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TRANSMARINE
* Dog in the Sand *
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 Posted - 05/02/2006 : 16:02:25
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Anyone ever craft dummies as a kid and throw them off high places for fun? Please tell your story. I will sprinkle mine in now and again.
Hank the 8th was a duplicated man
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floop
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Mexico
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Posted - 05/02/2006 : 17:05:30
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one Halloween i made this pretty awesome dummy to hang in my front yard. after Halloween we kept it around for a while and hijinks ensued. first we started off just leaving it in the street so that cars would stop and freak out. then we got more elaborate and staged grisly-looking bike / skateboard accidents. with the dummy tangled around a bike sticking out of the bushes etc.. drivers would come up and say "hey, are you alright?"..
after a while we staged fake fights, with one person holding the dummy in a full nelson, and the other punching it in the stomach. when a car would come by we'd all run away as if we got caught beating someone up. again, the "hey are you alright?".
endless entertainment
"I don't have any money to buy new clothes and if they paid me to get some I'd probably buy more hoodies." - Mark Wainfur |
Edited by - floop on 05/02/2006 17:12:15 |
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Steak n Sabre
* Dog in the Sand *
Uzbekistan
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Posted - 05/03/2006 : 07:39:02
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Some friends and I put together some dummies back in the day. My buddys dad was like 6'8", and we used some of his old work clothes stuffed with paper, then topped off with a punching bag for a head. That thing was huge and held together pretty well despite being run over, lynched, stabbed, pummeled with baseball bats etc...before eventually going up in flames.
One good trick was to sit the dummy at bus stops, and watch how the driver reacts 'You kids think you're real funny 'eh?? I know you're out there and I'm callin' the cops' blah blah blah What a sucker.
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Cult_Of_Frank
= Black Noise Maker =
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Posted - 05/03/2006 : 09:44:02
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Heh. I would've gotten off the bus and helped the dummy in like they were having problems, and then driven off. Now who's laughing? :)
Floop, that sounds hilarious. Must've been pretty lifelike.
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TRANSMARINE
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
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Posted - 05/03/2006 : 10:35:01
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In 6th grade, a buddy and I stole his sister's life-size Make Me Beautiful Barbie head and fashioned a girl dummy. To his mothers horror, we threw it from the staircase with ketchup smeared on its face, so when it hit the entrance hall, blood splattered everywhere. Needless to say I was sent home.
I repeated this staircase-plummet with another friend in Jr. High at his mom's house. We fashioned a dummy and dropped it over the mantle, screaming as it dropped. His mother's simultaneous scream caused a cool B-movie-esque poor sound-effect dubbing.
Another time, some friends and I in high school made a home video with a dummy flying out of the speeding car in bunch of a front of small children.
Mothers and children are so fun to scare.
Hank the 8th was a duplicated man
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floop
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Mexico
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Posted - 05/03/2006 : 15:16:44
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Originally posted by TRANSMARINE
I repeated this staircase-plummet with another friend in Jr. High at his mom's house.
i guess the last incident of getting sent home had a lasting affect on you?
yeah, jokes involving mothers thinking something happened to their children never go over very well in my experience.
sort of on topic: my friends and i had this rubber hand for a while (i think it was another Halloween decoration) that looked really bad (a la Woody Harrelson in KING PIN). anyway, we started bringing it out pretending like it was an actual hand. as in, a prosthetic hand, but obviously a bad prosthetic hand. for instance, at a bar or drive-through, when receiving change we would deliberately hold out the fake hand (with the real hand cleverly hidden beneath a long sleeve shirt). and there was always that painful moment where the person didn't want to act like anything was weird and be rude, so they'd attempt to put loose change into the inanimate rubber hand, which inevitably went spilled everywhere causing the moment to become even more uncomfortable (with people at the bar giving nervous looks etc..).. and usually to top the moment off we'd then try to pick up the change on the counter, with the hand. (nevermind that the other hand seems to be perfectly normal)
the drive-through was even better
"I don't have any money to buy new clothes and if they paid me to get some I'd probably buy more hoodies." - Mark Wainfur |
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TRANSMARINE
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
2002 Posts |
Posted - 05/03/2006 : 15:35:00
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Originally posted by floop
for instance, at a bar or drive-through, when receiving change we would deliberately hold out the fake hand (with the real hand cleverly hidden beneath a long sleeve shirt). and there was always that painful moment where the person didn't want to act like anything was weird and be rude, so they'd attempt to put loose change into the inanimate rubber hand.
"I don't have any money to buy new clothes and if they paid me to get some I'd probably buy more hoodies." - Mark Wainfur
You are killing me! We had a 'hand' too and would do the same thing! We would wear it places and use it to recieve stuff such as change, or bags of food! Are we related? If only oft-handedly? Our 'hand' was quite bulky and the rubber was peeling. (I just thought I'd point that out, in case you couldn't grasp the visual.)
Hank the 8th was a duplicated man
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Broken Face
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USA
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Posted - 05/03/2006 : 15:42:39
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I feel left out - my friends and i never did such awesome things.
We stole a banner from Wendy's once that said "DON'T FORGET THE NUGGETS" and would randomly sneak into friends houses and hang it in their rooms
-Brian
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pixiestu
> Teenager of the Year <
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Posted - 05/03/2006 : 15:44:46
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I had a rubber hand too which actually looked quite lifelike. Sadly I don't have that many humorous stories about it. I just wish I'd used it as effectively as floop!
In fact I think I've still got it somewhere. Maybe I'll try dig it out and see what can be done with it.
I also had a dummy, mainly used for me and my cousin to practise our favourite wrestling moves on. Sadly his head bursted.
[EDIT] - My cousins head didn't burst. The dummy's did! Just thought I'd clear that up.
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
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Posted - 05/03/2006 : 15:47:41
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Originally posted by TRANSMARINE
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Originally posted by floop
for instance, at a bar or drive-through, when receiving change we would deliberately hold out the fake hand (with the real hand cleverly hidden beneath a long sleeve shirt). and there was always that painful moment where the person didn't want to act like anything was weird and be rude, so they'd attempt to put loose change into the inanimate rubber hand.
"I don't have any money to buy new clothes and if they paid me to get some I'd probably buy more hoodies." - Mark Wainfur
You are killing me! We had a 'hand' too and would do the same thing! We would wear it places and use it to recieve stuff such as change, or bags of food! Are we related? If only oft-handedly? Our 'hand' was quite bulky and the rubber was peeling. (I just thought I'd point that out, in case you couldn't grasp the visual.)
Hank the 8th was a duplicated man
-bRIAN
maybe we are related. not just anyone could come up with such ingenious uses for dummies and rubber hands.
this thread is making me nostalgic for the hand. i'm going to have to go call my friend.. :)
next time i'll tell you about the "cardboard cat" trick we used to do. that's my all time favorite, ever.
"I don't have any money to buy new clothes and if they paid me to get some I'd probably buy more hoodies." - Mark Wainfur |
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TRANSMARINE
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
2002 Posts |
Posted - 05/03/2006 : 15:47:50
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Offtopic...but in the vein of hijinks...
Back in '87 my friends and I were obsessed with the film The Untouchables. Copying the scene where Frank Nitti used Charles Martin Smith's blood as ink to decorate the elevator, we would write 'TOUCHABLE' on the windows of our local Taco Bell utilizing their delicious Mild Sauce.
Hank the 8th was a duplicated man
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floop
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Mexico
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Posted - 05/03/2006 : 15:51:11
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speaking of taco bell, we used to hide behind the drive through window and take people's orders when they drove up (covering our mouthes to create the muffled speaker effect). usually the real person would then come on mid-way to take the order, creating confusion. or in some cases, we'd actually finish the order and they'd drive up, causing even more elaborate confusion and, consequently, entertainment.
"I don't have any money to buy new clothes and if they paid me to get some I'd probably buy more hoodies." - Mark Wainfur |
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TRANSMARINE
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
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Posted - 05/03/2006 : 15:59:31
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Hahahaha! That's hilarious!
My brother and I used to drive-thru the drive thru of a local Foster's Freeze and order (with spot-on English accents) "two bags of chips, and two cherry godivas!" We knew the cherry godiva part made no sense (we usually were drinking), but we thought it sounded 'English'. When they told us they had no such food, we would continue until they offered fries and cherry shakes as an alternative.
Hank the 8th was a duplicated man
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TRANSMARINE
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
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Posted - 05/03/2006 : 16:30:17
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quote:
Originally posted by TRANSMARINE
Another time, some friends and I in high school made a home video with a dummy flying out of the speeding car in bunch of a front of small children.
Hank the 8th was a duplicated man
-bRIAN
It was a dyslexic dummy.
Hank the 8th was a duplicated man
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Homemade dummies
