The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for December 02, 2019

Stop needling him, Dad.

Hindu? Hindon’t!

Pretty tacky bedroom for a kid.

Just flip it over next time.

In a live demo on stage during the Mythbusters farewell tour, Adam Savage lay down (gently) on a bed of nails, then Jamie Hyneman put a concrete block on Adam’s belly and gave it a good whack with a sledgehammer. No harm, no foul. It’s all in how you spread out the impact.

You know the son got the point!

Okay, we got you all bandaged up, now go outside and play with your pet porcupine in the cactus garden!

That kid’s a side-show-off!

His son is not the sharpest tack on the bed.

OUCH!

“You KNOW the bed of coals is for jumping on!”

My grandson had a fascination with the flame on the gas stove when he was little. His mother kept telling him over and over Don’t touch! Hot!

My son said He’s gonna eventually touch it, might as well get it over with.

Grand never touched it again. Before we get nastygrams, it was no more than a sunburn.

But I’ll bet he stuck the landing…

Sharp criticism.

Nailed it!

Dad comes right to the point…..he’s a real prickly kind of guy….

When you grow up, there’s another thing you won’t want to do on a bed of nails.

Could have been worse. Could have been a memory nail mattress.

Interesting timing. Just yesterday i watched a science short on how this is done. Demonstrated how the pressure on the nails is distributed. Used balloons at first. Then a human volunteer. They didn’t mention jumping on the bed…

A young Mick Foley? :)

There is a particular way you lay on it so that you don’t get punctured.

When I was a child, I was walking along the beach when I stepped on a spiky shell. The spike broke off and I had to go to hospital to have it removed. It was almost an inch long.

Dad: I think he got the point! Learning curve…

now, get back to practicing your flute with your pet cobra

His parents probably named him Spike