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Childhood Weaponry
Sticks and sawed-off branches made the best make-shift guns.
Large and long staffs made great spears.
Classic medium-sized sticks were wonderful swords.
Cut-up pizza boxes could become ace works of art and shields for the local knight in your family (with attached string, etc.).
Snapple bottle caps made great "throwing weapons" against armored kids in your neighborhood.
Bicycles were speedy mounts, chariots, tanks, fighter jets, and X-Wing/TIE Fighters.
Being an adult sucks when all you have is your trusty "Keyboard Joust."
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Peg-gun, yesthankyouplease.
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Paper clips and elastic bands to make a bow. 
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Dustbin (read: trash can for those of you who insist on butchering the english language) lids always made great shields I found. If i couldn't ward off my brothers flaming arrows with one (and lets face it, they were made of plastic, so my odds weren't great) the smell at least did send him reiling
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31 Jul 2003, 01:12
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In fond memory of SB
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Originally posted by Embroglio
Paper clips and elastic bands to make a bow.
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An elastic band
Has a lot of potential
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31 Jul 2003, 01:13
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a new low in getting high
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31 Jul 2003, 01:14
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31 Jul 2003, 01:15
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An elastic band
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Wrong. Junior high featured a "phase" in which we bent paperclips in all sorts of directions and shot them into the ceiling while the teacher wasn't looking. A kid I knew had one fly back down and miss his eyeball by about a centimeter. He had a cute little cut just under his eye, heh.
Slivers of plywood made great knives/stillettos...
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31 Jul 2003, 01:15
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No, haiku
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I don't like haiku at all.
Blah blah blah the end.
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31 Jul 2003, 01:20
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In fond memory of SB
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Originally posted by HobbieRogue4
Wrong. Junior high featured a "phase" in which we bent paperclips in all sorts of directions and shot them into the ceiling while the teacher wasn't looking. A kid I knew had one fly back down and miss his eyeball by about a centimeter. He had a cute little cut just under his eye, heh.
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They look quite good too.
*some things.
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31 Jul 2003, 01:23
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Countries might have better warriors if child-imagined violence was allowed to flourish rather than "put that stick down, you'll hurt someone."
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31 Jul 2003, 01:24
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I can't believe I wrote 'whole' instead of 'hole' and nobody told me 
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Slingshots, BB and pellet Guns, bows & arrows (with the rubber tips removed from the arrows and sharpened in a pencil sharpener), rocks, cherry bombs/silver salutes/M80s (when we could get 'em), lawn darts (before they were banned), assorted incendaries made from gasoline/lighter fluid, homemade cannons, and sundry pointed sticks and sharpened pieces of metal.
My personal favorite was a whip that one of my cousins made at summer camp. Now that could do a bit of damage.
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31 Jul 2003, 01:29
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Throwing weaponry was the most entertaining. I tried so many things to get "ninja throwing stars." :/
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31 Jul 2003, 01:51
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31 Jul 2003, 02:08
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Damn crappy workmanship.
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broken nintendo gun + plastic tube on the end made a cool laser gun/flame thrower
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My freshman year of high school some dumb fag was always throwing staples in my hair during home room...
Long story short he eventually tried to feel me up during class by placing his hand on my thigh whereby I grabbed a stapler from the nearby teacher's desk and slammed it against his leg.
I rule.
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Quote:
Originally posted by rageybabey
My freshman year of high school some dumb fag was always throwing staples in my hair during home room...
Long story short he eventually tried to feel me up during class by placing his hand on my thigh whereby I grabbed a stapler from the nearby teacher's desk and slammed it against his leg.
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In the navy...
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The seasonal theme.
Each Haiku must contain a kigo, a season word, which indicate in which season the Haiku is set. For example, cherry blossoms indicate spring, snow indicate winter, and mosquitoes indicate summer, but the season word isn't always that obvious.
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Das machine is nicht fur gefingerpoken und mittengrabben. Ist easy
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spitzensparken. Ist nicht fur gewerken by das dummkopfen. Das
rubbernecken sightseeren keepen hands in das pockets. Relaxen und vatch
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rubber glove guns and balloon guns were great for firing rocks at the neighbours' roof.
a long pliable branch bowed with string between the ends with a few thinner sticks for weaponry made ace bow and arrow sets.
the good old pen tube for firing misc balls of things at people.
paddle pop stick ninja stars and flick knives were also handy.
ping-pong balls wrapped in foil to make smoke-bombs.
cardboard tubes for swords.
so many more I can't remember but oh so fun back in the day
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Christmas was exciting not for the toys, but because we got felt tip pens, and the insides of the tubes of wrapping papper to colour in and make big light sabres!
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Quote:
Originally posted by Tactitus
Slingshots, BB and pellet Guns, bows & arrows (with the rubber tips removed from the arrows and sharpened in a pencil sharpener), rocks, cherry bombs/silver salutes/M80s (when we could get 'em), lawn darts (before they were banned), assorted incendaries made from gasoline/lighter fluid, homemade cannons, and sundry pointed sticks and sharpened pieces of metal.
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wow, somebody had a fun childhood 
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Quote:
Originally posted by Tactitus
Slingshots, BB and pellet Guns, bows & arrows (with the rubber tips removed from the arrows and sharpened in a pencil sharpener), rocks, cherry bombs/silver salutes/M80s (when we could get 'em), lawn darts (before they were banned), assorted incendaries made from gasoline/lighter fluid, homemade cannons, and sundry pointed sticks and sharpened pieces of metal.
My personal favorite was a whip that one of my cousins made at summer camp. Now that could do a bit of damage.
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I used my dad's gun once.
I miss my brother
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I always found my pa's wood cutting axe that he left round the back 'o the shack to be a trusty weapon, specially when them thar' bears attacked.
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Water balloons with broken paperclips/drawing pins/anything else small and sharp inside with the water...
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Re: Childhood Weaponry
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Originally posted by HobbieRogue4
Sticks and sawed-off branches made the best make-shift guns.
Large and long staffs made great spears.
Classic medium-sized sticks were wonderful swords.
Cut-up pizza boxes could become ace works of art and shields for the local knight in your family (with attached string, etc.).
Snapple bottle caps made great "throwing weapons" against armored kids in your neighborhood.
Bicycles were speedy mounts, chariots, tanks, fighter jets, and X-Wing/TIE Fighters.
Being an adult sucks when all you have is your trusty "Keyboard Joust."
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half of which contradicts the other half leavin it as basically pick and choose
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Those the ones that utilised a stick, a peg, several elastic bands and the old kind of ringpull?
They were great. :D
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Throwing weaponry was the most entertaining. I tried so many things to get "ninja throwing stars." :/
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Did you try those "mercedes stars"?
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how could I have forgotten the most classic of all, one hand sized mirror + nice sunny day + eyes of victom = hours of fun.
oh also a favourite was throwing 'itchy pods' at people. we hade these trees that grew all over the schoolyard that contained black pods with little white furry seeds in them that itched like hell if you got it down your shirt.
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bunch of faries the lot of you, an arm put through the open end of a pillow case with your wrist scrunched up at the other closed end (with some pillow case cloth in it to secure) meant that a pillow was an excellent shield. To counter act this strong defensive arsenal we used spare foot rules that one of my dads friends had given us (these are proper foot rules, the ones used on blackboards) we had to wear winter gloves in our right hands as we kept getting our knuckles wrapped.
our game of twat the hell out of each other ended when on of my friends had to be taken to hospital with a gash in his head.
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Re: Childhood Weaponry
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Stick swords were popular, as well as pine cones; we had many cone wars in school, some involving the teachers, and some involving the vicars after teachers was hospitalized.
You could even combine the two, baseball style.
I pity anyone who didn't go to a school with it's own forest.
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Re: Re: Childhood Weaponry
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