Originally published at: Man found more than 150 bowling balls hidden in his home | Boing Boing
…
5 Likes
Seems crazy that bowling balls were cheaper than concrete block! Dang.
Construction
http://www.madehow.com/Volume-4/Bowling-Ball.html
3 Likes
Again?
These bowling balls are adding up.
14 Likes
For when a holy hand grenade just isn’t enough.
19 Likes
Jesus was famous for bringing his bowling ball cannon to all the old Jerusalem pig roasts. The Romans eventually got fed up with it and had a word with him.
Seriously though, what could go wrong?
8 Likes
I can’t imagine a better person to find 150 bowling balls. Especially since otherwise you can’t recycle them.
6 Likes
well dagnabbit, 150 is neither a square pyramidal nor tetrahedral stacking number
(roll ten of them down the hill on a moonless night then you can make a nice 'cannon’ball stack)
2 Likes
This is an old prank. See, what you do is, you let 149 bowling balls loose in someone’s house. But you number them 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150.
Then you watch as the owners go crazy trying to find #117.
6 Likes
1950s construction worker: “So, how are we going to fill in this foundation?”
Other 1950s construction worker:
2 Likes
Well, they were factory rejects that had no value - they were being thrown away, so getting people to take them off their hands for free was a bonus for everyone involved - the company didn’t have to pay to take them to dumps, and people got free fill.
5 Likes
I bet the home owner was bowled over when he made the discovery
6 Likes
1 Like
This sounds like the real story…I want to hear more about this.
7 Likes
Which will become the first news piece…COVID, a bowling ball landing in someone’s living room, or food poisoning?
3 Likes
Church cannon.
4 Likes
Are church cannons actually canon?
9 Likes
Nothing says “Praise the Lord” more than blowing stuff up!
8 Likes
The bowling ball cannon / pig roast is just the opening act for the gender reveal party.
4 Likes
The way I heard it, Jesus got the head of Holofernes as a barmitzvah gift from Judith, who was vaguely related to Joseph way, way back in the Old Testament begetting and spending. He carried it around in a bowling bag, keeping a sharp eye out for expectant mothers. Whenever he found one, he’d pin some colored streamers on the head, whip up a miraculous luau, and blast ol’ Holofernes into the sky while the crowd chanted “‘Lo, another child of God is born!”
As you can imagine, this took a toll on the head, and one night in Egypt it jammed in the cannon and caused an explosion that took out 7 of the original 19 apostles. Flaming bits of Holoferes rained down over the city and started a conflagration that raged for weeks. When it was over, the Great Library at Alexandria lay in ruins. The massed knowledge of the ancient world was irretrievably lost, and worst of all, no-one could remember if the baby was going to be a girl or a boy, or even what difference knowing might have made.
Jesus snuck out of town hidden in a manure cart and stuck to loaves and fishes from then on.
6 Likes
9 Likes
