stdenisg writes: "From the website: '...a fully functional machine gun with TWELVE rotating barrels and a live action trigger. Loads 12 bands per barrel for a whopping 144 rubber bands that shoot off as fast as you can turn the handle!' This article gives some background info. Impressive..."
I remember back in the olden days when we had one rubber band for the ammo and the trigger was top-mounted on the gun as a clothespin! Damn kids; they've never have had it rough...
Get one of these. When you see a student not paying attention in class fire one at him. When he complains fire another.
He'll duck the second one.
Now say to him. "Why did that second one not hit you?"
He'll say:"I ducked".
Now say: "And why did you not duck the first one".
He'll say: "I was not paying attention".
End with: "And who's fault was that?".
-- I know I'm going to hell, I'm just trying to get good seats.
Re:Advice to teachers.
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Danse
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· Score: 5, Funny
And then get a good lawyer:(
-- It's not enough to bash in heads, you've got to bash in minds. - Captain Hammer
A rubber band machine gun with 12 barrels?
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Typingsux
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· Score: 5, Funny
Shooting 12 rubber bands each?
Damn. I think that's gross.
-- The above post is an editorial, the poster cannot and will not be held responsible for all or in part for it's contents
10 seconds to fire
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BrookHarty
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· Score: 5, Funny
3 hours to load.
Re:Right. Animal Cruelty is a Laugh a Minute.
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sedawkgrep
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· Score: 5, Insightful
Man lighten the fuck up. Just because we joke about something like that certainly doesn't mean someone intends to do it.
And no, shooting a rubber band at a cat isn't funny.
However...Firing a fully-automatic rubberband chaingun at a cat strikes so many comic images in one's head that you can't help but crack a smile. It's comic in it's absurdity.
I wish I had one of these guns to shoot at you, because I would do it, and I'd think it's funny.
sedawkgrep
-- Is that a salami in my pants or am I just happy to be me?
Re:better guns
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McVerne
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· Score: 5, Informative
The C method of rubber band shooting is quite impressive, however the description in the parent post is a little hard to follow.
I'm impressed...I had to scroll down more than half the comments section to find the "i'm so fucking great for knowing about this before slashdot" post.
Then again, I guess that's a little slow for slashdot. I was banking on seeing this as the third comment.
Re:Right. Animal Cruelty is a Laugh a Minute.
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zerocool^
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not only that, but you know you're down and out when the article says, and i quote:
"The first time I loaded one, there was two of us working on it and it took us 20 minutes," said Mr. Toms, who lost his job a year ago as an executive in a Los Angeles-based dot-com firm.
"I applied everything I knew about running a dot-com business and merged it with my passion for fun artillery. I'm making a fraction of what I used to make as an executive, but I'm having a hell of a lot more fun."
The guns' inventor, Don Mims, 54, of Fort Worth, Texas, graduated with an aerospace engineering degree, but turned to his woodworking hobby as a career.
endquote. He was a dot.bomb exec and has an a degree in aerospace engineering, but he's selling rubber band guns. This is a guy who was willing to throw in the towel when he saw the way things were blowing, and do something fun with his life instead of bitching. Lots of/. posters could take a lesson from this guy.
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I remember back in the olden days when we had one rubber band for the ammo and the trigger was top-mounted on the gun as a clothespin! Damn kids; they've never have had it rough...
Karma whorin' since 1999
Wow Man!
Have you seen the price?
$395.00 !!!
I seriously doubt anybody could find a use for thi....
Wait a minute....
Here Kitty Kitty!!!
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Get one of these. When you see a student not paying attention in class fire one at him.
:"I ducked".
When he complains fire another.
He'll duck the second one.
Now say to him. "Why did that second one not hit you?"
He'll say
Now say: "And why did you not duck the first one".
He'll say: "I was not paying attention".
End with: "And who's fault was that?".
I know I'm going to hell, I'm just trying to get good seats.
Damn. I think that's gross.
The above post is an editorial, the poster cannot and will not be held responsible for all or in part for it's contents
3 hours to load.
Man lighten the fuck up. Just because we joke about something like that certainly doesn't mean someone intends to do it.
And no, shooting a rubber band at a cat isn't funny.
However...Firing a fully-automatic rubberband chaingun at a cat strikes so many comic images in one's head that you can't help but crack a smile. It's comic in it's absurdity.
I wish I had one of these guns to shoot at you, because I would do it, and I'd think it's funny.
sedawkgrep
Is that a salami in my pants or am I just happy to be me?
The C method of rubber band shooting is quite impressive, however the description in the parent post is a little hard to follow.
For those of you interested, here is a page describing the C method in greater detail: http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~alain/magictalk-wis dom/discussions/shooting_rubber_band.html
--McVerne
I'm impressed...I had to scroll down more than half the comments section to find the "i'm so fucking great for knowing about this before slashdot" post.
Then again, I guess that's a little slow for slashdot. I was banking on seeing this as the third comment.
not only that, but you know you're down and out when the article says, and i quote:
/. posters could take a lesson from this guy.
"The first time I loaded one, there was two of us working on it and it took us 20 minutes," said Mr. Toms, who lost his job a year ago as an executive in a Los Angeles-based dot-com firm.
"I applied everything I knew about running a dot-com business and merged it with my passion for fun artillery. I'm making a fraction of what I used to make as an executive, but I'm having a hell of a lot more fun."
The guns' inventor, Don Mims, 54, of Fort Worth, Texas, graduated with an aerospace engineering degree, but turned to his woodworking hobby as a career.
endquote.
He was a dot.bomb exec and has an a degree in aerospace engineering, but he's selling rubber band guns. This is a guy who was willing to throw in the towel when he saw the way things were blowing, and do something fun with his life instead of bitching. Lots of
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