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Subject: RE: It's all fun and games till .... From: Hollowfox Date: 28 Dec 00 - 03:18 PM I heard from some American Revolution re-enactors that, during the filming of "Last of the Mohicans" (the movie came out in 1993), there was an idiot sound techie who wanted to place the microphone right on the edge of a cannon's mouth. There were plenty of re-enactors working as extras on the film, and they advised him to move the mike some distance away, but, no, *he* was the Sound Man and he therefore knew more about cannons than they ever would. When it was time for this particular shot, the extras contrived to call him over to deal with a non-existant problem, so that when the cannon went off, he wasn't wearing the headphones. His equipment was kind of ruined, but at least he wasn't rendered deaf by his foolishness. |
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Subject: RE: It's all fun and games till .... From: Rich(bodhránai gan ciall) Date: 28 Dec 00 - 02:14 PM I ran into somebody at a party once who carried a glass eye in her pocket so that if needed, "an eye could be found and fun and games could resume once again" True story Rich |
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Subject: RE: It's all fun and games till .... From: Wesley S Date: 27 Dec 00 - 02:26 PM About a year ago some damn fools decided to steal the gas oven from the apartment they were moving out of. Their lawyer later claimed that they were too dumn to know it was dangerous. The natural gas eventually leaked enough to blow up the apartment and the apartments on either side. The family next door had just moved to Texas from Bosnia looking for a safer place to live. They were burned out but they were lucky to not have any serious injuries. |
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Subject: RE: It's all fun and games till .... From: GUEST,petr Date: 27 Dec 00 - 01:54 PM Theres an abundance of the stag party jokes that end tragically. In one case the groom to be was fitted with a ball and chain, unfortunately on the drive home he went off the road and into a lake and drowned because of the heavy weight. On a funnier note (this was a true story that happened in Vancouver about 6 years ago), a worker was cleaning out a pizza oven with gasoline (go figure), when the fumes reached the pilot light the resulting explosion blew him out in to the street. Luckily he suffered only minor injuries, but the name of the place was hilariously enough - Dynamite Pizza (I kid you not!). Petr |
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Subject: RE: It's all fun and games till .... From: Sorcha Date: 26 Dec 00 - 10:44 PM Good Grief, Charlie Brown!! Darwin Awards, front and center, please........
OK, confession time. I used to use a coffe can full of coarse sawdust soaked in DIESEL FUEL to start fires......told Mr. this once, so he went out and filled a coffee can with sawdust and soaked it in gasoline......the blowback in the fireplace (MOBILE HOME!!)took off his forelock and eyebrows........and he blamed it on me.......said I told him to do it!!! We were very lucky nothing worse happened, esp in a mobile home. We now use "stove wood"--very small kindling, and a mini propane tube........which he goes off and leaves stuck between the doors of the stove........JESUS!! |
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Subject: RE: It's all fun and games till .... From: ddw Date: 26 Dec 00 - 10:34 PM Hey, Troll — give him a break; sounds like he was doing all he could to cull the herd. I just remembered another "terminally stupid" story that I read a few years ago, but I can't remember some of the details — like where it happened. I think it was either in Toronto or New York. Seems a young lawyer's favorite party trick was to hurl himself against the plateglass windows of skyscrapers, just to watch the other guests' reactions. One finally broke on about the 23rd floor. Now THAT's culling the herd! david |
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Subject: RE: It's all fun and games till .... From: Troll Date: 26 Dec 00 - 12:18 AM When I was in Civil War reenacting I knew a guy who had a very cavallier attitude toward black powder. One morning before a battle, he was loading blank cartridges with a powder measure, dipping the powder out of a shallow pan. He was also smoking a cigar and flicking the ashes into the powder container. When it flashed, it took all his hair and beard, both of which were quite long, gave him flash burns in both eyes and the resulting fire destroyed his tent with most of his gear. Seems he had an open quart jar of gasoline inside the tent. He had used it that morning to start a campfire. And people like this are allowed to breed! troll |
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Subject: RE: It's all fun and games till .... From: ddw Date: 25 Dec 00 - 10:37 PM sorry — the post above was mine. Forgot to reset the cookie when I logged on david |
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Subject: RE: It's all fun and games till .... From: GUEST Date: 25 Dec 00 - 10:19 PM Over the years in the news business I've seen some pretty bizarre stories come across the wire and I've covered a few myself. Two of my favorites off the wire were: Guy in Ohio (probably a relative of 'Spaw's) woke in the middle of the night, saw what he thought was an intruder at the foot of his bed. Whipped the .357-Magnum out from under his pillow and fired at the intruder. Shot his own penis off. The intruder was his own clothes hung over a chair. During the Iran-Iraq war there was a lot of fighting in the area inhabited by the Marsh Arabs, who for the most part have been living exactly the same way for millennia. As the fighting moved into other areas, one side or the other abandoned a lot of equipment, including some big generators. Local fishermen discovered they could crank up one of the generators, stick the leads in the water and the fish would just float to the top, where they could be scooped out of the water with nets. Only trouble was, they didn't realize they shouldn't stand IN the water when they did it. Last story I saw on it said the latest four brought the total killed that way to 25. Of course the latter story doesn't really belong in the "terminally stupid" category the same way the former one does — the Marsh Arab fishermen just didn't understand the technology. One that I covered was the biker who had disassembled ride's motor and was cleaning it with gasoline — in the basement, right beside the furnace. He was — as they say — toast. The blast had moved the house about four feet off its foundations. Today I edited a story about a guy who put the Christmas bird in the oven, turned it on High and then had to correct his mistake with a fire extinguisher. He was so afraid of what his wife was going to say that he called the fire department to find out if he could just wash the white power off the bird and continue cooking it. Apparently the power is highly toxic, so one of the firefighters went home, got his own bird and replaced the burned one. Merry Christmas, all david
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Subject: RE: It's all fun and games till .... From: Sorcha Date: 25 Dec 00 - 01:00 AM We should all be such geeks, Liz and Hawk. The last time I had a drink spilled on me (over 25 yrs ago) I just dumped the whole pitcher on his head......his nickname was "Rhino".......but I won. Not alone, tho,the whole pub was behind me, *BG*! |
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Subject: RE: It's all fun and games till .... From: Little Hawk Date: 25 Dec 00 - 12:53 AM Yeah, Liz, thanks. Spaw - you're right. I'm a geek, and proud of it. Merry Christmas, you old reprobate! - LH |
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Subject: RE: It's all fun and games till .... From: Liz the Squeak Date: 24 Dec 00 - 12:16 AM Little Hawk, I'm with you - some people just never know when to stop. We had our office party on 17th, went to the pub. Several people there had been drinking since lunch time and just kept going. Seemed to think me boring when I stuck to my three pints, whilst they were all on double shorts.... They also got a bit shirty when I complained about the 3rd drink spilt (over me!) but when they started to pick fights with the next table, containing 6 very big builders, I got up and joined the builders....! A bit of fast talking and explaining that one or two of them were "special" in that w*nky sort of way, avoided a fight, but there is another pub they won't be allowed back into..... LTS |
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Subject: RE: It's all fun and games till .... From: Mrrzy Date: 23 Dec 00 - 07:36 PM At least you got it out of the way! |
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Subject: RE: It's all fun and games till .... From: Allan C. Date: 23 Dec 00 - 05:33 PM Confession time: In the early years of my stupidity I had a bright idea of a "great April Fools Day trick". I had overheard some talk about putting a thumbtack in the chair of a schoolteacher who had fallen out of favor for one reason or another. I decided to do one better. I went home and manufactured a thumbtack from a nine inch disk of wood and a gutter spike. My vision of the trick was that the teacher would walk in the door of the classroom, walk toward the desk, see the enormous thumbtack and then join us in a good laugh. At the appointed hour I placed the thumbtack and we all waited for our teacher to arrive. She walked into the classroom at last. She began telling us something interesting before she got to the desk and so had her eyes on the class as she made her way toward the chair. Then, in a moment, she was standing between the desk and the chair and was about to sit. I jumped forward and lunged toward the thumbtack. As luck would have it I was able to snatch the thumbtack away as the teacher began her decent into the seat. The "good laugh" never came as I had planned. As you may guess, I learned a lot that day. |
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Subject: RE: It's all fun and games till .... From: catspaw49 Date: 23 Dec 00 - 05:08 PM Aw relax Hawk, its OK......You're still a geek. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: It's all fun and games till .... From: Little Hawk Date: 23 Dec 00 - 01:46 PM The only trouble with terminal stupidity is... It doesn't work fast enough. I was a real nonconformist among my own age group all through school, as I steadfastly refused to do idiotic and reckless things, mostly because I could easily visualize the whole sequence in my mind ahead of time and decide that it simply wasn't worth the probable consequences. Accordingly, I never once got seriously drunk, or had a bad hangover, or broke a limb, or whatever...in other words I didn't have "fun" in the usual manner of my peer group. My way of having fun was to read a good book, or play music, or write a song or something like that. As for stag parties, I have always regarded them with such utter contempt that there are really no words to describe it. A party where there are no women (except a stripper) present is not much of a party as far as I'm concerned. Oh, for those who don't know me, I'm male... The result of my moderate attitude to life back then was that I was considered a geek, but I am now considered wise. Ha! Ha! Like they say, time wounds all heels. The pity of it is, the morons who seemingly cannot look ahead to see the predictable results of their fun seeking actions frequently hurt other people as well as themselves. A pox on the rascals, I say! May they drown in the punch bowl of their own stupidity. :-D - LH
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Subject: RE: It's all fun and games till .... From: Margo Date: 23 Dec 00 - 12:44 PM Sounds like a bunch of candidates for the Darwin awards. Only it's worse, because they're doing it to others instead of themselves. Like the two guys driving home in an old pickup truck in the country, and a fuse blows so they have no lights. The one guy finds a .22 bullet in his pocket, puts it in where the fuse would go, and voila, lights! They go down the road 'till the bullet heats up enough to explode, hitting the driver causing them to go off the road. Stupidity is downright dangerous! Margo |
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Subject: RE: It's all fun and games till .... From: The Shambles Date: 23 Dec 00 - 09:56 AM In the village where my father-in-law live, a young lad was given the 'bumps'. They unfortunately dropped him and broke his back. |
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Subject: RE: It's all fun and games till .... From: Sorcha Date: 22 Dec 00 - 08:36 PM Here in Torrington, last Friday nite: Josh, aged 17, at Christmas party. Drank vodka until he passed out. His "friends" put him in a cold shower for an hour......3 hours after he passed out, someone had sense enough to take him to hospital. Blood alchohol level--3.9 Body temp-- 92F. He lived, but it was a near thing...... |
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Subject: RE: It's all fun and games till .... From: InOBU Date: 22 Dec 00 - 06:08 PM Same way the guys who tied a pledge to a chair at night, on a deserted road, and drove two motor cycles at him so he thought it was a car's head lights and died of a heart attack... got into college. That is why I joined SDS, (T-shirts which said, "We're the ones your parents warned you to keep away from..." not some greek org. Larry |
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Subject: RE: It's all fun and games till .... From: kendall Date: 22 Dec 00 - 01:36 PM There was an incident where a fraternity was going to initiate a new member. They blindfolded him, tied him to a railroad track and walked away. They knew that the track he was on was not used, but, he didnt. A train came down the OTHER track, the guy heard it coming and died of a heart attack..How do dummies like that get INTO college? |
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Subject: RE: It's all fun and games till .... From: alison Date: 22 Dec 00 - 08:20 AM there was another one in Belfast... stag party ..... groom to be tied to railings..... there was a bomb scare.. and the friends left him tied up.... soldier had to go back in and free him... he was lucky...
slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: It's all fun and games till .... From: Michael in Swansea Date: 22 Dec 00 - 06:23 AM I'm ashamed to admit that 20 years ago I was at a stag party where the stag was drinking very large vodkas. Later that night he choked on his own vomit and died. His fiance was a personal friend of mine, I say was because she has never spoken to me since the court hearing. Verdict - Death by Misadventure. Mike |
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Subject: RE: It's all fun and games till .... From: Brendy Date: 22 Dec 00 - 01:32 AM I remember, years ago at home, there was this fella getting married. He worked in a garage, and on the evening of the stag-night, his workmates decided to give him a bit of roughing up...you know, tie him to a lamp-post with his cacs around his ankles. One of his mates got a bit carried away, though, and brought the compressed air hose, for pumping up truck tyres, around and gave him a blast into the leg with it. 10 seconds later the air bubble that was injected into him, reached his brain, and killed him stone dead. Some people don't think. B. |
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Subject: It's all fun and games till .... From: ddw Date: 22 Dec 00 - 01:01 AM Today's candidate for TERMINALLY STUPID BOZO of the month:
AUCKLAND (AP) — An investment banker who allegedly killed a colleague by setting fire to his Hawaiian grass skirt at an office party appeared in court Friday charged with manslaughter. |
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