Juggling with onions

Just putting this out there, but any amateur jugglers who want a good starting ball without having to buy/make one should serious look at onions. Here is a convenient bullet point list as to why:

- Onions are about the right size for juggling, and if you have very large hands, you can just get a larger onion!
- They are also about the right weight; not so heavy that you drop them immediately (though that would have to be like a lead ball...), but not so light that you can't feel you've caught it (which is a downside of using balled up socks)
- They are also about the right shape! Trying to juggle with oddly shaped things (again, like socks) is really hard
- Onions are quite sturdy. If you drop them a couple of times, they stay more or less the same. Drop an apple a couple of times and you end with puree everywhere, which is not fun to clean up.
- Onions are pretty available. We tend to have some in the house which is perfect for an impromptu juggling session (it's just a matter of finding the onions...)
- Having gone into the garage to get them (which is where I get mine from), you are far away from any objects that may take badly to mis-thrown onions
- When you get fed up with dropping them everywhere, you can make spaghetti!

I suppose one of the main disadvantages is that you may look a little odd juggling onions, but I'm going to justify that by saying you would look odd regardless of what you were juggling (unless you were very good, which I most certainly am not).