Hours of entertanment for $2.00

Weird Harold · 07-21-2007, 08:32 PM

I found these in the gift shop of the aquarium, at the mall of America. I am so excited, I'm pumped. Ha Ha.

I love these little water rockets. I think summer was invented for them. I could just never find them. I was shocked at the price $2.00, when I saw them on the shelf, I expected to be way overcharged for one. I am happy, happy, happy.

elSicomoro · 07-21-2007, 09:14 PM

Fuck yeah! Those are awesome!

Weird Harold · 07-28-2007, 04:33 PM

Well, instead of hours, it lasted 5 minutes. I remember them not lasting forever, but this plastic is brittle, doesn't last at all. Some would cry when their new toy breaks, but others only see any opportunity to add more power.

jinx · 07-28-2007, 05:02 PM

Looks like the thing I pump the water out of my kayak with - which is much cheaper and works better than the bilge pumps they sell as kayak accessories btw...

lumberjim · 07-28-2007, 05:28 PM

NASA's bottle launcher instructions

Weird Harold · 07-28-2007, 08:39 PM

Bigger is not always better. One of these days that will sink in to my thick head. When my sons were younger we did cub scouts. It seamed like a full time job trying to come up with projects for them to do. In one cub scout book I found instructions to make a kite. I thought, cool, I'll double all the dimensions, and make them real big. Not a good idea, the string cut up their hands pretty good, and they thought they could still fly them if they wore their bicycle helmets, when they came down, they came down hard.

Here is a picture of the play set I built. My wife calls it the slide of death.

wolf · 07-29-2007, 09:53 AM

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Originally Posted by lumberjim

NASA's bottle launcher instructions

My friend's kid made one of those, never bothered to add the nose cone and fins, blasted off more than adequately with just the naked bottle.

His gantry wasn't anywhere near as elaborate either. I think he used a couple of spare cinderblocks.

richlevy · 07-29-2007, 10:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Weird Harold

Well, instead of hours, it lasted 5 minutes. I remember them not lasting forever, but this plastic is brittle, doesn't last at all. Some would cry when their new toy breaks, but others only see any opportunity to add more power.

Let me guess. "Home Improvement" wasn't a fictional sitcom at all, it was your secret biography.

Why not attach 20 rockets to a backpack harness, load them to 100 PSI, and use it to rocket down the slide?

Weird Harold · 07-29-2007, 12:21 PM

They already rocket down the slide. I don't know why, it's the same angle as the green slides, just much taller. On a really hot day we hook the hose to it, and put a tarp at the bottom. It's fun to watch the kids go half way across the neighbor's yard.

07-21-2007, 08:32 PM	#1
Weird Harold Vice-President of Resentment Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Central Illinois Posts: 199	Hours of entertanment for $2.00 I found these in the gift shop of the aquarium, at the mall of America. I am so excited, I'm pumped. Ha Ha. I love these little water rockets. I think summer was invented for them. I could just never find them. I was shocked at the price $2.00, when I saw them on the shelf, I expected to be way overcharged for one. I am happy, happy, happy. __________________ I don't need a whole lottsa money. I don't need a big fine car.

07-28-2007, 04:33 PM	#3
Weird Harold Vice-President of Resentment Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Central Illinois Posts: 199	Well, instead of hours, it lasted 5 minutes. I remember them not lasting forever, but this plastic is brittle, doesn't last at all. Some would cry when their new toy breaks, but others only see any opportunity to add more power. __________________ I don't need a whole lottsa money. I don't need a big fine car.

07-28-2007, 05:02 PM	#4
jinx Come on, cat. Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: general vicinity of Philadelphia area Posts: 7,013	Looks like the thing I pump the water out of my kayak with - which is much cheaper and works better than the bilge pumps they sell as kayak accessories btw... __________________ Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good.

07-28-2007, 05:28 PM	#5
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	NASA's bottle launcher instructions __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

07-28-2007, 08:39 PM	#6
Weird Harold Vice-President of Resentment Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Central Illinois Posts: 199	Bigger is not always better. One of these days that will sink in to my thick head. When my sons were younger we did cub scouts. It seamed like a full time job trying to come up with projects for them to do. In one cub scout book I found instructions to make a kite. I thought, cool, I'll double all the dimensions, and make them real big. Not a good idea, the string cut up their hands pretty good, and they thought they could still fly them if they wore their bicycle helmets, when they came down, they came down hard. Here is a picture of the play set I built. My wife calls it the slide of death. __________________ I don't need a whole lottsa money. I don't need a big fine car.

07-21-2007, 09:14 PM	#2
elSicomoro Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 12,486	Fuck yeah! Those are awesome!

07-29-2007, 12:21 PM	#9
Weird Harold Vice-President of Resentment Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Central Illinois Posts: 199	They already rocket down the slide. I don't know why, it's the same angle as the green slides, just much taller. On a really hot day we hook the hose to it, and put a tarp at the bottom. It's fun to watch the kids go half way across the neighbor's yard. __________________ I don't need a whole lottsa money. I don't need a big fine car.

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