Ever shoot spit balls thru a straw @ school?

[carpriver]

I have also passed on the art of spit balls and pea shooters to my grand daughters; my daughters in laws have thanked me several times for advancing the girls education. I also taught them the art of the arm pit fart with a straw, the hair pin snapper, and how to play poker, match pennies and the penny toss. The grand kids have learned many useful childhood skills from Grandpa, I am proud of them; I have done my job as a grandfather.

 

[ohiobuckeye]

I taught my granddaughter how to do it when she was about five....at Pizza Hut....she's now 10 and we still do it in spite of an angry complaining grandma....

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

Another crowd pleaser was taking a little 8th grader (we were Juniors/Seniors) with long sleeves and buttoning him spread eagle on the hurricane (read that chain link fence to those not in the hurricane belt) fence during noon recess. Made for a wonderful sight out of the windows It was pretty much a rite of passage and was done to all the 8th graders who wore long shirts to school and they knew better than to tell cause if they did it would get worser after skule.

 

[the ringo kid]

I did, once had to stand with my nose in a circle drawn on the blackboard. 2nd and LAST time had to write 1000 times, a very long sentence ............ that was over 45 yrs ago i think (Im soon 59). Kids still do that nowdays? Regards Ernie

I was lucky, I never got caught. Same thing with throwing erasers at the chalkboard-full of chalk dust.

 

[the ringo kid]

I did quite a bit in middle school. Shot spit-wads at the wall, at other kids, etc.
I would also chew up an entire sheet of paper and throw it up onto the ceiling, leaving a big gob up there. They would stick for months.

We used to buy pencils from the Math teacher for 2 cents each and proceed to play pencil wars by using yours to break you opponents pencils. They would be to the shouting from Mr. Dahmer of: "Oh Stop It Will You". We never listened and I passed that class with a "C".

 

[THEWELSHM]

lol this thread took me back a few years Bic pens were the way to go.


thewelshm

 

[the ringo kid]

Anyone remember making pen guns out of pens by taking out the tip and the spring and a plastic piece and reversing them? Sometimes they could really sting when placing it on someones hand and firing

 

[P&R Fan]

Did I shoot spitballs? I was a boy, of COURSE I did.

We took it a step further, though. Get a Bic pen, with the "choke" as mentioned. Take a coat hangar and cut a piece out so you have a metal piece like a candy cane. Insert a spitball into the "breech" end of the Bic tube. Use the coat hangar piece as a ram-rod and push the spitwad through to the "muzzle" end. It will be air-tight. Now, put another spitwad in the "breech" end. Push it in a fraction of an inch. You now have an air pocket between the two spitwads. Use the coat hangar piece as a ram-rod. Push it quickly on the rear spitwad. The air pressure will shoot the front one out at an impressive velocity. There will also be a loud POP!
It will get whomever it hits attention.....and it's ssoooooo cool.
It's been 30 years or more since I did that. Remember it like it was yesterday.
Jim

 

[therevjay]

I think now a kid probably gets suspended or expelled or maybe sent to prison if he's overheard saying shoot or gun.

 

[Ogandydancer]

Did that and also shot folded paperclips and bobby pins and folded straight pins with rubber bands.

 

[Salty RI]

Bic

Bic pen's were the best, we used the clock as a target, some one mentioned pea shooters, I havent seen them in years, but the straws from McDonalds will work.

 

[handejector]

I did not.

That's how I answered the first time I was ever asked, an I'm stickin to it.

 

[Gunhacker]

LOL... I just got back from running an errand to Home Depot during my Lunch "hour". Took the wife and stopped at In 'n Out Burger... while not a spit ball, I just finished shooting her with the straw wrapper while standing at the drink dispenser... yeah, it's been a slow day today.

In school we used to shoot them just above the blackboard and then giggled as they began to dry out and fall on the teacher's head, every few minutes... as she waved her hand around in the air above her shooing away the pesky "flies".

 

[Rintimtin]

I have not read all the post yet, so I don't know if these little *******s have been mentioned yet.

HORNETS= Tightly folded paper in the shape of a V with a staple or pin at the narrow end. You use rubber bands as a slingshot. They will draw blood and leave welts. This was the "history ninjas" weapon of choice, silent lethal and easy to make. We also used paper throwing stars, and cardboard roll from paper towels as artillary spit ball launchers. Thier was a time when everyone in class was packing some form of launcher and home made paper ammo. Remember when it was just fun and no one wanted to get you back because you had the wrong color shirt on or you wearnt from the rich side of the tracks *** is wrong with society today.

It got really bad when kids started bringing the electric ignitors from old probane grills as little stun guns.

 

[DeathGrip]

A good rubber band and If you take a one and a quarter finish nail and bend it over in a vice it'll shoot out the cafeterias clock from 100 feet or so. Or so I've heard.

 

[hangnoose]

SPITBALLS

Yes, but it wasn't my fault, I was only defending myself, or something like that. anybody else do the single serve butter packs on the cafeteria ceiling with your initials and date. the longest one up there won. and that was in college.

 

[charlie sherrill]

I had some fake poop that I had fun with until it got confiscated. They may still have it or one of the teachers took it home to play with. I probably wouldn't have gotten caught if one of the girls hadn't thrown up. I got whipped, sent home, and whipped some more. We used to blow up cherry bombs and M 80's in the hallway. Very loud and also a little rough on a toilet. Use a lit cigarette for a delayed fuse and ten minutes later when it went off you were back in your class and mostly out of suspicion. They would probably call the BATF if a kid did that today.

 

[DeathGrip]

Static Electricity

I went to a private school in the mid seventies. We only wore dress shoes, Athletic shoes were for the field or court. No blue jeans.

I usually wore leather soles as did most of the other guys.

Once a week we had a chapel meeting where the whole school was there. This place was huge and like a theatre with carpet and nice seats that flipped up. (no pews it this place but thats another story)

If you made contact with your friends and rubbed your feet on the carpet then lifted your feet, the first person unconnected down the line was gonna get a lightning bolt when they got touched.

Extra points when the recipient lets out a curse word.

 

[Grayfox]

Been there, done that and got the whuppin'.

 

[CoronaDan]

Oh what wonderful memories

1. The most spitball laden class was the first period after lunch. Nothing like a fresh straw and napkins for gooey ammo. We tired of the usual **** and took to dotting the "i's" as our young English teacher wrote on the chalk board. This was actually pretty tame stuff at my Catholic boys highs school. The sound of twenty to so dried spitballs hitting the chalk ledge at the end of class when the blackboard was erased stills rings.

2. Undaunted, largely unsatisfied and unchallenged by the single shot, we moved on to the "Gatling Gun" approach. Most often employed against one poor, randomly selected kid. The Gatling was a bundle of 10 - 20 straws taped together, individually loaded and launched with a massive breath that only non-smoking 17 year old lungs can muster. It's accuracy was decidedly more short range than the SA tube, but devastating with a bunch of freshly chewed napkins.

My mouth has gone dry just remembering.

It was a helluva education.