Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Thomas Shey]

See, back in the day, we didn't have all of the rules and regulations and people telling us how to play. We could just make up our own games! Sometimes, we would just combine stuff.

Personally, I liked it when we played tag by combining four trampolines and lawn darts.

Thee used to be a game some insane teenagers would play locally that involved tag using pits dug at the beach and what were called "coke bottle skyrockets" (i.e. the small ones you theoretically launched by using a soda bottle as the launch frame).

I kid you not.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Maybe second best to Kathy Bates.

My youngest was watching an episode of Sonic the Hedgehog where a Sonic superfan ... broke the legs of all the cast and had them all in a bedroom together where he could keep them prisoner. Wild that someone thought that was a good choice for little kids.

 

[payn]

My youngest was watching an episode of Sonic the Hedgehog where a Sonic superfan ... broke the legs of all the cast and had them all in a bedroom together where he could keep them prisoner. Wild that someone thought that was a good choice for little kids.

Well, they did make a Toxic Avenger kids show so this kinda thing isnt unheard of.

 

[Ryujin]

See, back in the day, we didn't have all of the rules and regulations and people telling us how to play. We could just make up our own games! Sometimes, we would just combine stuff.

Personally, I liked it when we played tag by combining four trampolines and lawn darts.

I combined lawn darts and model rocketry. Metal pen caps on plastic tubes, that were just thin enough to slide into the top of a "A" rocket motor, that I had glued stabilizing fins onto. They made a surprisingly satisfying THUNK when they slammed back into the baseball diamond I used as my launchpad (no parachute). Terrifying now

 

[CleverNickName]

Middle School?! I had to have those memorized by 5th grade! It really is worth knowing, though. I credit playing D&D since I was 11 with my ability to do quick math in my head.

Yep, it was 7th grade for us. Middle school was pretty intense at my school...not just for math, it was also when we learned how to diagram sentences, write in cursive, and build our own experiments using the scientific method. This is all pretty basic stuff in hindsight, but it wasn't very fun in the moment.

 

[overgeeked]

My youngest was watching an episode of Sonic the Hedgehog where a Sonic superfan ... broke the legs of all the cast and had them all in a bedroom together where he could keep them prisoner. Wild that someone thought that was a good choice for little kids.

Do you remember children’s programming in the ’70s and ’80s? H. R. Pufnstuf. Land of the Lost. Lidsville. The Great Space Coaster. The Electric Company. There’s some wild-ass stuff people used to show kids.

 

[dragoner]

Banana Splits

 

[Ryujin]

Yep, it was 7th grade for us. Middle school was pretty intense at my school...not just for math, it was also when we learned how to diagram sentences, write in cursive, and build our own experiments using the scientific method. This is all pretty basic stuff in hindsight, but it wasn't very fun in the moment.

Wow. For me, cursive and times tables (up to 5) were second grade. The cursive thing was a real pain for me, literally, because my old bat Scottish Grandmother teacher would whack my left hand with a ruler, every time i tried to pick up a pencil in it. Then I became the Judas Goat for the only other Leftie in class.

 

[CleverNickName]

I combined lawn darts and model rocketry. Metal pen caps on plastic tubes, that were just thin enough to slide into the top of a "A" rocket motor, that I had glued stabilizing fins onto. They made a surprisingly satisfying THUNK when they slammed back into the baseball diamond I used as my launchpad (no parachute). Terrifying now

I remember building a potato gun with my dad and my older brother. We used hair spray as a propellant, a cook stove switch as a trigger, and a couple of old junk cars in an empty field were our targets.

My brother and I discovered that if we used oranges instead of potatoes, we could make a much larger dent in the door of a car (because it was more aerodynamic). We showed our dad, and he was impressed that we had figured that out.

And then we discovered that if we put those oranges in the freezer overnight first, we could put a hole completely through the door of a car. When we demonstrated that for dad, he took our potato gun away.

 

[Ryujin]

Banana Splits

"NA Na na, NA NA Na na...." Now I don't see the Banana Spilts in their ATVs anymore, I see Hit Girl with a spear.