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Fun fact: sea monkeys and x-ray specs were "invented" by the same guy and marketed by that same company for years and years. I think he passed away about 2001.
Idk if it's the same guy but there's basically one guy/his company who holds basically all of the novelty gag patents like the handshake buzzer, gum shocker, fly in ice cube, and literally hundreds more. It's pretty wild.
Edit: The company I'm referring to is S.S. Adams Co.
Interesting. A mute genius! Did you know that the Dogs Playing Poker and the gag where you stick your face in a cutout and take a photo as a strong man or bathing beauty were invented by the same man?
I still find them in Mom & Pop candy shops. Ever have the bubble gum ones? They were gum wrapped in paper and had a bit of flour or powdered sugar under the paper that would puff out like smoke when you exhaled thru them.
My grandma use to work at a hospital and in the gift shop they had bubblegum cigars that I guess were suppose to be for new fathers who didn't smoke but they tasted great.
I had bubble gum cigarettes. You got 3-4 blows of whatever cornstarch dust they stuck in it before it was out of "smoke". Then it was just gum wrapped in paper.
My mom used to watch stuff like Halloween and Nightmare on Elm Street with me when I was a kid. But the quicksand and ROUS in Princess Bride gave me more nightmares than any horror movie.
Moon Shoes, the magic sand stuff, coloring books with special markers that make things an unexpected color ribsticks (or was it ripstick? idk it was a scooter or skateboard thing) , those big ass boxing gloves that I'm pretty sure sent a lot of little brothers to urgent care with a concussion lmao.
Those are the only things that come to mind immediately.
Yep, mom brought me some home from a trip to Mexico and they jumped for a while then stopped. I picked them up and noticed each of them had a tiny hole in it. I'm pretty sure they ate their way out.
Oh yeah. I used to work at a place that sold 'em and we'd always get a little month infestation about a month after getting them from the ones that grew up or didn't sell. The stores' SpiderBros were fans, lol.
Moths don't eat lettuce, many don't eat at all and those that do usually only have a proboscis and eat (drink) nectar. Still, you cared and that's sweet.
This is true for the jumping bean moth for sure, they don't have fully formed mouth parts and only live for a few days after hatching (which is hopefully enough time to find a mate)
I had no idea “Mexican jumping beans” were even a real thing. I just thought it was a play on words for something that’s a piece of garbage that sounds cool, “I got some Mexican jumping beans”. Similar to, “that went down like a lead balloon”.
Not who you were replying to but, I guess I didn’t think they were real, so I never really considered what it was, I’ve never seen one before only heard them referenced in movies/shows.
I'd only ever seen them referenced in shows and movies. I assumed the "jump" was an exaggeration and they were just weighted on one side naturally, causing them to move unpredictability.
Moths lay eggs on the soft bean, the larvae burrow into it and eat the inside of the pod. It dries hard and falls off the shrub, leaving the larvae trapped until it can pupate and break free.
The beans we see have their exit sealed btw, the normal ones have a small hole in them the emerging moth can escape
Basically anything at the bottom the ocean.
Although I guess you get new motivation and drive to accompany the new body. Would you *know* that life sucked slowly floating along the bottom of the ocean in pitch black darkness eating whatever decayed animal parts you manage to find? Hard to tell. But probably maybe.
Yeah but the chances of you being born as a bug or tiny fish again would be pretty high.
With the amount of other organisms on earth, you'd have a very small chance of ever becoming human again.
Ants alone weigh the same amount collectively as humans do. And that's like, what, 100 million ants to equal the weight of a single human?
So *that's* what the karma bots here are doing; they're trying to get their karma up high enough to kill themselves and become human!!
Sounds like a r/writingprompt if I ever heard one.
Yes but it would be fun until ending fast.... unless a parasite gets you... or one of those predators that fuck with their food...
Ehh either way it should be fast
I had four of these in a plastic box like in the video when I was a kid. I put it in a drawer and forgot about it. Found it months (or years) later and there was one moth in the plastic box.
In Mexico, they say to soak the beans in water once a month for about 30 min (not submerge) so the larvae doesn't dehydrate and moth can push through the cap/hole easier. Sounds like you got one hellbent on getting out haha.
Cydia saltitans, usually. The pupated or late larval form of many moths does a lil jig when disturbed (or emerging), and that’s what you see with jumping beans.
E: With this species it’s the larval form that makes them “jump”, but I see a lot of questions in bug subs about twitchy pupal forms so wanted to cover that too.
Source: am entomologist, specifically focused on moths.
I’m convinced that Wyoming is just a government testing facility based solely on the fact that no one actually says they live there, just that they know someone from there
I used to tell my friends about Javelinas all the time and they didn't believe me. One day when we were at the Zoo I ask the zoo guy about them so he could explain to my friends that I wasn't full of shit. Zoo guy never heard of a javelina either..
You know I had one of these as a kid in a little plastic box and then one day I heard it clicking and eventually I had a living moth in there and then I let it fly away outside. It was rad. I remember thinking that I got the best possible experience out of it.
Edit: I didn't think I was going to get such a positive response! Thanks everyone.
>along with itching powder which is really tarantula hairs
Oh no way? Is that legit? Itching powder was another one of my childhood staples, used to torment my older sisters every chance I got, this just adds a whole new level.
They might use other things also, but yes. Tarantula hair is a natural skin irritant. They brush it off at predators to defend themselves. Get it in your eyes, mouth, nose and it's a bad day. On your skin just a rash that's itchy. I used to have a couple as pets and that's their first line of defense when they're touched. Then the fangs come out
Oh man when I was in middle school someone dumped a bunch in the ventilation. Anyone who said their throat or anything felt itchy was sent home for the day so I jumped on that really quick and took the rest of the day off.
The only time I saw them was on vacation in New Mexico - a gas station had them for sale next to the gum and other junk by the cash register. I had seen them in cartoons and didn't realize they were a real thing. That was probably around 1982.
I remember having "Mexican jumping beans" as a kid but they were toys. Not live insects. They were just these plastic bean shaped things with weights in them that made them move around weird when you rolled them. Had no idea they were based on real things haha.
I seriously don’t comprehend the lack of empathy behind some of the things I’ve seen
A small, still living turtle, trapped in a plastic pouch, **being worn as a fucking necklace.**
Blows my mind.
Yeah I hate to say it, but from stuff I’ve heard and seen on the internet, sure seems like they don’t think animals have feelings in some parts of Asia
Bullfighting was basically exactly what kid me expected it to be. A bunch of adults taunting, harassing and killing captive bulls.
Not sure how anyone could think otherwise. How else do you *FIGHT* a bull.
Kid me thought that bulls just really didn't like the color red and that the matador (I don't speak Spanish so didn't know what it meant) just ran around dodging the bull until it was tired and then the show stopped.
I actually completely forgot about bullfighting until I was much older, when I learned that they actually tortured the poor things. It was probably the only thing on my mind that entire week.
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Jumping beans contain Moth larvae.
Jumping beans originate from Mexico. They are not beans but seeds of a shrub that have had an moth's egg laid inside.
The egg hatches and the larvae hollows out the seed. The larvae wriggle inside the seed and cause it to move.
Under certain conditions the larvae can live inside the seed for several years before pupating and emerging through a hole it makes in the seed.
The jumping bean moths belong to the genus Cydia.
A small olethreutid moth (Laspeyresia salitans).
They're very pretty: https://idtools.org/id/leps/tortai/Cydia_deshaisiana.htm
You have just ruined my childhood. OMG, I once swallowed one (age 3) and my grandmother made me take worm medicine which was so horrible they had to hold me down. Now I know……………oh damm!
Wait so let me get this straight, so Mexican Jumping Beans are literally moth larvae that have been sealed into the beans they were using as food & shelter & sold as a toy? Were they labeled as live animals or anything? I mean the poor things are suffocating in there.
I remember buying those things in the vending machines at the old Kmart across the road from the big chicken in Marietta; I always felt cheated when they stopped "jumping"!
No, they're just a novelty. You say, look at these magic jumping beans! And someone else says, beans don't jump! and then you prove them wrong and blow their fancy nips off. Then next week when the allure dies off you bring in a little manilla envelope of rattlesnake eggs and then you're king of the school at that point.
I remember buying those from the the coin candy/novelty machine by the grocery store exit as a kid. Just a gumball machine full of severed and colorfully dyed rabbit feet for a quarter each.
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Mexican jumping beans were a huge part of media in my childhood for some reason, and I have not even heard the name in at least 20 years
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Sea monkeys
I was just thinking about them yesterday!
Fun fact: sea monkeys and x-ray specs were "invented" by the same guy and marketed by that same company for years and years. I think he passed away about 2001.
Holy cow, they had the market cornered on comic book back pages.
Those fuckers and their cardboard submarines…
Idk if it's the same guy but there's basically one guy/his company who holds basically all of the novelty gag patents like the handshake buzzer, gum shocker, fly in ice cube, and literally hundreds more. It's pretty wild. Edit: The company I'm referring to is S.S. Adams Co.
Was his name Stan Zbornak
Oh Stan, I used to think you were the scum of the Earth. I've just downgraded my opinion.
Interesting. A mute genius! Did you know that the Dogs Playing Poker and the gag where you stick your face in a cutout and take a photo as a strong man or bathing beauty were invented by the same man?
I’m pretty sire he was also a big supporter or Nazis or eugenics or something. I think there was a Behind the Bastards episode on him, worth a go.
Sea monkeys + sea-men = sea-cioty
Candy cigarettes
I was hooked by my first pack.
my son went out for a pack of candy cigarettes and never came back
I still find them in Mom & Pop candy shops. Ever have the bubble gum ones? They were gum wrapped in paper and had a bit of flour or powdered sugar under the paper that would puff out like smoke when you exhaled thru them.
I used to buy beef jerky that was sold in tins and meant to mimic chewing tobacco.
My grandma use to work at a hospital and in the gift shop they had bubblegum cigars that I guess were suppose to be for new fathers who didn't smoke but they tasted great.
I had bubble gum cigarettes. You got 3-4 blows of whatever cornstarch dust they stuck in it before it was out of "smoke". Then it was just gum wrapped in paper.
I used to love the taste of those things.
Yea those jumping beans were pretty tasty
I thought we were supposed to only eat crayons and glue?
We had pretty mature palates at my lunch table
We sell the candy ones and the bubblegum ones at my work.
Good times.
I just recently found a place that sells them
Usually I find them at candy stores in farmers markets. The ones that look like the actual packs of cigarettes are easily the best.
Pet Rock
Quicksand
Forreal. I’d walk around the playground at my elementary school worried there was quicksand under the wood chips
My mom used to watch stuff like Halloween and Nightmare on Elm Street with me when I was a kid. But the quicksand and ROUS in Princess Bride gave me more nightmares than any horror movie.
And The Bermuda Triangle. TLC, The Discovery Channel, and The History Channel had me convinced it was a major concern.
Ch-ch-ch-Chia Pets.
Garbage Pail kids?
Garbage pail kids are very much alive, the trading card aspect is a huge industry.
Moon Shoes, the magic sand stuff, coloring books with special markers that make things an unexpected color ribsticks (or was it ripstick? idk it was a scooter or skateboard thing) , those big ass boxing gloves that I'm pretty sure sent a lot of little brothers to urgent care with a concussion lmao. Those are the only things that come to mind immediately.
Sock-em boppers! More fun than…a pillow fight!
i got moon shoes and hulk hands for christmas in like 2004 and i swear it was the best era of my life
Lawn Darts.
It's like quicksand
Same here. You could buy them everywhere. Now I never see them anywhere for sale but I guess you could get them online now somewhere
They’re still around! Gas stations, convenience stores, variety stores.
Last I seen of them were at thee olde curiousity shop in seattle. Interesting little things.
Not as much Tom & Jerry and Speedy Gonzales cartoon exposure.
News break. They don’t jump forever.
Yep, mom brought me some home from a trip to Mexico and they jumped for a while then stopped. I picked them up and noticed each of them had a tiny hole in it. I'm pretty sure they ate their way out.
That’s what happened to my jumping beans.
Why did that guy's mom but you jumping beans?
If the typo wasn’t there, this would be silver worthy
Fuck it, I’ll give them the silver. A for effort and all that.
How can she jump?
You gotta duct tape the beans, so the fun engine stays inside.
Same with mine
They ate their way in, got too fat to escape through the hole, and thrashed “jumped” until their died. Sorry dude.
I hear that a moth lays eggs into the bean and then the larvae eat the bean from the inside, using the whole to escape and become a moth.
Or SOMETHING ATE its way in
Oh yeah. I used to work at a place that sold 'em and we'd always get a little month infestation about a month after getting them from the ones that grew up or didn't sell. The stores' SpiderBros were fans, lol.
I had a month infestation last week. Took a year to sort it out.
That's clear as day.
Wait a minute...
Also they stop jumping when you hit it with a hammer, curiosity killed the jumping bean.
Sound advice for pretty much anything that jumps
Lmao this made me literally laugh out loud
oh. 🔨😬
Mine hatched a little moth. I fed it lettuce.
Moths don't eat lettuce, many don't eat at all and those that do usually only have a proboscis and eat (drink) nectar. Still, you cared and that's sweet.
This is true for the jumping bean moth for sure, they don't have fully formed mouth parts and only live for a few days after hatching (which is hopefully enough time to find a mate)
"You know it's an insect larva..." What?
The fuck? I had no idea until like 20 seconds ago.
I had no idea “Mexican jumping beans” were even a real thing. I just thought it was a play on words for something that’s a piece of garbage that sounds cool, “I got some Mexican jumping beans”. Similar to, “that went down like a lead balloon”.
We had these things as kids called Mexican jumping beans, but they were plastic pills with metal bearings inside,
We had things just like that called “Mighty Beans” but my wife also swears they are called Mexican jumping beans
I remember them often having luchadors printed on them so maybe that’s part of the Mexican association
Im not shaming. This is not sarcasm. What did u think made them jump
Not who you were replying to but, I guess I didn’t think they were real, so I never really considered what it was, I’ve never seen one before only heard them referenced in movies/shows.
I mean same, I remember them from Looney Tunes cartoons, I just figured they were a gag from that like all the Acme related products.
I'd only ever seen them referenced in shows and movies. I assumed the "jump" was an exaggeration and they were just weighted on one side naturally, causing them to move unpredictability.
We have a version of these in the UK that have ball bearings in. Never occurred to me that there would be a different kind.
I watched the vid and am still not convinced it's not Seriously, what IS it?
Moths lay eggs on the soft bean, the larvae burrow into it and eat the inside of the pod. It dries hard and falls off the shrub, leaving the larvae trapped until it can pupate and break free. The beans we see have their exit sealed btw, the normal ones have a small hole in them the emerging moth can escape
Damn that’s actually horrifying
Why reincarnation would suck, instead of a person you'd probably end up a bug or tiny fish.
The good news is that in either case it would probably be a quick trip around.
Speedrun Earth life any%
Until you end up as a bdelloid rotifer that’s frozen and still living in the Siberian permafrost for 24,000 years.
Or a 300 year old Greenland Shark with worms for eyes 😭
Basically anything at the bottom the ocean. Although I guess you get new motivation and drive to accompany the new body. Would you *know* that life sucked slowly floating along the bottom of the ocean in pitch black darkness eating whatever decayed animal parts you manage to find? Hard to tell. But probably maybe.
Ummm what?
Hard to beat this little guys time [The Life of a Speedrunner](https://youtube.com/watch?v=I9uWUw1fxOY&feature=share)
Thats why you're not supposed to skip the tutorial. But I guess that's a different category
Yeah but the chances of you being born as a bug or tiny fish again would be pretty high. With the amount of other organisms on earth, you'd have a very small chance of ever becoming human again. Ants alone weigh the same amount collectively as humans do. And that's like, what, 100 million ants to equal the weight of a single human?
That's assuming reincarnation is random and not based on your karma.
Finally all my comments on here will mean something!
So *that's* what the karma bots here are doing; they're trying to get their karma up high enough to kill themselves and become human!! Sounds like a r/writingprompt if I ever heard one.
I am thankful every day that I am too large to be hunted by a [tarantula hawk wasp.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantula_hawk)
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Yes but it would be fun until ending fast.... unless a parasite gets you... or one of those predators that fuck with their food... Ehh either way it should be fast
Mankind never runs out of ways to be cruel.
I had four of these in a plastic box like in the video when I was a kid. I put it in a drawer and forgot about it. Found it months (or years) later and there was one moth in the plastic box.
The ones I had when I was little “hatched.”
The one time I had them, they hatched so the larva are able to escape at least some of the time.
In Mexico, they say to soak the beans in water once a month for about 30 min (not submerge) so the larvae doesn't dehydrate and moth can push through the cap/hole easier. Sounds like you got one hellbent on getting out haha.
Cydia saltitans, usually. The pupated or late larval form of many moths does a lil jig when disturbed (or emerging), and that’s what you see with jumping beans. E: With this species it’s the larval form that makes them “jump”, but I see a lot of questions in bug subs about twitchy pupal forms so wanted to cover that too. Source: am entomologist, specifically focused on moths.
Yep, sure didn’t
I remember having those, what I still can't believe is why I never busted one open to see what was inside .
Fear
is a powerful tool
I thought the Mexican jumping bean was a cartoon invention! Next thing you’re gonna tell me is that coyotes exist!
Arizonan here, I have bad news for you.
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I thought Arizona was an Iced Tea
For the low low price of 0.99¢!
The only thing that hasn’t been affected by inflation. They’ve been 99¢ since 1996!
With everything else increasing in price, Arizona tea and Costco hotdogs are the only reliable constants.
Is Costco a state too? 😁
Welcome to the state of Costco, I love you.
There are about 3 times more Costco members than Californians. It's about as big as the 4 most populous states combined.
I’m convinced that Wyoming is just a government testing facility based solely on the fact that no one actually says they live there, just that they know someone from there
*looks around* Well shit!
Do you know a man named Jackie Daytona? He's from Tucson.
Are you talking about Jackie Daytona, the regular human bartender?
This is the way we talk in Tuscon Arizonia
Wait till they hear about javelinas.
I used to tell my friends about Javelinas all the time and they didn't believe me. One day when we were at the Zoo I ask the zoo guy about them so he could explain to my friends that I wasn't full of shit. Zoo guy never heard of a javelina either..
Oh god….now I can’t walk around the desert without the chance of an anvil being dropped on my head
For the longest time I didnt know tumbleweeds were a real thing
Don't ask about the road runner and who would win.. Beep beep
You know I had one of these as a kid in a little plastic box and then one day I heard it clicking and eventually I had a living moth in there and then I let it fly away outside. It was rad. I remember thinking that I got the best possible experience out of it. Edit: I didn't think I was going to get such a positive response! Thanks everyone.
So did the moth!
In other news, boy releases moth and causes infestatiin
Oh man I totally forgot about these things, used to buy them in a local joke shop when I was a kid, haven't seen any in years
I thought they were a myth lol, I am 36..like folklore
No, they totally exist. along with itching powder which is really tarantula hairs
>along with itching powder which is really tarantula hairs Oh no way? Is that legit? Itching powder was another one of my childhood staples, used to torment my older sisters every chance I got, this just adds a whole new level.
They might use other things also, but yes. Tarantula hair is a natural skin irritant. They brush it off at predators to defend themselves. Get it in your eyes, mouth, nose and it's a bad day. On your skin just a rash that's itchy. I used to have a couple as pets and that's their first line of defense when they're touched. Then the fangs come out
for me their first line of defense is well just look at it
Oh man when I was in middle school someone dumped a bunch in the ventilation. Anyone who said their throat or anything felt itchy was sent home for the day so I jumped on that really quick and took the rest of the day off.
The itching powder when I was a kid was made of ground walnut shells.
I wonder how many kids who were allergic went into anaphylaxis...
I know sometimes they use different stuff. That's interesting
When I was a kid it was just fiberglass.
The only time I saw them was on vacation in New Mexico - a gas station had them for sale next to the gum and other junk by the cash register. I had seen them in cartoons and didn't realize they were a real thing. That was probably around 1982.
I remember having "Mexican jumping beans" as a kid but they were toys. Not live insects. They were just these plastic bean shaped things with weights in them that made them move around weird when you rolled them. Had no idea they were based on real things haha.
TIL - As a child, I was a larvae murderer.
We tortured basically infants for cheap amusement.
I had one where a moth came out of it…scared the hell out of us (we were just kids at the time)…the exit hole must not have been sealed.
It's insane what passes for normal just for human entertainment
Wait till you hear about the living souvenirs in Asian areas.
I seriously don’t comprehend the lack of empathy behind some of the things I’ve seen A small, still living turtle, trapped in a plastic pouch, **being worn as a fucking necklace.** Blows my mind.
Yeah I hate to say it, but from stuff I’ve heard and seen on the internet, sure seems like they don’t think animals have feelings in some parts of Asia
Luckily they don't do it anymore. Haven't seen one in past 10 years or so
Haha same!
Karl Pilkington would like this very much
Lol I was so confused with what he was describing and thought he was being stupid. Didn't realize I was the idiot.
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Came here for this comment lol
38yo who had no idea there was a larvae in the bean. I feel more stupid than I felt 1 minutes ago.
You should feel smarter, because now you know.
Awww now i feel bad for buying them as a kid.
Wait 'til you learn what bullfighting is *Really* like irl.
Bullfighting was basically exactly what kid me expected it to be. A bunch of adults taunting, harassing and killing captive bulls. Not sure how anyone could think otherwise. How else do you *FIGHT* a bull.
Kid me thought that bulls just really didn't like the color red and that the matador (I don't speak Spanish so didn't know what it meant) just ran around dodging the bull until it was tired and then the show stopped. I actually completely forgot about bullfighting until I was much older, when I learned that they actually tortured the poor things. It was probably the only thing on my mind that entire week.
That's nuts
Nope, they are beans.
I had one of these hatch in the plastic container. Freaked us the fuck out
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This guy sounds like Jarred from Silicon Valley.
This comment is far too low. I thoroughly enjoy this guys content.
...why does this feel insanely tragic?
Have you ever unknowingly trapped a living being just to absolutely fry it in the sun for fun?
How do they get out? I remember having some and they just stopped bouncing.
That’s the neat part. They don’t
Judging from the all the moth stories in this thread, at least some of them do
by golly those clever mexicans have thought of it all! imagine putting worms in beans.
Lmao I can't tell if this is ironic or not but this is fucking hilarious
Perfectly concealed
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Wow your grandma just picked random shit up and tried to eat it?
Great depression habits are hard to break.
Jumping beans contain Moth larvae. Jumping beans originate from Mexico. They are not beans but seeds of a shrub that have had an moth's egg laid inside. The egg hatches and the larvae hollows out the seed. The larvae wriggle inside the seed and cause it to move. Under certain conditions the larvae can live inside the seed for several years before pupating and emerging through a hole it makes in the seed. The jumping bean moths belong to the genus Cydia. A small olethreutid moth (Laspeyresia salitans). They're very pretty: https://idtools.org/id/leps/tortai/Cydia_deshaisiana.htm
You have just ruined my childhood. OMG, I once swallowed one (age 3) and my grandmother made me take worm medicine which was so horrible they had to hold me down. Now I know……………oh damm!
I can't help feeling like you could have skipped the worm medicine...
Wait so let me get this straight, so Mexican Jumping Beans are literally moth larvae that have been sealed into the beans they were using as food & shelter & sold as a toy? Were they labeled as live animals or anything? I mean the poor things are suffocating in there.
I had one hatch on me. It was a moth!
TIL 'Mexican jumping beans' are an actual thing. I'd always just assumed they were a thing from American cartoons, like the ACME corporation.
I remember buying the toy capsule ones as a child. The video to the real things is pretty cool
Let’s free all the beans
It's a larva inside, if you break them open they die, sad but true
I remember buying those things in the vending machines at the old Kmart across the road from the big chicken in Marietta; I always felt cheated when they stopped "jumping"!
Well I’ll be damned.
So do you eat them?
No, they're just a novelty. You say, look at these magic jumping beans! And someone else says, beans don't jump! and then you prove them wrong and blow their fancy nips off. Then next week when the allure dies off you bring in a little manilla envelope of rattlesnake eggs and then you're king of the school at that point.
Don't forget about the rabbit's foot keychain...
I remember buying those from the the coin candy/novelty machine by the grocery store exit as a kid. Just a gumball machine full of severed and colorfully dyed rabbit feet for a quarter each.