Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Not one of dad's best ideas

Popular Mechanics Home Handyman Encyclopedia Vol.1 1962

This set of How-To books contain many a bad idea, like for instance.... an INDOOR SHOOTING GALLERY!!! Click on the image folks and try to tell me that dad and jr. don't have a deranged "this is gonna piss mom off" look on their faces! I see some couch time in dad's future for making this crazy thing and do I have to say it?...."You'll shot your eye out!"

And don't even ask me to post the instructions for making this...I'm not going to be responsible!
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7 comments:

  1. JennicakesMay 25, 2006 at 12:56 AM

    Honestly, I'm tempted to make that just for decor. I'm not a gun person at all, so I'd never use it, but it looks like a fun project anyway!

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  2. AnonymousMay 25, 2006 at 2:39 AM

    lol , that cracks me up! Dad looks like he wants to sleep on the couch for a month and knows a good way to go about getting it. (And is an eerily similar expression Reggie would have when trying to get one over on Archie).

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  3. teacherarbcMay 25, 2006 at 7:51 AM

    LOL---I remember those Popular Mechanics Encyclopedias--they really did have, like everything you could think of to build, crazy stuff...And yeah, those facial expressions are priceless...too funny!!!

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  4. AnonymousMay 25, 2006 at 9:02 AM

    Hahahah! As soon as i saw the picture, before i even got down to READING your post,the first thing that i, too, thought, was:
    "YOU'LL SHOOT YOUR EYE OUT, KID!"
    It's funny, when i was a kid, my dad gave me a bb gun, which i loved...i was such a tomboy...but i allow my own kids NO GUNS. Sometimes i feel alittle guilty...maybe i should make them an indoor shooting gallery to make up for years of depravation of firearms! LOL!

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  5. Very MaryMay 25, 2006 at 10:11 AM

    Well, it doesn't beat my indoor knife-throwing arena, but it's a close runner-up!

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  6. Miss RMMay 25, 2006 at 10:33 AM

    I saw this whole set of encyclopedias at a yard sale last weekend. You've just made me regret not picking them up!

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  7. MonicaMay 25, 2006 at 9:05 PM

    Very cool

    We had toy guns as kids and all of us are late 30's early 40's and no one has ever been in jail or even owned a gun :) :)

    hey you know I just nocticed now my logo has a family shopping and the boy has a gun......

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