I was pretty deadly with a slingshot as a kid. Not as good as this guy, but seriously I could hit anything within 20 yards pretty reliably. I used to buy 200 white marbles for $10 from the variety store and use those to shoot.

Aiming a slingshot is the same as aiming a bow and arrow, or even flicking a rubber band.... extend the imaginary line to your target, release. I find it easier than aiming a gun and don't need to line it up with my eye.

These are a tad bit cruel imo.

A slap in the face, a rubber band torture is good enough.

1st degree burns, bleeding from your ass cheeks etc, that's a bit too much.

lol... safety on a rubber band gun

bookmarking, and watch the rest later.

the idea that the climate could have a rubber-banding sort of effect, by reaching some threshold at which a trend rapidly reverses, is definitely not out of the realm of possibility.

and here's a little thought experiment to consider, as you watch this.
if you fill one icecube tray with warm water, and one with cold, and put them both in the freezer, while will be fully solid ice first?
please do NOT simply reply below here with what you think, or know, the answer to be.
the point is that, counter-intuitive though one of the answers may be, you can still think of plausible scientific theories why either outcome is possible.

I'd be her rubber band any day!

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Whoa...wait...

OMG! That's hilarious...I think Mr Garrison would put the rubber band around his teeth...

Aww c'mon. really?? that's cheating yo.

You are left with a million of substitutions.

Sweet tomatoes, Onions, Texas green onions or shallots can do the job just as well, plus more flavor!

Or in this case squash ball, matryoshka doll, squeezed plastic bag or ball of rubber band.

Got me to thinking about what I did in my younger days.

Lincoln Logs
Tinker Toys
Legos
Mouse Trap
Operation
Chinese Checkers
Tonka Trucks
Built Models
Building Forts with lots of wood and nails
Making rubber band guns
Pickle (baseball)
Horse (basketball)
Around the world (basketball)
Smear the queer
Hide and Seek
Door bell ditch

Those were the days.

>> ^spoco2:
The only good thing about them is that their bodies are remarkably brittle, such that a good flick of the finger or a rubber band (or one of the brilliant fly gun things) and it'll pretty much explode on impact.

What the hell!? you can kill your hornets with a rubber band? Here in America these things are armoured out the ass. I had one that was quite a bit bigger than this one hit my windshield when I was doing about 70 mph and got stuck under my windshield wiper. It shook that off like nothing happened and proceeded to sting my wiper about 30 times before it could free itself.

I've also wasted half cans of wasp spray on these guys to no avail.

Here in Australia we call them European Wasps, and they're god fricken awful creatures. The native wasps here are relatively harmless, and the imported bees are fine too, but these bastards, ugh.

See, a bee only stings once, and only if it really has to because it dies once it does, but a wasp like this horror can sting as many times as they like and do so whenever the crap they feel like it... the worst case is when one gets in your can of drink, and you swallow it and it stings you multiple times as it goes down your throat[edit, terrible spelling]. Apparently people have died that way.

The only good thing about them is that their bodies are remarkably brittle, such that a good flick of the finger or a rubber band (or one of the brilliant fly gun things) and it'll pretty much explode on impact.

Kill them all!

^ Coming up next: Hilarious home video footage of last nights "MacGyver" air disaster, in which a lone madman destroys a passenger plane with nothing more than a rubber band, two fridge magnets and one of those soapy refresher napkins you get at those greasy style fast food restaurants.

Your son is sooo cute! I love your costume YDJ. Remember the ones with the cheap plastic mask w/ a rubber band stapled on to wear it on your head? The rubber band ALWAYS snapped before the night was over.

My best costume as a child was a Princess Leia (white w/ the hair buns) look my mom whipped up from a couple of white bedsheets.

He didn't trade on a paperclip or any of the other items, what he traded on was the notoriety of the novelty.

What would really be inspirational (and much more useful) would be if he could discover a method of making such a process Repeatable. Cuz the next person who sees this and thinks - wow that's awesome! i'll trade up this rubber band for a ferrarri! - is gonna be disappointed.

Some interesting stories and commentary there... mine is a tribute to the great (early seasons) of ren&stimpy. Started playing PC games with a friend on the internet some 15 years ago and he was stimpy... then it just stuck.. and here I am.

What's really baking my noodle at the moment is what a choggie could possibly be, i was half expecting to see an urbandictionary reference for it, describe some kind of depraved act involving a spoon, a rubber band and a watermelon.

In reply to your comment:
“Are these the same folks who brought us the giant rubber band? ”

Indeed they are. I even mentioned the Spike TV translation "Hey! Spring of Trivia" on both videos, although they never translated the episode with the cancellation of momentum using a pitching machine....