I can't figure out what is more compelling here: The expression on the kid's face, or the tiny illustrations carefully showing you how to load bullets into the gun.
Posted by Clive Thompson at January 28, 2004 11:03 AM
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From the bottom of my heart, thank you for posting that. It made my day to know that such a toy exists.
Posted by: june at January 28, 2004 12:12 PM
Posted by: Clive at January 28, 2004 1:15 PM
Good lord. This item made me laugh so hard I almost snorted Dr. Pepper out of my nose.
(Err, for the record, I was drinking Dr. Pepper at the time. I don't generate Dr. Pepper intra-nasally. Yet. Just wait 'til the solar flare hits...)
Posted by: Robin at January 28, 2004 8:00 PM
What I want to know is, what are the little hippos on the package saying to each other in their little voice bubbles?
Posted by: Clive at January 29, 2004 12:31 AM
Let's open a "I used to play" contest.
Since we are (I assume) among adults, what was the most dangerous game you played as a child?
I have been thinking about it, but still I think that I risked more playing soccer than with any small parts - jump around - allergenic toy.
Well, we were even punching holes in the walls with firecrackers and shooting pedestrians from a car wtith a blowpipe loaded with plaster... But then I was already embarassingly close to my adulthood...
Posted by: mario at January 29, 2004 3:58 AM
"The most dangerous game." Sounds like a great title for a short story ;).
Aside from the sort of aforementioned dubious antics when my friends and I were in our "ninja years," possibly the most dangerous commercial game I played was lawn darts. Any game where you get to throw weighted, pointy objects around is a sure-fire crowd pleaser with me!
Posted by: marc at January 29, 2004 9:38 AM
I think the most dangerous thing I did was build wooden ramps using bricks and flat boards, and then jump bikes over my friends, who would lie on the ground. Man, if the ramps had ever broken, I would have just driven straight across the stomachs and rib cages of a bunch of 11-year-olds.
Posted by: Clive at January 29, 2004 12:12 PM
HA!
I played Jarts, or Lawn Darts--hardcore metal ones. No incidents.
I played soccer with a Cuban coach named Castro (really). No incidents.
I shot bottle rockets (with report) underwater at swans swimming in a pond -- and along the ground at cars -- and we used to throw them from our bare hands, timing the fuse. No incidents.
Estes Rockets. Nothing.
Hatchets (thrown), chefs knives (thrown), penknives, machetes, shuriken, nunchaku, BB Guns -- we used to *try* and shoot at each other's heads, unprotected -- Paintball, basement Ultimate Fighting Championship, ding-dong ditch, squirt-the-neighbor, "relivio", tag, hide and seek, "Guns". No incidents.
Croquet. We ended up playing a "polo"/soccer version and my young friend ended up with a very bloody forehead. He kept saying sorry for getting in the way, but my dad was freaking out because blood was pouring from his head. He was ok, just bloodied by a croquet mallet. We started calling it "Medieval Rules Croquet".
Posted by: Alfred O. Cloutier at January 29, 2004 4:06 PM
BB guns, pellet guns, and .22 rifle. No incidents.
Knives and shuriken thrown at targets. No incidents.
Various small scale explosives used to destroy plastic models. No incidents.
Attempts to imitate various circus acts, such as by walking improvised "tightropes". No incidents.
Bowling: a friend lost hold of a bowling ball he was taking off the shelf and hit me in the head with it. I was sitting down, retying my shoes, facing the opposite direction. Result: concussion, hospital visit.
Posted by: Tom at January 30, 2004 5:15 PM
kijbg;kbgh;oubgho'ugho'ugbo'uhbni;ubvg;ibg;iub
Posted by: Anonymous at March 26, 2004 3:30 AM
Posted by: Anonymous at March 26, 2004 3:30 AM
From the bottom of my heart, thank you for posting that. It made my day to know that such a toy exists.
Posted by: june at January 28, 2004 12:12 PM
Heh.
Posted by: Clive at January 28, 2004 1:15 PM
Good lord. This item made me laugh so hard I almost snorted Dr. Pepper out of my nose.
(Err, for the record, I was drinking Dr. Pepper at the time. I don't generate Dr. Pepper intra-nasally. Yet. Just wait 'til the solar flare hits...)
Posted by: Robin at January 28, 2004 8:00 PM
What I want to know is, what are the little hippos on the package saying to each other in their little voice bubbles?
Posted by: Clive at January 29, 2004 12:31 AM
Let's open a "I used to play" contest.
Since we are (I assume) among adults, what was the most dangerous game you played as a child?
I have been thinking about it, but still I think that I risked more playing soccer than with any small parts - jump around - allergenic toy.
Well, we were even punching holes in the walls with firecrackers and shooting pedestrians from a car wtith a blowpipe loaded with plaster... But then I was already embarassingly close to my adulthood...
Posted by: mario at January 29, 2004 3:58 AM
"The most dangerous game." Sounds like a great title for a short story ;).
Aside from the sort of aforementioned dubious antics when my friends and I were in our "ninja years," possibly the most dangerous commercial game I played was lawn darts. Any game where you get to throw weighted, pointy objects around is a sure-fire crowd pleaser with me!
Posted by: marc at January 29, 2004 9:38 AM
I think the most dangerous thing I did was build wooden ramps using bricks and flat boards, and then jump bikes over my friends, who would lie on the ground. Man, if the ramps had ever broken, I would have just driven straight across the stomachs and rib cages of a bunch of 11-year-olds.
Posted by: Clive at January 29, 2004 12:12 PM
HA!
I played Jarts, or Lawn Darts--hardcore metal ones. No incidents.
I played soccer with a Cuban coach named Castro (really). No incidents.
I shot bottle rockets (with report) underwater at swans swimming in a pond -- and along the ground at cars -- and we used to throw them from our bare hands, timing the fuse. No incidents.
Estes Rockets. Nothing.
Hatchets (thrown), chefs knives (thrown), penknives, machetes, shuriken, nunchaku, BB Guns -- we used to *try* and shoot at each other's heads, unprotected -- Paintball, basement Ultimate Fighting Championship, ding-dong ditch, squirt-the-neighbor, "relivio", tag, hide and seek, "Guns". No incidents.
Croquet. We ended up playing a "polo"/soccer version and my young friend ended up with a very bloody forehead. He kept saying sorry for getting in the way, but my dad was freaking out because blood was pouring from his head. He was ok, just bloodied by a croquet mallet. We started calling it "Medieval Rules Croquet".
Posted by: Alfred O. Cloutier at January 29, 2004 4:06 PM
BB guns, pellet guns, and .22 rifle. No incidents.
Knives and shuriken thrown at targets. No incidents.
Various small scale explosives used to destroy plastic models. No incidents.
Attempts to imitate various circus acts, such as by walking improvised "tightropes". No incidents.
Bowling: a friend lost hold of a bowling ball he was taking off the shelf and hit me in the head with it. I was sitting down, retying my shoes, facing the opposite direction. Result: concussion, hospital visit.
Posted by: Tom at January 30, 2004 5:15 PM
kijbg;kbgh;oubgho'ugho'ugbo'uhbni;ubvg;ibg;iub
Posted by: Anonymous at March 26, 2004 3:30 AM
you are ugly man
Posted by: Anonymous at March 26, 2004 3:30 AM