Saw this in the latest offering from Lee Valley. Had to share.
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The Mother of All Pointy Sticks
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Apparently pointy sticks are difficult to make. The site says the stock delivered was unacceptable. They must not have had the approved rec.woodworking plans.
-Jim
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Not quite enough for around here...
Robin should think twice about selling these _period_. The potential for law suits is astounding. The perfect retroactive birth control.
In my generation, it was the rolling egg - an orange plastic contraption you climbed into and held on for dear life as your friends rolled you down a steep hill. If you weren't thrown free and impaled by a pointy stick, the leg and arm fractures would cripple you.
But I'll take 4 sets of these pointy sticks, extra sharp...
Greg G.
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Lawn Darts...
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What for? ...Birth control?
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You'll put your eye out with that thing!
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Wed, Nov 16, 2005, 8:42pm (EST+5) snipped-for-privacy@intel.com (John=A0Thomas) does posteth: Saw this in the latest offering from Lee Valley. Had to share.
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But what about plans?
JOAT Just pretend I'm not here. That's what I'm doing.
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No, for poking at people in the wreck. ;-)
Greg G.
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You'll putcher eye out!
Steve
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Remember jarts?
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Jeeeeez , you just gotta think that this was a product liability suite in the making. I'm thinking LeeValley may have thought that also.
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Oh my gods - that girl is TINY!
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Lawn darts were a game???? I just threw them up as high as I could and run!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Brian :-)>
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The mother of all potential lawsuits was that stupid balancing board set atop a can laid on its side. No telling how many Christmas morning were ruined by that thing......
jc
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Not to try to one-up Lee Valley, but I think THESE are The Mother of All Pointy Sticks:
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Is that a teepee pole in your pocket or...
aw never mind...
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I never used the word "game"
Just "lawn darts"
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No point that I can see. MOA dowels, maybe...
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True but I was hinting that pick up sticks were a game...............
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"Brian In Hampton" wrote
I can do ya one better than that.
I have a brother who was one of those reckless, crazy guys who flirted with death many times in his life and rarely got hurt. I on the other hand, if I don't super observe every possible safety rule, gets hurt easily.
When he was about 14, got together with another crazy guy in the general area and found some old, leaking dynamite at an old logging camp. They picked it up and drove it home in the back of a pickup. Took it out in a field in back of the house and blew some holes in the ground near some big rocks.
The they proceeded to put some dynamite in the hole and roll big rocks onto the top of the charges. They would then blow up the dynamite and run around to avoid the rocks as they fell down from the sky. As they continued doing this, the rocks broke up and became smaller and smaller. Which meant that they would be harder to see.
And all he got from this was a few small bruises. And no blows to the head. And he thought it was great fun.