# If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That way, if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like "Hey, look. He's carrying a soldering iron!" and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, "That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice." Then everybody would get real quiet and ashamed, because they had made fun [...]
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Juvenile court official cracks down on toy gun sales WBAL-TV 11 NEWS AT 5:00 P.M. CONTINUES NOW. A BATTLE OVER A TOY GUN. IN THE MIDST OF A SURGEON GUN VIOLENCE IN BALTIMORE CITY, A JUVENILE COURT OFFICIAL IS PUSHING FOR A CRACKDOWN ON THE SALE OF TOY GUNS. BUT SHE HAS THE EXAMPLE THAT SHE SAYS ILLUSTRATES OUR CASE. JAYNE MILLER IS LIVE IN THE NEWSROOM WITH THAT STORY. THESE ARE TOY GUNS WITHOUT BULLETS, BUT DO THEY LOOK TOO MUCH LIKE [...]
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By Petula Dvorak , January 07, 2013 “There will be no guns in this house, ” I once declared, when I was new to parenting, thought I knew what I was doing, and my first child was a wobbly toddler obsessed with trains. I now duck and dodge while writing this, foam Nerf bullets whizzing past my head, as my 6- and 8-year-old boys engage in heavy battle. After years of throwing away toy guns given by grandparents, disarming every Star Wars [...]
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So the dogs officially have 100 stuffies and 20 antlers coming their way next week, I think i'm done for quite a while getting them stuff to play with. The one toy I wanted to keep and not let the dog get to was a cavy looking toy. Guess which toy was stollen and now doesn't have eyes or ears? I got all the people remote-controlled helicopters, except my dad who never appreciates my gifts. I got him a little remote controlled car that [...]
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About animating? Forget getting an actual job or applying to a school..I'm only talking about the act of animating a character. What's the most challenging thing to learn/master? My friends and I saw a whole range of animated DVDs tonight..from Gundam to South Park to Family Guy, and no matter how simple or complex the animation was, I personally find that it's not that easy to create the different movements that involves a character. [...]
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DS had his 3rd birthday party yesterday. The big brother of one of his friends (a 7 year old boy) gave him a plastic gun that makes a "pop" sound. It is camo colored with black on the grip, but looks reasonably like a real semi-automatic pistol. DS immediately LOVED it and carried it all around at his birthday party. He calls it "my cowboy shooter." Personally, I am horrified and think it's totally inappropriate for a 3 year old, but I [...]
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