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We call this sort of thing "The Chain of Pain."

By the way, on wet days when your vdG doesn't give you nice long sparks it will still charge up a Leyden jar which you can discharge to great effect. Yogurt containers, with paper clips and tinfoil can create an amusingly terrifying zap.

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In high school the science teacher would crank up a rather large generator and then have us one by one hold hands (this was fun just in itself) until we could snake out into the hallway. He then had us snag & SNAP unwary passers by. He did this on odd occasions and was probably waiting for those really dry winter days for best effect.  He also got kinda nuts filling liter jars with Hydrogen when we were filling and popping small test tubes. The kids who had him after he went out for a "liquid" lunch said labs were "down right scary!" 

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