vikingshadow
07-15-2007, 09:00 PM
When I was in college, we used to have epic battles up and down the hallways and streets of my university campus. Not fist fights or gang battles, shootings or stabbings. Nay! We were much more creative and used our combined brain power to come up with fun ways to rid ourselves of boredom and anger. We devised elaborate battle plans (I still remember a couple of the more successful ones) in which we sometimes used nerf balls, sometimes water balloons, sometimes those little butter tabs you get at school for hot rolls, sometimes baggies of baby powder, but the most fun of all was before the government stuck it's nose in and got rid of them were the old tracer guns that we could buy at Walmart for about 4 bucks (old style that shot tiny, 1" plastic colored discs from a space gun that you could load with like 20 of those little boogers. Shot from within 5-6 feet, those things HURT! or the little plastic/rubber dart guns that spawned movies about large hunting games using said darts...)
http://i5.ebayimg.com/04/i/000/a4/21/5ea0_2.JPG
Mine was blue! ;)
One time, we had a battle of almost 50 people from rival fraternities fighting it out in the hallways of the 4- story dorm where most of my frat brothers lived, in which raged a skirmish with so many of those discs in the air at one time, along with previously mentioned baby powder "bombs", it was almost impossible to see who was where! To which led an all-dorm meeting and complaints from the custodial staff to the campus hierarchy and a speech about "how we were more mature now and were expected to clean up our messes...blah blah blah." It was usually common for someone to ask how many discs you had - and this was WAY before music and movie CDs and DVDs!
Anyway, that being a decent lead up to this, another favorite thing of ours were water fights - we filled balloons, trash bags, had literally hundreds, perhaps thousands of those little water guns of all shapes and sizes stashed all over our dorms - this one suite of guys even managed to get on the roof and store dozens of loaded guns and buckets of water to "rain" down on those unfortunates who came back from class without being prepared - and the several people who shared our lunch room but didn't live in our particular dorm...for about two months, there was ankle deep mud all around our dorm - and complaints of "wasting water" and ruining the grounds were cause for frequent meetings. We finally stopped about the first time it froze up outside (but then turned to the wonderful "prank" wars in which I, myself, set up and initiated many memorable pranks, but didn't actually participate in them so I never got caught, mwhahahaha!) In fact, my senior year, the water wars were so popular that the campus decided to make it a part of the college beach party in which the different fraternites, sororities (ummm, see drunk, gorgeous girls wearing white shirts and bikinis, get soaked by drunk idiot guys) and dorms took each other on! At the last homecoming, I heard that they finally stopped doing the water wars a couple years ago because of a lack of participation - what a bunch of panty waists those kids have turned into!
Ok, while I went on and on, the real point of this post was this...Iremember, this was 20 some years ago (jeez, I feel old now) and was before the age of the "Super Soaker" empire...although not on the same scale as the Tracer wars, it was still a good time to be had...dang I miss living on campus!
Now, here is a review (http://www.slate.com/id/2170024/?GT1=10238)of this season's powerful water shooters. Boy, what I would've done to get my hands on a couple of these bad boys!
http://i5.ebayimg.com/04/i/000/a4/21/5ea0_2.JPG
Mine was blue! ;)
One time, we had a battle of almost 50 people from rival fraternities fighting it out in the hallways of the 4- story dorm where most of my frat brothers lived, in which raged a skirmish with so many of those discs in the air at one time, along with previously mentioned baby powder "bombs", it was almost impossible to see who was where! To which led an all-dorm meeting and complaints from the custodial staff to the campus hierarchy and a speech about "how we were more mature now and were expected to clean up our messes...blah blah blah." It was usually common for someone to ask how many discs you had - and this was WAY before music and movie CDs and DVDs!
Anyway, that being a decent lead up to this, another favorite thing of ours were water fights - we filled balloons, trash bags, had literally hundreds, perhaps thousands of those little water guns of all shapes and sizes stashed all over our dorms - this one suite of guys even managed to get on the roof and store dozens of loaded guns and buckets of water to "rain" down on those unfortunates who came back from class without being prepared - and the several people who shared our lunch room but didn't live in our particular dorm...for about two months, there was ankle deep mud all around our dorm - and complaints of "wasting water" and ruining the grounds were cause for frequent meetings. We finally stopped about the first time it froze up outside (but then turned to the wonderful "prank" wars in which I, myself, set up and initiated many memorable pranks, but didn't actually participate in them so I never got caught, mwhahahaha!) In fact, my senior year, the water wars were so popular that the campus decided to make it a part of the college beach party in which the different fraternites, sororities (ummm, see drunk, gorgeous girls wearing white shirts and bikinis, get soaked by drunk idiot guys) and dorms took each other on! At the last homecoming, I heard that they finally stopped doing the water wars a couple years ago because of a lack of participation - what a bunch of panty waists those kids have turned into!
Ok, while I went on and on, the real point of this post was this...Iremember, this was 20 some years ago (jeez, I feel old now) and was before the age of the "Super Soaker" empire...although not on the same scale as the Tracer wars, it was still a good time to be had...dang I miss living on campus!
Now, here is a review (http://www.slate.com/id/2170024/?GT1=10238)of this season's powerful water shooters. Boy, what I would've done to get my hands on a couple of these bad boys!