Posted on 01/15/2010 10:57:12 AM PST by Reaganesque
I'm a grown man and I love Nerf guns. I'm not alone either, which is why modders look to trick them out with new looks and new capabilities. Check out Oobject's list for 12 of the best Nerf mods. [Oobject]
I want number 6.
I have a nerf gun on my desk. Loaded!
I meant he got #4
For Christmas my 8-year old got gun #4 and another one not pictured here that has a magazine that holds about ten shots. We have been having more fun with these things. Can you picture a 50 year old having a nerf war with an 8 year old? What fun. Of course he gives me the one with the ten shots, and I also have to deal with the wife yelling in the background, “you have to pick all of those bullets up before you go to bed.
SERIOUS Nerf porn.
Mongo WANT. . . (grin)
At one job I kept a multiple fire rubber band gun in my desk. People would come in to ask dumb IT questions, and I would shoot them with it. Can’t do that any more, now I work with the overly sensitive.
I modded my S&W Model 24, a .44 special with a 3” barrel. I bobbed the hammer, had it hard chromed and added Miculek grips.
Huh? Toys? nevermind.
When I ran the computer center in the business school at a major Texas univeristy I put up a 4 foot by 6 foot sign that said “Poor planning on your part does not constitue an emergency on our part!”
Got tired of the idiots coming in the labs during the last week of school and asking “Is this the computer Lab? How do I do all of these assignments?”
I also got every stupid question you could imagine:
Student unfolds 5 1/4 in floppy disk and asks if we can get the data off of it...
Student leaves disk in 110 car for 2 days. Disk now looks like a fluffy little pillow. Student cuts open the case and tries to use the disk material by itself and wonders why it wont work.
Student CRAMS floppy disk between two disk drives and wonders where it went...
Student sits in front of computer trying to figure out why it wont work for 15 minutes. Finally comes and asks if computer is broken. I proceed to demonstarte to the student how to turn the monitor on...
I wish I could have used one of these nerf gins on these “students”
Got tired of the idiots coming in the labs during the last week of school and asking “Is this the computer Lab? How do I do all of these assignments?”
I also got every stupid question you could imagine:
Student unfolds 5 1/4 in floppy disk and asks if we can get the data off of it...
Student leaves disk in 110 car for 2 days. Disk now looks like a fluffy little pillow. Student cuts open the case and tries to use the disk material by itself and wonders why it wont work.
Student CRAMS floppy disk between two disk drives and wonders where it went...
Student sits in front of computer trying to figure out why it wont work for 15 minutes. Finally comes and asks if computer is broken. I proceed to demonstrate to the student how to turn the monitor on...
I wish I could have used one of these nerf guns on these “students”
I worked with an administrative assistant who wanted the labels on her 5 1/4 floppies “pretty” so she used the typewriter. Only instead of typing the labels first, then putting them on the floppies, she would put the labels on the floppies, then roll the disks into the typewriter and type on them. Then complain her floppies didn’t work. Gee, I wonder why.
She’s also the one who called me in a panic because there “was a red line across the middle of my screen.” Nothing else, just a red line. Swore she hadn’t touched anything or opened any programs or files. It just showed up. Before I walked all the way over to her office, I had her put one of the other AAs on the phone. Turned out she was in WordPerfect with no file open and had accidentally turned on “Reveal Codes.”
And she’s the one who “didn’t want to lose my floppies,” so she got a couple of magnets and stuck them to the filing cabinet by her desk. This was after we’d had the discussion about not mutilating the disks by running them through the typewriter. She didn’t want to put them in a drawer, they “might get damaged.”
We once had a IT-ignorant HR Director. When she first started, she requested a box of 3.5” floppies.
A month later, she asked for another box.
Some time after that, she called me in to “troubleshoot an application issue.” Apparently she had some dumb virtual pet program, featuring an animated cat that would walk across the screen, chase the cursor, etc...
As I started to remove the software and explain that installing the program violated our IT policy, etc, she went nuts. It was “necessary for her mental well-being and helped her perform her job better.” I removed it anyway.
As I left, she asked for another box of disks. I asked her why she used so many floppies. She said she created allot of files. Thinking she was concerned about HR-related confidentiality, I asked why she couldn’t save her files to the network share. “The what?”
She had been saving all her files to floppy. This was 2004.
I got my nephew the one with the tripod last year. He has a pistol as well. I told him all machine gunners need a pistol as a sidearm.
Now when he uses that machinegun, he always has his pistol by his side.
Future NRA and maybe even a Marine member.
For Christmas one of my sons gave his brothers nerf gun # 1 and # 4.......their ages 21,22 and 26.......I am still finding nerf ammo.....
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