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Captain Petersburgh
Yak Addict
Canada
779 Posts |
 Posted - 06/17/2002 : 9:13:33 PM
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ok i spen three hours of my good TIMe trying to get a pool vacume to run .correctly that be the magic werd here. they're supposed to vacume for u. it kinda defeats the idea if every 5 min u have to re- adjust the friggin' thing. CURSES!!!!!
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{=HTG=}
Alien Abductee
USA
2342 Posts |
Posted - 06/17/2002 : 9:50:24 PM
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That sucks...I wasted my time going to the mall and buying a Nerf foot ball! Anyone remember NERF! It's the shits! You dont have to be very atheletic or anything, but you can throw the damn thing about 60 yards. SUCCESS!!
"I tell you what, I'm not that easily amused ...wow, a blue car!" Homer Simpson.
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Fluffy
Administrator
USA
10739 Posts |
Posted - 06/17/2002 : 9:58:43 PM
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YUMMMM!! CHEEEESE!!!!
Peace & Keep the Faith
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Fluffy
Administrator
USA
10739 Posts |
Posted - 06/17/2002 : 10:03:18 PM
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NERF®
One of Parker Brothers' most successful ventures in the seventies began with a four-inch polyurethane foam ball. In 1969, a games inventor came to the company with a volleyball game that was safe for indoor play. After studying the game carefully, Parker Brothers executives decided to eliminate everything but the foam ball. In 1970 the NERF® Ball was introduced as the "world's first official indoor ball." It didn't harm furniture, windows or people.
Obviously, the ball filled a strong consumer need since by the year's end, more than four million NERF balls had been sold.
Parker Brothers wasn't about to stop. The four-inch ball was followed closely by a large version called Super NERF® Ball. Shortly after, in 1972, a basketball game called NERFOOP® and the NERF® Football joined the family. The football fast became the "King of the Gridiron" and the largest selling football in the world. The company continued to add to the NERF® line until they handed the "ball" to Kenner Products, a sister company, in 1991.
Peace & Keep the Faith
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Fluffy
Administrator
USA
10739 Posts |
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Fluffy
Administrator
USA
10739 Posts |
Posted - 06/17/2002 : 10:44:46 PM
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“The world’s first indoor ball!”
It started with a dream—a dream of breaking one of the biggest no-no’s in the world: No playing ball in the house. Inventor Reynolds Guyer (creator of Twister) had a means to attain that dream, and that means was polyurethane. From that synthetic foam came the first Nerf ball, and from that first Nerf ball came a line of balls, bows, bats and more that continues to expand today.
Guyer’s first Nerf ball rolled out to the public in 1969. With the promise that “You can’t damage lamps or break windows. You can’t hurt babies or old people” (and no, that’s not a challenge), Nerf was safe enough for indoor play, but its squishy portability made it an ideal take-anywhere toy. By the end of its first year on the market, over 4 million Nerf balls had been sold, and a new toy superstar was born.
In the wake of the space race and moon madness, Nerf was nearly dubbed the “Moon Ball” by its inventor. In retrospect, the made-up word “Nerf” was a much better idea. The original ball would likely have been a success either way, but Nerf had bigger and better things in store than a single, smallish “Moon Ball.”
Throughout the 1970’s, the Nerf line expanded through nearly every sport involving a ball—soccer, golf, ping pong, baseball, basketball (the ever-popular Nerfoop)—and even a few with no ball relationship whatsoever (Frisbee, darts, etc.). But the jewel in the Nerf crown was clearly the Nerf Football. Debuting in 1972, this oblong mass of foam soon came to dominate backyard tackle ball, street ball, kill the man with the ball, and intramural flag football games everywhere.
Cheaper and softer than leather or pigskin, the Nerf Football was perfect training for wannabe Roger Staubachs, Terry Bradshaws, Joe Montanas, Dan Marinos, John Elways, or whomever you happened to idolize. Not only were Nerf Footballs more popular than the real thing, they were one of the most popular toys of the 1970’s, and they maintained their popularity over the ensuing decades with improvements like the spiraling Turbos and jet-inspired Vortexes.
Nerf balls and other toys were omnipresent throughout the 70’s and 80’s, but the 90’s brought a new wave that carried Nerf to new levels of popularity: Nerf Blasters. Starting with 1990’s Blast-a-Ball, Nerf unleashed an assortment of toys that fired soft, safe projectiles at unsuspecting friends or family members. The Nerf Bow and Arrow was an early favorite, and the line has grown to encompass everything from Crossbows to gatling-like rotating guns to the motorized “Ballzooka.”
The Blasters were kiddie favorites, but they also popped up in college dorms and corporate offices, where impromptu games of search and destroy made the perfect stressbuster. Between the Blasters, the ever-evolving sports line and the classic footballs, soccer balls and Nerfoops (now dubbed “Nerf Hoop”), Nerf continues bring squishy sport fun to the young and old. And though we wouldn’t recommend hurling the Vortex Mega Howler anywhere near mom or her favorite lamp, most Nerf products still follow in the safe, soft footsteps of “the world’s first indoor ball.”
Peace & Keep the Faith
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Fluffy
Administrator
USA
10739 Posts |
Posted - 06/17/2002 : 10:46:17 PM
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Peace & Keep the Faith
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Fleabass76
Fluffy-Esque
USA
1026 Posts |
Posted - 06/17/2002 : 10:59:20 PM
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HEHE....69
"Women and rhythm section first."
Mr. Jaco Pastorius
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genome
Fluffy-Esque
1098 Posts |
Posted - 06/17/2002 : 11:13:53 PM
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nerF Security Team
check out their logo 
http://www.nerf.ru/
I think they'd be safe anyway...
From their site...
Ïðîãðàììà, ñêàíèðóþùàÿ õîñòû íà ïðåäìåò ñëîâà â áàíåðå äåìîíà.
Ïîðò äåìîíà è ñëîâî íàõîäèòñÿ â base.nerf, ôîðìàò òàêîé ñëîâî:ïîðò,
ò.å. bero-ftpd:21 - ñëîâî bero-ftpd íà ftpd ïîðòó. Ñêàíèðóåò
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genome
Fluffy-Esque
1098 Posts |
Posted - 06/17/2002 : 11:14:55 PM
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Damn, that used to be in Russian...
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therippa
Fluffy-Esque
Kazakhstan
1099 Posts |
Posted - 06/18/2002 : 12:44:02 PM
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Does anyone remember the SNL commercial for Nerf Crotch-Rockets (and Nerf Nerf [do not let come in contact with crotch])?
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Aspiring to Be Fluffy-Esque
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LizT
Fluffy-Esque
USA
1687 Posts |
Posted - 06/18/2002 : 1:09:52 PM
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Fluffy your investigative research never ceases to amaze me!
Toys are a blast from the past. I use to work at a toy store before I went to college. I probably posted this before, excuse me if I'm repeating myself. I had a great TIMe playing with all the NEW toys when they came out. LOL! Didn't TR work in a toy department many moons ago?
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Captain Petersburgh
Yak Addict
Canada
779 Posts |
Posted - 06/18/2002 : 1:11:40 PM
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yeah i rember those nerf days. i kept wantin' bigger and better dart guns. ha ha. god thoses were fun. u sit up in a tree next to tyour friends house all night just weaitin' for him to come oot so u can shoot him. only problem was that he usually never came oot of his house at all.
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{=HTG=}
Alien Abductee
USA
2342 Posts |
Posted - 06/18/2002 : 1:16:43 PM
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Ah, the nerf guns. My favorite was the cross bow that I got for X-Mas. I kicked alot of ass with that thing.
"I tell you what, I'm not that easily amused ...wow, a blue car!" Homer Simpson.
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Captain Petersburgh
Yak Addict
Canada
779 Posts |
Posted - 06/18/2002 : 1:23:03 PM
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i loved those things. i still have the ballzooka. man that thing hicked some serious ass.better than u're cross bow. i could take u. ha ha
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pcbTIM
Alien Abductee
USA
6501 Posts |
Posted - 06/21/2002 : 10:16:44 PM
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"world's first official indoor ball." It didn't harm furniture, windows or people.
Are you kidding?! You ever get hit in the eye with one of those?
"I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows." |
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Captain Petersburgh
Yak Addict
Canada
779 Posts |
Posted - 06/21/2002 : 10:19:26 PM
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actually yes. hurt's like a bitch
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Drunken Lullabies
Is Anybody Here?
USA
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Posted - 06/21/2002 : 11:09:33 PM
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ar, me the ships logger type person will record this unsightly event in the log......ar....captain wrestles with pool cleaner. done! BOO YA~!
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Captain Petersburgh
Yak Addict
Canada
779 Posts |
Posted - 06/21/2002 : 11:10:57 PM
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here we goo again. another pirate wannabe. sheese
i'm keepin' TIMe with my own set of keys.... |
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Jay
Alien Abductee
Vatican City
2279 Posts |
Posted - 06/21/2002 : 11:40:09 PM
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sheese? What the hell does THAT mean? And hey Mike, he still called ya Capt.!
Jay
" It's a scavenger hunt in the best of times, a one armed man with a box of dimes. Throw the stick and let the bulldog roll." KJP |
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Captain Petersburgh
Yak Addict
Canada
779 Posts |
Posted - 06/21/2002 : 11:45:06 PM
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yes. well he IS werkin' for me on me boat. sheesh. like the shoulder shurg. i dunno
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MarkMyWord
Is Anybody Here?
USA
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Posted - 09/18/2008 : 7:05:13 PM
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Originally posted by Fluffy
NERF®
One of Parker Brothers' most successful ventures in the seventies began with a four-inch polyurethane foam ball. In 1969, a games inventor came to the company with a volleyball game that was safe for indoor play. After studying the game carefully, Parker Brothers executives decided to eliminate everything but the foam ball. In 1970 the NERF® Ball was introduced as the "world's first official indoor ball." It didn't harm furniture, windows or people.
Obviously, the ball filled a strong consumer need since by the year's end, more than four million NERF balls had been sold.
Parker Brothers wasn't about to stop. The four-inch ball was followed closely by a large version called Super NERF® Ball. Shortly after, in 1972, a basketball game called NERFOOP® and the NERF® Football joined the family. The football fast became the "King of the Gridiron" and the largest selling football in the world. The company continued to add to the NERF® line until they handed the "ball" to Kenner Products, a sister company, in 1991.
Peace & Keep the Faith
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rubylith
Fluffy-Esque
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Posted - 09/19/2008 : 10:39:23 AM
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| hahaa wtf? |
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Ranting Thespian
Fluffy-Esque
USA
1283 Posts |
Posted - 09/20/2008 : 01:53:50 AM
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| I remember the ones that were nerf footballs that had fins on the back. Then they added whistles to it. There was also one where it worked as a slingshot, which was pretty kewl, then they added whistles to that. Then there was a lawn darts Nerf game. They just took over every sport, I think. |
Not communicating can hurt more than any word that can be said -
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dan p.
Alien Abductee
Uganda
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Arthen
Alien Abductee
USA
4845 Posts |
Posted - 09/21/2008 : 9:37:34 PM
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| That's in my top five favorite PA strips. |
Steve Hackett: "I'm my own opening act, you see."
Tim (before "Faceoff"): "Peace, love....and SEX!"
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