[Sca-cooks] Re: Raw Eggs and Bagpipes

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Martha Oser:
>In the same Mythbusters episode as the egg-in-the-radiator test, 
>they also tried plugging the tailpipe of a car with a potato to see 
>if it would cause the car not to start.  Quite the contrary, the 
>potato routinely shot out of the tailpipe at damaging speeds upon 
>startup of the car (a 1970's-era big-block Cadillac of some kind). 
>They didn't test shoving the tater up the pipe of an already-running 
>car.

I was under the impression that the rationale for shoving a potato up 
the exhaust pipe of a car was to do so with the car running, and the 
theory is that the carbon-monoxide-laden exhaust will end up filling 
the cab.

OTOH, they may also have chosen the Killer Caddy specifically to 
debunk a myth which is otherwise (possibly) not a myth.

I've never tried it; I've always been a nitrogen triiodide man myself ;-)

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