Science Fair or not: using nose contraptions to push a peanut up Pikes Peak - Page 2

**Rain Man** · 08:27 AM

This guy plans to become the first person in the 21st century to push a peanut to the top of Pikes Peak with his nose. It's been done twice before, or maybe three times depending on which article you read, but I think it's twice since I can't find the name of a third person.

https://www.thedenverchannel.com/new...es-peak-summit

However, the article say this, and it offends my sensibiltiies:

The city said he will use a contraption taped to his nose to push the peanut.

Apparently, though, the first person to do it also used a contraption if you watch this video: https://www.travelchannel.com/videos...pusher-0235616. And the second person attached a wooden salad fork to his nose if you read this article: https://gazette.com/life/outdoors/sp...09ea818a3.html

I don't know about this. I think if you're going to say that you're pushing a peanut up Pikes Peak with your nose, you should have to directly use your nose. What do you think?

Frazod · 06-19-2022, 10:02 AM

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Originally Posted by BDj23

For what purpose?

Seriously.

Whenever I hear about silly shit like this I'm reminded of an exchange between Jack Ryan and Skip Tyler in Hunt for Red October.

JACK: Could you fire an ICBM horizontally?
SKIP: Sure. Why would you want to?

Miles · 06-19-2022, 10:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Frazod

Seriously.

Whenever I hear about silly shit like this I'm reminded of an exchange between Jack Ryan and Skip Tyler in Hunt for Red October.

JACK: Could you fire an ICBM horizontally?
SKIP: Sure. Why would you want to?

This guy won’t event be the first person person to do something this specifically pointless either. At least the first guy had the excuse of it being the 20s and people were bored.

Kman34 · 06-19-2022, 11:13 AM

I went to school with a kid who put a peanut up his nose.. He was a dumbass..

Hydrae · 06-19-2022, 11:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Kman34

I went to school with a kid who put a peanut up his nose.. He was a dumbass..

Was his name Jaime?

**Rain Man** · 06-19-2022, 12:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Spott

What’s the significance of taking a peanut to the top of a mountain versus anything else?

Now that I think about it, taking a peanut down the mountain would be a lot easier. So maybe the challenge in going up is making sure it's not rolling back all the time.

**Rain Man** · 06-19-2022, 12:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Baby Lee

The more pressing offense is the perpetuation of the term contraption.

Should be sequestered to colloquial emeritus status, to be used exclusively in connection with 'down-homey, Cracker Barrel needle-pointed tchotchkes,' right alongside dagnabbit, flibbertigibbet and colsarnit

Contraption is a great word. I will have no more of your tomfoolery.

**Baby Lee** · 06-19-2022, 12:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Rain Man

Contraption is a great word. I will have no more of your tomfoolery.

I apologize, I have a sensitivity to the eras when parlance is fangled.

Spott · 06-19-2022, 01:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Rain Man

Now that I think about it, taking a peanut down the mountain would be a lot easier. So maybe the challenge in going up is making sure it's not rolling back all the time.

I’d be more impressed if they took a bag of peanuts up the mountain. What good is one peanut when you’re going to be starving by the time you get to the top.

Rasputin · 06-19-2022, 01:47 PM

If you don't get scratches on our nose and need a skin graph reaching the summit you did it wrong.

**Baby Lee** · 06-19-2022, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Rasputin

If you don't get scratches on our nose and need a skin graph reaching the summit you did it wrong.

**cdcox** · 06-19-2022, 01:56 PM

I don't see a big difference in using a contraption and just crawling. If you were to actually push a peanut with your nose sans contraption, it would be a lot more difficult.

seclark · 06-19-2022, 02:08 PM

Might as well activated a drone with his nose to push that peanut.
Same difference.
No big deal.
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seclark · 06-19-2022, 02:11 PM

One question
Was it a salted peanut?
That could make your nose itch
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**Rain Man** · 01-05-2023, 01:34 PM

As an overdue update, this guy got to the top of the mountain, but I refuse to recognize it due to the contraption.

https://www.cpr.org/2022/07/15/color...k-peanut-push/

Check out the picture. He could easily scoop the peanut and fling it three feet at a time. This makes a mockery out of pushing peanuts up mountains with your nose.

MagicHef · 01-05-2023, 03:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Rain Man

As an overdue update, this guy got to the top of the mountain, but I refuse to recognize it due to the contraption.

https://www.cpr.org/2022/07/15/color...k-peanut-push/

Check out the picture. He could easily scoop the peanut and fling it three feet at a time. This makes a mockery out of pushing peanuts up mountains with your nose.

It doesn’t even really attach to his nose, it’s strapped to his entire head. He could be missing his nose entirely and the contraption would work exactly the same.

View Poll Results: Using a peanut-pushing nose contraption - good sportsmanship or not?
A contraption is fine. Nose contraptions are common tools.	6	13.33%
A contraption is acceptable, but with caveats. You should have a separate category for non-contraption use.	7	15.56%
A contraption is unacceptable You can't say you did it if you used a contraption.	29	64.44%
I don't think the contraption is the key part of this story.	3	6.67%
Voters: 45. You may not vote on this poll

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06-19-2022, 11:13 AM	#18
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06-19-2022, 01:56 PM	#26
cdcox www.nfl-forecast.com Join Date: Sep 2000 Casino cash: $2361769	I don't see a big difference in using a contraption and just crawling. If you were to actually push a peanut with your nose sans contraption, it would be a lot more difficult.
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06-19-2022, 02:08 PM	#27
seclark MVP Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: nemo Casino cash: $1709900	Might as well activated a drone with his nose to push that peanut. Same difference. No big deal. sec __________________ "Mr. seclark. Wrong for gravy, wrong for jelly, wrong for biscuits." -rj "If every Planeteer who was disliked by another Planeteer stopped being a Planeteer we wouldn't have any Planeteers." -rj
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06-19-2022, 02:11 PM	#28
seclark MVP Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: nemo Casino cash: $1709900	One question Was it a salted peanut? That could make your nose itch sec __________________ "Mr. seclark. Wrong for gravy, wrong for jelly, wrong for biscuits." -rj "If every Planeteer who was disliked by another Planeteer stopped being a Planeteer we wouldn't have any Planeteers." -rj
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01-05-2023, 01:34 PM	#29
Rain Man NFL's #1 Ermines Fan Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: My house Casino cash: $3338491 VARSITY	As an overdue update, this guy got to the top of the mountain, but I refuse to recognize it due to the contraption. https://www.cpr.org/2022/07/15/color...k-peanut-push/ Check out the picture. He could easily scoop the peanut and fling it three feet at a time. This makes a mockery out of pushing peanuts up mountains with your nose. __________________ I'm putting random letters here as a celebration of free speech: xigrakgrah misorojeq rkemeseit.
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