Blows Glass Globe Around Cats (Jan, 1932)
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Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Jan, 1932
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Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Jan, 1932
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Blows Glass Globe Around Cats
TO WIN a bet, Dick Manley, California glass blower, performed an unprecedented glass blowing stunt. He placed three kittens in a glass tube and within three minutes fashioned it into a perfect 26-inch globe with the kittens inside and unharmed. A small hole admitted air.
Shades of Bonsai Kitten?
Comment by fluffy — July 16, 2006 @ 10:05 am
Um… how did he get the kittens OUT?
Comment by Gregly — July 17, 2006 @ 10:35 am
I was wondering the same thing…
Comment by Charlie — July 17, 2006 @ 11:26 am
How did he keep the cats from bursting into flames as glass is only fluid at very high tempuratures.
Comment by hip2b2 — July 25, 2006 @ 8:48 pm
them’s four kittenses!
Comment by JT — July 30, 2006 @ 3:17 pm
What kind of sicko even makes this bet? “HEY, bet I can blow a suffocating glass ball around a litter of kittens after I place them in a glass tube…” “Bet you can’t…”
And the kittens lives are never the same…
Comment by Minnaloushe — February 21, 2007 @ 12:51 pm
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Pingback by Modern Mechanix » Three In Family Blow Glass — June 6, 2007 @ 8:19 am
Do I see four kittens in the globe?
Comment by vasile — August 7, 2007 @ 5:59 am
Some people just have too much time on their hands…
Comment by Dr. Weird — March 28, 2008 @ 7:20 pm
damn I see 4 kittens, this is so funny article
Comment by Test — May 2, 2008 @ 12:56 am
And the kittens cooperated with him? Or were they sedated
Comment by Tim Tracy — July 15, 2008 @ 11:24 pm
I’m still wondering exactly how he did this, sedated kittens or not. Sedated would mean extra, awkwardly shaped, weight while trying to blow the glass. Non-sedated would… Well, kittens are quite active.
Comment by Anne — July 16, 2008 @ 4:18 am
a wonderful gag
Comment by Ipistemalligest — February 25, 2009 @ 4:17 pm
to get the kittens out, he probably would score the glass all around the circumference and then gently break it in half.
or just leave them in there, and enlarge the air hole enough to put food in.
Comment by JDT — December 23, 2009 @ 12:37 pm