Your Childhood Toys

Walkinghairball · Post by **Walkinghairball** » Fri May 16, 2008 7:53 am

I was never any good with a yo-yo. I could only yo-fail.

CygnusX1 · Post by **CygnusX1** » Fri May 16, 2008 7:54 am

Walkinghairball wrote:Oh yeah Cyg, the short reference is a military term. Soldiers chuck a tied together pair of boots over a powerline to tell other soldiers he's about out.

Yeah the Jarheads do it too, but I'm with ya.

On a side note, if a grunt is caught doing it, he gets to take a bucket
ride up with a lineman and get 'em down. Sucks to be them if the boots
go to the top where the high voltage is.

Better glove up too. Having the hair on your head and arms stand up as
you get in close proximity to 13kV is quite a deterrent.

YYZ30 · Post by **YYZ30** » Fri May 16, 2008 8:18 am

Hmmm...I seem to remember also using exploding targets with the wrist rocket. Good times, that year between high school and college....

CygnusX1 · Post by **CygnusX1** » Fri May 16, 2008 8:47 am

YYZ30 wrote:Hmmm...I seem to remember also using exploding targets with the wrist rocket. Good times, that year between high school and college....

Forget those little BB's they used to give ya with them...

We used BALL BEARINGS.

YYZ30 · Post by **YYZ30** » Fri May 16, 2008 8:50 am

CygnusX1 wrote:
YYZ30 wrote:Hmmm...I seem to remember also using exploding targets with the wrist rocket. Good times, that year between high school and college....
Forget those little BB's they used to give ya with them...

We used BALL BEARINGS.

We found the targets worked better with pennies....

CygnusX1 · Post by **CygnusX1** » Fri May 16, 2008 9:01 am

YYZ30 wrote:
CygnusX1 wrote:
YYZ30 wrote:Hmmm...I seem to remember also using exploding targets with the wrist rocket. Good times, that year between high school and college....
Forget those little BB's they used to give ya with them...

We used BALL BEARINGS.
We found the targets worked better with pennies....

NIZE, but how was the trajectory? You prolly had to practice for a
while to get good with those!

Ball bearings were evil Bro. Solid steel shot.

Stealthy and silent.

Drops a squirrel like a bad habit. Dinner-on-the-table.

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Fri May 16, 2008 9:09 am

We used rocks.

CygnusX1 · Post by **CygnusX1** » Fri May 16, 2008 9:17 am

ElfDude wrote:We used rocks.

Truthfully Elf, through trial and error we would use anything that would fit
in the sling!

Cherries....

Crabapples....

Rocks....

Matchbox cars...you name it!

hahahaha

Xanadu · Post by **Xanadu** » Fri May 16, 2008 9:43 am

T4EFAN wrote:That sounds like fun!

Oh it was. We had some wooden broom handles that we used for a staff and one day I hit one on my friend Eddy's staff and broke it.

We played ninja assassin sometimes...that was always fun to sneak up on someone at the tree house fort. Ahh the good old day running through The Trench (space between the back yards)...

YYZ30 · Post by **YYZ30** » Fri May 16, 2008 9:54 am

CygnusX1 wrote:
YYZ30 wrote:
CygnusX1 wrote: Forget those little BB's they used to give ya with them...

We used BALL BEARINGS.
We found the targets worked better with pennies....
NIZE, but how was the trajectory? You prolly had to practice for a
while to get good with those!

Ball bearings were evil Bro. Solid steel shot.

Stealthy and silent.

Drops a squirrel like a bad habit. Dinner-on-the-table.

I was better with the dice- d20s were deadly- my friend's younger brother (who was a wiz with a bow and arrow- and also was the house watchman while we were there as he had insomnia) figured out the penny thing and started to take out the targets at 40 paces.

CygnusX1 · Post by **CygnusX1** » Fri May 16, 2008 10:04 am

Xanadu wrote:ninja assassin

THIS kind of ninja?

YYZ30 · Post by **YYZ30** » Fri May 16, 2008 10:05 am

CygnusX1 wrote:
Xanadu wrote:ninja assassin
THIS kind of ninja?

Nice inspirational poster- wonder who sent it to you?

CygnusX1 · Post by **CygnusX1** » Fri May 16, 2008 10:16 am

YYZ30 wrote:Nice inspirational poster- wonder who sent it to you?

One of the funniest peeps I know. Trey cool, huh?

SHIT! PB&J for lunch again!....thanks Sigette.

YYZ30 · Post by **YYZ30** » Fri May 16, 2008 10:57 am

CygnusX1 wrote:
YYZ30 wrote:Nice inspirational poster- wonder who sent it to you?
One of the funniest peeps I know. Trey cool, huh?

SHIT! PB&J for lunch again!....thanks Sigette.

Better than a shit sammich.....

CygnusX1 · Post by **CygnusX1** » Fri May 16, 2008 11:05 am

YYZ30 wrote:
CygnusX1 wrote:
YYZ30 wrote:Nice inspirational poster- wonder who sent it to you?
One of the funniest peeps I know. Trey cool, huh?

SHIT! PB&J for lunch again!....thanks Sigette.
Better than a shit sammich.....

true DAT Zed.

Which, reminds me of a old saying...

"Life is like a shit sammich.....
The more bread you have - the less shit you have to eat."