# Best $8 ever spent

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-8-ever-spent/338953>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 8, 2006, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-8-ever-spent/338953 "2006-01-08T00:31:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-8-ever-spent/338953/21 "2006-01-09T23:28:32Z")

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[Kent Brockman]: In other news, the Pentagon today authorized $10 Billion for the development of the Nerf “Bunker Blaster Backpack.” Say protesters “It’ll be fun until an eye is put out.”[/KB]

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**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2006, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-8-ever-spent/338953/22 "2006-01-14T10:06:44Z")

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Let me just say the [Nerf Micro Sonic Darts](http://www.hasbro.com/pl/page.viewproduct/product_id.12865/dn/nerf/default.cfm) kick ass. They are lighter than the suction cup darts and fly faster. They also have a little whistle to them as they fly.

As they don’t have suction cups, this is pure assult and co-worker hunting ammo. None of this mamby-pamby target business.

It’s great when someone turns away from their computer and realizes they are being tracked and targeted by a mad, Nerf gun weilding co-worker. But it’s even better when one of the sonic darts whistles by another co-workers head and they realize they’re about to become collateral damage.

Good stuff these Nerf machines.

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