Yeah, I can see objecting to the realistic-looking ones (if for no other reason than that there have been horrible stories about cops and the fake guns and tragic results), but I wouldn't be a parent who was all "No nerf guns! No squirt guns! Nothing gun-ish!" so who knows
Murk: But you're a God! The Sacred Glorificus! Glory: I'm a God in exile. Far from the Hellfires of Home and sharing my body with an enemy that stabs my boys in their fleshy little stomachs!
'Dirty Girls'
Spike's Bitches 47: Someone Dangerous Could Get In
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
meara - Jul 13, 2012 12:16:29 pm PDT #16984 of 30001
sj - Jul 13, 2012 12:20:16 pm PDT #16985 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
le nubian, ITA. I was talking about something that looked like this.
Glamcookie - Jul 13, 2012 12:22:18 pm PDT #16986 of 30001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
sj, you could do squirt gun like thingys rather than actual guns. Like you can get these at Target (2 for $10): [link]
Hil R. - Jul 13, 2012 12:25:57 pm PDT #16987 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
The ones we had were sort of like this [link] (not exactly -- they were bigger and shaped a bit differently -- but the same general idea.)
sj - Jul 13, 2012 12:29:33 pm PDT #16988 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
sj, you could do squirt gun like thingys rather than actual guns. Like you can get these at Target (2 for $10): [link]
Thanks, GC and Hil. I'm not actually looking for an alternative right now, I was just curious what the consensus is, but I did get the impression that even those kind of things would be unacceptable.
le nubian - Jul 13, 2012 12:31:53 pm PDT #16989 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
sj, those are fun.
hell, I want one.
Zenkitty - Jul 13, 2012 12:33:51 pm PDT #16990 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
How have I spent 33 years on this earth without discovering Neil Gaiman?
I'm terribly sorry. I just assume that everyone I know already knows about Neil Gaiman.
All right, then. Who ELSE doesn't know about Neil Gaiman? Now I'm suspicious.
EpicTangent - Jul 13, 2012 12:42:46 pm PDT #16991 of 30001
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
it's raining in Southern California
Send it south! We're still just in the low clouds, muggy phase. I'd really like the moisture to condense into droplets rather than just...clinging.
...and back to work...we had an employee appreciation lunch today - very fun, but weirdly, nobody did the rest of my job while I was out there working on the event.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Jul 13, 2012 12:51:13 pm PDT #16992 of 30001
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Next you should read Neverwhere.
All right then.
I just assume that everyone I know already knows about Neil Gaiman.
I knew he writes stuff and that people like it. I really liked his Doctor Who episode. I think I just thought I'd get to reading him one day. Which, y'know, I have. More please.
erikaj - Jul 13, 2012 1:01:37 pm PDT #16993 of 30001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
my brother and I had squirt guns. Not ones that look like real guns(my mom read a Joseph Wambaugh story where a cop freaked and shot a kid with a realistic squirt gun.) but we had blue and green water pistols and stuff. I liked American Gods...I'm just not sure I really, you know, got it. I'm sure it was me, though.