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squishyalt
11/03/09

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Drop some in a package of Pop Rocks and watch the fun!!!! #spitballs
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Gary_7vn
11/03/09

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We'd better hope Iran doesn't get their hands on these! #spitballs
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nutbastard
11/03/09

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gawd, kids have it easy these days, what with their fancy pants twitter, automatic transmissions, pre-ripped jeans and high tech polymer spit balls. when i was a kid we bought weed using a payphone! coffee was black and a 2GB hard drive was plenty! MTV played music videos and neosporin was for pussies! there was a new seinfeld every week and we traded pogs! that's right, pogs.

can you imagine handing a youngster some cardboard discs and tellin him to go have fun, and to knock off all that AOLin' cuz it's costin us by the minute? #spitballs
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nutbastard
11/03/09

@nutbastard:

back when it was the badass kids who wore all black and the whiny pansy asses were properly ashamed of their depression! back when cigarettes were the same price as gas, and gas was $1.86! we talked in pager code and everyone did the macarena! we bragged when we were the first to get 56k dialup! back when TVs had cathode ray tubes and phones had cords! #spitballs
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MaQ
11/03/09

@nutbastard: Ah, those where the days.

Yup, things are changing, but, people and differences between them are the same.

We will continue to be the minority and that's fine.

We are special.

:) #spitballs
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zenneth
11/03/09

@nutbastard: I feel so old when someone talks about "back in the day" and then mentions a 2GB hard drive and Seinfeld. I remember working at Radio Shack in the early 90's, then staying late and watching the new episode of Seinfeld on TV after-hours since it took me almost an hour to get home and PVRs hadn't been invented yet. 2GB? I remember when I was excited about the 420MB drive I bought for over $200 in 1995. 56k? Don't get me started on pogs and gas at the at-the-time exorbitant price of $1.86. Sigh.

Oh, and what would someone of an age to be interested in pogs be doing watching Seinfeld? The contest is not something pog-age kids need to understand. #spitballs
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nutbastard
11/04/09

@zenneth:

hey even as a young kid, i recognized what fuckin' funny was. #spitballs
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kagekiri
11/03/09

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These look a lot like Tapioca balls...which is why some people just use pearls from Pearl Milk Tea as spit balls. Sticky, staining (because of the tea), and it comes with a launch tube too (the extra-large straws). #spitballs
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qbrad
11/03/09

@kagekiri: I call those straws cannula. #spitballs
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sir_pantsalot
11/03/09

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"grow up to 200X in your mouth."

This is what I tell the ladies. I'm a grower not a shower. #spitballs
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monoverb
11/03/09

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So not only will they take your eye out, but explode in the cavity left behind.
Nice! #spitballs
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Sunburn_summer
11/03/09

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also know as: H1N1 school distribution kit. (please provide your own swine flu) #spitballs
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chauncy that billups
11/03/09

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From the ad copy:

"Easy to make and fun to use, spit balls grow to 200x their original size and are slimy to the touch. Slip, slide, and bounce the balls until they explode on target."

God, just too easy.... #spitballs
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Norbs
11/03/09

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what else makes amazing spit balls are the tapioca pearls you get at tapioca express. They fit perfectly in that huge straw and shoot extremely far. #spitballs
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yankeesrule
11/03/09

@Norbs: Oh man.. I never heard of Tapioca Express before, but their stuff looks good!

Looks like it's mostly in So-Cal.. isn't In & Out enough for awesome fast food chains nowhere else?? New York is just finally getting their first Sonic... No fair! #spitballs
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Norbs
11/03/09

@yankeesrule: Ha! no In & Out! I've never heard of something so silly...

Although you guys have Katz's Delicatessen which makes up for it quite a bit. #spitballs
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qbrad
11/03/09

@yankeesrule: We're getting a Sonic? I know they opened one in Dirty Jerz on 17. Also, Five Guys burgers is a reality here? Where have I been??
All we need now is a Chik-Fil-A and we'll be set. But we already know that CFA is NOT coming to NYC... We like to eat junk on Sundays too in this burgh. #spitballs
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qbrad
11/03/09

@Norbs: I've never had In n Out, but have been dying to try. Katz's is ok, but not in the same league. Plus, now that 2nd Ave Deli is back (on 33rd and 3rd) it's way better than Katz's. #spitballs
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Norbs
11/03/09

@qbrad: In and Out is not amazing but it is great for the price, it beats any other fast food burger I can think of, tastes great and doesn't make ya sick.

I have not been to Sonic's enough times to REALLY compare the two but I think they are pretty close from what I've tried but In and Out seems healthier/more natural. #spitballs
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yankeesrule
11/03/09

@qbrad: lol well, I mean't more New York area when I said Sonic, which included Jersey (there are two there now...) - plus there is one in Kingston and one opening in CT... my guess is they want to see how it survives an NYC area winter before opening one in the city itself where the taxes are insane.. so hopefully next year.

BTW, I took a road trip to the one in Jersey on a Sunday night, and the line was so long, cops were literally turning cars away because the line was so long, it was blocking traffic #spitballs
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qbrad
11/04/09

@yankeesrule: Yeah, saw that line one night on my way upstate. It had just opened up and the Sonic sign was shiny and new. And there were myriad pimped out guidomobiles. #spitballs
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BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2
11/03/09

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Who doesn't like balls in their mouth? #spitballs
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Xeno
11/03/09

@BergenCountyJC: They Chocolate Salty variety perhaps. #spitballs
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natural selection
11/03/09

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This is just begging for some brilliant kid to swallow a bunch of these things, and end up with a busted stomach lining. Hilarious! #spitballs
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BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2
11/03/09

@natural selection: err better yet, toss them to the seagulls or pigeons #spitballs
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