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Fun with Lasers..

Sphere | Posted in Tools for Home Building on February 7, 2004 06:04am

Ok, posting here so MABEY it don’t get POLITICAL>>Geez.

Some fun I have had with lasers..what say you all?

These are all the God’s honest truth..

Drive the cat totally nuts chasing the red dot around the room.

Set up all the mirrors you can find in the house, open medicine cabinet doors, set up on the tripod, get as much cigarette smoke going as you can ( Ok, skip that if yer a non-smoker) and make a beam bounce as long as you can..with the lights off.

Do not try this one..when a strange or unexpected vehicle comes down your very private driveway, and you recently had serious problems with an EX girlfriend and her NEW boyfriend..stand in a window and red dot the windshild..when the car suddenly speeds up, doesa donut and parks with the highbeams shining on your front door, calmly call the local sherriff and tell them you want a deputy cuz a certain person may be harassing you..when they tell you it IS a deputy and YOU need to open the door NOW…do so..with your hands in the air..cuz you WILL be staring at 2 12ga. shotguns..as they ask you ” What the HELL was that”?..oh, BTW, they were dilivering me a restraining order..from her. OOOPPSS.

take an assortment of found crystals ( I lived in crystal country, western NC) and with the lights off make WAY COOL patterns on the cieling..more cool if mindaltering drinks are serverd..and add smoke to the room too.

ducttape the laser to your PVC tater gun..and blast yer buddys boat when he shoots bottle rockets at your house boat from his boat way out on the lake..

and last..DO NOT DO THIS either..when on the house boat, do not say hey whats that noise over head,,and shine up and red dot a BLACKHAWK that does silent night traing over Lake Fontana..The SECOND one WILL light you up with a Q/Beam..and you WILL have the fish cops out..and THEY WILL take away the sack of spuds for the affore mentioned tater gun..which you carefully tossed overboard..for future retrieval.

So , what have I forgot for fun?

 

 

Go Stab yourself Ya Putz! Ya think I Parked here?
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    Gunner | Feb 07, 2004 07:54pm | #1

    Your cable go out or something?

    edited to add:  Snicker snicker

    Who Dares Wins.



    Edited 2/7/2004 11:58:20 AM ET by Gunner

  2. marv | Feb 07, 2004 08:00pm | #2

    Thanks for the best laugh of the day!

    You get out of life what you put into it......minus taxes.

    Marv

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    NickNukeEm | Feb 08, 2004 07:37am | #3

    You have got to get a hobby that doesn't include lasers or potatos (oes?)

    And all that is true?  Man, I lead one boring life.

    I never met a tool I didn't like!
    1. AJinNZ | Feb 08, 2004 07:59am | #4

      So whats a bottle rocket?

      sounds fun, might hafta make one. :-) 

      Everything, 100% of it, depends on how you look at it.

      DW

      1. brownbagg | Feb 08, 2004 08:28am | #5

        what a bottle rocket.

        we have bottle rocket wars every new years eve, on the fourth of july, whenever we can. we buy them buy the thousand. $ 50 aint nothing in bottle rockets.

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        DaveMason2 | Feb 08, 2004 12:27pm | #6

        It's basically a firecracker on a stick that flies thru the air and then explodes.

                                                                                                                           Dave 

        1. UncleDunc | Feb 08, 2004 12:44pm | #7

          The name is because people launch it by putting the stick in a bottle, so they don't have to hold it. It whistles during its approximately two second flight.

          1. AJinNZ | Feb 08, 2004 02:30pm | #8

            Aaah, I see. We know them as skyrockets.

            Had great fun one night aiming the things at the river. They keep going underwater. The green glow travelling downstream looked pretty neat. 

            Everything, 100% of it, depends on how you look at it.

            DW

      3. junkhound | Feb 08, 2004 03:13pm | #9

        also, the main source of roof fires!

        house 1 mi away burned down last 4th due to a bottle rocket and stupid shake roof. .

  4. andybuildz | Feb 08, 2004 03:19pm | #10

    I think your off "your" medication today..lol

    My life is my practice!

    http://CLIFFORDRENOVATIONS.COM

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      Sphere | Feb 08, 2004 03:42pm | #11

      cabin fever..materials backordered, snowy outside..and no stock up on Sunday beer..can't get beer here on Sunday..darn bible thumpers..

      Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks

      Repairs, Remodeling, Restorations. 

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        Gunner | Feb 08, 2004 07:11pm | #12

        "darn bible thumpers"  HEY!

        Watch it buddy or I'll go into hell fire brimestone mode on ya.Who Dares Wins.

        1. rasconc | Feb 08, 2004 09:37pm | #13

          Should have stayed in NC, can stop by after church and buy a 12 pack on the way home.  Do you know the main difference in Baptist and Methodists?  The Methodists will speak to you in the beer store.

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            Sphere | Feb 08, 2004 09:43pm | #14

            Yup, woulda stayed 'cept for the tourists from hell..they were just overwhelming. And they seemed to multiply exponentionally..I'll suffer here in the bluegrass state...Sunday is only 24hrs. long..LOL.

            Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks

            Repairs, Remodeling, Restorations. 

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    BossHog | Feb 08, 2004 09:58pm | #15

    You can have some fun with little kids and lasers.

    Have them try to stomp on the little red dot on the floor. Then turn the laser off when they do.

    I figure it should robably go without saying that these are dangerous if pointed in someone's eyes, but...

    All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.

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      Sphere | Feb 08, 2004 10:03pm | #16

      As I say..."do not look directly at the laser ...with remaining eye"

      Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks

      Repairs, Remodeling, Restorations. 

  6. JohnSprung | Feb 11, 2004 04:06am | #17

    Damn -- I never knew how much fun I was missing by using a water level....  ;-)

    -- J.S.

  7. hacknhope | Feb 11, 2004 05:52am | #18

    Evesdropping on the laser post and replies.  Howling.  Once almost killed the cat by accident.  We were comparing two flashlights by shinging them on the apartment wall.  Cat appears from nowhere - SPLATT 'n SLIDE !!

    Kids and lasers are a fun combo too.  The man ahead of me in the line-up at Lee Valley had his son with him (approx 6).  The son said, 'wow, cool!'  The father, the clerk and I all turn to see the boy has a laser level pointed straight at, and six inches from, his face with the red dot perfectly centered on his forehead.  Nobody lost an eye so we can laugh out loud at the image (now). 

    Probably funnier was the father whining to the clerk that this shouldn't have been placed where a kid could reach it.  The clerk just didn't dare say anything as he glanced around at a 1000 ways to cut yourself displayed to be admired and caressed.  Besides, kids under 100 shouldn't be allowed into Lee Valley Tools anyway - they might get ideas about horrible things to do to good wood or nice old houses.

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