Quote: Nigel Kelly @ November 5 2008, 4:35 PM GMTHomemade bits of wood with grooves chiselled into them were good. You stretched back those thick black rubber bands on to them and flicked them off, stung like a bastard too.
Hahaha yeah, brilliant. Couldn't do that nowadays.
Quote: sootyj @ November 5 2008, 4:33 PM GMTThat do ya?
Spud Cannon I believe.
Oh, and Black Widow catapults. Ouch!
Quote: chipolata @ November 5 2008, 4:32 PM GMTYou were playing with a spud gun when you turned forty then?
He! he! yes indeed.
When I was black too.
A two foot length of 2 by 2 with a few nails hammered through the end is also very effect... especially if the blow is delivered to the pack of the head... you don't see many cats or babies get back up after they've been twatted by one of them...
Now that's a spud gun! Lucky little devil.
Well, so much for peace on Earth anyways. 
Quote: sootyj @ November 5 2008, 4:43 PM GMTNow that's a spud gun! Lucky little devil.
I take it that's Obama as a kid at his dad's place in Kenya...
kjs
Not unless he was blacked up.
Quote: Frankie Rage @ November 5 2008, 4:49 PM GMTNot unless he was blacked up.
Have you not heard he's got the same problem as Michael Jackson... the more desperate for popularity he gets the whiter he turns...
kjs
One of the reasons why I'm glad Obama won is that if McCain won, and then died, Sarah Palin would have been President. That truly scared the shit out of me.
Quote: NickTheDon @ November 5 2008, 5:13 PM GMTOne of the reasons why I'm glad Obama won is that if McCain won, and then died, Sarah Palin would have been President. That truly scared the shit out of me.
Snap! I think that McCain probably lost at least a few votes because of Palin.
And to the people saying it was about race - I'm sure it played a small part, but certainly not a deciding factor. If it did then I'm sure Ohio, a state with a massive white population that Bush won by huge margins in 2000 and 2004, would not have voted for a Black Democratic President.
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ November 5 2008, 5:15 PM GMTSnap! I think that McCain probably lost at least a few votes because of Palin.
It would be nice to think so, but the sad fact is Sarah Palin probably energised the Republican base and got them out to vote. Without her, McCain would have got even less votes. This isn't the last you've seen of Palin, and I would say she has a realistic shot of becoming president in her own right in 2016 - or 2012 if Obama really f**ks up his first term.
Quote: chipolata @ November 5 2008, 5:19 PM GMTIt would be nice to think so, but the sad fact is Sarah Palin probably energised the Republican base and got them out to vote. Without her, McCain would have got even less votes. This isn't the last you've seen of Palin, and I would say she has a realistic shot of becoming president in her own right in 2016 - or 2012 if Obama really f**ks up his first term.
Worryingly, I agree. The Republicans seem to love her, everyone else thinks she's a bit psychotic.
I'm still not seeing how she's not even just a tad psychotic, I'm afraid...
She's nuts.
But I can kind of see her likeability factor.
Still, she shouldn't be allowed to be in charge of ANYTHING.
