Top Uses for Tombola Booby Prizes by ladraco |  |
Ah, Tombola.
That wacky, free game of chance. Put your paw in, take a number, and if it ends
with a zero, two or five, you win a prize of some Neopoints and anything from
paint brushes, codestones and faeries, to gross food items. Ah, but with Tombola
everyone is a winner! *snicker* When you play and lose you always get some Neopoints
and a prize. A booby prize. And is it any wonder they're called that? Booby
prizes are sometimes food which isn't so bad, but more often they're useless
thingalings. But are they really useless? Here are the top ten uses for some
of the more common of these apparently useless prizes.
Top 10 Uses for a Palm Fan
10) The leaves make the perfect enchilada wrapping when corn husks are
in short order.
9) Just the thing for a combo traditional Japanese fan dance and the
hula.
8) Island-style toilet paper!
7) Soak in water, apply to face, let dry and peel off for firmer, softer
skin.
6) Make palm-fan tea. Leave the glue and string in for extra flavor.
5) Take five or so, tie them together and add a long bamboo poll. Tada!
A beach umbrella!
4) Got a green NeoPet who happens to be bald? Glue the leaves to their
head for a tropical, if not natural, new look.
3) Take two, sew them together, and when you wear your new skirt, you'll
blow those GRASS skirts out of the water!
2) Save them up and when your NeoHome needs a new roof, what stylish
thatching you'll have!
1) Well, you could always fan yourself with it.
Top 10 Uses for a pair of Sandals
10) Tie a bunch of them together and hang them all over your body. Late
at night, sneak into NeoHomes and when the residents ask you what you're doing,
before they throw you out, explain that the Sandman is on vacation, and he asked
you, the Sandalman, to take over for a while. NOTE: You'll need to learn a few
lullabies before trying this.
9) Plant a few in your garden and see if you can grow yourself some Sandalwood.
8) Take a knife and cut a bite shaped chunk out of one of the sandals,
then put them on your mantle. When people ask about them, tell them that your
dear friend Bob was just sitting on a beach one day and a Jetsam came out of
no where...and his sandals were all that was left.
7) Wear them on your hands on Backwards Day.
6) If you have a small PetPet, they make great boogie boards.
5) Chop them finely and add them to your next casserole as filler, your
pets will never know the difference. And sandals are rich in vitamin Q 27.
4) Add a little gun powder and those babies make great Battle Dome weapons.
3) Put them in a stream and race them against all those super toy sail
boats you've collected. Take bets.
2) Hand them out to your friends (or enemies) and tell them it's Glue
Sandals to Your Forehead day at school.
1) Wear...no, wait. Who would be caught dead wearing these things on
their FEET?
Top 10 Uses for a Toy Sail Boat
10) Ever wondered how they put those little model ships into a bottle?
See if you can't figure it out! And, don't worry, if you ruin the boat, you
probably have plenty more, so keep trying.
9) Next Halloween, get two friends, tie a boat to each of your heads,
and go as the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria. If you have a fourth NeoPet
who just HAS to get in on it, they can be the Mayflower.
8) Ever wanted to ice skating in July? Well, you CAN'T, so there. But
you can go water skating. Just tie a couple toy sail boats to your feet and
head to the Rock Pool. They're more comfy if you leave the masts in. Really.
They are.
7) Glue a pencil to the deck and a tissue to the pencil and pass the
1 NP Toy Sail Boat off as a 2 NP Super Toy Sail Boat.
6) Put hooks in a whole bunch of them. Hang them off your Christmas tree
to add a touch of Mystery Island to your holidays.
5) Break off the masts, discard the hulls. Paint on the logo of your
favorite sports team and wave them at their next game.
4) If you have an aquatic PetPet, sink one in it's tank for cool shipwreck
scenery.
3) Rodent Neopets, such as Meercas, Usuls and Cybunnies, grow their teeth
constantly. Rather than spend money on expensive wood chews, just keep a supply
of toy sail boats handy.
2) Rub two together vigorously if you're out of matches.
1) If you have a rowboat or a raft, tie them to the side. When your passengers
ask why you have toy boats tied to your boat, inform them that new government
regulations state that ALL boats must now carry life rafts.
Top 10 Uses for Bottles of Coloured Sand
10) Create a sand painting by pouring out different colours in a pattern.
Your owner will LOVE it if you leave them this as a surprise in the middle of
the living room carpet.
9) Add several colours into one bottle, shake vigorously, and put it on
your mantle. Tell people it's rare Gray Sand, one of the best weapons in Neopia,
strait from Smuggler's Cove.
8) Go to the Lost Desert, and sell them to the food shopkeeper there
as fruit flavored Seasoning Sand - lime, strawberry, blue raspberry, and black
cherry. For even more fun, combine a bottle of red sand and a bottle of blue
sand and tell him it's mega-rare Ummagine Seasoning Sand.
7) Next time you paint your nails, sprinkle a little sand on the wet
polish for a sparkly fashion statement!
6) Add it to your garden and see if it makes plants grow the colour of
the sand.
5) Take pieces of heavy, neon-coloured paper and put thin layers of glue
on each piece. Sprinkle with the coloured sand. Sell them as ''Designer sand
paper''.
4) Build the world's most colourful sandcastle. If you want to save it,
you can use glue instead of water. Since you already left your owner the sand
painting surprise in the middle of the living room, you're going to want to
build your castle in the middle of your owner's bed.
3) Take a bunch of bottles and walk out to a large, flat, cement-paved
area. Throw the bottles down, shattering them. Try to make out shapes from the
resulting splats of sand. This is even more fun if you share it with friends!
2) One night while your owner and siblings are asleep, take the sand
and outline their bodies with it, and sprinkle it liberally around them. When
they wake up tell them you saw on the news that the Sandman had decided to become
a hippy, and from now on would only use psychedelic sand.
1) If you have an aquatic PetPet, cover the bottom of their tank with
the sand, and add a few of the bottles, too, for some cool scenery! Don't forget
the Toy Sail Boat.
I hope my suggestions have helped you get rid of all those booby prizes you
have amassed. If you still have a few left, or don't have the time for the other
things in these lists, here are my top 5 things to do with a large amount of
any booby prize:
5) Take a large box, put in the booby prizes, and bury them. Give them
a wooden headstone saying, ''Here lies the stupidest prizes in all of Neopia.
Rest in Peace, because there's really not much else you're good for.''
4) Whenever you have to pay for something, or you loose a bet, take
a box with a booby prize in it and tell the person, ''You can have the money,
OR you can have the - OoOoo - Mystery Prize''. I'll bet you 100 NP that nine
out of ten times, they'll take the Mystery Prize. Oh, you mean they didn't?
OK, OK. Well, you can have the 100 NP...or...Ooo...you can have this spectacular,
super-duper Mystery Prize...
3) Take a large bagful of them back to the Tiki Tack man and insist
that he should exchange all your booby prizes for a good prize. When he refuses,
just storm out and leave the booby prizes so he can hand them back out. Now
don't you feel good? You've recycled trash instead of throwing it away!
2) Go booby-ditching. Take the booby prizes and put them in paper bags.
Set them on people's doorsteps, ring their doorbell, and run before they can
answer the door, then listen to their delight (in the form of loud, angry yelling)
when they open the bags and find booby prizes!
1) One word - BONFIRE! |
