@sammydog01 Right- with a little liquid filled ball in the center. We were told it was acid and if you popped it and it got in your eyes, you’d go blind. (Doubt that it was true, but it gave an element of suspense taking them apart.)
We used to tie the long rubber bands to car door handles and stretch them across the street to a corresponding door handle on the other side. We usually could get at least 5 or 6 done before a car would come down the street. The result would be a series of loud “pops,” and more often than not, the car would skid to a stop. We would be watching from the hill above the street, laughing at the bewildered victim. We were such jerks.
@mehcuda67@sammydog01 It’s not acid, but it does sting enough to scare the shit out of a curious kid…
The reason I know this is the same reason I developed one of my many corollaries to Murphy’s Law: If it can hit you in the eye, in inverse proportion to likelihood and expectation, it will hit you in the eye.
Like seriously - imagine a kid cutting into a golf ball with his Swiss Army knife - once pierced, the liquid (that he has no idea is in there) could squirt out in any direction; what are the odds that it would squirt directly into the eye, with surgical precision???
I may still be carrying some trauma from this incident…
I miss this kind of video. I know the team is busy actually working and people can’t devote a bunch of time to entertain us, but there used to be more shenanigans at HQ. I mean, is @mediocrebot even an asshole anymore, or did it mellow out?
I feel I must perpetuate @matthew’s masterful explanation of Golf’s entertainment value just in case any newer woot, err, meh-dizens have not had the privilege of hearing it yet http://files.woot.com/20061025-9FVAEY.mp3
yeah, it’s an audio podcast, not visual; that’s what we had back then, and we loved it
@Lighter Yes! which was an incredible amount of creative output. I had them set to auto-download to my mp3 player (remember those?), and I still have many of the great gems saved somewhere.
I was disappointed when he stopped making them, but I totally understand why.
Hey, golf balls are available for purchase today at Meh.com? Where do I find that place? It sounds cool.
By the way when I was a kid I took apart a golf ball. It was full of rubber band stuff. I guess they don’t make them that way anymore.
@sammydog01 Right- with a little liquid filled ball in the center. We were told it was acid and if you popped it and it got in your eyes, you’d go blind. (Doubt that it was true, but it gave an element of suspense taking them apart.)
We used to tie the long rubber bands to car door handles and stretch them across the street to a corresponding door handle on the other side. We usually could get at least 5 or 6 done before a car would come down the street. The result would be a series of loud “pops,” and more often than not, the car would skid to a stop. We would be watching from the hill above the street, laughing at the bewildered victim. We were such jerks.
@mehcuda67 Amazing.
@mehcuda67 Ah, the good old days when kids could be jerks. Yes, I remember the urban legend that the inside of a golf ball would kill you.
@sammydog01 I did that too. I was expecting to see that.
@mehcuda67 @sammydog01 It’s not acid, but it does sting enough to scare the shit out of a curious kid…
The reason I know this is the same reason I developed one of my many corollaries to Murphy’s Law: If it can hit you in the eye, in inverse proportion to likelihood and expectation, it will hit you in the eye.
Like seriously - imagine a kid cutting into a golf ball with his Swiss Army knife - once pierced, the liquid (that he has no idea is in there) could squirt out in any direction; what are the odds that it would squirt directly into the eye, with surgical precision???
I may still be carrying some trauma from this incident…
Golf gametes?
@mehcuda67 you said that so much more politely than what I was going to say.
I do so love these videos.
“Available for purchase today.”
YOU SIT ON A THRONE OF LIES.
They use to be a lot more fun. A mini rubber ball wrapped in rubber bands.
You use to be able to throw them in a fire and they would shoot out of their shell.
Now they are boring, but they do work so much better when golfing.
I didn’t know that today was May 19, 2015.
I miss this kind of video. I know the team is busy actually working and people can’t devote a bunch of time to entertain us, but there used to be more shenanigans at HQ. I mean, is @mediocrebot even an asshole anymore, or did it mellow out?
@Willijs3 mediocrebot thinks everything is awesome nowadays.
POKER! JOKER! NOT MEDIOCRE! AWESOME!
I feel I must perpetuate @matthew’s masterful explanation of Golf’s entertainment value just in case any newer woot, err, meh-dizens have not had the privilege of hearing it yet
http://files.woot.com/20061025-9FVAEY.mp3
yeah, it’s an audio podcast, not visual; that’s what we had back then, and we loved it
@kasona TNX for the memory. Didn’t Matthew do one of those five days a week?
Here’s one from President’s Day a long time ago. All the Presidents in Order
@Lighter Yes! which was an incredible amount of creative output. I had them set to auto-download to my mp3 player (remember those?), and I still have many of the great gems saved somewhere.
I was disappointed when he stopped making them, but I totally understand why.
Are all VW Golf’s male, or are some female too? Do they all have balls?