Actually, I can see a use for this - in South Africa, where the threat of home invasion is so real that garden walls have broken glass on the tops of them and most houses have an iron gate separating the bedroom area from the front of the house. In Iowa, though? Probably not so much...
What the fuck indeed. Who needs any of this fancy, expensive crap? I just prop mine up against the old wooden ammo crate that I used for a nightstand...
When Johnny Depp was living at Owl Creek, Hunter S. Thompson's residence, while researching his role as HST for Fear & Loathing, he was reading old notes in the spare bedroom.
There, he would sit in bed and read them, either by candlelight or lantern or some other flame producing light source.
One night, he took a look at this nightsand and saw that it was not just an old barrel, but an old gunpowder barrel. A full one.
So that's where the damn thing went, remarked the Dr. Good thing you didn't blow us all to hell!
I'm half-suspecting that this is a hoax site along the lines of Bonsai Kitten (http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/bonsai.asp) or Marry Our Daughter (http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/marryourdaughter.asp).
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Date: 2008-04-15 04:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-15 04:56 pm (UTC)Foolish of me to forget that sanity can be a localized phenomenon.
It has its uses
Date: 2008-04-15 04:58 pm (UTC)Re: It has its uses
Date: 2008-04-15 06:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-15 05:15 pm (UTC)(I kid.)
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Date: 2008-04-15 06:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-15 05:17 pm (UTC):-)
ttyl
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Date: 2008-04-15 06:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-15 05:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-15 06:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-15 06:36 pm (UTC)(I kid, as well...)
Your kidding reminds me of an amusing anecdote about famous people
Date: 2008-04-15 07:29 pm (UTC)There, he would sit in bed and read them, either by candlelight or lantern or some other flame producing light source.
One night, he took a look at this nightsand and saw that it was not just an old barrel, but an old gunpowder barrel. A full one.
So that's where the damn thing went, remarked the Dr. Good thing you didn't blow us all to hell!
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Date: 2008-04-15 07:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-15 07:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-15 08:09 pm (UTC)Obligatory...
Date: 2008-04-16 12:23 am (UTC)"A gun rack. I don't even own a gun, let alone the many guns that would necessitate the use of a gun rack."
Re: Obligatory...
Date: 2008-04-16 03:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-16 12:48 pm (UTC)Priceless.