Ah, They're 1935 Style Death Rays

[Tuckerfan]

The French claimed to have one.

LATEST of the death rays designed for modern warfare comes from Bourges, France. Henri Claudel, well known French scientist, is the inventor.
Recent experiments with the delicate apparatus have proved it to be unusually deadly when directed at small forms of life. The inventor estimates that the machine, which he calls “Rays of Death,” will kill any living thing at a distance of 10 kilometers, or approximately 6-1/4 miles.

Not to be outdone, the Germans unveil their own weapon.

AN ODD-LOOKING pistol firing a magnesium charge said to be capable of stunning men and animals a mile away is now being demonstrated in Paris. Its inventor, a German who was forced to flee from his native land, hopes to sell the idea to the French government.

Okay, so it’s a German living in France, but I can’t imagine that either of them worked.

[Beware_of_Doug]

All great fun, Tuck, but this is TWO THREADS on Modern Mechanix now.
ENOUGH WITH THE GODDAM MODERN MECHANIX ALREADY BEFORE WE FORCIBLY FIT YOU WITH AN ANORAK, ok?

[Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor]

@Beware of Doug

All great fun, Tuck, but this is TWO THREADS on Modern Mechanix now.
ENOUGH WITH THE GODDAM MODERN MECHANIX ALREADY BEFORE WE FORCIBLY FIT YOU WITH AN ANORAK, ok?

Doug?

If you could contribute something one half so amusing?
Please? :dubious:

[Beware_of_Doug]

Uhh…cat washing machine, vintage 2007?

[Tuckerfan]

So I guess you don’t want to hear about the real life bonsai kittens, then? :eek: :eek:

[Beware_of_Doug]

Hey, a bet’s a bet.

At least it wasn’t a fraternity initiation - he’d’ve had to wrap them in lettuce and swallow 'em whole.

[Sunspace]

@Beware of Doug

…AN ANORAK, ok?

Thanks for clearing up what an ‘anorak’ is. Over here, it’s just a very-seldom-used word for what we normally call a ‘parka’.

[Polycarp]

“Do you really want to upset a man who habitually carries lightning around in his pocket?”

[Projammer]

Forget those. Come check out the real thing!