I work in a research centre and today I noticed that one of the scientists looked particularly frustrated. Upon closer inspection, I learned he was actually just really focusing on making the folds straight in the cootie-catcher he was making. I haven’t seen those in forever and IMMD!!
Submitted by: Dingo
Do you work at CERN? I hear the tiny black hole they recently created is allowing actual cooties into our universe.
Upon further investigation, the circle-circle-dot-dot solution is reported to be “Less than effective” according to my informed sources. There seemed to be a tone of urgency…
That’s cute! I like making paper cranes of various sizes and leaving them around the library at school. =)
A what??
It’s a toy that has the same function as a magic 8-ball, that you make out of a square piece of paper. You fold it in different ways so there’s all sorts of different flaps inside, and more inside those.
You go through steps to see which flaps you’re going to open and at the end of each little sequence, is the answer to the question.
With adolescent girls, usually there’s eight boys’ names at the end, lol, and whichever one you end up with is the one you’re going to marry.
http://www.squiglysplayhouse.com/ArtsAndCrafts/Crafts/CootieCatchers.html
A device made out of primarily paper, which can – according to the various studies published by primary school girls worldwide – predict a person’s future (as well as catch cooties). The metaphysical properties of the device are not yet fully understood. A detailed study was commenced by a small group of 4th-graders in South Park, Colorado, but the scientific community is yet to hear any results. Tabloids suggest government involvement, as the cootie catcher may just be the only way to predict economic processes. Government officials, of course, deny everything.
You might have heard it called a “paper fortune teller”. The outer panels usually have the names of four colors. You have a friend pick a color, then you open and close two ends alternately, while spelling out that color word. On the inside would be the numbers 1-8, or any numbers you choose. Your friend picks a number, and you count to that number, while opening two sides alternately. Then your friend picks another number, and repeat. After you have done so, then open that number’s flap, and read the fortune you have written down.
Do a Google search for “cootie catcher” or “paper fortune teller” and you will see what I’m talking about, along with instructions on how to make one.
http://images.google.com/images?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&q=cootie+catcher&oq=cootie&gs_rfai=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=D6-jS9vZBpOKswP5tIi9BA&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CB8QsAQwAw
Dingo, did you eat my baybee??
At first glance I thought this said “hootchie-catcher”, and I was dying to know exactly what kind of “research center” this was. lol
Cootie??!?! Isn’t that a slang word for…?!
That would be either “cooze,” or “cootch” over here.
Cooties is a playground term (as in elementary school kids) for boy germs or girl germs, whichever you are afraid of catching by using the drinking fountain after a member of the opposite sex.
The slang term you are thinking of is “cooter” I think.
Cooties is a term in North American English used by children for a real “germ” said to infect through contact. The term may have originated with references to lice, fleas and other pests. A child is said to “catch” cooties through any form of bodily contact, proximity, or touching of an “infected” person or from a person of the opposite sex of the same age. The phrase is most commonly used by children aged 4–10; however it is also used by many others older than 10 years of age.[1]
I love it!
That is unless he NEEDED a cootie catcher for something that the research center has unleashed on the world!!!