# Sulfur and silver bullets **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [January 25, 2008, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sulfur-and-silver-bullets/435001 "2008-01-25T19:43:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mycroft\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/898d66/32.png) [@Mycroft\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mycroft_H)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sulfur-and-silver-bullets/435001/1 "2008-01-25T19:43:46Z")
The report about [tarnishing silver](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/080125.html) was great (of course) but what was Nathan’s (the questioner) remark about a “geek” making silver bullets? What’s so geeky about silver bullets? In looking for one thread I remembered, I actually found two; **Triskadecamus** [had one in 2004](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=250837) and there was an earlier one discussing them in [2000](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=25094). It does not appear that he ever got any of the bullets made. Actually, after reading a different thread by **Trisk** about [things he owns](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=278053), yeah he’s pretty geeky. So am I as I would like to own a bunch of those things as well and do have a Klein Bottle on my wish list. ---
**Author:** ![PetW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@PetW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PetW)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sulfur-and-silver-bullets/435001/2 "2008-01-25T23:26:29Z")
[QUOTE=Cecil] … humankind no longer cares about anything but reality TV and Grand Theft Auto [/QUOTE] Grand Theft Auto? That’s like so 7 years ago! Cecil’s such an old fogey. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2008, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sulfur-and-silver-bullets/435001/3 "2008-01-27T18:45:51Z")
Two geeky things about Silver Bullets spring instantly to mind. 1. You can use them to kill Werewolves, and [It](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_%281990_film%29) 2. the Lone Ranger left one with every person he helped. And they didn’t even get a chance to thank him. ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sulfur-and-silver-bullets/435001/4 "2008-01-30T00:14:47Z")
1. As a [beer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coors_Light#United_States), it is really overrated. ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sulfur-and-silver-bullets/435001/5 "2008-02-01T18:01:31Z")
1. As a [band](http://www.segerbob.com/), it rocked. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sulfur-and-silver-bullets/435001/6 "2008-02-02T06:28:48Z")
[QUOTE=Mycroft H.] What’s so geeky about silver bullets? [/QUOTE] And, as something to do for the hell of it, nothing whatsoever, except he didn’t follow the rules of following lead-alloy bullets or his grooves would’ve been shallower. The PopSci guy appears to have been a dilletante.