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Location: Nr London, UK
what's the strangest thing your emergency poi have been made out of?
I went to a carnival/fete thing today...and saw a staff spinner, so i wanted Poi...there and then.
I managed to win two pom poms...and then i used Balloon string.They weren't heavy enough.
Oh well...i'll fix 'em somehow!
.:*distracted by shiny things*:.
3,777 posts
Location: brizvegas, Australia
socks...just socks...no balls, just the socks!! it was very pathetic!
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3,414 posts
Location: Bogged at CG, Australia
i made some out of crappy as 3mm (nothingth of an inch) nylon rope, just after i'd hear about it. the pair of them, all up, weighed all of about 20 grams.
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111 posts
Location: Sweden
i made my first meteor out of a bit of rope, 2 indoor floorballs stuffed with plasticbags, and some glue.. hah...
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Fool
2,020 posts
Location: Cornwall, UK
pens with clips on the end (shirt clips?) on bits of string.
skipping ropes
key rings
diablo sticks (by holding the string)
There are probably others, but these are the ones i've used most recently.
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Location: NYC, NY, USA
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master of disaster
3,354 posts
Location: New York, USA
two pieces of ribbon tissue paper and two empty paper cups
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Pooh-Bah
2,109 posts
Location: Philadelphia, PA - USA
Two white trash bags with soda bottles half full of water in them. Was at a friend's party one night and had nothing to spin so I made them up. It was actually rather cool because the trash bags were shaped in just a way that they looked somewhat like flags and made a nice plastic bag sound while spinning through the air.
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HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Soup ladles
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Fool
2,020 posts
Location: Cornwall, UK
shopping bags are always good. *agrees wholeheartedly*
"I believe the cost of life is Death and we will all pay that in full. Everything else should be a gift. We paid the cover charge of life, we were born."
Bill Hicks, February 1988
385 posts
Location: Near Portsmouth, UK
These two funny squidgy balls. They're those water filled rubberised squishy balls that stick to things when you throw them. They stretch like a b*tch so I pinched the seams and spun them. they kinda stretched out to look like sock poi hehe...cept I had to stop cause I thought they would burst
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Your erotic cabaret is non stop
You're wearing too many belts
And I bet they leave welts
Shut up and dance cause I wanna pop.†
1,032 posts
Location: Stillwater,OK/Wichita Falls,TX
Water balloon poi. Very niiice on a hot humid day.
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385 posts
Location: Near Portsmouth, UK
very good fun
†.You've got invisible fangs and cherry nun bangs,
Your erotic cabaret is non stop
You're wearing too many belts
And I bet they leave welts
Shut up and dance cause I wanna pop.†
22 posts
Location: Aalborg, Denmark
Shoes are great. Laces become chord, shoe becomes poi.
Note: Doesn't work with slippers...
Chr
508 posts
Location: manchester, uk
i too made some out of shoes n laces!
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385 posts
Location: Near Portsmouth, UK
slippers could be very awkward...unless they were those weird slippers with the laces in the front. You know, those suedey moccasin ones?
†.You've got invisible fangs and cherry nun bangs,
Your erotic cabaret is non stop
You're wearing too many belts
And I bet they leave welts
Shut up and dance cause I wanna pop.†
Insert Champagne Here
13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia
i have my keys on a lanyard, so i absentmindedly twirl them...that is, until i smack myself! and being smacked by keys REALLY hurts! one of these days i'm going to steal my bopyrfiend's keys (his are also on a lanyard) and twirl them so i can doubly smack myself with pointy metal!
i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey
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56 posts
Location: USA
On the fourth of July I went to a party and thought it would be fun to take a treat, so I made popcorn balls with long licorice strings coming out of the popcorn ball. Ta Da popcorn poi. And yes, we did spin it.
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243 posts
Location: Fife, United Kingdom
Angus McKinnon says to use a pair of mice(computer ) for poi any comments can be passed to him for you.
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1,148 posts
Location: Seattle, WA
rubberbands clipped to pens, keys on lanyards, hacky sax in gfs panty hose, n it wasn't emergency but I got my parrot to hold onto my sok poi for a spin one time, ala parrot poi
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playing the days away
7,263 posts
Location: The Middle lands, United Kingdom
shopping bags while coming out of safeways is always a safe bet. Don't spin those eggs to hard or they can break....beleive me!
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53 posts
Location: Southampton, uk
Daisy chains, I was desperate
Drinking wine, eating cheese, catching some rays, yunno.
errrrrr what?
198 posts
Location: cloud 9, United Kingdom
fishnets and apples!!!!!!!!
I'll come back as fire and burn all the liars and leave a blanket of ashes on the ground.
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spiny norman
314 posts
Location: Cincinnati,damn it, USA
hmm, i did a post like this too, but as all my threads do it had a stupid name, soooo... ive recently used two bras(not in public) and and extension cord, fun fun fun...
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36 posts
Location: Ontario, Canada
Okay~ this one's good
I was in jail last summer
with 30 of the coolest wymyn i know, and we all turned our jail cell into a mini circus. We had Radical Cheerleaders, people doing acro., jugglers who stuffed ham sandwiches into empty juice boxes to make juggling balls
, and I made a set of poi out of the plastic bags used to wrap the sandwiches, tied together, with juice boxes at the end. Hey, we were in custody for over 36 hours. What do they expect?
spiny norman
314 posts
Location: Cincinnati,damn it, USA
thats pretty cool, but im kind of confused, were you all arrested together?, im kinda surprised they(guards) let you do that
if you think that our kiss was all in the lips, come on you got it all wrong man, and if you think that our dance was all in the hips then, oh well, do the twist -The White Stripes
419 posts
Location: the world (London)
Written by: Mags The Jedi
shopping bags are always good. *agrees wholeheartedly*
I know a friend that tryed to enter a poi indurance contest, at a juggling convention, with 2 shopping bags.
but they got told that they could not play with them and got kicked out.
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old hand
929 posts
Location: Oregon, USA
I've done the socks with no balls on it... I've also done chains with no heads (theres a reason I've got two wallet chains.)
I think the worst was a simple string tied around a nut and bolt... Damn those things hurt when they smack you.
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173 posts
Location: ridgefield, ct, USA
shoelaces with rocks tied on, caution tape with used glowsticks tied to em, wallets on wallet chains, socks filled with rocks, shoelaces tied to the long thin lightsticks that dont have holes to put string through in them, two of my firends long hairs with rocks tied to them, water ballond with watyer, ive done alot of stuff.
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Scientist!
578 posts
Location: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
I managed to do a nice butterfly with a pair of mittens once...it looked real cool, but they weren't long enough to do anything else with though
Shopping bags full of food works well...and gets you some nice stares
I managed to get 2 chokers for dogs (big dogs) and attached glowsticks to them. That made for some nice spinning...and lots of cuts and bruises lol.
I tried to do a 3 beat with school bags, but it didn't work out to well ^.^'
I've always found shoe poi to be very awkward ^.^' but that's just me.
Anything is spinable
You just have to be creative enough. I remember pictures of Beanie poi (beanie babies tied onto strings) not to long ago. Educate your self in the Hazards of Fire Breathing <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> STAY SAFE! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/hug.gif" alt="" />
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546 posts
Location: Leeds, United Kingdom
soup on a rope x2...didnt like droping it tho
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