What happens when a slingshot hobbyist and YouTube video maker named Joerg Sprav–who has the accent and diabolical cackle of a James Bond villain–takes on the Oreo separation challenge that Nabisco commissioned a few scientists and inventors to undertake as projects a few weeks ago?
Awesomeness, that's what!
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Besides that, after the first wonderful inaugural video the company commissioned, the next few in the series became more boring to watch than waiting for an Oreo cookie to soak up a glass of milk.
In
this unsolicited video, Spray doesn't actually answer the challenge of
separating the Oreo so much as he just weaponized the cookie and the
cream. He's constructed a slingshot shotgun which can hold up to 14
cookies at a time and shoot them to make Oreo-shaped holes in things,
like the Amazon box the Oreos came in (why he needed to have a box of
Oreo cookies shipped to him is something I'll ask another day).
This
goes to show that in the YouTube Age, the greatest inventions are not
spurred by necessity or corporate sponsorships, but the “I can do better
than that” gene.
Watch it below.
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Before becoming an award-winning restaurant critic for OC Weekly in 2007, Edwin Goei went by the alias “elmomonster” on his blog Monster Munching, in which he once wrote a whole review in haiku.