When My Son Was Three, A Neighbor Who Had Banned All Toy Guns From Their House Handed Him A Barbie Doll. He Bent It Over At The Waist, Pointed Barbie’s Head At Her, And Said: BANG BANG
When My Son Was Three, A Neighbor Who Had Banned All Toy Guns From Their House Handed Him A Barbie Doll. He Bent It Over At The Waist, Pointed Barbie’s Head At Her, And Said: BANG BANG
4 thoughts on “When My Son Was Three, A Neighbor Who Had Banned All Toy Guns From Their House Handed Him A Barbie Doll. He Bent It Over At The Waist, Pointed Barbie’s Head At Her, And Said: BANG BANG”
Resisting the obvious joke…
Undoubtedly the best blog post title this year.
The walk away at the end of the vid is the great part. Now I want one of those.
My son Jon did it with his older sisters’ toy hair dryer.
We tried the toy gun ban but my guys managed to build Gatling guns out of tinker toys, clothes pins into guns and in short just about anything into a gun. We didn’t even have a television. The ideas just seemed to be born into them. One kid is in the military and the other a kung fu/san soo instructor and weapons expert. Go figure.
Ah, Greeny Stick ’em caps….
Those were definitely the coolest thing imaginable in the ’50s. Disappointingly, though, having the caps inside all that metal made for an extremely muffled BANG – more like (bonk.)
Fortunately, we took up the slack by inventing match guns, and taking apart fireworks to put the innards to better use, and stuff like that.
4 thoughts on “When My Son Was Three, A Neighbor Who Had Banned All Toy Guns From Their House Handed Him A Barbie Doll. He Bent It Over At The Waist, Pointed Barbie’s Head At Her, And Said: BANG BANG”
Resisting the obvious joke…
Undoubtedly the best blog post title this year.
The walk away at the end of the vid is the great part. Now I want one of those.
My son Jon did it with his older sisters’ toy hair dryer.
We tried the toy gun ban but my guys managed to build Gatling guns out of tinker toys, clothes pins into guns and in short just about anything into a gun. We didn’t even have a television. The ideas just seemed to be born into them. One kid is in the military and the other a kung fu/san soo instructor and weapons expert. Go figure.
Ah, Greeny Stick ’em caps….
Those were definitely the coolest thing imaginable in the ’50s. Disappointingly, though, having the caps inside all that metal made for an extremely muffled BANG – more like (bonk.)
Fortunately, we took up the slack by inventing match guns, and taking apart fireworks to put the innards to better use, and stuff like that.
Oh, and homemade carbide cannons (what?) Carbide Cannons! (WHAT?) CARBIDE CANNONS!!
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