Slime

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Slime is a viscous and/or mucous substance. Pouring slime (also known as gunge) on someone is a popular activity on various television shows. In computer games and in fiction, creatures and characters that look like slime or are made of slime are sometimes called "slimes."

Contents

1 Fungi
2 Use on game shows
3 World Wrestling Entertainment
4 Crowd control device
5 Making Slime
6 Slime in Video Games
7 See also
8 External links

Fungi

Slimes are a type of fungi. See Slime mould.

Use on game shows

A slimy substance (known as gunge in the United Kingdom) is sometimes poured over a victim in a game show or charity event, to embarrass the person. The place where gunge is poured is sometimes called a Gunge Tank. Also Nickelodeon Studios picked kids to get slimed in the Game Lab part of the studio tour and used the slime on the celebrities on Figure It Out when they triggered the secret slime action.

The American television network Nickelodeon uses a similar substance for similar purproses, for example on the programmes Double Dare/Super Sloppy Double Dare/Family Double Dare, Slime Time Live and Friday Night Slimetime.

The use of slime in this context was pioneered by the Canadian television series You Can't Do That On Television, where Green Slime would pour onto a character's head if they ever uttered the phrase "I don't know".

World Wrestling Entertainment

On the June 19th edition of World Wrestling Entertainment's RAW program, the Spirit Squad called out D-Generation X, and when Triple H told them to look up, green slime came down on them.

Crowd control device

In 2006, researchers at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, US, patented a device which releases a stream of slime, making pavement very slippery[link]. It is intended to be used in crowd control.

Making Slime

You can make a mostly harmless though entertaining slimy substance using the following ingredients;

borax (available in hardware or convenience stores)
PVA glue, e.g., white wood glue (available in hardware or convenience stores) based on polyvinyl acetate.
water

Combining the ingredients in the correct order and proportion produces a thick tacky fluid like material. A good external source for detailed quantities & instructions can be found at [www.madsci.org]

The result is an opaque viscous polymer, damp to touch but very tactile when squashed between your fingers.

Using polyvinyl alcohol instead of the glue results in a transparent slime.

Another formula is:

rubbing alcohol (or pure isopropyl alcohol)
polyvinyl alcohol powder
water

Your slime can be enhanced by adding a small quantity of food colouring to the mixture.

In order to make slime that is used to slime yourself or others a variety of products can be used including:

Oatmeal
Cake Batter
Natrasol
Brownie Batter
Guar gum

(** color can be enhanced by food coloring)

The slime is harmless (though it could block pipes and drains if disposed in sufficient quantity). Conduct further research if you are worried about the health effects of using borax or polyvinyl acetate based products.

You can also make quick slime with corn flour, water and Food Colouring. It is Not Proper slime.

Slime in Video Games

Slime of different sorts appear as characters in a variety of video games. These include:

External links

[YCDTOTV.com Slime Recipes]

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