Ever shoot spit balls thru a straw @ school?

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My hat off to you Lee ! I never considered it as a "Skill". Hope I can make my wife proud. I havent had any practice in years. With the ammo shortage, Its time to renew my skill.lol
 
Anyone remember the milk dispensers that had the long, live rubber tubes that went from the milk bladder down to the pinch-handle at school? When the bladder was empty, the lunchroom folks would just replace it with a new one. We would cut off the rubber tube which was about 3 feet long, snake it inside your shirtsleeve, poke it out at your wrist, and fire with little chance of being caught. I got kicked out of 10th grade Geometry.
 
Oh YES!! We had one teacher how was so docile he was unable to grasp that there was a war going on between two sides of the classroom with the nerds (AKA those who wished to learn) in the middle trying to dodge the crossfire. :eek: We got it down to a fine art involving broadsides when the teacher's back was turned.:cool: Happy days. :D:D:D

After a while I actually felt sorry for that teacher and a couple of others I had at another high school. They were utterly incapable of teaching a duck to swim, let alone control a class of 20+ boys.
 
I remember taking the ball point and ink tube out of the Bic pens and using them for the barrel. I learned quickly to use the "choke" (where the writing end was inserted) at the end of the tube for better accuracy. I would spit wads up on the fluorescent lights overhead; they would dry out and drop on whoever was sitting under them in the next class/period.

I hadn't thought of that for years...
 
One of the "sweathogs" in my home room (I decline to admit whether or not I was one of 'em :D ) Took it a step further. He developed what he called, "THE BLOB" He would tear up a sheet of notebook paper into 4 pieces and then, one at a time, put them into his mouth and chew them all around and get 'em mushy.

He would keep one going for a while until the teacher would leave the room for some reason and then, and THEN....he would stealthily approach the black board and when he was within range he'd carefully take it out of his mouth and give it a fling.

Wish I could duplicate the sound it made when it hit. Not a splat, or a whop, or a phwump but perhaps a blend of the 3???.

I once had a blob up to 2 1/2 sheets of paper going in and English class. Now this teacher was a dried up old hag that hated kids. Why she ever wanted to be a school teacher remains a mystery to this day. Maybe just so she could have access to large numbers of kids to torture.

Anyway she could rarely make it through our 4th period English class without having to excuse herself. On this particular occasion I had waited for the door to close behind her and began my approach. This enormous, dripping, shapeless mass of goo had just left my hand when the door opened and she stepped back into the room. Forgot her purse or something.....

Three things happened simultaneously. The blob hit the blackboard and made "that" sound, Mrs. XXXXX screamed my name, and after a moment of dead silence the entire class burst out in uproarious laughter.

I spent the rest of the school day in the assistant principals office. Got 2 weeks of detention which included cleaning Mrs. XXXXX's black board every day. The phenomenon did occasionally happen again here and there, now and then but I retired from that little club....permanently.
 
I taught my granddaughters how to shoot through a straw at McDonald's recently. My daughter couldn't thank me enough. We did the mush ball thing in study hall (I don't know why they called it that because nobody studied) when I was in Jr. High. The teacher in there (Miss Riley) was one of the meanest women (other than my last wife) I've ever known. She had a large desk at the front of the room and up on the wall behind that desk hung a picture of George Washington. Every time she left the room or turned around one of us would let loose a mush ball (consisted of at least one or two pages of notebook paper) and it would usually splat right on old George's face. For whatever reason George never got his face cleaned and the mush balls would collect and dry out like paper machete. The collection got so large the picture was completely covered and right before school was out for the year George fell to the floor and shattered. Another fun thing involved bobby pins that we got from the girls. Several of us scattered around the classroom would get one, straighten it out, lodge it in a crack somewhere on our desk. One of us would give it a "twang" and when Miss Riley went looking for it someone on the other side of the room would "twang" theirs. Elmo Jenkins once ratted me out on that and I got sent to the office. I waited a couple of months and stuck one in his desk and returned the favor. Don't teach your kids about paper clips and rubber bands. Might lose an eye.
 
Malpasowildlifer said:
I did. Bic pens were the best. Tired to make a scope with another bic pen on top, attached with toothpicks and a crosshair made from toothpicks but it didn't work
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Take a bic pen. Get some cotton and some straight pins. Wicked blow gun :D Had some memorable fights in 7th grade history with them. Had a kid sitting in the front row and on a count of three about 6 of us would hit him in the back. Awsome.
 
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Our spitwads were way too big for any kind of straw. I remember my 10th grade Algebra teacher was writing on the blackboard when a wad that was a whole sheet of paper hit the board about 4 ft. from him. He wasn't pleased, but then, nobody cared. In that class, I once counted over 50 spitwads on the ceiling and walls.
 
Watermelon Jelly Worms.

If you pinch off a small piece and flick it on something it will stick. Looks just like a bugger. Much fun in someones hair.

Take a whole worm (color don't matter) and apply to a cat. :D:D:D:D:D
 
paper clips and rubber bands, some deadly wars took place in our day. They dug up a waterline to the school once, dirt clod fight at lunch hour, stiches and bloody faces in the afternoon, whipped buts when we got home. ah those were the school days. that is only the safe part to print.
 
All I'm going to say yes we did do it.

One teacher would pin our backs to the blackboard while my other classmates would make us laugh in her face behind her back it wasn't pretty when she became even madder at us. We had two really bad guy ups in class who always got me in more trouble.
 
We shot paper clips or folded paperwads with rubber bands. I guess no one in our school ever heard of spitwads, maybe because straws weren't used much in that area.
We did make a sort of rifle out of a board, a couple of nails and piece of inner tube, we used them to shoot bottle caps, they worked surprisingly well but were too bulky to bring to school.
Steve W
 
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