School bans tag, chase games

[dmc]

Anybody remember the "polish cannon"?

A few old style coke cans, duct tape, tennis balls and some lighter fluid...

Cut the top and bottom off of three of the cans...
Leave the 4th whole but punch a little hole on the bottom side... Duct tape the cans together with the 4th at the bottom..
Put some lighter fluid in the little hole... Stuff a tennis ball in...
Swing the contraption above your head a few times to turn the fluid into gas - put it on the ground,.... and light...

gooood fun...

 

[Greg]

get pulled behind a truck in a snowy parking lot

We used to call that skitchin'... Did it quite a bit in college... :lol:

 

[roark]

I'd probably go to jail for the things we did in High School now... and it hasn't been that long... :roll:

 

[JimG.]

Seems that way. Next thing you know recess time at school will be replaced with Play Station 2 or X Box time.

Yes, that's right...

Because it's wrong to play games that are exclusionary or discriminatory or that have a winner or loser...

But it's perfectly OK to play games that simulate murder, death, drug dealing, car theft, war and carnage in general and get fat and sluglike in the process.

What's wrong with you?

 

[Paul]

Anybody remember the "polish cannon"?

A few old style coke cans, duct tape, tennis balls and some lighter fluid...

Cut the top and bottom off of three of the cans...
Leave the 4th whole but punch a little hole on the bottom side... Duct tape the cans together with the 4th at the bottom..
Put some lighter fluid in the little hole... Stuff a tennis ball in...
Swing the contraption above your head a few times to turn the fluid into gas - put it on the ground,.... and light...

gooood fun...

Did "Spud guns" using PVC pipe instead.

Same concept...

 

[dmc]

Did "Spud guns" using PVC pipe instead.

Same concept...

I spent most of my young days attempting to launch things... I think it was a part of growing up in the 60's and watching the rockets take off on TV.....

 

[hammer]

I spent most of my young days attempting to launch things... I think it was a part of growing up in the 60's and watching the rockets take off on TV.....

Isn't the latest launch thing with Diet Coke and Mentos?

I saw them do that on Mythbusters...cool...

 

[Paul]

The father of one of my best friends worked as an Engineering contractor for NASA and the DoD. He had all kinds of cool things we used to turn into implements of destruction. One of the best were large capacators that we used to discharge, and make arc, and even blow-up. We also used to make bombs out of leaf bags and Acetelyne gas.

You know, good, wholesome kidstuff....

 

[Paul]

Isn't the latest launch thing with Diet Coke and Mentos?

I saw them do that on Mythbusters...cool...

Do a search on YouTube for that, some pretty entertaining vids of the stupidity of humanity, especially the dolts who try to mix it in their stomachs...uke:

 

[kickstand]

We used to call that skitchin'... Did it quite a bit in college... :lol:

We used to call it Bumper Skiing - very appropriate for this web site......

 

[2knees]

I spent most of my young days attempting to launch things... I think it was a part of growing up in the 60's and watching the rockets take off on TV.....

lol i lit a model rocket off in my bedroom. class c engine i think. my room smelled like sulfur for a month.

 

[cbcbd]

I have fond memories of playing with gunpowder as a kid - blowing stuff up, collecting gunpowder from smaller explosives to make a big explosive, making gunpowder trails and setting them off...

I love the smell of burning gunpowder

Aah, those were the days...

...and it looks like I passed natural selection - we all did. From here on the bar has been lowered

 

[Marc]

Bottle rocket fights are great too.

Fixed that for ya...

 

[Marc]

Meh, in elementary school, all the playground equipment was made from scrap telephone pole bolted together with 1" lag hardware, no protection on anything.

I'm still alive.





And to boot, look how great I turned out!

 

[Mike P.]

Without reading the article, (but my wife is a PE major & teacher & went to the school & had the professor who in New England is credited with creating the list of games in the Hall of Shame)

The object is that most of these games don't positively involve all the kids, you get the small kids inside & you bean the living cr@P out of them. The slow kid is always it. If kids do it at recess it's one thing, they decide on their own & kids don't have to play.

When an adult makes it manadatory to participate & then does not monitor the game, thats not Physical Education, that's recess.

PE should be about learning skills & movements, having fun & getting exercise. In a day & age where there is more of a descrepancy between the weak & the strong (A kid who stays back in 2nd or third grade may be significantly bigger & stronger than the Smith Triplets who were born many weeks premature) whipping balls at each other's heads as a class room activity is just wrong. That does not mean the kids get fat & lazy, it means the teachers don't reinforce the pecking order You get them to enjoy physical actvity so they want to go for a hike, a bike ride or play a sport.

BTW, we just to play war, cowboys & indians (read native americans all you PC types) & if you did not have a toy gun you used a stick. Also in our version of bombardment, while I had a poor arm I was very agile (at 12) so often times I would be left against the bully, he could throw but man, he was slow.

As one of the kids who was bullied, oddly as we grew up, most of us grew bigger than the bullies (another lesson showing being cool & smoking butts as a 12-15 year old stunts your growth) & in the winter we would get together & go through their hang out places loaded with snowballs. (Now they probably would be armed) Another we played no-rules Wallyball with for six or seven years & while he could still dish it out, he was our favorit person to block, some weeks I had net burns on my armpits & we had to reinforce the nets with Bungee cords, not the cute multi-colored ones but the black rubber ones. (I had to stop playing that because he caused havoc with playing real volleyball & trying to stay out of the net)

 

[ski_resort_observer]

Even tho me and my buddies are old farts we still like to shoot off a few bottle rockets when we get together...kind of a tradition from our college days. A couple of weeks ago we partied abit and blew a few off for old times sake.

We are on a dirt road in Vermont but we could hear in the distance a dog barking everytime we lit one up.

 

[Grassi21]

Fixed that for ya...

Thanks. What was I thinking?

 

[BeanoNYC]

anyone play "asses up" as a kid? ...Man that game was painful.

 

[Grassi21]

anyone play "asses up" as a kid? ...Man that game was painful.

Is that a loaded question? I don't want to answer. ;-)

 

[John84]

anyone play "asses up" as a kid? ...Man that game was painful.

Were you a page when you were younger?