Abstract: A preferred bag cutting and closing clip is described. The clip includes two elongate members and means for directing the elongate members toward one another to close the bag. The clip also includes cutting means such as serrations effectively positioned on the clip for severing bag portions on one side of the clip from bag portions on another side of the clip while the bag remains effectively closed between the elongate members. A preferred clip also includes the feature of extendability, as well as other highly advantageous design features. A method of closing an open flexible plastic or paper bag and for removing excess bag portions therefrom is also described.

Abstract: A squirting straw device for playing a practical joke on a drinker or another nearby is described. The straw is constructed so as to direct pressurized liquid to strike the supposed drinker or another nearby in response to suction being applied at an opening of the straw.