# You'll shoot your eye out! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 15, 2008, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youll-shoot-your-eye-out/477271 "2008-12-15T18:52:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youll-shoot-your-eye-out/477271/21 "2008-12-15T19:33:17Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > Sigh. I am sitting less than six miles from [Ralphie’s house](http://www.achristmasstoryhouse.com/)right now. > > I want to go to Higbee’s. They had the most fantastic window displays - and not just at Christmas. I was always scared of those big revolving brass doors though. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youll-shoot-your-eye-out/477271/22 "2008-12-15T19:36:58Z")
Every kid, at the back of his mind, vaguely but insistently, believes that he will be struck blind before his 21st birthday. And then they’ll be sorry. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youll-shoot-your-eye-out/477271/23 "2008-12-15T19:37:57Z")
> [@UncleRojelio](#): > > I almost shot my little brother’s eye out with a BB gun. Good thing it had a compass in the stock. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youll-shoot-your-eye-out/477271/24 "2008-12-15T19:39:40Z")
I have a coworker who does not celebrate Christmas. She is a Jehovah’s Witness. Every December she puts her leg lamp in her front window. She describes it as “awesome.” ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youll-shoot-your-eye-out/477271/25 "2008-12-15T19:41:09Z")
You should see what it looks like from out here! ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youll-shoot-your-eye-out/477271/26 "2008-12-15T19:41:15Z")
> [@romansperson](#): > > They had the most fantastic window displays - and not just at Christmas. I was always scared of those big revolving brass doors though. Oh, but the chicken pot pie, in a chicken-shaped dish, in a cardboard stove. It was worth the shopping trips my aunt took me on to buy me those ugly, ugly clothes. ---
**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youll-shoot-your-eye-out/477271/27 "2008-12-15T19:42:16Z")
…with a piquant aftertaste… ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youll-shoot-your-eye-out/477271/28 "2008-12-15T19:47:09Z")
> [@chacoguy420](#): > > …with a piquant aftertaste… What has a piquant aftertaste? Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuddddggge? ---
**Author:** ![Satchmo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/satchmo/32/4223_2.png) [@Satchmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satchmo)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youll-shoot-your-eye-out/477271/29 "2008-12-15T19:58:03Z")
He had yellow eyes. I swear, YELLOW EYES! ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youll-shoot-your-eye-out/477271/30 "2008-12-15T20:02:52Z")
Flick? Flick who? ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youll-shoot-your-eye-out/477271/31 "2008-12-15T20:04:03Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > Oh, but the chicken pot pie, in a chicken-shaped dish, in a cardboard stove. It was worth the shopping trips my aunt took me on to buy me those ugly, ugly clothes. I loved the fountain in the middle of the dining room (the Silver Grille) with the big goldfish in it. I know it’s been restored; I wonder if they still have fish. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youll-shoot-your-eye-out/477271/32 "2008-12-15T20:04:40Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > You do know this is a quote thread from _A Christmas Story_, right? Yes, I do realize that and, in fact, can hear each and every line from the movie echoing in my head as I read them. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youll-shoot-your-eye-out/477271/33 "2008-12-15T20:05:12Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Bumpuses! _Sunzabitchin’_ Bumpuses!! ---
**Author:** ![AtomicDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@AtomicDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AtomicDog)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youll-shoot-your-eye-out/477271/34 "2008-12-15T20:05:55Z")
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**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youll-shoot-your-eye-out/477271/35 "2008-12-15T20:09:22Z")
You used all the glue…on purpose!!! ---
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youll-shoot-your-eye-out/477271/36 "2008-12-15T20:21:52Z")
Scut Farkus! ---
**Author:** ![Redfrost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc29f/32.png) [@Redfrost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Redfrost)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youll-shoot-your-eye-out/477271/37 "2008-12-15T20:29:42Z")
He caused a slight breach in etiquette by skipping the triple dare and going right for the throat! ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youll-shoot-your-eye-out/477271/38 "2008-12-15T21:02:05Z")
Show mommy how the little piggies eat! ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youll-shoot-your-eye-out/477271/39 "2008-12-15T21:07:47Z")
In the heat of battle my father wove a tapestry of obscenities that as far as we know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youll-shoot-your-eye-out/477271/40 "2008-12-15T21:10:37Z")
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