Who P-P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit?

[kishi]

Didn't Doom melt into a puddle of dip? A la Wicked Witch of The West?

And I feel compelled to point out to everyone:

I wouldn't try heating anything that volatile in a microwave.

The fumes from turpentine (and the other contents of 'dip') are highly explosive and just covering it won't keep it from blowing up and catching your house on fire. o.O

When I said controlled environment, I meant a laboratory equipped to deal with volatile chemicals. That means they have vents for the fumes and any potentially deadly by-products.

"Turpentine should be stored in a cool, dry, well-ventilated area in tightly sealed containers that are labeled in accordance with OSHA's Hazard Communication Standard [29 CFR 1910.1200]. Turpentine can undergo autoxidation in contact with air and can generate heat that may spontaneously ignite in a confined space. Containers of turpentine should be protected from physical damage and should be stored separately from strong oxidizers (especially chlorine), heat, sparks, and open flame. Only nonsparking tools may be used to handle turpentine. To prevent static sparks, containers should be grounded and bonded for transfers. Because containers that formerly contained turpentine may still hold product residues, they should be handled appropriately. "

I took that from OSHA's website. Emphasis is mine. It pretty much spells out that you shouldn't be trying to heat anything like that unless you're a well trained person with the proper equipment.

Please don't injure yourself or others trying to test out cartoon physics. o.O Most things in cartoons aren't remotely possible in real life circumstances.

[Fatal hilarity]

Yes, well, I wasn't going to do it all willy-nilly, if that's what you're thinking. I wanted some answers before trying it out.
And besides, I figured if I were to ever use it to clean brushes, I'd keep it cool.

[kishi]

Tightly sealed is more important than cold. It'll generate it's own heat because it reacts with oxygen.

I was more concerned that someone else would come around and try something like that. You never know what stupid things people will do so they can post it on YouTube or something.

I could just see some goofy 10 year old screwing around with something like that and burning their house down or giving themselves a chemical burn. (Naaasty stuff.)

[Fatal hilarity]

I just realized: Benny the Cab only gets his tires deflated and some serious pain when he drives over some Dip. This supports my theory that toons can sometimes survive Dip if they only have PARTS of their bodies come into contact with Dip.
This doesn't explain how Doom melted completely from having his feet in it, especially since he was wearing human shoes, but he did get a blast of it square into his torso before that, so it would seem he had enough Dip on him to melt him all the way.

As you may guess, I'm looking for an excuse to have the bodies of the Toon Patrol survive, which is key to one of my projects.

[kishi]

What about SA? He got knocked right into it. ( Waaaah!)

I think Doom just had to be all dramatic.

[Fatal hilarity]

I didn't say that HE survived. Being completely immersed in Dip would guarantee that the toon get completely melted.
I notice that his hat may have escaped melting, though. Weird, really.

[kishi]

The hat survives. Imagine the obituary..."Smartass was dipped. He is survived by one pink fedora."

I was wondering if you included him or not because it's pretty clear cut that he got completely dipped.

[psychoangel51402]

Arghh, I am SO far behind. So you're talking about Dip and its ingredients...?

[Fatal hilarity]

Yep. We're pretty much talking about how plausible and possible the concept of Dip may be.

I recently acquired some new Roger Rabbit comics, and I noticed that there was a concept that was carried over from Resurrection of Doom- namely, Dip-loaded squirt/water guns. Obviously, this would be a convenient way of carrying Dip around with you, albeit in small quantities, and would likely produce faster results than darts.
One particular story mentioned the ineffectiveness of something called "ersatz Dip", which pretty much means substitute, imitation, or synthetic Dip. It was only capable of melting Roger's gloves off. What THAT stuff was made of, we'll never know.

So... remind me what the Crypt of the Slipped was again, psychoangel?

[psychoangel51402]

That was the tomb dedicated to Toons who broke their necks slipping on banana peels...yet another move by Gary Wolf that threw me off...

[Fatal hilarity]

Hmm... well, breaking your neck is a particularly severe injury... but toons have suffered worse, like having their heads cut OFF. I'm not sure if it's up there with swallowing a bunch of explosives.
I think a lot of toons get hung by a noose, as well. That may be a Renaissance thing, though...

But you know the toon living dead, including toon zombies (or technically revenants) and toon vampires and such, would have to have come from somewhere... although I would imagine a lot of undead toons were created undead.

What I don't get is why that graveyard has to be for death-by-banana-peel only... why not any sort of lethal injury? I guess Wolf wanted to make a dopey rhyme...

That "ersatz Dip" sure opens up a lot of possibilities, doesn't it? I mean, what sort of thing would be cheaper than turpentine, acetone, and benzene, and yet not as effective? Chlorophyll? Rubbing alcohol? Washtub gin?
It also reminds of the line in Car Toon Spin that refers to Dip as "green Dip", as if there was more than one kind. Since we've all come to the conclusion that the green color comes from a dash of green paint, I guess you could make it other colors...
The "ersatz Dip" was more of a brownish, pond-scum sort of green, by the way.

Have you ever thought about how it would probably only be human turpentine, acetone, and benzene that could harm a toon? I mean, toons have alternatives for just about every product imaginable- even paint. Think about it: only toon-made paint could create perfect plaid or polka-dot patterns right off the brush.
So toons could conceivably have their own versions of turpentine, acetone, and benzene that they use to remove paint off the walls of their toon houses or something.

I had gotten the impression that turpentine had alcohol in it... so now I'm kind of thrown off after learning that there isn't any.

[The Unknown]

I smell a plothole.

[kishi]

I thought I smelled something. ;D

Toontown probably has a whole squad of road workers to fill in all the plotholes that keep coming up.

*rimshot*

[Fatal hilarity]

Aug 6, 2009 18:00:35 GMT -5 The Unknown said:

I smell a plothole.

What are you referring to?

[The Unknown]

The whole "Benny doesn't melt when he touched DIP but Doom did."