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re: What contraptions/weapons did you build in elementary school?

Posted on 2/15/23 at 12:29 pm to
Posted by Napoleon
Kenna
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Posted on 2/15/23 at 12:29 pm to
Paper clip and rubber band darts.
Posted by Gee Grenouille
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Posted on 2/15/23 at 12:46 pm to
Junior high science, and not sure the purpose of the assignment. We cut a piece of brown poster board into the shape of a cock roach, put eyes and tentacles on it, and mounted it to the top of my remote control car. To add the element of surprise, we found a flat box to put the roach in. So 12 year old Gee turned on the car, put the roach in the box, and drove it out of the box for the big reveal. It dawned on me what my pops intended to do. All the black girls lost their shite. Started standing in their desks, running out of the room. It was absolute chaos and laughter.
Posted by hawkeye007
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Posted on 2/15/23 at 1:20 pm to
no he actually built a pipebomb
Posted by bushwacker
youngsville
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Posted on 2/15/23 at 1:22 pm to
We used to tape a marble to the back of my dad's shotgun shells. Throw them in the air, and when they landed the marble would strike the primer firing the shell. pretty stupid lol.
Posted by Broyota2
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Posted on 2/15/23 at 1:24 pm to
Posted by geauxkoo
Member since Oct 2021
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Posted on 2/15/23 at 1:24 pm to
How bout the way you can take a Bic Clik pen, remove the spring and the little white thingy, put them in the top part of the pen and it will make a little pen gun. It doesn't hurt though.
Posted by Putty
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Posted on 2/15/23 at 1:25 pm to
quote:

What contraptions/weapons did you build in elementary school?


I used to make bows out of bic pens. pull the end caps off, drive a hole in the middle, wrap a rubber band and to end, and the ink cartridge was your arrow. I loved those things. My friends hated them.

Blow darts with pvc were also fun, but only at home. Wad up paper into a spit ball, push a pin/needle through it, and launch through pvc. Got my brother in the neck once and it looked like



Posted by jeffsdad
Member since Mar 2007
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Posted on 2/15/23 at 1:28 pm to
I would get the aluminum foil from a gum wrapper and roll half of it around my pointer finger. Then insert straight pin in the opposite half and twist the foil around it.

So you have a little cup and a pin around the twisted part of the top. Fit that into your thumb and pointer finger thats making a "hole" and use your other hand by hitting a '"cup" you've made with your hand. Stuck many an aluminum foil bullet in the school ceiling.
Posted by McCauley
Jacksonburg, WV
Member since Jan 2023
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Posted on 2/15/23 at 1:35 pm to
When the A Nightmare on Elm Street series was in full effect I remember making homemade Freddy gloves


This post was edited on 2/15/23 at 1:41 pm
Posted by Duckhammer_77
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Posted on 2/15/23 at 1:39 pm to
had all three volumes of the CIA Black Books on field improvised explosives and I grew up on a farm with plenty of chemicals around. So you can imagine what I was up to.

Traded one of them for a game boy.
Posted by White Bear
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Member since Jul 2014
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Posted on 2/15/23 at 1:54 pm to
A spitball pop gun using a piece of aluminum arrow shaft and a Phillips head screwdriver.
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Posted by Modern
Fiddy Men
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Posted on 2/15/23 at 2:43 pm to
My son and his friend made paper guns and was playing with them outside at recess.


I got a phone call from the school about it…….. :mad:
Posted by parrothead
big salty ham
Member since Mar 2010
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Posted on 2/15/23 at 2:46 pm to
Those paper fortune teller things and paper footballs were always around, especially middle school.
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