Take a can of beans 10:07 Dec 27, 2011
In fact, take 24 cans of beans, or 24 medical items of your choice, and put them in a box. They rattle around, don't they, and if they are fragile they might get broken, so carefully remove them from the box.
Now, get some cardboard strips half the depth of your box, cut them to the length and width of your box, cut slits in them to half their width at appropriate places so that, fitted together, they form croisillons forming 12 baked-bean-can-(or whatever)-sized cells. Place 12 cans of beans in the cells. Now, cut a piece of cardboard to the same size as the inside of the box and place that on top of your 12 cans. That is your plaque intercalaire. Place more croisillons on top, fill the cells with cans of baked beans, put the box in storage and wait for the Rawhide team to roll into town (put some bacon aside too). | 
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