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September 6, 2011
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Does Nerf still provide sporting goods commercials anymore? I probably either haven't seen any or was too obfuscated by the Doggie Doo advertisements that I stopped paying attention entirely.
I'm pretty sure the last Nerf product I had was a rocket launcher. That was pretty fun to screw around with until my first airsoft gun.
First?
This is totally awesome!! For Christmas last year I got my husband and our five sons, ranging in age from 13 to 22, Nerf swords. There were screaming sword fights for weeks! My 20 year old was just claiming the same thing you did in panel 1. He wants the Nerf guns, but he won't pay what they cost. Love this strip!
If only we could solve the world's conflicts with big Nerf battles!
Another excellent strip. :)
While I typically hate "First!" posts, I've never actually had the opportunity to post one, so.....
First!
I agree with all the force of my ancestors before me; THE KIDS TODAY HAVE IT TOO EASY. DURN FOOL KIDS.
"The constant thing in this world is change." But change can be radical and somehow it's hard to keep up or probably it's our choices that prevent us from doing so. I think this is applicable to everything.
That is 100% exactly what you did with Nerf items. Preferably they had a small plastic piece somewhere that would hurt when it hit.
@Nohurtme: Might want to try it on a board where posts are shown right away. When they're moderated first, you have a much higher chance of not actually being first.
Also, Nerf weapons are awesome. I have four cousins and two brothers, and I brought Nerf guns for all seven of us to the Christmas party last year. My grandmother still finds bullets in odd places occasionally. :)
Nohurtme - Seeing your post wherein you embrace a practice you know to be wrong, and then don't get what you bargained for, makes me proud to post....
Faust!
Panel 1 has only one logical conclusion: Your robbed the store, right?
War.. War never changes.
<Insert picture of Nerf battle here>
Funny, and so true.
One of the kids got a double-barreled Nerf shotgun. You'd break it open like a real gun, slide a nerf-dart/spring-shell combo in each barrel, close it, and Bang! Bang! Each trigger pull fired a dart, then you'd break open the gun and the shells would pop out.
It was so cool. I was almost sorry I wasn't six years old anymore.
Totally agree with the sentiment. As a kid who loved dinosaurs (and an adult who is still rather fond of them), I am flabbergasted at how awesome dinosaur toys are these days. I used to play with 8-inch, goofily painted models of slightly rubbery plastic. These days, they have fully posable models twice the size of that, and they're downright beautiful. Last time I went to Toys'R'Us, my inner child wept.
Quick cure for this - have grandkids! I LOVE going to the Nerf aisle, checking out the awesome weaponry, and spending too much. And Lego! How much fun is it to go the Lego aisle and buy Star Wars kits! Wait until you have grandkids. With a little luck you'll have at least some extra cash to help turn them into geeks like us!
You darn kids! Get off my lawn! I remember when all this was farmland!
I remember when I was a kid, all I wanted for years was an Etch-a-Sketch. I finally got one when I was a teenager and no longer wanted it. Now they have handhelds and tablets that can do world class art, and play games better than the Coleco LED football game I used to have, at prices I also don't want to pay. Sigh.
Also, to anyone who wants to try for first, I think greymase got it right - a question mark is essential, since no comments displayed is not necessarily = no comments submitted. That is all.
Holy Shit! Nerf made sporting goods?!
This is great. A LOL for every panel.
In my town, we deal with this by buying a real gun and going to a shooting range once a year to get it all out of our systems at once.
Victoria, Nerf swords? There are NERF SWORDS?!
Oh, I gotta get me some of those.
(I have neither children nor husband, so I am behind on the ways of Nerf Destruction.)
I love the Nerf stuff they have out now.
Twenty-Second! (because 'first' is so last-week :)
Most of what I learned in my first year of college was how to make nerf guns more painful/powerful. look up nerf gun mods on youtube and you get the idea. We built an airsoft sniper out of a nerf pistol. Good times.
I'm only fifteen, and even I agree that kids today haave it too easy!