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Tables of Contents for Whistling With Olives
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Introduction Who? What? (We know when, we know where) How? And for goodness sakes, Why?
1
6
Dishes and Utensils
7
14
Spoons
Playing the spoons
7
2
Hanging spoons off your face
9
1
Glasses
Playing the glass harmonica
10
1
Water glass rim harmonics
10
2
Glass chimes
12
1
The terrifying knife and Chinette plate trick
13
1
Napkins and napkin rings
Napkin ring rolling and spinning with back spins
13
2
Napkin rabbit
15
1
Napkin pet rat
16
1
Napkin puzzle
17
1
Napkin ring balances
17
1
Other object balances
Salt shaker balance
18
1
Spinning plates
19
1
Knife balances
20
1
Playing with Your Food (Nicely, Dear)
21
14
Whistle with an olive
21
2
Projectile pimentos (maybe)
23
1
Eating
Corn on the cob
23
2
Cheap caps for healthy teeth
25
1
Mr. Tomato
26
1
Sea food
27
1
Peeling apples
27
1
Oranges
Orange squeeze
27
1
Spoon oranges, orange smile
28
1
Peeled orange, sushi chef's orange
29
1
Tangerines
Ikutsu, peeling tangerines, reassembling tangerines
30
1
Sugar candy
31
1
Excavations
31
1
Instructions to cooks
31
1
Ways to clean your plate
32
1
Ways to get someone else's food
32
3
Table Verses That Tickle, Hurt, or Amaze
35
10
Here is the church (two versions, one cute and one painful)
35
2
`Round and `round the garden
37
1
Criss, cross, applesauce
38
1
X marks the spot
38
1
A man came walking from the dark, dark forest
38
2
Knock on the door
40
2
Two little dicky birds
42
1
I'll tell you a story of Michael McGory
43
1
It was a dark and stormy night
43
2
Bouncy Games for Little Kids
45
4
Lady rides
45
1
Going to Boston
45
2
Bounce on my toe
47
2
Fingers (No Props)
49
8
Practice makes perfect
49
1
Put your hands like this
50
1
Through the arch
51
1
Finger exercies, in time and syncopated
52
1
Split fingers trick
53
1
Scratch your head while looking like a doofus
53
1
Missing finger
54
1
Disconnecting your thumb
55
1
Finger mechanism
55
1
Take a finger, any finger
56
1
Mixed-up hands
56
1
Hand cows and horses
56
1
Other Body Parts
57
7
Breaking your nose.. 1)on the table; 2)between your hands
57
1
Ear and scalp wiggling
57
2
Eyebrows
59
1
Eyes
59
1
The robotic tongue
59
2
Organ grinder
61
1
Arm twisting (your own)
62
2
Mammalian and Other Noises
64
3
Singing with the wolves
64
1
Calling hogs
64
1
Calling doves and owls
64
2
Ululating
66
1
Funnin' Games (Even if You Can't Sing)
67
4
A What? A fork
67
1
Yes-no black-white
67
2
Mouse (at Christmas)
69
1
Famous people
70
1
Botticelli
70
1
Serious Education
71
4
Explaining eclipses with dinner table objects
71
2
Ditto, the seasons
73
1
Ditto, gravity
74
1
Lens refraction
74
1
Shaggy-Dog Stories
75
4
The Last Sung Emperor
75
2
The National Geographic Special
77
1
The Battle for the Pyrenees
77
1
Two Boston University Students Confront Bear
77
1
Making your own SDSes, and significant other SDSes
78
1
About the author
79