The picture of mesuring tape reminds me of a prank I once saw. They took a tape mesurer, I know that a tape measurer and measuring tape are two different thinngs, and pulled it out as far as it would go. They then crumped it up around it's self and threw it into their friends office. The waded up tape measurer pulled all its measuring tape back into itself, making a loude and abrupt niose. Thir friend, who was working on her computer, was a very jumpy person, and it scared her. Later, they rigged up a loud horn, like and air horn, and set it off in her office. This was the next day or so and she had forgoten about the tape measurer and was cought off gaurd. This scared the living daylight out of her, and she ran out of the room and found her friends laughing. I found this quite funny and a very imagineative use for a tape measurer.
