Licking 9V

[ynie92992]

The other day my family and I were sitting around and my dad said"is that the battery from your bass?" I said yeah and he said, "so, does it have any juice?" and licked and he said "woah,that tastes funny" and then, I swear that we passed that battery to everyone in my family, my dad passed it to my sister and then my other sister refused to do it and I got it. We were laughing and compared the situation to passing around a joint or something. I don't know why I said all of that but what the hell.

 

[Mcfunkinstein]

i lick 9v just for fun makes me feel sexy

 

[colorblindbass]

haha its a chronic bassist thing,

no one i know will lick 9v's, except bass players.

 

[rutty24]

across the world 2 people a year die from licking 9v's.... i still do

 

[machine gewehr]

I have electric phobia.

 

[Lowbrow]

Me? Are you kidding?

 

[nsmar4211]

I'm odd man (woman?) out here..... no licking batteries for me. I have an aversion to being zapped, even a little bit!!!

That's when you just hand it to the nearest guitarist and give them the *eyes* and say....."Could you check this for me?"

My bass is the only thing taking batteries so if I've gone so far as to open it up and take out the old one, I'm just putting a new one in... and since I don't keep half dead ones any battery in my possesion is a new one so no mixups or need to test .

BTW I wonder who the first person to stick a battery on their tongue was...........

 

[sonicvi]

If you want some shocking good fun with electricity find yourself one of these, a Faradic Battery. It's an old quack medical device that claimed to be able to cure just about anything. It's fun to hold onto the electrodes and ramp up the current as far as you can go before either it's hurts too much or you can't let go.

 

[thehangingmist]

uhh i once did that to check up a battery i tell you i aint gonna do this again. i dont know you guys seem to be fine with it but it tasted terribly nasty to me.

 

[bassman1185]

Powered pedal board.

Passive Basses.

I don't need no steenking 9-volts.

 

[Muusers]

hmmmmmm, nine volts

 

[svtb15]

Of course. Have been doing it for decades and its pretty accurate to the amount of tougue curl you get as to the voltage. takes some calibrating.. haha
The funniest thing was when i caught my 4 year old nephew doing as uncle kirk did with the 9v.. the look on his face was pretty funny.. poor kid. I guess you have to watch what you do in front of kids...

 

[rythmicillusion]

9 Volts could well be a "gateway battery"! After zinging enough times, you'll most likely end up busting open Camaro hoods in the parking lot outside your gig, trying to score "the juice". The only way to break the cycle after that is the electrodome clinic...

 

[6jase5]

I was in Mexico a few weeks ago and I swear that on a beach this old man was walking around with a little wooden box with a dial and two metal pieces that looked like guitar slides. It's a shocker box, and you pay him to hold the bars and get shocked. The amount of American takers he had was unreal and boy did they get a jolt.

I've been drunk, reeeeal drunk, but not that drunk.

 

[wazdabaz]

Guys just don't try this if your car won't start.
9v battery lickin' is a very old test (origins lost deep in time). I used to test batteries for my toys when I was a small boy. And then I became a bassist. So nothing is wrong with lickin 9v's ...right? huh?

 

[laboitenoire]

I do it on occasion. Got a nasty kick one time, though.

 

[Elemeninki]

Even cavemen licked 9v batteries. It's that old.


I like attaching the batteries to various metal objects and watching the electricity jump

Has anyone got a method of testing AAs?

 

[Revmizery]

Used to batteries that way. Now I don't think it would be a good idea to test my PP2 that way to see if its on.

 

[mkandolf]

across the world 2 people a year die from licking 9v's.... i still do

Guess nobody told them not to swallow!

 

[megadan]

I'm too much of a wuse to do it, I've never tried.