Pillow and sheet fort World record?

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The discussion revolves around the concept of pillow and sheet forts, with participants sharing their experiences and memories related to building such forts during childhood. The conversation touches on the idea of a world record for pillow forts and includes playful banter about the materials and methods used in fort construction.

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Main Points Raised

  • One participant expresses a desire to know if there is a world record for pillow forts, referencing a link to a related site.
  • Another participant shares their experience of using a wool blanket over a card table, suggesting a more primitive approach to fort building.
  • Several participants reminisce about their childhood fort-building experiences, comparing the materials used, such as blankets, chairs, and tables.
  • There are humorous exchanges about the use of water balloons and other playful "weapons" in fort battles, with some participants recalling more dangerous items like slingshots and caps.
  • One participant mentions the construction of outdoor forts using trees and burlap, indicating a more elaborate fort-building experience.
  • There are references to music preferences, with discussions about hip-hop artists and albums, which seem to diverge from the main topic of forts.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants generally share fond memories of fort-building, but there is no consensus on the best materials or methods. The conversation includes playful disagreements about the toughness of past fort-building experiences compared to modern approaches.

Contextual Notes

The discussion includes various assumptions about childhood experiences and the nature of play, which may differ significantly among participants. Some statements reflect nostalgia and personal anecdotes rather than objective claims.

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Readers interested in childhood play, nostalgia, or informal discussions about creative building activities may find this thread engaging.

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Pillow and sheet fort! World record?

Ok for those of you who had miserable childhoods or don't know what cool is...

http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/forts/default.php

That is a pillow and sheet fort. This is the pinnacle of mankind's achievements. Does anyone happen to know there's a world record for a pillow fort? I was trying to look it up but i kept getting a Fort Pillow :smile: :smile: :smile: Boy do i want to make a pillow fort...
 
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Mine was a wool blanket draped over a card table. And I don't see anything that even vaguely resembles a machine-gun nest guarding the entrance.
 
Show that if A is invertible, then det A^{-1} = \frac {1}{det A}.

Sadly, that link was filmed on location, their mom's basement. (and they all look in their mid 20's :rolleyes:)
 
cyrusabdollahi said:
Show that if A is invertible, then det A^{-1} = \frac {1}{det A}.
Stop giving him easy ones, geeze :rolleyes: Let me look at my book and find something that will take more than a few minutes.
 
Hey, they arent for you to solve man. :rolleyes:

BTW, I am listening to Mos def 'respiration' ...ooo yea..
 
Pillows?! You kids have gotten all soft! We had to drape our blankets over the kitchen chairs. And where are the grenades (a.k.a. water balloons)? :rolleyes:
 
I have never listened to Mos Def actually, I should grab one of his albums some day. Have you listened to Eric B and Rakim's Paid In Full yet :rolleyes: ? I am telling you, that is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, hip-hop/rap album of all time, you must listen to it!
 
Moonbear said:
Pillows?! You kids have gotten all soft! We had to drape our blankets over the kitchen chairs. And where are the grenades (a.k.a. water balloons)? :rolleyes:

I use to do that :biggrin:

Moonbear, ban everyone whos off topic. Especially cyrus. ESPECIALLY CYRUS.

THREAD CLOSED!

Wait htis is my thread

THREAD OPEN!
 
Moonbear said:
And where are the grenades (a.k.a. water balloons)? :rolleyes:
You can be such a girl sometimes. :rolleyes:
You kids these days... really... sure, the phosphorous grenades that we used weren't good enough for you... you just had to go and use water instead...
 
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Danger said:
You can be such a girl sometimes. :rolleyes:
You kids these days... really... sure, the phosphorous grenades that we used weren't good enough for you... you just had to go and use water instead...
Don't blame me, blame my mom! She had fits enough over water balloons. And you should have seen how much trouble we got into for playing with CAPS...harmless little caps! I was with my cousins and we didn't even have a cap gun, just a hammer to smash them with. :rolleyes: I think even my dad got in trouble for knowing we were playing with them and not stopping us (he tried explaining they were JUST caps too :rolleyes:). I wondered if my mom was ever a kid. I suspect she hatched full grown.
 
  • #11
Moonbear said:
Pillows?! You kids have gotten all soft! We had to drape our blankets over the kitchen chairs. And where are the grenades (a.k.a. water balloons)? :rolleyes:
We used card table, chairs, sofa, and whatever we could haul into the living room. At one point, we had about two-thirds of the living room occupied.

Moonbear - water baloons in the house?! :bugeye:

Outdoors, we used to make pill boxes in a tree nursery. The trees were usually in large burlap wrappings containing dirt, and they sat in large holes. We'd excavate the holes, cover with plywood and more burlap, and over that with dirt and sod. We'd cover the windows with vegetation, and then we had dirt clod wars.
 
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Astronuc said:
Moonbear - water baloons in the house?! :bugeye:
It was in the kitchen. :rolleyes: Yeah, we didn't get away with that for long. :redface: The fort had to be relocated to the patio with lawn chairs and the picnic table before we were allowed to restock the armory. :shy:
 
  • #13
Moonbear said:
It was in the kitchen. :rolleyes: Yeah, we didn't get away with that for long. :redface: The fort had to be relocated to the patio with lawn chairs and the picnic table before we were allowed to restock the armory. :shy:
:smile: How about mud-pies. :biggrin:
 
  • #14
Moonbear said:
Don't blame me, blame my mom! She had fits enough over water balloons. And you should have seen how much trouble we got into for playing with CAPS...harmless little caps! I was with my cousins and we didn't even have a cap gun, just a hammer to smash them with. :rolleyes: I think even my dad got in trouble for knowing we were playing with them and not stopping us (he tried explaining they were JUST caps too :rolleyes:). I wondered if my mom was ever a kid. I suspect she hatched full grown.

I loved those!

I ended up using caps to make small fireworks. A combination of matches and caps could make a nice firework show. Certainly not safe though. I had a friend from school that somehow blew up a pen while holding it in his hand. I doubt he was being careful though.
 
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We used to use slingshots loaded with hardcandy...man that hurt. I think I still have welts.
 
  • #16
Pengwuino said:
THREAD CLOSED!

Wait htis is my thread

THREAD OPEN!
:smile: Make up your mind, will you. :smile:
 
  • #17
Yes, it's sad moonbear. In situations like these I don't know what to say to him anymore......

Let A be an nxn singular matrix. Describe how to construct an nxn nonzero matrix B such that AB=0.
 
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DocToxyn said:
We used to use slingshots loaded with hardcandy...man that hurt.
Our wars began with weed seeds fired out of .177 pellet rifles. I (wisely, I think) ceased participating when the rest of my friends escalated to using steel BB's. The rest of them gave up when one bought a pump gun that fired a BB at about the power of a .22 short. :eek:
 

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