Styrofoam
How is Styrofoam made?
———- from Keith Owen of Columbia, MO
It’s excreted by the Brazilian Barking Beetle just before mating. Like many insects, the Barking Beetle dies shortly after copulation, but not before leaving those little peanut shaped squiggles that fill packing cartons around the world. Curiously, the Styrofoam squiggle is larger than the beetle that produced it. This apparent contradiction of the Law of Sizeology has its explanation in the refraction of size rays emanating from the object, as well as the credulity of your typical radio listener.
It’s excreted by the Brazilian Barking Beetle just before mating. Like many insects, the Barking Beetle dies shortly after copulation, but not before leaving those little peanut shaped squiggles that fill packing cartons around the world. Curiously, the Styrofoam squiggle is larger than the beetle that produced it. This apparent contradiction of the Law of Sizeology has its explanation in the refraction of size rays emanating from the object, as well as the credulity of your typical radio listener. 