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12-08-2007, 07:57 PM
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When I was 7 (this wouldve of been 1970) my uncle Leo bought me a set of lawn darts. Jarts were heavy weighted darts about a foot long....kind of like playing a deadly game of horse shoes. This toy had to be responsible for dozens of tragic accidents...."hey kids, throw these sharp metal missiles up in the air!" 
Now Uncle Leo was a highly decorated combat veteran of several wars. Here's a guy who climbed into caves on Iwo Jima with a knife....for him flame throwers weren't particularly "dangerous".
My parents thought the Jarts were cool and we had lots of fun. Despite this I survived and grew to adulthood.
Fast forward to 2007...
I'm just imaging buying my friends kids a gift like this. They'd be incredulous...is he crazy? trying to kill our precious kid? Its a shame since kids no longer get really cool gifts like Jarts and BB guns.
So I decided that what these kids really want is a chainsaw on a pole. Imagine how cool it would be to have one of these at age 8. Maybe two so you could duel with your friends.  |
12-08-2007, 08:02 PM
| | irritating, yet surly | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: aurora, IN | | i'm cool with it... 
i remember jarts...fun times! |
12-08-2007, 08:03 PM
| | | Those things are SO cool! Oh and I still have my Lawn Jart set.  |
12-08-2007, 08:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Listowel/KW Ontario | | | I remember jarts and I grew up in the 90's. Sweet game that would never be aloud anymore.
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12-08-2007, 08:11 PM
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my physics teacher was talking about those this last week. He said that he cracked his neighbor's driveway with em when he was a kid (he's in his 40s now).
He also spoke about water wiggles, and how they would strangle people.
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12-08-2007, 08:14 PM
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12-08-2007, 08:16 PM
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12-08-2007, 08:41 PM
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Originally Posted by doctorjazz I've got one better. | now that's something for the whole family! |
12-08-2007, 10:00 PM
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12-08-2007, 11:46 PM
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Originally Posted by richnota Chainsaw on a Stick: Good Gift for Children? | Not with today's gas prices. A day of dueling with your friends would cost a kid a pretty penny.
We had an old set of Lawn Darts in the garage when I was a kid. You really need a big open area to play a good game so my neighbor and I rode our bikes a couple blocks to the park.
About 10 minutes in a police officer pulls up, tells us to pack it all up and drives us back to my house. He had a short talk with my mom and the lawn darts were never seen again. I'm still not sure what happened to them.
Just like the tire swing we had hanging from a tree on the levee of the Sacramento river. We had it set up to fling us about 10 feet into the water. The current was pretty strong but it never seemed dangerous to me. Then one kid drowns and they cut down our swing. |
12-09-2007, 06:56 PM
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Originally Posted by TheBigO Not with today's gas prices. A day of dueling with your friends would cost a kid a pretty penny.
We had an old set of Lawn Darts in the garage when I was a kid. You really need a big open area to play a good game so my neighbor and I rode our bikes a couple blocks to the park.
About 10 minutes in a police officer pulls up, tells us to pack it all up and drives us back to my house. He had a short talk with my mom and the lawn darts were never seen again. I'm still not sure what happened to them.
Just like the tire swing we had hanging from a tree on the levee of the Sacramento river. We had it set up to fling us about 10 feet into the water. The current was pretty strong but it never seemed dangerous to me. Then one kid drowns and they cut down our swing. | The cop took them home for his kids.
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12-09-2007, 07:12 PM
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12-09-2007, 08:08 PM
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Originally Posted by OctoberMooN Johnny Human Torch. It's a bag of oily rags and a lighter! | Yep, I remember the old "Bag O Glass" too. Kids could amuse themselves for hours with that stuff. It's amazing I survived growing up in the 60's. In between the lead paint chips we use to scarf down, the twenty mile walk to school, uphill both ways, dodge ball and rope climb in gym class, It's amazing I'm able to even walk after my fiftieth birthday.
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12-09-2007, 09:05 PM
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Further words: Issues 5 and 6. He uses it to kill a demon controlled swarm of sharks (I dunno what the group term for that is, so I'm going with alliteration).
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12-10-2007, 07:16 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Leander, Texas | | We have a chainsaw on a stick. That thing rocks!!! Great for clearing the creek of flood debris, and for zombie control.
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12-11-2007, 03:15 PM
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Originally Posted by doctorjazz I've got one better. |
i stand corrected... this is where it's at! |
12-12-2007, 06:39 PM
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Originally Posted by txbasschik We have a chainsaw on a stick. That thing rocks!!! Great for clearing the creek of flood debris, and for zombie control.
Cherie | good point on zombie control. But do you find that when you're fighting zombies with it, you kill maybe a dozen but then the chain saw stalls and they eat you alive? | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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