Fingernail on 15/6/2006 at 18:51
as opposed to cannon
it's not a cannon people, don't try and make it seem any bigger or better than it really is
the truth is starving children in Africa would kill for those tiny nutritious pellets of carbohydrate you so happily propel at each other for amusement.
amusement.... or REVENGE
Ulukai on 15/6/2006 at 21:35
I would like to take this opportunity to out Stephen Hicks as the smug little grass who told the dinner ladies I had a spud o' matic and three potatos in my pocket one fateful lunch break in year 6.
CONFISCATED! :mad:
descenterace on 16/6/2006 at 22:59
I wouldn't call an entire King Edwards potato a tiny piece of carbohydrate.
demagogue on 16/6/2006 at 23:39
Two stories:
(1) I knew one pyro guy from high school (doesn't every high school have one? and by the way, this was ages ago), who would cut open a tennis ball with a knife, and then patiently cut the heads off matches one by one, slipping them into the ball until they were full (I said he was patient), then taping it up making ... fire balls. One strong throw and as soon as it hits a wall or the ground it would dramatically burst into a fireball, and then bounce along in a firey trail. Pretty low-tech, but fun to watch. (Of course, we had the pipebombs, potato bombs, etc... I just liked the originality of this, because I think it was something he just cooked up in his own twisted imagination one bored day, but maybe they're common knowledge).
(2) Other story is so low tech it doesn't really belong here at all, but while I'm in a storytelling mood... At a high school musical once, house is full, no lights, gay singing on stage (I mean, really "gay" like grandma used to use the word), the same pyro guy sat next to a friend and would periodically spray hairspray at his friend, and the friend would swat at it and sometimes whisper "don't" ... 5 minute pause ... pfft ... "stop it" ... 5 minute pause ... pfft ... "really, stop it". And about an hour into it, he finally lit his lighter and touched the guy's arm with it, and suddenly his arm burst into flames and the guy stood up screaming, with the whole audience and actors on stage stopping everything and gawking at the spectacle, guy on fire, dumbfounded. But of course only the hairspray burned, not his skin or clothes, so he wasn't actually burned at all, just scared the hell out of him (lucky for pyro guy that's all that happened) ... It was so shocking, so inappropriate, and so dead serious that of course we couldn't stop laughing for ages (especially when it became evident after a few seconds that the fire didn't harm him and he screamed like a girl for nothing).
