Well apart from drinking which is probably the most obvious, they have many uses. They can be used in arts and craft for almost anything. They can be used to shoot things out of, for example peas, like recycling, The Possibilities Are Endless.
Yes, plastic drinking straws will float in water.
Straw
yes
http://www.madehow.com/Volume-4/Drinking-Straw.html
use your bum
The importance of having drinking straws is so you can get liquid out of an enclosed container
Drinking straws come in diffrent colors and shapes. the most popular drinking straw's diameter is 6 mm (0.6 CM). Also, it can be up to 20 mm (2 CM) and these large straws are used for bubble tea or for gummy balls in a smoothie.
Marvin stone
they both suck things up.
No. It's the same as drinking right from the cup. Unless your out in the wilderness and you don't have clean water, you can get straws that filter your water.
The collective nouns for straw (plant fiber) are a clutchof straw, a bundle of straw, a truss of straw.The collective noun for straws (drinking) is a bundle of straws.
Nutcrackers, drinking straws, screwdrivers, voltmeters, and soldering irons are not pendulums.