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Unexpectedly Permitted Objects (This is Not A Trebuchet List)

I don’t know why I’m still allowed to have access to these items either.

• Scythes.  There’s one behind my desk at work, and I had to leave one in New Zealand. I think the NZ one was bequeathed to a PhD student at the University of Otago.
• Cloaks.  Particularly since I’m allowed to have a scythe, I’m amazed that I still have clearance for a large black hooded cloak.
• Instant noodles.   Back in the Great NERF War of 1994, I discovered that instant noodles (ramen or other types) made for amazing shrapnel grenades in the office conflicts.  Three years later, they were still discovered bits of noodle in that office.
• NERF Weapons.  Thankfully NERF doesn’t make siege weapons.  They do make sniper rifles, mounted machine guns, bazookas and a range of other amazing devices designed to fling objects in complete non-trebuchet like ways.
• Rick Astley. I owned his album on vinyl, and listened to his work long before Rick Rolling was the in thing to do.
• Fire.  After that time with the Easter egg, a sparkler, an evening in Belconnen, and the discovery of fire+egg+sparkler=photo opportunity, I’m really surprised that the universe even lets me hang out with people who have lighters.
• Color printers.  With the ban on laminators, I get to keep the colour printer access. Just because my door disappears under artwork, photo manipulations, and LOLCats is no reason to cut off my access. It’s not like we use it for anything important at work beyond printing e-mail so the hyperlink has a pretty colour.
• Photoshop.  I started with Photoshop before there were layers in the program. I’ve been doing untoward things with pixels since 1993, and there’s only between triple figures worth of manipulated imagery released into the wilds.
• Sparklers.
• Easter Eggs.
• Sparklers, easter eggs, fire and flammable liquids.  Okay, maybe I do need to reconsider this one.
• The Time Space continuum.