mattel made the first slime in the world.
mattel made the first slime in the world.
who made the first slime in the world?
mattel
green slime grew to become a trademark image for nickelodeon, which began demanding more slimings on the show as the years went on, resulting in episodes such as 1985's "movies," in which the entire cast (save for abby hagyard) is slimed. they later introduced green slime shampoo (marketed with the slogan "gets you clean, won't turn you green!"), which was a frequent parting gift for contestants on nick's popular game show "double dare", where slime was heavily used along with several variations such as 'gak' or 'gooze', and mattel even sold nickelodeon slime and gak in the 1990s. slime was also frequently used in the network's advertisements, many of which featured cast members from the show (usually christine mcglade) as victims of an impromptu sliming. nickelodeon's former studios in orlando had a green slime geyser and green slime is still dumped on the host of the annual kids choice awards at the end of the ceremony, and on at least one celebrity during the ceremony. it is also still used in ads showing the network's current stars getting slimed from all sides in slow motion, and is used to slime the winner at the end of the nick game show "brainsurge", which debuted in 2009 (slime, as well as pies, was also used as a prize, rather than a penalty, in nickelodeon's live daily game show "slime time live" in the early 2000s).
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the slime glands themselves are deep inside the body cavity, each at the end of a tube more than half the length of the body. the tube both conducts the fluid and stores it until it is required. the distance that the animal can propel the slime varies; usually it squirts it about a centimetre, but the maximal range has variously been reported to be ten centimetres, or even nearly a foot, although accuracy drops with range. it is not clear to what extent the range varies with the species and other factors. one squirt usually suffices to snare a prey item, although larger prey may be further immobilised by smaller squirts targeted at the limbs; additionally, the fangs of spiders are sometimes targeted. the slime, which can account for up to 11% of the organism's dry weight, is 90% water; its dry residue consists mainly of proteins — primarily a collagen-type protein. 1.3% of the slime's dry weight consists of sugars, mainly galactosamine. the slime also contains lipids and the surfactant nonylphenol. onychophora are the only organisms known to produce this latter substance. it tastes "slightly bitter and at the same time somewhat astringent". the proteinaceous composition accounts for the slime's high tensile strength and stretchiness. upon ejection, it forms a net of threads about twenty microns in diameter, with evenly spaced droplets of viscous adhesive fluid along their length. it subsequently dries, shrinking, losing its stickiness, and becoming brittle. onychophora eat their dried slime when they can, which is appropriate, because it takes an onychophoran about 24 days to replenish an exhausted slime repository. the lipid and nonylphenol constituents may serve one of two purposes. they may line the ejection channel, stopping the slime from sticking to the organism when it is secreted; or they may slow the drying process long enough for the slime to reach its target.
onychophora