.
36. As a more reliable, [less prone to human error], means of circumcision.
37. Obtain several, turn some of them upside down and enter them in the Turner Prize.
38. Just cooked a pasta meal and embarrassed by the length of your spaghetti? Simply attach the spaghetti to your workmate and turn the handle to increase to the desired length!
39. An inyeresting sidetable for displaying any Oscars you might happen to win. Wow, Tuj goes topical!
40. A fully washable table for use as an aid to natural childbirth.
41. A paperweight.
42. Need to saw a piece of wood? First, ask a friend to hold the wood with one hand. Then clamp his other hand in the workmate so that he can't run away.
43. Keeping one's mouth shut to stop guffawing like an idiot at the previous suggestion.
44. Submerge in a very large vase of water to provide an adjustible support for flower arrangements.
45 A great jar opener and should grace every kitchen in the land.
46 A gum shield for hippopotamuses.
47 A device to remove excess skin from your shins, best done in a darkened shed whilst looking for the white spirit.
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