@bosskev: Okay, it's not Carmen or LindsayJoy.

But it's good to have William Powell back among us.

I'm not sure I understand your innuendo, but it makes my buttocks a bit clenchy. No offense.

ps61318

giant slip n slide + ramp (to launch over dock) = FTMFW

Emulsifide

Just wait until the dude with the snowboard decides to try his luck.

thebear91

A guy up here did that with a giant culvert. Ran plastic through the culvert and laid it up against a gravel hill. Hangs out over the water about 10' too, so you get a nice drop at the end. Not sure what he did about the ridges on the culvert to smooth them out.

thebear91

This seems like fun...until you hit a sharp rock that's under the millimeter-thin plastic.

:D LOLZ!

--FCOD

flyingcowofdoom

Has anyone else seen the one's that the frats set up at Purdue for homecoming! They probably have the same amount drop with a little less distance.

engineering students + beer = hilarity

@ninjagin: Yea, you hear a lot of that

venomous_duck41

Needs more blindfolds.

Dr. Spaceman, Esq.

@bobdobbs:

gravity is a law, AND a toy!!! (no rube goldberg machines without it)

friction is your friend, just not too much (so sayeth the girlfriend)

the only thing that would make this thing more cool, would be a aircraft escape ramp coming off a deck to get ya really moving before the hill portion

godwhacker

@tehdahl: "Laughing Boy gets way too excited by Horizontal Boy."

Aren't Horizontal Boys supposed to get you all excited?

* crickets *

Oh, c'mon...LindsayJoy? Carmen? Back me up on this!

* soft shuffling sound of people backing away en masse *

Yeah. I have returned. (Well, less of me has returned, -30)

bosskev

Wow, what a leap! Well done, sir.

atomx

If it had inflatable bumpers down the sides, I'd dive in!

Margatron

@OMG! Ponies!: That fully fits the description of "attractive nuisance" to me. A very, very attractive nuisance that would be a helluva lot of fun.

SkyLab

I cannot wait to reconstruct this in my own backyard. The only problem is how...

Chriscgb6

ahhh well thought with the sprinkler on the right side there.

coolfelix

Dooty is all that could come to mind....

SigmundTheSeaMonster

Awesome, although I can see myself getting very hurt. We have one and my daughter waits until I'm standing in the middle of it before she launches down it with all the force a six year old can muster. Basically it's bolling, with me being the only pin. I'm going to pee on it next time.

shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog

That's the heartiest laugh I've heard in a long time.

rcast1986

That doesn't mean it's not fun, though.

OMG! Ponies!

If you notice on the slip-n-slide box it says not for use by adults. That's because an adult can break a few ribs by belly flopping on the hard ground like that last dude did. Lucky he caught himself with his hands. Those first two had the right idea, me thinks. Fun!

FritzLaurel

Two things: 1) Gravity is not a toy and 2) Friction is your friend.

Kids.

bobdobbs

It is my expert opinion to within a reasonable degree of personal-injury certainty that using this Slip 'n' Slide is, in fact, negligent behavior.

OMG! Ponies!

@stryder100: I want to go on record as saying this does look like fun.

I still fear for their safety, but it looks fun.

strider_mt2k

My friends and I made one like this earlier this summer--it's not quite as steep and doesn't have a lake, but it is longer and we do have a nice pool at the end. Regardless, it was a TON of fun.

ezman

Dang that looks like fun!

stryder100

hahahaha... wow.
Laughing Boy gets way too excited by Horizontal Boy.

tehdahl

That head first leap was friggin awesome!

reamon

But...is it bad that we were waiting/hoping for someone to get hurt?

Schadenfreude is never bad.

Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy

That would be fun as hell!

I kind of expected a jump at the end though, and kept thinking "that dock is wayyy to close". Too bad it just dumped em into the lake.

@ninjagin: Definitely sounds like a "here hold my beer I have a great idea" type of thing.

Log1c

Get a roll or two of these [www.lowes.com] and a garden hose. Fun cheap(ish) and easy.

dwight-schrute

Sheeeee-it! That's a looong way down. Almost as cool as that waterslide in Europe that flips you all the way over in a loop.

philbert

Dude. Hold my beer. Watch this.

ninjagin

That looks like a blast, especially on such a hot day. Give them time to gulp down a few more beers and they will ALL be going down it.

Curves

Someone keep an eye on laughing boy, okay?

-and move that dock a little closer.

strider_mt2k

That still from the video on the front page reminds me of a Calvin and Hobbes comic.

karmaghost

I soooo want to do that, I could probably enjoy watching others do that for at least 10 more minute...is there a longer version of the video?

Seiven

Horizontal Boy eh? Didn't he apply for an internship with Ace & Gary?

@robinandtami: I totally understand. My wife doesn't listen to me either. Oh...sorry, I thought you said "to the talk of the hairy butted. (Heeeey-Ooooh!)

@ps61318: You know I expected a line like that in the "throw the enviros and the oil execs in the ocean thread," but here? Actually yes, I expected it here too.

@Log1c: Yup. Needs a ramp!

@bosskev: Holy Mizzoly! Are you on Celebrity Fit Club or something?

+ Watch video

92FakeThomasJefferson

So back in the day we built one of these before with drilling mud on the plastic sheets, and I totally did a head first dive, which was completely awesome until my chin hit the ground.

Luckily I was properly anesthetized with alcohol, but I've always been wary of jumping face first at things since then.

GeekyNerdGuy

When I was a kid living in Portland, TX, friends and I would pour buckets of water and toss each other down the clay banks overlooking Corpus Christi bay. It was great as long as you stayed on the wet clay, but it was easy to launch out over the dry cracked stuff. Good times ... [tinyurl.com]

Bos'un's Mate

@bosskev: wow. 30 in what, ~2.5 months? good for you. you should set up a slip and slide like this to celebrate. im sure running back up that hill is some good excercise, too.

danger the pirate

@bosskev: I've heard that a good man is hard to find, and a hard man is good to find; but I haven't heard anything about horizontal boys. But then again, being a lesbian myself; I don't pay attention to talk of the hairy butted.

robinandtami

@ninjagin: Those are the famous last words of many great men. *Moment of Silence for our fallen comrades please*

This does look like it would be a blast, though totally unsafe.

Aoi

I never understood how anyone could ever buy a Slip-n-Slide product from a company called Wham-O. It just paints disaster all over it.

ripfire

@OMG! Ponies!: @SkyLab: To paraphrase Shakespeare (who, in context, was talking about the necessary first steps to overthrow the country) "First thing we do, let's push all the lawyers down the slip-n-slide into the lake!"

Who loves ya, counselor?

wheeeeeee!

ps61318

This would go great with the ultra slip n slide deluxe

Cordfucious

@danger the pirate and 92FakeThomasJefferson: "Wow" and "incredible", perhaps and thank you, but know that I still have a long way to go. But I've got a methodology, actually making it (almost embarrassingly) easy and painless (Arthur Denton would not approve). All assisted by and tracked with gadgets. Of course.

Oh, and 92BLSaka92FTJ, you had got me wondering what ever happened to John Davidson. Well, I found his personal website...don't go there. Trust me. It's scary.

bosskev

@ps61318: No offense taken...clenchy is good. And, staying 100% on topic, so is slippery'n'slidey.

bosskev

@Cordfucious: Nice find. But I do note where that guy's contraption completely commandeers a public sidewalk...can you say "hapless pedestrians"? Confused grannies will be backed up for blocks unable to pass.

bosskev

When I was a kid my mom would tape our three poncho's together and set it on our lawn. It was a hoot. We didnt really slide though. There was slipping....some crying, no water, water is expensive.

shamusjack

@bosskev: whatever works for you! should we expect bosskevsweighloss.blogspot.com (still available, fyi) where you reveal your secrets or do we have to wait for the book?

danger the pirate

Oooh.....I'm next!

birdgirl39

@bosskev: yeah but its portable, so you can pretty much set it up anywhere. Can you imagine throwing this up somewhere in San Fran or in Oakland... man that would be a block party for your ass!!!

Cordfucious

@ps61318: Can't talk. Drinkin'

OMG! Ponies!

Maybe I need my specs checked, but I thought the perspective from the still makes it look like a Slip-N-Slide for giants, rather than a giant Slip-N-Slide.

frndlybnny

This one is way better:

[www.bestviral.com]

tumblemonster

@frndlybnny: i think that's because they travel laterally so much across the slide. i mean, maybe its the perspective, but does it look curved to anyone else? that doesn't seem wise for a frictionless track...

Accelerata

@Accelerata: Haha, are you really critiquing a bunch of drunk college boys for not being safe, or wise?

krkeegan

best thing ever.

laio

DAYAM!
And the song is "I'm still a guy"

shenanigans61

These is weeny. From gizmodo's own archives comes the master of all slip and slides. [gizmodo.com]

Nothing like plenty of property, disposable income, big toys (bulldozer) and lengthy legal documents to remove your liability in case of injurty

kenyonk

When i saw the last guy jump up like that i cringed. i'd love to do that and i know he was scared of his nuts being owned by the massive slip nd slide.

SneakerFiend

Holy crap! Me next! Me next!

ElCabong

@bosskev: That would depend on who is horizontal ;-)

Considering I thought I heard one of the guys say "Pants down all the way" it shows where my mind went ;-)

theblackdog

these folks are looking at a lawsuit. the first time someone gets injured, poor timmy's parents will lose everything.

jimbut

Why are they all taking turns? Lame. Everyone at once!

andyc52042

Wonder what they used to make the slide with. But looks dope as hell. I once got on a cart on tracks like a roller coster that has an old school faris wheel seat, so there is nothing to hold you in. It did a sudden stop at the end of a cliff and slinged you out into a lake. That was fun as hell.

nefariousmadman

Great leap of faith!

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

I want someone to dubb those girls screams and man's manic laughter over another video and see how it sounds. It's got potential.

MarkB

sucks. HATE it.

frogfart