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One major use of bungs is for bunging up bung holes on sailing dinghies. Many ignorant skeptics have suggested that if they didn't make bung holes in the first place they wouldn't need bungs to bung them up again. However this purely facetious objection completely overlooks the fact that often bung holes leak or someone goes sailing without remembering to put their bung in. But the problem of water taken into the hull when this happens is easily solved by simply removing the bung! If these skeptics had no bunghole and this happened they'd be in a right pickle.

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  • One major use of bungs is for bunging up bung holes on sailing dinghies. Many ignorant skeptics have suggested that if they didn't make bung holes in the first place they wouldn't need bungs to bung them up again. However this purely facetious objection completely overlooks the fact that often bung holes leak or someone goes sailing without remembering to put their bung in. But the problem of water taken into the hull when this happens is easily solved by simply removing the bung! If these skeptics had no bunghole and this happened they'd be in a right pickle.
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  • One major use of bungs is for bunging up bung holes on sailing dinghies. Many ignorant skeptics have suggested that if they didn't make bung holes in the first place they wouldn't need bungs to bung them up again. However this purely facetious objection completely overlooks the fact that often bung holes leak or someone goes sailing without remembering to put their bung in. But the problem of water taken into the hull when this happens is easily solved by simply removing the bung! If these skeptics had no bunghole and this happened they'd be in a right pickle. Bungs are also commonly used in test tubes in the labatoratory. In this case they are essential for performing many experiments with chemicals. For example if a toxic gas is produced by your experiment and you have no bung then you may inhale some of the gases and suffer from a headache or nausea. However with a bung all that needs to be done is to push the bung firmly into the the test tube after the reactants, and proceed quickly and calmly out of the lab. If the appropriate bung is chosen it should be possible to get well clear before either the bung is fired off or the glass shatters, releasing an explosion of glass fragments and poisonous fumes across the room. Almost as important as a bung for this approach to chemistry is a good lab technician. Bungs are also handy (or even lungy! ha ha ha) for use as non-offensive projectile weapons and are widely used in classrooms and lecture theatres across the world. They have the range of a metal ruler or pair of compasses, combined with the endearing friendly feel normally associated with paper spit-balls. The advanced thrower can also achieve greater accuracy by spinning the bung about it's axis of symmetry and throwing perpendicular to the direction of spin (conventionally narrow end first, although there is a school of thought within aeorodynamic bung theory that suggests some advantages to the "backwards" approach). In summary, bungs are incredibly useful. In fact that could be a new application for "bungy", my adjectivisation. Bungy(adj):Useful in a tight spot. Ho ho ho. Did you notice my bung pun? It's a shame the word's pun rather than pung. Then it'd be a bungpung. That'd be hilarious. Anyway, my bung pun is even more hilarious because bungs are commonly used for bunging up bung-holes. Which are pretty tight spots. And they're also useful in a tight spot metaphorically speaking in the sense of a time of difficulty. Some say it takes the fun out of jokes to explain them but I think this underestimates the average intelligence of my readers. After all, it does take a special kind of mind to have got this far and still wish to continue.
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