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# Arg! You've spoiled it all for me!
I'm still only up to the episode where Kirk has to fight some lizard man and makes a primitive ballistic weapon out of the naturally occurring cordite and some bamboo-analogue.
(I helped save b3ta! brainstuff can eat a whole shredded wheat, Thu 16 Jan 2003, 13:06, archived)
# He was McGuyver
before McGuyver existed.
(I helped save b3ta! Dr Drink, Thu 16 Jan 2003, 13:07, archived)
# But it's set in the future
while McGuyver was set in the 80's, so McGuyver came first in the scheme of things...
(I helped save b3ta! bigdave, Thu 16 Jan 2003, 13:11, archived)
# of course
I've been stupid.
Kirk must've seen the one where McGuyver makes a bazooka from bamboo and swamp gas.
(I helped save b3ta! Dr Drink, Thu 16 Jan 2003, 13:13, archived)
# He did once
make one using:
1 cadillac exhaust pipe
1 cadillac tail light
Some petrol-soaked cotton wool
1 lighter
(I helped save b3ta! Ijon Tichy, Thu 16 Jan 2003, 13:15, archived)
# he made the one I'm talking about as well
I remember it clearly.
(I helped save b3ta! Dr Drink, Thu 16 Jan 2003, 13:17, archived)
# Fairy snuff
But has anyone else noticed that for a man who hated guns, he always used to quickly knock together some alternative version that was twice as destructive?
(I helped save b3ta! Ijon Tichy, Thu 16 Jan 2003, 13:22, archived)
# his best
was a flame-thrower to combat an invading force of killer ants.
Great Saturday daytime TV
(I helped save b3ta! Dr Drink, Thu 16 Jan 2003, 13:30, archived)
# McGuyver
now works for the SGC
(I helped save b3ta! gingerbenji wrote a book http://goo.gl/8UiGjd, Thu 16 Jan 2003, 13:36, archived)
# But
Star Trek's the future right?

Edit:Bugger, b3tan to it
(I helped save b3ta! Ijon Tichy, Thu 16 Jan 2003, 13:13, archived)