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When I had rehab on my hand after surgery, there were several seriously burned people that were going through the same (if far more extensive) processes.
After working next to them for so long, you lose that initial shock.
quote:I see a Darwin Award honourable mention comming up at the very least...
I forsee a frivolous lawsuit against the toy's manufacturer or Lucasfilm itself.
After all, there was no disclaimer telling them not to fill it up with petrol....
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It would be the height of irony if they were hoooked up to respirators that make that Darth Vader sound.
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quote:Originally posted by TSN: Flourescent lights are neither toys nor (as far as I know) manufactured by any company owned by George Lucas.
Yet- slap a Ep. III logo on them and they'll be in every happy meal...
I thought they had modded the sabre toys somehow (as I've seen flurscent tubing added to them at csci fi shows and online for sale).
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Ahhh...I expected Liam to take that particular lead.
On new years (just after midnight) a friend tossed me a bookbag with the Stephen King novel It inside it. The strap of the bag wrapped around my little finger annnnnd......severed all the tendons.
I had it rebuilt with the laser surgery (like, sci-fi fantastik!) and spend a year without the use of my right hand.
My writing is now very formal (like how an architect draws letters) from my having to re-learn how to write (I had to write for a while as though I was using a paintbrush).
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Hmm, are you sure it wasn't teh laser surgery? There's a distinction.
quote:and spend a year without the use of my right hand
"...and for a while, the dead rested soundly in their graves, the pope regained some of his health and all was well with the world." (Revelations, act V - the mid west)
For posterity, some friends and I once burned down a little wooden model of a mansion, using sugar and salpetre. The blue-green flames were impressive, but after a while we noticed the damage to the lawn. At night, hell was to be payed.
(also, the fumes made us cough in a way you're probably not supposed to cough)
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I was not Evil back then: I was a "Nice Guy".
It was back when I was 24- before I built any models (I've only been doing that about four years).
Strangely, the incident marked the start of what would be the worst year of my life- everything actually went downhill from there.
My little finger will never be completely straight again, but it works fine and there's no pain so it's allright.
A whole year of not being able to draw, paint, write, sculpt or well, anything was very difficult though.
As was sleeping with sutures and stitches for a couple of months- I kept rolling over onto my hand and waking up screaming!
But it's all in the past and it contributed to the wonderful mosaic of strange experiences that is me today.
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They should have just used the toy lightsabers, they probably wouldn't have been burt THAT MUCH!!!
If you'll excuse me I'm going to build my own FTL starship. Since I don't have any matter/anti-matter, I'm just gonna fill a glass tube with ass-loads of flammable chemicals and then drop a match in the mixture. Hopefully the resulting explosion would have enough power for me to jump to warp...
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So let's see, that's 28 grams traveling at 1+ c (give or take a c), for about, what, 2000 miles? At what point below earth's surface does hell begin? Would there be a bang if a pea-sized object breaks the sound barrier when traveling through hot mud and dino turds?
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