Subversiv syslöjd rides again!

Seems my post got edited out by a computer somewhere, I suspect
because of one particular word below:

Hi Erin,

lol! - maybe I'm a male exception here, that never occurred to me!

I suspect that behavior has something to do with the etymology of
the word 'e j a c u l a t e' (from my computer dictionary):

[1570-80; L ejaculatus, ptp. of ejaculari to shoot out = e- E -+
? ? jacu-lari to hurl a javelin, hurl, der. of jaculum
javelin (der. of ? ? jacere to throw)]

David
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"Erin" wrote in message
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Hej everybody!

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One thing I do wonder about, however, (and maybe someone here can
explain this) is what is the thing guys have about projectiles?!!!
Girls and women, when faced with a cup of beads, think "aha. I can
make a necklace or sew them on my clothing, etc." The FIRST thing guys
(of any age) do is try to construct some type of catapult or
slingshot! And believe me when I say that I have NEVER before seen
someone sew a slingshot. :-)

Mary wrote:

"Diana" wrote in message
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Clearly an imagination is a dangerous thing. . .

Yes., Two of our boys (13 and 15 at the time) found an empty car
petrol tank, the younger one held it between his legs while the
other stuffed the spout with dry leaves and put a match to them.

Mary?

You win.

That's almost worthy of a Darwin award. I'm very grateful that they
didn't meet all the requirements for one!

No idea what it is!

The Darwin Awards are given to those who improve the gene pool by
removing themselves from it accidentally. This can be by accidentally
killing themselves while doing something stupid, or merely rendering
themselves unable to reproduce also by doing something stupid. These
are all taken from news reports. Some are real jawdroppers.

There's complete listing of the "winners", with details, and other
goodies over at www.darwinawards.com.

The Other Kim
kimagreenfieldatyahoodotcom

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"Diana" wrote in message
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Clearly an imagination is a dangerous thing. . .

Yes., Two of our boys (13 and 15 at the time) found an empty car petrol
tank, the younger one held it between his legs while the other stuffed
the spout with dry leaves and put a match to them.

Mary?

You win.

That's almost worthy of a Darwin award. I'm very grateful that they
didn't meet all the requirements for one!

No idea what it is!

Mary

The following quote is from the Darwin Awards web page, which is he
http://darwinawards.com/darwin/
The Darwin Awards salute the improvement of
the human genome by honoring those who
accidentally remove themselves from it...

The thing is, I don't know a single teenage boy who has not, at one time or
another, avoided recieving one of these by the narrowist of margins. It
makes me rather nervous about the future of the human race. ;-)

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I dunno about 'gentle and quiet,' but....it wasn't my DAUGHTERS who got
tickets for firing a weapon within city limits----because of the potato
gun they aimed at the neighbor's cat.

No! Not really?

Yep. You take some compressed air, a length of PVC pipe (the plastic
water/sewer pipe stuff) and a potato. You do something arcane with them.
You try to shoot the potato as far as you can with it. You are absolutely
guaranteed to miss the cat.

And upset the neighbors. It makes a very. big. bang.

But that's not, strictly speaking, FIRING a weapon - there's no fired
involved. It's like using a longbow - you shoot it. If The Authorities
said 'firing' they should have been challenged :-)

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I invoked the "mother's curse' on them so often that now they are
afraid to get married.

What's the mother's curse?

You were just celebrating the success of it yourself, Mary. :-)

Ah, I see :-)

OK, everybody, all together: stand, put your hands in the proper position
(You have a choice; either with the index finger pointed at the subject,
or both hands thrown in air...) and begin:

"When you grow up I hope you have children JUST LIKE YOU!!!. "

There. Doesn't that make you feel better? (grin)

Hmmm ...

A grand-daughter has just (yesterday) moved in with us. She's so much like
her mother at 20 - but not as argumentative. Her mother (our No 1 child)
once said to us that she hoped she could bring up her children just as
we'd brought up her and her siblings.

Now that really DID make me feel better, after all the rows we'd had :-)

Mind you, she didn't - or rather her husband didn't share her values :-(

Mary

Well, that's the problem with allowing your children to get married; they
choose people who are different from them.

Of course, in my case, it's not 'allow..." I'm beginning to beg and plead.

I've even promised sweaters and a lifetime supply of hand-knitted baby
things (to get the thread on topic...)
I'm thinking, though, that this offer might not be all that big an
inducement.

On 7 Dec, 19:05, "David R. Sky" wrote:

lol! - maybe I'm a male exception here, that never occurred to me!

I suspect that behavior has something to do with the etymology of
the word 'e j a c u l a t e' (from my computer dictionary):

LOL! Yeah, that might have something to do with it. It's as good an
explanation as any!

Erin

Mary,

Spud guns used compressed air much like a air pistol. Here is a link to
wikipedia that you may want to check out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spud_gun

My husband and his brothers had one when they were younger...and I believe
the county sherriff was called out to the house just to give them a polite
"Please stop doing that" talk. *LOL*

Christy

"Mary Fisher" wrote in message
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But that's not, strictly speaking, FIRING a weapon - there's no fired
involved. It's like using a longbow - you shoot it. If The Authorities
said 'firing' they should have been challenged :-)

...

"The Other Kim" wrote in message
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That's almost worthy of a Darwin award. I'm very grateful that they
didn't meet all the requirements for one!

No idea what it is!

The Darwin Awards are given to those who improve the gene pool by removing
themselves from it accidentally. This can be by accidentally killing
themselves while doing something stupid, or merely rendering themselves
unable to reproduce also by doing something stupid. These are all taken
from news reports. Some are real jawdroppers.

ah - I see, thanks. Yes, No 3 son was practically sitting on a bomb :-)


There's complete listing of the "winners", with details, and other goodies
over at www.darwinawards.com.

I'll look at that later, thanks again,

Mary

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"Diana" wrote in message
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I dunno about 'gentle and quiet,' but....it wasn't my DAUGHTERS who
got tickets for firing a weapon within city limits----because of the
potato gun they aimed at the neighbor's cat.

No! Not really?

Yep. You take some compressed air, a length of PVC pipe (the plastic
water/sewer pipe stuff) and a potato. You do something arcane with them.
You try to shoot the potato as far as you can with it. You are
absolutely guaranteed to miss the cat.

And upset the neighbors. It makes a very. big. bang.

But that's not, strictly speaking, FIRING a weapon - there's no fired
involved. It's like using a longbow - you shoot it. If The Authorities
said 'firing' they should have been challenged :-)

...


I invoked the "mother's curse' on them so often that now they are
afraid to get married.

What's the mother's curse?

You were just celebrating the success of it yourself, Mary. :-)

Ah, I see :-)

OK, everybody, all together: stand, put your hands in the proper
position (You have a choice; either with the index finger pointed at the
subject, or both hands thrown in air...) and begin:

"When you grow up I hope you have children JUST LIKE YOU!!!. "

There. Doesn't that make you feel better? (grin)

Hmmm ...

A grand-daughter has just (yesterday) moved in with us. She's so much
like her mother at 20 - but not as argumentative. Her mother (our No 1
child) once said to us that she hoped she could bring up her children
just as we'd brought up her and her siblings.

Now that really DID make me feel better, after all the rows we'd had :-)

Mind you, she didn't - or rather her husband didn't share her values :-(

Mary

Well, that's the problem with allowing your children to get married; they
choose people who are different from them.

I didn't allow it, I had no say in it :-)

Of course, in my case, it's not 'allow..." I'm beginning to beg and plead.

LOL!

I've even promised sweaters and a lifetime supply of hand-knitted baby
things (to get the thread on topic...)
I'm thinking, though, that this offer might not be all that big an
inducement.

Not these days ...

Mary

"vanmier" vanmier AT peoplepc DOT com wrote in message
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Mary,

Spud guns used compressed air much like a air pistol. Here is a link to
wikipedia that you may want to check out.

I don't like Wiki ...

But I do know what a spud gun is, we always had them during the war.

My husband and his brothers had one when they were younger...and I believe
the county sherriff was called out to the house just to give them a polite
"Please stop doing that" talk. *LOL*

We never shot at people, we were so innocent ...

Mary

"David R. Sky" wrote in message
i.bc.ca...
Seems my post got edited out by a computer somewhere, I suspect
because of one particular word below:

Hi Erin,

lol! - maybe I'm a male exception here, that never occurred to me!

I suspect that behavior has something to do with the etymology of
the word 'e j a c u l a t e' (from my computer dictionary):

[1570-80; L ejaculatus, ptp. of ejaculari to shoot out = e- E -+
? ? jacu-lari to hurl a javelin, hurl, der. of jaculum
javelin (der. of ? ? jacere to throw)]

David

I sent a mail to a friend about my husband's prostatectomy and the
consequences. It was stopped because 'the contents were offensive'.
Apparently it was the word 'Cialis' (prescribed by our family doctor) which
might have offended my friend.

It didn't.

Mary