# I used to be 1920s Style "Death Ray"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-be-1920s-style-death-ray/531618>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 7, 2010, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-be-1920s-style-death-ray/531618 "2010-03-07T13:31:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-be-1920s-style-death-ray/531618/21 "2010-03-09T17:28:59Z")

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Though his achievement was notworthy, the original Richard Pearse didn’t have the Wright stuff! 😉

But I have the perfect signature for Doper **Richard Pearse** :

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> “Formerly **1920s Style ‘Death Ray’**. Once. For twenty minutes. In 1960.”

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**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-be-1920s-style-death-ray/531618/22 "2010-03-10T13:47:37Z")

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> [@Bootis](#):
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> That’s why theiy’re known as bamboo dicks.

That made me laugh out loud (not LOL, mind you, but actually, seriously laugh out loud).

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