Did I ever tell you guys about the time when I was six and wanted to play "robots" with my friends, so I stuck a screw up my nose?

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February 13, 2023, 05:07 AM

ScreamingCockatoo

Did I ever tell you guys about the time when I was six and wanted to play "robots" with my friends, so I stuck a screw up my nose?

Speaking of robots
What do you give an android for a bad cough?

Robotussin…

February 13, 2023, 06:47 AM

nhracecraft

Sooo, any chance the incident resulted in any long running family jokes/ribbing inferring 'you've got a screw loose' or maybe lots of laughter while reminiscing at family gatherings, 'remember the time...'

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February 13, 2023, 07:23 AM

StarTraveler

While I loved robots when I was little, para's experience and the bean and pearl stories make me totally recall a particular Arnold moment.

And the suction-cup arrows story reminded me of the time my cousins visited and played cops and robbers with real, loaded BB guns. I cleared out and they got some good hits on each other and some good welts (fortunately, none one shot an eye out).

February 13, 2023, 07:53 AM

Sig2340

Great thread!

Well I never stuck a screw up my nose; however, I did bring my mother a large large, still alive scorpion impaled on a screwdriver.

February 13, 2023, 08:24 AM

V-Tail

quote:
From The Fantastic:

Why did the kids put beans in their ears?
No one can hear with beans in their ears.
After a while the reason appears.
They did it cause we said "no."

February 13, 2023, 09:30 AM

BB61

Does that mean you have a screw loose Boss?

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I'll go stand in the corner in the back of the room now.

February 13, 2023, 01:31 PM

tacfoley

quote:
Originally posted by parabellum:
Yeah, that happened. My dad got it out with a pair of tweezers and a fair bit of choice profanity. I am told that it was far up enough my nose that only the screw head was visible. That could have been a really bad scene but it turned out OK.

Is that a pun I detect there, Sir?

February 13, 2023, 02:02 PM

parabellum

February 13, 2023, 02:08 PM

Timdogg6

But did you identify as a robot??

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February 13, 2023, 02:18 PM

Southern Rebel

I remember well the day I decided to sneak my father's favorite bass plug out of the house to play with it in the creek. In my wisdom, I decided to gingerly put it in my front jeans pocket to hide it.

Double sets of treble hooks on front and back - what could go wrong? Except those hooks were slowly invading the territory reserved for my future family jewels! (I believe that might have been when my mom commented about God looking out after fools and little children, which she said gave me double protection.)

Anyway, she extracted the hooks with scissors and a razer blade, the plug survived intact, but that jeans pocket was fit for no other use than pocket pool, but I was a tad too young to even reap that reward.

February 13, 2023, 02:41 PM

cparktd

I was a big fan of Lost in Space...
Especially the Robot. That does not compute.

The dumbest things I did usually involved a bicycle.

February 13, 2023, 02:52 PM

parabellum

quote:
Originally posted by cparktd:
I was a big fan of Lost in Space...
Especially the Robot.

Come to think of it, that series is probably the reason we were playing "robots" that day. Lost in Space was in its second or third season at the time.

February 13, 2023, 03:03 PM

George43

I have been told on several occasions to "go f**k
myself, but I guess Para did actually screw himself!

February 13, 2023, 03:05 PM

parabellum

Brilliant, George.

February 13, 2023, 03:21 PM

RichardC

Maybe even "Forbidden Planet", 1956 ?

One of my favorite classic science fiction films, still good even today.

February 13, 2023, 03:30 PM

parabellum

No, Lost in Space was almost certainly the reason why. Though Forbidden Planet was the first time Robby the Robot appeared, it wasn't the first place I saw him. He actually showed up in Lost in Space. Irwin Allen was always looking for cool props to put into the show.

Here's Robby the Robot in Lost in Space, season 1

Same episode, showing Robby with the series' B-9 robot. "B-9" = "Benign", as in "non-threatening", get it?

February 13, 2023, 03:34 PM

Warhorse

quote:
Originally posted by parabellum:
Yeah, that happened. My dad got it out with a pair of tweezers and a fair bit of choice profanity. I am told that it was far up enough my nose that only the screw head was visible. That could have been a really bad scene but it turned out OK.

February 13, 2023, 03:47 PM

maladat

quote:
Originally posted by wcb6092:
Guess that was before 3 inch decking screws became a thing.

There’s a classic sideshow act called “the Human Blockhead” in which the performer hammers most of a five or six inch nail into their nose (straight back, not up).

There’s not actually a trick or fakery involved, most people just don’t realize how big the nasal cavity is.

February 13, 2023, 07:04 PM

r0gue

"Crush, Kill, Destroy!"

How the hell do I remember that after all of these years????

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Originally posted by parabellum: