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Dan Looks at Office Toys

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the you'll-put-your-eye-out dept.

Daniel Rutter writes "In a move that's made me wonder afresh whether I'm actually living this life or just dreaming it, I've just put up a review of a bunch of office toys. Two rubber band guns, a pneumatic ping-pong ball launcher, a bubble gun, some iridescent bouncing putty, a frickin' CROSSBOW that shoots sucker darts, and a couple of high-flying ring-ins that aren't really suitable for indoor play at all."

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  1. I've only this to say... by acehole · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's all fun and games till someone looses an eye.

    (Even then you point and laugh)

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  2. what? no rubber-band machine gun by lingqi · · Score: 4, Interesting

    like this?

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  3. rubber band guns by crystalplague · · Score: 5, Funny

    me and my friend use to set up pillow bunkers in his room about 20 feet apart and use his 2 rubber band guns in wars. those things HURT. Especially when the main tactic was to make a fully enclosed bunker except for an eye hole...which in retrospect was not a good tactic. Ever been hit with super stretched rubber bands from 20 feet away in the eye at 5hits/sec? not fun...oh the blindness, the pain. all in all though it was good fun until one person decided "screw this" and rushed the other, ripping down his bunker and holding the gun up to whatever bare skin he could find and unloading.

  4. The Bandit Crossbow! by Mzilikazi · · Score: 4, Informative
    I had one of those when I was a kid. Or rather, my little gun nut brother did, but I used it frequently. Back in the 80s, toy guns didn't have to be bright fluorescent colors, so it was a sleek matte black. The little suction cup darts were fun and all, but this toy definitely lent itself to some modification.

    First, you could get more power out of each shot by looping the string around the ends of the bow. This slight modification meant that the suction cup darts would go way to fast to stick to anything, but would hurt like a muthafucka. The next step, naturally, was to replace the safe and cushy ammunition with sharpened pencils, which worked great. They would stick in the wall if aimed properly. (Of course, eye protection was important here, because occasionally shots would get flipped straight up instead of horizontally.)

    Steel ball bearings didn't work as well, but that's what the slingshot was for. :)

    God that thing was fun.

    Cheers,
    Mziliazki

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  5. The Humble Office Chair by IntelliTubbie · · Score: 5, Funny
    Why a standard-issue ergonomic office chair is the ultimate cube toy:
    • Can be operated as a stand-alone unit (chair goes up! chair goes down! chair goes up!) or in a networked environment (a vigorous game of CHAIRBALL).
    • Easily disguised as an "innocent" piece of furniture.
    • Unlike a rubber band machine gun, your company will probably pay for you to have one.
    • Marginally more comfortable to sit on than a crossbow.
    Cheers,
    IT
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  6. A hundred pounds of silly puddy by zenyu · · Score: 5, Funny


    I just keep repeating that over and over again in my head. $800+S/H.

    I could finally discover how big a silly puddy ball can get and still bounce...

    I could glue a cat to the wall by it's paws!

    I could transfer an entire newspaper to puddy!

  7. Why not... by Polo · · Score: 4, Funny
    Why not cut to the chase and bring to work...
  8. Mod that guy up! by fmaxwell · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That was a +5 insightful/funny comment if I ever read one!

    For you folks that haven't looked lately, the job market for computer professionals is in the toilet. Restored arcade video games, all the free soda you want, bringing your pets to work, dressing like a you're at a Grateful Dead concert, and running around the office like a kid with ADD who forgot their Ritalin is out. Companies can hire professionals that look, dress, and behave the part. If you refuse to work somewhere unless they have a shiatsu massage chair, then apply at Brookstone because you're not going to find a tech job that does anymore.