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close04 on Aug 24, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Oral History of the Super Soaker

As kids we were using 2l bottles of soda with a hole in the cap. Took a bit of practice to wield a full 2l bottle and squeeze it with enough power to reach anyone though. Even if Super Soaker was on the shelves it would have been a pipe dream.

mirimir on Aug 24, 2019 [–]

Huh. I guess that you could do the dry ice and water thing, but avoiding explosions could be dicey.

close04 on Aug 24, 2019 | [–]

I don't think dry ice was anywhere within reach at the time, or even in my vocabulary :).

mirimir on Aug 25, 2019 | | [–]

Yeah. I'm lots older, I think. When I was a child, we got ice cream packed in dry ice. Because most people didn't have freezers.

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