War, Peace and Rubber Bands

Yes, I know, despite the boyhood manliness of it all, shooting each other with rubber bands is an activity that borders perhaps too painfully close to the eternal war zone. On the other hand, so to speak, the key word is "each other." It's one of those games that maintains itself as a game as long as everyone wants to continue playing it. It is just threatening enough to keep your attention. For those of us who require a virtual reminder of these edgy encounters, there's the online game of Rubber Band It - get it? BandIt?

Googling for yet other rubber banded pleasures, I was reminded of the significantly less overtly aggressive, vastly more skill-requiring (and hence even more profoundly less boyish) games of rubber band jump rope and, of course, the highly recommended and truly junkly art of rubber band ball gathering.

From there, it requires only a slight stretch to recall the endlessly entertaining sounds one can generate when one attempts to play music on a rubber band, as well as the mystifying, yet clearly loopy implications of rubber band magic.


Thanks for the inspiration Grow-a-Brain