Did anyone have a pea shooter in there youth, and get into mischief by blowing a pea at the teachers head and letting your mate get the blame.

Tut Tut, I did, and they hurt to.

Not as much as my mates backside though after he got the slipper for my wrong doing.
Does anyone still have a pea shooter and are they still around these days i wonder.

Didn't have a bought one Cycle but we used to make our own. Don't know what the plant is called but it looks like rhubarb and has long hollow stems-perfect for a pea shooter. Hours of free, innocent entertainment.

I used to own one. I can't remember whom I used to shoot at though. What is the equivalent these days, BB guns?

Originally posted by Mo
Didn't have a bought one Cycle but we used to make our own. Don't know what the plant is called but it looks like rhubarb and has long hollow stems-perfect for a pea shooter. Hours of free, innocent entertainment.

Untill your lips started to itch - the plant in question is a member of the hemlock family!

Originally posted by Lickszz
I used to own one. I can't remember whom I used to shoot at though. What is the equivalent these days, BB guns?
Equivalent these days are McDonalds straws. Seen many a muppet yoof spitting bits of gob covered paper through straws at random people... Mmmmmm lovely!
Some of em dont even need straws its amazing how far some of em can expectorate a wad of chewing gum. In fact saw one spit theirs out and attempt to catch it back in his mouth, misjudged it slightly and he choked on the thing!!!

Originally posted by Mosherchik
In fact saw one spit theirs out and attempt to catch it back in his mouth, misjudged it slightly and he choked on the thing!!!

We can only hope fataly!

Originally posted by evildrneil
Untill your lips started to itch - the plant in question is a member of the hemlock family!
well it's either wormwood, cow parsley or hogweed

Cow Parsley - thats it - I remember there was a cow in there somewhere but couldn't remember where! We used to use it for the same purposes when I was but a wee sprog!

Pea shooter?
When I was at school the boys took an old biro without the pen insert and used that as a pea shooter. They chewed of piece of paper into mush and rolled that into a ball. Nasty! Usually the ceiling was the covered in mushy spit balls stuck up there until eventually they dried up and fell off. Yuk!

I not only had several peashooters throughout those hazy days of my mis-spent childhood, but catapults as well.

didn't anyone take the soggy paper spitballs and soak them in ink so they made a nice black splat on the back of the neck of the sap in front?

Of course the real benefit of an actual peashooter (8" plastic pipe) was that you could keep a mouthful of dried peas - whereas the paperball and biro (school method) was limited to single shot and reload.

Also Schaeffer Ink cartidges make good sawn off peashooters, as the end caps just squeeze off - no cutting necessary.

We managed to refine inked spitball shooters to a fine level that included a gravity fed magazine and choked muzzle (this was 23 years ago)

Did anyone ever marry up teacher's seats to drawing pins?

Originally posted by Phanerothyme
didn't anyone take the soggy paper spitballs and soak them in ink so they made a nice black splat on the back of the neck of the sap in front?

Of course the real benefit of an actual peashooter (8" plastic pipe) was that you could keep a mouthful of dried peas - whereas the paperball and biro (school method) was limited to single shot and reload.

Also Schaeffer Ink cartidges make good sawn off peashooters, as the end caps just squeeze off - no cutting necessary.

We managed to refine inked spitball shooters to a fine level that included a gravity fed magazine and choked muzzle (this was 23 years ago)

Did we go to school together Phan? I feel like I know you so well. In fact I think I sat in front of you.

Originally posted by Sam Miguel
Did anyone ever marry up teacher's seats to drawing pins?
Now that's nasty - I mean really. No we never did.

Two things we always did with new teachers -

1. keep changing our names. We'd pair up with different classmates each lesson and swap names, books etc with them.

2. The humming gag. Be rowdy, then when teacher makes you all be quiet by shouting, go quiet and then hum the same monotone as classmates. Loudly. Stop humming when teacher approaches and start again as they move away. Continue until they cry or storm out. Do NOT laugh.

Till you got to the teacher tormenting thing

That's evil Phan! :o Have you ever tried to talk to a group of people who think you are there enemy and moreover dont want to be in the same room as you are? Its v. hard.

I hope you teach ur offspring to empathise