Originally published at: These mullet-headed kids enjoy using playing cards as weapons in this segment from MTV Unfiltered | Boing Boing
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I found a mullet convention in progress.
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When you were partying, I studied the card. When you were having premarital sex, I mastered the card. While you wasted your days at the gym in pursuit of vanity, I cultivated inner strength. And now that the world is on fire and the barbarians are at the gate you have the audacity to come to me for help.
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Isn’t that just Heavy Metal muscle boys Manowar?
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This guy wore it better. And he didn’t whip his cards at unsuspecting cows and/or Amish passers by out of boredom.
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Gambit was all the right combos of 90s cool.
There was a fan made trailer, starring Nick Batemen, who played Ivan in Hobo with a Shotgun.
I thought it was pretty good, though I wish they had added the energy glow with the cards. Which I see now he actually made into a 20 min short film and I will have to check that out.
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Okay, “death by a thousand cuts” and all, but you only have 52 cards!
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Inspired by the late great Ricky Jay, no doubt.
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Yeah, he literally whipped out that book as to where he got the idea.
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Back in the early 1970s the Japanese comic weekly Shonen Champion ran a series with a guy who used playing cards as weapons. It may have been “Itadaki Yasube” but I don’t remember. This may have been the series where a villainous gang robbed passengers on a train by dropping the seats of their pants and farting the passengers into unconsciousness.
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Wasn’t that a skill demonstrated by Burt Reynolds’ character in Heat?
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I, too, own Cards as Weapons. There was more discussion of it here also
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I interviewed Jon for my documentary “Lords of Soaptown” a few years ago, about four kids who were on the same show. The whole premise of the movie was that the kids my movie was about had basically pranked MTV and made up their whole story. Jon told me that he basically made up the whole conflict part of his, too, though he still occasionally throws cards for fun.
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I once competed on a reality tv contest show against a card thrower. The show pit a group of yo-yoers (of which I was part of), a parkour expert, and a card thrower together and had some celebrity judges pick who was the best. The card thrower was excellent, but had a really bad run during filming. He missed most of his best tricks and even ended up cutting one of his targets, a young model was posed in front of a target. It was all painful to watch, but for some reason the final edit didn’t show any of those flubs. They just edited in some footage from his practice runs.
No one remembers Nicholaï Hel from Trevanian’s Shibumi? He used “naked/kill” a form of martial arts where anything could be used as a weapon. Playing cards were always around.
If a playing card can cause that much harm; what damage would that book cause with the correct technique?
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if we’re doing books-as-weapons, I want the OED and a trebuchet
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Books are good melee weapons, and not-so-great missiles, per Jason Bourne.
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An expensive book.
We used to use credit card like “patient cards” at our university Veterinary Hospital. If you fling 'em with a spin like throwing a card, you can get them to stick into corkboard…
Like darts, but without a real target, and for sleep deprived senior Vet students.
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