My father is part of a long line of collectors. Not good collectors who can go onto “Antiques Roadshow” and get a ton of cash but ones that find old chairs, broken waterskis and other useless junk that might be useful at some point in somebody’s life.
Above are actually the spearguns that I found in the grandfather’s (now my dad’s) workroom. Yes,
The Business End
spearguns. Now, we don’t have a good reason for the spearguns since we’re at a small, warm lake that has fish that can easily be caught with a fishing rod and most of which you would not want to eat. There are no alligators, piranha or deadly… anything.
I assume it went something like this: I will give my grandfather credit for protecting the family from “The Creature From The Black Lagoon Lake” back in the ’60’s. They ate well for a while, but I never got a taste since I wasn’t born until the 70’s and they’d killed off all of them by then.
Got any better ideas? (no… Bigfoot cannot be hunted by speargun…)
Oh my, yes, yes indeed. Spearguns work quite well on these:
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as a Thunderball fan, i want these badly.
Grandpa probably just read too many men's adventure magazines (the old school version of Maxim) in the 1950s.
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But did Grandpa ever have a case of the crabs like this? It's gonna take a little more than A200 Pyrinate to take care of these suckers.
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Why would cannibal crabs attack a human?
It only says they're crawling to kill him, not to eat him.
Actually, it doesn't even say they're crawling to kill him, just "to kill," so perhaps he's merely trying to break up their heretofore self-contained cannibalistic feeding frenzy and his unwelcome intrusion has ticked them off. I know it would tick me off.
Oh hey, Coconut Crabs. I love those things.
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TIL: Men of the '50s had to be told that sex can be fun.
Wait, it took until the 50's before they discovered that sex can be fun?
i'm a Thunderball fan and want these badly. thanks for sharing
It's easy: if your main gun jams, you reach for your sparegun.
Dyslexics untie!
I am dyslexic so I actually went back through the entire article to make sure I didn't spell it wrong. Thanks for freaking me out
so you don't want women hanging out here and talking about technology, gadgets, and weapons? ok…
p.s. i think men in the 50s didn't know sex was fun because they hadn't realized women have orgasms yet.
My first thought: Why would anyone need a "good" reason for the spearguns? They're spearguns. That's reason enough.
My second thought: With two, you can duel.
My third/fourth thoughts: Do they work? Are you, um, thinking of selling them?
My fifth/sixth thoughts: No, I really, really don't need any spear guns; I've got more than enough useless crap around the place as it is. Are you, um, thinking of selling them?
I haven't actually tried them. It looks like the silver one works, but the blue one is pretty rusted. I'll try them this week and report back.
I'll tell you exactly how it happened.
Scene: Grandfather CardboardTube is sitting on the couch, reading a popular mechanics and stumbles across this: http://j.mp/o7WKme . Grandmother CardboardTube is by his side, reading a Sears catalog.
GF CT: Oh would you look at that… it makes reloading my speargun so easy…
GM CT: Why would you need that? You don't even have a speargun!
GF CT: I could have one! I COULD HAVE TWO!
GM CT: Well you don't, so why would you want that?
GF CT: DAMMIT WOMAN, BECAUSE I CAN!
GM CT: Oh you're meshuggah sometimes, you know that?
GF CT (mumbling): I'll show you meshuggah… I'll get two of the speariest damn spear guns YOU'VE EVER SEEN!
GM CT: What did you say?
(door slams)
(3 hours later)
GF CT: See! I told you! NOW I HAVE TWO SPEARGUNS!
GM CT: Oh, sure, you showed me.
(GM CT walks away)
GF CT: What made me want these again? (scratches head and stares at the spearguns, puzzled) Dammit.
I think a better question is, "Why don't I have two spearguns?"
Who says you can't hunt Bigfoot with spear guns ? I personally have never seen any guidelines laid out anywhere that states what is or is not allowed to be used to bring down one of these beasts .
I think it's fair to say that spearguns have thus far proven as effective at hunting bigfoot as any other means.
Maybe your Grandfather wrote the script for XXX and never quite mustered the nerve to wear a parachute and shoot a moving chemicaly armed boat ?
Man survives speargun accindent… http://latestnews.virginmedia.com/inpictures/2009…
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