Post a picture, entertain me!

MeatMan wrote:

Anyone else play these back in the day, before they were banned and taken off the market?
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When we were kids, my brother (Jayhawker) caught one of these in his leg. Our parents were playing lawn darts with friends of theirs, and us kids were stupidly playing too near where the darts were being thrown. Having the lawn dart go into his leg was bad, but I was always afraid to think about where else it could have hit him.

MeatMan wrote:

Anyone else play these back in the day, before they were banned and taken off the market?
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Bah, in my day Jarts were tipped with explosives and mounts on the backs of angry ferrets with mange. Then the damned Democrats come along...:evil:

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Montalban wrote:

Giant, steel-tipped darts that your drunk uncle Murray gets to toss at the family dog? How could those be dangerous?

I got one of those motherf*ckers in my back when I was 10. My brother thought it was funny, I disagreed.

dejanzie wrote:
Montalban wrote:

Giant, steel-tipped darts that your drunk uncle Murray gets to toss at the family dog? How could those be dangerous?

I got one of those motherf*ckers in my back when I was 10. My brother thought it was funny, I disagreed.

My grandparents had those, and my older cousins (they were all older than me) would play a game where we would group up and they would all throw them straight up and we would try not to get hit. The fact that I am still alive is a testament to my wiles.

Lawn darts rock.. they are just perfect.

The Lawn Jart Incident was pretty insane. I was running across wherethey were throwing them, and one landed in my calf. I'm guessing I was about 7 year's old. It was crazy, but I had the adults kissing my butt after that. These were the same friends where we used to hang out for lots of the summer holidays. One Fourth of July my dad's friend shot off some large spinning firework that took off up in the air and eventually landed on the neighbor's roof.

South St. Louis and budweiser made for interesting times. And I learned well, believe me. In junior high we had a bottle rocket fight in the streets of my friend's neighborhood. We used wiffle ball bats and tent poles to hold the bottle rockets and aim that at each other and we used trash can lids as shields. Then we proceeded to run through the neighborhood, hiding in bushes and launching the damn things everywhere. At one point we lined up four bottle rockets flat on the street and set them off as our friends came up over a hill, with no regard for any traffic and such. One guy pulled out roman candles and started aiming those at us. Oh, how we laughed. Luckily no one lost an eye.

If only we had still had some Lawn Jarts...

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Jayhawker wrote:

If only we had still had some Lawn Jarts...

Or a Manchurian Repeating Crossbow! Hell yeah!

Pharacon wrote:

Lawn darts rock.. they are just perfect.

Sometimes I'm surprised that you're still here, sometimes that you're still alive.

Horse Flu?

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Gimmicky as it may be, I'm having too much fun with my DSi's camera:
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WOW! I only thought you could get one of those playing Diablo II.

China's unique unit!

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"I love the way you pull my trigger."
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From the Sniper World Cup, thanks to Edwin for the Twitter link.

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Stoppages = Jams

The Firearm Blog

I am shocked-- Shocked! --that a rifle based on the M-16 would be prone to jamming.

From the original story:

Despite the last-place showing, Army officials say there is no movement toward replacing the M4.
Marsman wrote:

Stoppages = Jams

The Firearm Blog

For a second I thought: Wow, I can't believe the M4 can kill more people per round than the XM8.

And then I realized that couldn't be what they meant by stoppages.

Quintin_Stone wrote:

From the original story:

Despite the last-place showing, Army officials say there is no movement toward replacing the M4.

It's all part of making you appreciate the reliability of your commanding officers.

Trachalio wrote:

Gimmicky as it may be, I'm having too much fun with my DSi's camera:
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I think it's time for a new avatar.

Latest shuttle launch in infrared

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tanstaafl wrote:

Latest shuttle launch in infrared

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That is all sorts of awesome! Have one in a larger version? I want that as my wallpaper.

It's from here but I haven't had a chance to try to track down a bigger pic.

Agemmon wrote:

That is all sorts of awesome! Have one in a larger version? I want that as my wallpaper.

tanstaafl wrote:

It's from here but I haven't had a chance to try to track down a bigger pic.

My google-fu failed in trying to find a larger version. They're available directly from Getty, but short of buying them I couldn't find anything bigger.

But I did happen across these:

Shuttle launch as seen from space:
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Lightning strike:
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Tee hee, Cape Canaveral looks like a booby.

zeroKFE wrote:

Tee hee, Cape Canaveral looks like a booby.

If the cape is a booby what is that mass on the right? a Tongue?

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