water bomb
Lower 6th in late 80s, and my mate Rob had bagged himself a girl from the upper 6th- much kudos. So, being the kind sensitive and caring souls we were, we got him a nice Xmas present to share with her- a Mates variety pack. They blushed and all that, much laughter was had at their expense, but all in good fun.

Later that morning we're in the locker room, and along comes Rob, with his 3-pack visible in his pocket. "So, you gonna use them on her later or we making water bombs?" we joked. "Water bombs" he said. He ripped one open and it was green- Sellafield green. We stuck it around the tap and turned it on. It filled up nicely, and grew quickly. And kept on growing. And growing.

It got to about 10' long and we were waiting for it to burst. We bottled it and turned the tap off, tied a knot and hid it in an open locker. As were were walking away the door burst open and it slid out like a snake- much more hilarious than I can describe- but didn't burst.

Made of tough stuff these Mates. Bravely, Rob undid the knot at the risk of getting soaked, and we filled it even more, until it was in serious danger of causing a flood.

We needed to ditch it, quick, but it was now too big to fit in a locker, so suddenly, there were three of us, running around the back of the gym with a waterfilled dayglo snake which must have been a good 20' long. We threw it over the bike shed in a synchronised over our heads kind of lob. It went high, very high, spinning through the air in a weird kind of slow motion and seemed to be almost hang in the air, majestic and serene, until it finally plunged into a group of 3rd or 4th years.

They were soaked. We walked round the bike shed as if nothing had happened, pointed, laughed like feck and blamed some other group.

Oh, forgot to mention we'd added sugar and coffee to the water. Very sticky mixture when combined with a little bit of johnny lube.

Kids are evil. Even supposedly mature prefects- worst of all!

Length? At least 20', longer when airborne.
(randomstupidname would really like this signature field to be bigge, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 21:19, 2 replies)

the pedant in me compels me to point out
that a johnny would not reach 20 feet long without bursting, (having filled many with water before) and that even if it happened to be some sort of industrial superjohnny, three kids would NOT be able to lift it even if it WAS sturdy enough to support it's shape only being held at three points let alone the actual weight of water which would be equivalent to lets say for the sake of argument, three regular dustbins of water minimum.
(UppityDamnPrimate LET'S OPEN THIS F*CKING PIT UP, Sat 31 Jan 2009, 10:32, closed)

point taken, pedant...
.. but maybe the sheer hilarity of the moment made it seem longer, but it was huge I tell ya, huge!
(randomstupidname would really like this signature field to be bigge, Sat 31 Jan 2009, 13:34, closed)