Word: nerf
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...team purchased Motorola Talk-About Plus walkie-talkies ($150 a pop). A certain player has even been known to strap a Nerf rocket launcher, accurate up to 100 feet, to his belt...
Some competitors can't handle the pressure. At Quincy, one player committed Nerf-suicide after the rest of his team was killed...
Rules for the game are complicated--kills can only be accomplished on Quincy grounds, and player's bedrooms are off-limits, as is the dining hall. Weapons range from small, single shot guns to elaborate Nerf armory, highly accurate at long-range...
...audience member, questioning the amount of time left before the trust is exhausted and mentioned a campaign that had distributed Nerf footballs printed with the words "Social Security Fumbles...
...whole nation barking Hollywood retorts--creepy but all too useful. In the daily battlefield of misunderstandings and impatient busyness, such locutions as Don't go there, In your dreams and What part of no don't you understand? are Nerf-like weaponry: When you're blind with anger or exasperation, you grab the nearest item of modular meanness. Of course, not all coolster coinages are overtly fightin' words. Indeed, some affect affectlessness: Same old, same old; Blah blah blah; Yadda yadda yadda. But given the right nuances, indifference can pack a wallop: Yadda will outsnide blah, for instance but wither...