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    Samurai Sword Umbrella: Fight the Rain With Honor

    The Umbrella Corporation Umbrella

    Umbuster Brass Knuckle Umbrella Now For Sale

    Japanese Umbrella Is One Huge Speaker

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    Image of .357 .357
    02/06/09

    In reply to Samurai Sword Umbrella: Fight the Rain With Honor
    That is pretty damn cool. I wouldn't buy one because Umbrellas suck, but it is still pretty cool.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    02/06/09

    In reply to Samurai Sword Umbrella: Fight the Rain With Honor
    Carry a BIG golf umbrella and just beat them to death with it. Works for me.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    02/06/09

    @Curves:


    You gotta leave 'em breathing.


    Let them spend the rest of their days living with the shame of having been beaten up by a chick with an umbrella...

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    Image of EBone EBone
    02/06/09

    In reply to Samurai Sword Umbrella: Fight the Rain With Honor
    Call me when there's a bat'leth that I can impale my enemies with, rob a 7-11, and keep dry in the rain.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy
    02/06/09

    @EBone: DAMMIT, you beat me to it!
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    Image of EBone EBone
    02/06/09

    @269InchDiagonal_GitEmSteveDave: What can I say? It's a rainy Friday.
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    Image of Segador Segador
    02/06/09

    @EBone: The best part of that story is that the clerks at 7-11 told the guys no, and they just dejectedly walked out of the store. I'm gonna try my luck robbing a Kum-N-Go with a can of sardines next week.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    02/06/09

    @EBone: Bah! What kind of warrior are you? I true Klingon cares not if the rain falls on him.


    Now bathing on the other hand, they're deathly afraid of that..

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy
    02/06/09

    @Segador: One said yes, and one said no. The second guy should be fired. The first guy did the right thing. The second guy endangered himself and anyone else who may have been in the store and/or coming in.
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    Image of ScottRose ScottRose
    01/15/09

    In reply to The Umbrella Corporation Umbrella
    It looks like an umbrella that resembles the umbrella in RE.


    What I mean is, were I to see someone walking down the street with it, I'd just figure that a company had come up with the same design by happenstance.


    They could at least throw in a hanging air freshener of whats-her-name in that paper gown or something. (SANS NEEDLES).

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    Image of Serolf Divad Serolf Divad
    01/15/09

    In reply to The Umbrella Corporation Umbrella
    How's that different from this $5.00 red and white umbrella?
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    Image of everfade everfade
    01/15/09

    @Serolf Divad: Ding ding ding! We have a winner!
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    Image of Curves Curves
    01/15/09

    In reply to The Umbrella Corporation Umbrella
    I have several rain umbrellas (pop ups are most convenient) but my fav is a huge grey and white golf umbrella that I use to shade myself from sun durung the summer. OK, so maybe I look like a dork but better to look like a dork than sun poisoning patient.
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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    01/15/09

    In reply to The Umbrella Corporation Umbrella
    They had me when they said (from the link):


    includes a flexible, black wrist strap, which is valuable when you're swinging it as a bludgeon against invading zombie hordes. You know. Like you do.


    It just doesn't get any better than this, kids.

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy
    01/15/09

    In reply to The Umbrella Corporation Umbrella
    It's not even a "Gust Buster". It'll fold in the first stiff breeze.
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    01/15/09

    In reply to The Umbrella Corporation Umbrella
    You mean they barely thought of this now??
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    Image of Jesse in Japan Jesse in Japan
    11/25/08

    In reply to Umbuster Brass Knuckle Umbrella Now For Sale
    I don't understand how you could possibly use something like that in a fight. For that matter, isn't an umbrella a good enough weapon just as it is?
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    Image of Reil: Save Stars, Save Peach Reil: Save Stars, Save Peach
    11/24/08

    In reply to Umbuster Brass Knuckle Umbrella Now For Sale
    I half expected to see a pistol trigger in there...
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    Image of Rabid Penguin Rabid Penguin
    11/24/08

    @Reil: The Final Fantasy MXIV Multi-Purpose Gun Umbrella. Can also be used to take pictures, make phone calls, baste turkeys, put icing on cakes, direct traffic, snort a line of coke, punch a hooker to death, look pimp, and parasail. That's going to be one hell of a game.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    11/24/08

    In reply to Umbuster Brass Knuckle Umbrella Now For Sale
    John Steed has one of these...
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    Image of bandit bandit
    11/24/08

    In reply to Umbuster Brass Knuckle Umbrella Now For Sale
    They are legal in some states, I think.
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    Image of the facetious feline the facetious feline
    11/24/08

    @bandit: Let me guess ... Texas?
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    Image of Rabid Penguin Rabid Penguin
    11/24/08

    @broho: They shouldn't be illegal anywhere. Who cares if someone owns brass knuckles. The crime should not be in owning them, but in actually beating someone with them.
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    Image of jark jark
    11/24/08

    @Rabid Penguin: Yeah and it should be legal to own nuclear weapons as long as you don't bomb anyone.
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    Image of craig_16 craig_16
    11/24/08

    @Rabid Penguin: There is no other use for brass knuckles than than beating people with them, and if you own them you most likely intend to use them. Well, I suppose you could use it as a really cool paperweight.


    If the umbrella handle were made of aluminium then it would be quite light and might even render the umbrella no more harmful than one of those with the metal spikes on the end.

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    Image of Rabid Penguin Rabid Penguin
    11/24/08

    @jarque: yeah... those are comparable items. You can level an entire city with one set of brass knuckles.
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    Image of Rabid Penguin Rabid Penguin
    11/24/08

    @craig_16: People buy swords and all sorts of things whose primary use is stabbing people... or slashing people if the swords were made for slashing and not stabbing. But swords aren't illegal. However, it is illegal to go around stabbing (and slashing) people.
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    Image of jcrockerman jcrockerman
    11/24/08

    In reply to Umbuster Brass Knuckle Umbrella Now For Sale
    uhm...you do know that brass knuckles are illegal, right???


    it's a midemeanor

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    Image of Rabid Penguin Rabid Penguin
    11/24/08

    @jcrockerman: Since when is having an umbrella with a brass, hand fitting, handle a crime? ;c)
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/24/08

    @jcrockerman: So I guess I'll have to go back to stabbing people with my umbrella.
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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    11/24/08


    uhm...you do know that brass knuckles are illegal, right???


    it's a midemeanor


    @jcrockerman: uhm, you did read the author's comments didn't you?


    ...assuming that it is legal to own in your area that is...
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    Image of Ibelieveinsandwitches Ibelieveinsandwitches
    11/06/08

    In reply to Japanese Umbrella Is One Huge Speaker
    soon these will become miniaturized and our cocktails will play music for us.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    11/06/08

    @Ibelieveinsandwitches: Or you could just play 'musical drinks' at the bar, minus the musical umbrella....
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