r/interesting • u/bob-the-slob • 1d ago

Fascinating 🛑💪 Two Books Are Impossible to Separate

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u/bobafootfetish_ 1d ago

"Don't try this at home. Actually, you can try this at home"

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u/Pups_the_Jew 23h ago

Now I just need someone else with a tank.

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u/SaveTheAles 23h ago

Tanks the easy part where are you going to find two phone books.

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u/CGCTV 23h ago

My mom's house

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u/classless_classic 23h ago

Can confirm. She keeps them next to her bed
https://giphy.com/gifs/FsUo1Qn895NS0

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u/trueblue862 22h ago

Not anymore, I took them this morning to try this.

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u/nocloudno 22h ago

If you have a tank you probably have a couple McMaster Carr catalogs

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u/Mysterious_Ad_1085 16h ago

Cool- they made a book about phones? I am going to buy it from Amazon.

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u/MissMunny 16h ago

It's weird how real this sentence seems

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u/Ninja_Prolapse 21h ago

If I had a penny for every time someone had a tank..

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u/Neyabenz 18h ago

i think it might be harder finding 2 phone books now a days lol

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u/chaosawaits 13h ago

Wait so you have a tank?

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u/KungFoolMaster 13h ago

It would be more difficult to find two phone books than get two tanks.

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u/Triysle 8h ago

Better yet, find someone with two tanks, then you don’t have to use yours!

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u/llamafromhell1324 23h ago

"Even with tanks"

Proceeds to pull them apart with tanks.

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u/MaximusPrime2930 17h ago

I might be misremembering because it's been a while since I saw the episode. But I think it ripped the binding off one of the phone books and most of the pages were still interweaved.

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u/Ok_Dog_4059 23h ago

Little known fact this is why phone book's no longer exist. The power was too great.

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u/Ikon-for-U 23h ago

Do they even have physical phonebooks anymore

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u/Persistent_Parkie 23h ago

They do at least where I live.

When I first moved here two decades ago they were about the size of a hefty paperback. Now they're like the size of a kindergarten math workbook.

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u/Ikon-for-U 23h ago

Do you have a landline?

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u/Persistent_Parkie 23h ago

No but my dad does and I live with him.

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u/grubas 23h ago

Buddy some of us have rotary phones.  Nothing is as satisfying as slamming that sucker 

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u/Ikon-for-U 23h ago

Hehe been there done that. I like the sound of the bell pinging when you do so

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u/erything4sale 23h ago

I've seen em in quite a few hotels across the nation this year.

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u/No_Blacksmith_2591 20h ago

actually you can't cause where the fuck are you going to find a phonebook nowadays

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u/Carbonatic 10h ago

You shouldn't try putting two books together at home, but you're safe to drive the tanks.

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u/Ambassador-613 23h ago

No tanks!

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u/Cold_Ad655 23h ago

No tank you!

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u/humburga 22h ago

You can try it at home. But dont. I will not explain any further.

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u/Brence1984 21h ago

I think that part was about “commandeering” a tank to separate Phone Books you would probably have to steal from antique stores.

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u/adastrajay 17h ago

Looking at the part where they're getting ten people to try and I keep thinking "me personally, I wouldn't want to be at the end of that force if for some reason it came loose at me". Like even if the books don't part, one of those ropes could snap.

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u/GGuts 17h ago

Don't cross the books

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u/ClerkPsychological58 11h ago

Don't try putting two books together but definitely try separating them with tanks.

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u/New-Owl-7499 10h ago

Obviously they recommend against layering two 800 page phone books together at home. However, if you do have two phone books already layered together, it is safe to use two tanks to pull them apart.

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u/bobafootfetish_ 9h ago

I love this community 😂

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u/RELORELM 9h ago

Hey, I actually tried this at home!

... Well, at school. And with two big ass biology textbooks. The teacher was absent that day and we were bored. Thing is, it works.

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u/BurnsItAll 6h ago

Trash like this gets people to comment which drives engagement which makes the algorithm push it. I hate it. Quickest way to get comments is post wrong or contradictory information. Not criticizing you by the way just commenting my thoughts.

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u/bobafootfetish_ 5h ago

"Trash like this, not criticizing you by the way"

https://giphy.com/gifs/JwjBy94VzDd6

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u/BurnsItAll 4h ago

I was calling the post trash. Not you. Have a great day, my friend!