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April 25, 2008

WE HAVE NEVER FELT SO HONORED

Dear Mr.Barry,

Please visit the Low-Flow Toilet Awareness Project (LFTAP) for details regarding National Low-Flow Toilet Blowup Day, this Sunday, 4/27.

We have a low-flow toilet with your name written on it, Dave. The commode will be detonated, just for you.

"At 1pm on Sunday, April 27, over 100 shooters will gather at Boomershoot, an annual guns and explosives event held in North Central Idaho. Shooters will unite in therapeutic self expression, taking their toilet annoyances out of the bathroom and onto the range. They'll shoot at a low-flow toilet filled with reactive targets, creating fiery explosions, reducing the porcelain target into smithereens."

Copyright-free photos + image of the event will be available online (Sun. night). I'll send you a link to the thrilling images.

Warm regards,
Joe Huffman
On behalf of LFTAP + Boomershoot
http://www.boomershoot.org

Posted by Dave on April 25, 2008 at 05:45 PM | Permalink

Comments

FIRST! ;-)

Seriously, though, this is quite a momentous occasion, isn't it? The toilet thing, I mean, not me being first.

Posted by: The Shadow | 05:49 PM on April 25, 2008

Ought to be a real bang up time!

Posted by: cowhand214 | 05:51 PM on April 25, 2008

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/080307.html

LFTs actually work.

Posted by: Eric S. | 06:02 PM on April 25, 2008

Wow. A toilet, in your honor. Gotta be better than an silly old Pulitzer.

Posted by: Siouxie | 06:05 PM on April 25, 2008

Oh, Eric, you di'int.

This is one for the history books, Dave. Congrats!

Posted by: Suzy Q | 06:06 PM on April 25, 2008

Dare I ask what the "reactive targets" might be??

Posted by: Steve Haller | 06:11 PM on April 25, 2008

Dave, you have to get your butt (har!) over to Idaho for this event. A toilet NAMED for YOU! The political exposure alone is worth the airfare.

Plus, Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher live there. You could do lunch.

Posted by: Cat R | 06:20 PM on April 25, 2008

I predict that a good time will be had by all with lots of beer to boot!!

Dave, you can't not go! What would that say to your public?

Posted by: daisymae | 06:32 PM on April 25, 2008

I bet Dave was bowled over with gratitude!

Posted by: Alien Wench Lizzy | 06:33 PM on April 25, 2008

I just reread Dave's 1997 article. It's clearly an emotional issue.

Posted by: daisymae | 06:37 PM on April 25, 2008

Just don't drink from this one ... !

Posted by: Steve Haller | 06:48 PM on April 25, 2008

Steve,
If you want to really understand what a reactive target is, just watch one of the videos on boomershoot.org.

I'm too late for this year, but I'll be putting this on my calendar for next year.

Posted by: Flash | 07:08 PM on April 25, 2008

What, no streaming video?

[yeah, I stole that]

Posted by: CJrun | 07:13 PM on April 25, 2008

I dunno, after his own personal Sewage Transfer Station, isn't a toilet with Dave's name on it kind of a let-down?

Posted by: Guin | 07:18 PM on April 25, 2008

And that Boomershoot website is really funny. Everyone involved seems to have a sense of humor, especially the guy who annihilated the rental guitar.

Posted by: Guin | 07:24 PM on April 25, 2008

I noticed this morning that the toilet had Dave's name on it, or said Hi Dave Barry. Something like that.

Posted by: NotSoShyJan | 07:27 PM on April 25, 2008

I assume alcohol WILL be involved.

Posted by: ellie | 07:45 PM on April 25, 2008

"We have a low-flow toilet with your name written on it." Sounds scary to me, Dave. You may want to be careful where you sit for a while.

Posted by: Matt Filar | 07:55 PM on April 25, 2008

"We have a low-flow toilet with your name written on it." Sounds scary to me, Dave. You may want to be careful where you sit for a while.

Posted by: Matt Filar | 07:55 PM on April 25, 2008

Steve: A "reactive target" is an exploding target that detonates upon being pierced by a bullet. When one engages in the sport of long-distance precision rifle shooting, the ability to shoot at/activate a reactive target from afar is intensely gratifying, compared to typical long-distance rifle shooting events, where you just shoot at the paper targets but can't look at your results until the range safety officer announces "cease fire." Then you have to walk 600 yards, and all you get to see is the piece of paper with holes in it. At Boomershoot, it's another story. . . :)

Posted by: Low-Flow Toilet Blowup Rep. | 10:13 PM on April 25, 2008

Personally, I think the sewage treatment plant is a bigger honor, although this does go with it quite nicely.

Can a Dave Barry Outhouse be far behind?
behind, get it, har!

Posted by: Eleanor | 10:31 PM on April 25, 2008

Checkout this link to a Boomershoot video featuring bowling ball launches from a cannon, anvil catapults, and Stephanie "Kennedy" Sailor* using reactive targets to detonate the duct-taped laptop she used as her cyber campaign headquarters against Jesse Jackson, Jr.:
http://www.recreationalexplosives.org/video/KING5_Evening_Magazine_%20Boomershoot_Story_full_res.wmv

*Stephanie "Kennedy" Sailor = former Independent candidate for US Congress who spent $0 running against Jesse Jackson, Jr. in '04 -- http://www.KennedySailor.com

Posted by: LFTAP Rep. | 10:41 PM on April 25, 2008

Here's a shorter link to the spectacular Boomershoot video, as described above.

http://boomershoot.org/2005/KING5.wmv

Enjoy!

Posted by: LFTAP Rep. | 10:48 PM on April 25, 2008

above link needs the "www"

http://www.boomershoot.org/2005/KING5.wmv

or, just click on the bold blue link below

Posted by: Boomershoot 2005: NBC TV Seattle | 11:04 PM on April 25, 2008

LFTAP Rep, that link was worth the download time.

My Vote for Key Quote (MVFKQ*):

"You can't do this at Disneyworld."

So true, so true.


(*Creating naughty looking acronyms for your reading pleasure.)

Posted by: Cat R | 12:11 AM on April 26, 2008

dave, your presidential platform is shaping up really well now, especially with this toilet issue now. squirrels, bad drivers, and lowflows. its a winner.

Posted by: queensbee | 07:47 AM on April 26, 2008

I'm impressed- seriously, a toilet with your name on it...When's judi going to get one, too?

Posted by: Kathybear | 10:40 AM on April 26, 2008

I'm tellin' ya, Dave should have accepted the invitation to boomershot... he coulda blown up the toilet himself.

Posted by: Gregory Morris | 11:12 AM on April 26, 2008

Here is my post on the topic, with videos and pictures.

Posted by: Ry Jones | 07:19 PM on April 28, 2008

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