When potato guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have potato guns

[The Central Scrutinizer]

WTF??? (http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/West/04/26/spud.gun.ban.ap/)

[Roadtoad]

Why are you surprised? You're dealing with a bunch of tightasses. Of course they're going to ban spud guns. Hey, they got rid of all that deadly Silly String, didn't they?

[peptoabysmal]

He was looking down the barrel of a potato gun that was loaded with a frog when it went off, shooting the animal into his face.


That sounds better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Originally posted by peptoabysmal


That sounds better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.

That sounds like a Beavis and Butthead episode.

[peptoabysmal]

Originally posted by The Central Scrutinizer


That sounds like a Beavis and Butthead episode.

Actually, it's from a movie called Cat Ballou.

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Originally posted by Roadtoad
Why are you surprised? You're dealing with a bunch of tightasses. Of course they're going to ban spud guns. Hey, they got rid of all that deadly Silly String, didn't they?

But what about the 2nd ammendment?? It gives us the right to keep and bear potato guns!!

[Zep]

Originally posted by The Central Scrutinizer
But what about the 2nd ammendment?? It gives us the right to keep and bear potato guns!!
Yep, and your spitballs, and nerf-guns, and... STUFF THAT DOESN"T KILL FOLKS ???!!!

Zep

[LW]

Originally posted by The Central Scrutinizer


But what about the 2nd ammendment?? It gives us the right to keep and bear potato guns!!

Wasn't that the right to carve bears on potatos?

[Zep]

No. Due to an unfortunate typo, it should have been "the right to arm bears".

[Nikk]

Originally posted by peptoabysmal


Actually, it's from a movie called Cat Ballou.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

For years and years I have had scenes from that movie in my memory but I could never remember the name of the sodding film!

Thanks to you I have made the connection and can look for a video.

[Badger]

I can't wait until they ban toilet paper, when people are throwing it around at the next parade.

I wonder at people who would make a new law, rather than enforcing existing laws that would achieve the implied goal. I expect that they're concerned with public disturbance/nuisance and littering, aren't they? One would think there's already laws on the books regarding these two issues.

Boneheads.

[John Harrison]

That sounds better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.

Huh, huh, you said "poke".

[subgenius]

They'll get mine when they pry it from greasy french-fry eatin fingers.

[3-toed-sloth]

What about pumpkin cannons?

http://www.cannon-mania.com/images/Pumpkin/p-cannon1.jpg

[tim]

Originally posted by Nikk


Thank you, thank you, thank you.

For years and years I have had scenes from that movie in my memory but I could never remember the name of the sodding film!

Thanks to you I have made the connection and can look for a video.

If I remember rightly, it starred the delectable miss Fonda (Jane), in the title role,The late Oliver Reed brilliantly cast as a drunken Indian (the drunk horse scene is a killer) and was it Lee Marvin?
(wanders off to check.............)

[tim]

Hmmm......memory must be going, I think. No Mr Reed in the cast list.
Jane Fonda ... Catherine 'Cat' Ballou
Lee Marvin ... Kid Shelleen / Strawn
Michael Callan ... Clay Boone
Dwayne Hickman ... Jed
Nat 'King' Cole ... Professor Sam The Shade
Stubby Kaye ... The Sunrise Kid
Tom Nardini ... Jackson Two-Bears
John Marley ... Frankie Ballou
Reginald Denny ... Sir Harry Percival
Jay C. Flippen ... Sheriff Cardigan
Arthur Hunnicutt ... Butch Cassidy
Bruce Cabot ... Sheriff Maledon
Burt Mustin ... Accuser
Paul Gilbert ... Train messenger
Joseph Hamilton ... Frenchie
Harry Harvey ... Train Conductor
Duke Hobbie ... Homer
Charles Horvath ... Hardcase
Ivan L. Middleton ... Train Fireman
Jack Pepper ... Banjo player
Robert Phillips ... Klem
Chuck Roberson ... Armed Guard
Everett L. Rohrer ... Train Engineer
Erik Sorenson ... Sir Harry's Valet
Charles Wagenheim ... James
Ted White ... Gunslinger
Nick Cravat ... Ad-Lib
Hallene Hill ... Honey Girl
Carol Veazie ... Mrs. Parker
Gail Bonney ... Mabel Bentley
Dorothy Claire ... Singing Tart
Ayllene Gibbons ... Hedda

[Roadtoad]

Originally posted by tim


If I remember rightly, it starred the delectable miss Fonda (Jane), in the title role,The late Oliver Reed brilliantly cast as a drunken Indian (the drunk horse scene is a killer) and was it Lee Marvin?
(wanders off to check.............)

Lee Marvin and Oliver Reed were in a movie with Kay Lenz, which was called The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday. It had a hysterical scene with Reed playing a drunk (and syphyllitic) Indian going in to see the doctor, thinking he'll simply take a couple of pills, and his social disease cured.

The doctor's reply to that: "You catch it the old fashioned way. We cure it the old fashioned way."

Sorry, you'll have to see the movie for the rest.

[Nikk]

Originally posted by Roadtoad


Lee Marvin and Oliver Reed were in a movie with Kay Lenz, which was called The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday. It had a hysterical scene with Reed playing a drunk (and syphyllitic) Indian going in to see the doctor, thinking he'll simply take a couple of pills, and his social disease cured.

The doctor's reply to that: "You catch it the old fashioned way. We cure it the old fashioned way."

Sorry, you'll have to see the movie for the rest.

Never heard of the film, but if Lee Marvin and Oliver Reed were in it I'm sure it's worth watching.

[Pyrrho]

spud guns can be pretty powerful.

http://www.spudtech.com/content.asp?id=16


"I like them. They are fantastic toys, but dangerous toys," Mr. Carlson said. "They’re all capable of hurting you. I had a stockade fence in my back yard and in one afternoon, we disintegrated it."

yeah...some toy :P

[Thumper]

We used a potato gun in Chem class as a demonstration of the Ideal Gas Law. The students were VERY interested in it. Especially when the potato pieces splattered against the back wall. ;)

[subgenius]

Originally posted by Pyrrho
spud guns can be pretty powerful.

http://www.spudtech.com/content.asp?id=16



yeah...some toy :P

Had no idea they were referring to what was in the link. That thing is deadly.

[aerosolben]

Note to those using potato guns (the full-size PVC-tube ones):

Do not get drunk and attempt to knock branches off a dead tree directly above you with a potato gun.

[shanek]

Originally posted by The Central Scrutinizer
WTF??? (http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/West/04/26/spud.gun.ban.ap/)

It's government. What do you expect?

There's no problem that can't be made worse by government.

[shanek]

Originally posted by Roadtoad
Why are you surprised? You're dealing with a bunch of tightasses. Of course they're going to ban spud guns. Hey, they got rid of all that deadly Silly String, didn't they?

The commissioners in my county recently acted to make us all safe from paintball. Go figure...

[shanek]

Originally posted by peptoabysmal


That sounds better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.

Just think—if he had died, he could have gotten a Darwin Award!

[shanek]

Originally posted by Badger
I can't wait until they ban toilet paper, when people are throwing it around at the next parade.

There are localities that have actually banned marshmallows, if you can believe it!

[Thumper]

Originally posted by shanek


There are localities that have actually banned marshmallows, if you can believe it!

Banned marshmallows? How come?

[shanek]

Originally posted by Thumper
Banned marshmallows? How come?

Apparently. marshmallows are dangerous things that can cause damage when thrown. Here's one example:

http://www.etown.edu/etownian/Fall2001/102601/sports3.htm

This is about the Elizabethtown, PA "Marshmallow game," apparently called because it's tradition at a local college soccer game to throw marshmallows.

A typical ‘Marshmallow Game’ not only is a game on the field, but also consists of Elizabethtown fans versus Messiah fans flinging marshmallows festively at each other.

But marshmallows have been banned this year, seemingly so that our .79 cents for a pound can be better spent on more appropriate costs, explained in the ‘Letter to the Editor’ section of our paper.

The letter explains that, "For safety reasons, marshmallows and other such objects that can be thrown will be confiscated at the gate." I know that I’ve seen the movie, "Ghostbusters," but I thought it was only my generation who believed that a marshmallow could cause such serious Stay-Puff damage.

[Zep]

Strange that I would start to side with Shanek on this, but banning marshmallows because they could be "missiles" is just the living end! What next?? Nothing heavier than a dandelion puff to be taken to public outings??? Well, have you ever had a dandelion puff in your eye? They hurt! ...better ban those too...:D

It seems that "public liability insurance" and the remarkable propensity in the USA for some people to sue other people in court for trivia is the underlying issue here. Sure, everyone should have their day in court, but then again, why can't these cases be tossed out on the reasoning that "you knew what you were getting yourself into on the way in"?

Zep