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subego · Oct 3, 2011, 06:15 PM

Or, "other stupid things I did as a kid".

Hey, it was all green and sparkly. How could I resist?

calverson · Oct 3, 2011, 06:17 PM

I signed up on MacNN

subego · Oct 3, 2011, 06:19 PM

Well, that's blue and sparkly.

subego · Oct 3, 2011, 06:22 PM

I bought a Sega CD.

And a 32X.

And a Saturn.

calverson · Oct 3, 2011, 06:26 PM

I ate a beetle

calverson · Oct 3, 2011, 06:26 PM

It was black and sparkly.

subego · Oct 3, 2011, 06:28 PM

I was thinking of different adjectives.

subego · Oct 3, 2011, 06:40 PM

I ate a piece of a crayon.

I wasn't sure that's what it was before I ate it, but I can recall like it was yesterday that there was something about that particular color of red which screamed "eat me".

I used to intentionally eat Chap-Stick though, so I guess a crayon piece isn't too out there.

subego · Oct 3, 2011, 06:53 PM

I stood on the sink in the bathroom at school and snapped it off the wall.

I wasn't caught, but the new sink had steel rebar supports standing in mute testament to my destruction.

besson3c · Oct 3, 2011, 07:33 PM

Originally Posted by subego

I ate a piece of a crayon.

I wasn't sure that's what it was before I ate it, but I can recall like it was yesterday that there was something about that particular color of red which screamed "eat me"..

What did it look like when you hashished it out?

andi*pandi · 08:12 AM

A friend dared me to eat cat food, so I did. It was not that bad.

In an effort to come up with a new monkey bar trick, I flipped off the monkeybars backwards and dislocated both arms. Those monkeybars were possessed.

At a babysitter's house I climbed a small apple tree and broke a branch off it, falling. The babysitter was pissed about her tree, my mother was pissed that I had two skinned knees and the babysitter hadn't been paying attention! I later climbed lots and lots of even bigger trees without incident.

My brother did many more stupid things than I did. At the age of 15 he took my dad's truck into the pasture joyriding, and crashed it into a tree. He broke his leg. My dad hung a hubcap off a tree to memorialize his truck.

Brien · Oct 3, 2011, 08:59 PM

Originally Posted by subego

I bought a Sega CD.

And a 32X.

And a Saturn.

Me too. And an Atari Jaguar.

calverson · Oct 3, 2011, 10:59 PM

Originally Posted by subego

I bought a Sega CD.

And a 32X.

And a Saturn.

Originally Posted by Brien

Me too. And an Atari Jaguar.

That's nothing...

besson3c · Oct 3, 2011, 11:11 PM

Calverson and I have been friends for life, we met when we were little kids. This one time however, we were both about 10 years old and Calverson coerced me to shove his Tamagotchi up his butt. It was not a pleasant experience for me.

calverson · Oct 3, 2011, 11:22 PM

Nor me. It was beeping for weeks.

besson3c · Oct 3, 2011, 11:26 PM

Originally Posted by calverson

Nor me. It was beeping for weeks.

Man we were dumb kids! Should we tell MacNN about the paint thinner?

calverson · Oct 3, 2011, 11:31 PM

Or about the time you randomly called me and asked me how long it would take a gerbil to die if it was up one's butt?

besson3c · Oct 3, 2011, 11:40 PM

Originally Posted by calverson

Or about the time you randomly called me and asked me how long it would take a gerbil to die if it was up one's butt?

I was really concerned about my friend Todd.

subego · Oct 3, 2011, 11:50 PM

Originally Posted by andi*pandi

In an effort to come up with a new monkey bar trick, I flipped off the monkeybars backwards and dislocated both arms. Those monkeybars were possessed.

Jeezuz.

Originally Posted by andi*pandi

At a babysitter's house I climbed a small apple tree and broke a branch off it, falling. The babysitter was pissed about her tree, my mother was pissed that I had two skinned knees and the babysitter hadn't been paying attention! I later climbed lots and lots of even bigger trees without incident.

In grade school we had a "reading loft" which was never built except for the frame.

I was hanging upside-down on a support brace, and just like the sink, I was way to phat to be playing such games.

WHAM!

Five feet, right on my back. I had never been winded before. I thought I had punctured a lung or something.

Originally Posted by andi*pandi

My brother did many more stupid things than I did. At the age of 15 he took my dad's truck into the pasture joyriding, and crashed it. My dad hung a hubcap off a tree to memorialize his truck. My brother broke his leg.

Into what? A cow?

subego · Oct 3, 2011, 11:55 PM

Originally Posted by besson3c

What did it look like when you hashished it out?

No idea. I chewed.

subego · Oct 4, 2011, 12:00 AM

I pulled a pot of hot popcorn oil off the stove. By some miracle it only hit my kneecap. The scar didn't disappear until a few years ago.

calverson · Oct 4, 2011, 12:02 AM

I knew a chick who made a pot of popcorn... in a frying pan. The funniest/silliest thing that I had seen occurring in a kitchen.

subego · Oct 4, 2011, 02:25 AM

Me and some friends broke into the construction site at the Zoo and played The Empire Strikes Back in the trenches of Hoth.

Or the dry moats of the Hippo House, if you squinted kinda hard.

The Empire broke the lines and threatened to call the cops on us.

calverson · Oct 4, 2011, 10:11 PM

I used to put burning firecrackers inside of vinegar or ketchup sachets and throw them at the kids living across the street.

Boom.... splat.

subego · Oct 5, 2011, 12:35 AM

No liquids, but we would fling bottle rockets at each other.

I like to think I contributed to the sales of fireworks being illegal in my state.

subego · Oct 5, 2011, 12:38 AM

My dad actually taught me the ding-dong, flaming bag of poo prank, but I never used it.

calverson · Oct 5, 2011, 12:41 AM

When I was 6 or 7 my parents were having a poolside BBQ with a lot of their friends over. I was swimming in the pool and masturbating and my mom, embarrassed, told me to stop what I was doing, and my response was to shout at the top of my lungs "Sure, I just wanna get to the good part!"

I didn't understand why all the guests were laughing at me.