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                        | Created by Captain Generic |
                        | With Help from The Genetic |
                        | Mishap.  This File Created |
                        | November 24th, 1986, 19:08 |
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     Please bear with me, as the construction of this box will seem rather
     silly.  This box was found in a construction site.  Or rather, it found
     us at a construction site.  We were using a $5 Radio Shack phone out of
     a semi-completed office building.  One afternoon during a holiday, and
     immediately following a storm, we found our bus in shambles.  To our
     suprise, we also found that one of the phone connections we were tapping
     had been draped through a murky puddle.  The fact that suprised us even
     more was that this line still worked and now posessed some great
     capabilities.


Materials:

2 tupperware or similar 8oz containers
1 small bag earth (dirt) (12oz)
1 pint water
2 lantern batteries
1 nine volt battery
1 battery clip
2 SPST switches
4 ounces of iron shavings
2 polar magnets
5 feet wire
1 set soldering equipment


     This is the part you won't believe.  Take the tupperware containers, and
     fill them with a mixture of the earth and the iron shavings.  Make sure
     that the mixture is well done.  (*NOTE* for best results, use the sand in
     fine ash trays.)  Cut the red and green wires and splice the switches into
     them.  From the switches, solder wire to the magnets. Connect the red to
     the + (positive) side of one magnet, and the green to the - (negative) side
     of the second magnet.  From the other poles of the magnet, solder wires the
     battery & clip.  Make sure the + (positive) and - (negative) are correct.
     Set the nine-volt battery between the two tupperware containers and place
     the battery end of the two magnets into the tupperware.  Now connect wire
     to the two poles of the lantern battery, and place them in the same
     containers as the poles of the magnets/9-volt battery.  You are almost
     done.  Finally, add just enough water to the two pots, and let them sit in
     the sun and bake like bricks. at this point, you have a MAUVE BOX.



Explaning and Using What You Have:

     The red and green wires have been placed into a magnetic field which is
     being charged continually be a lantern battery.  (It is necessary to
     change this battery every one to one and a half months.)  This will
     literaly pull in the nearest phone conversatiion.  (Don't try this in a
     big apartment or dorm.)  When the 9-volt battery is connected, this will
     now create enough current for the poles of the magnets to reverse
     themselves (perhaps you're seen Mr. Wizard do this.  It's just like with
     the soap).  At this point, you have a phone transmitting to one (if not
     more) of the nearest phones.  (Again, if you're in a dorm, don't try
     this.)  I suppose this just accomplishes what a tap would do, but with a
     MAUVE BOX, your fingerprints never will show on a terminal or on
     someones telephone lines.


Notes and Addendum:

     This will only work with a touch-tone phone connected to a phone line.
     When the switches are pulled, it's off your line and into the air.  This
     is named a MAUVE BOX, because this is the most disgusting box, and I find
     mauve to be the single most disgusting colour I know of.  Also, this file
     is for information purposes only.  This is not to be used in an illegal
     manner.  Perhaps one of these by the pool, sending to your sethe co-author,
     accept no responsibility for your actions with the MAUVE BOX.  Thank you...