Star wars: Return of the Jedi. Several Ewoks are seen slinging against the storm troopers.

The Simpsons: On one episode Bart Imagines himself as David and Nelson as Goliath's son. Bart holds an historically accurate sling (on some other episode, Bart is shown a replica of the sling David used and it's a slingshot, the one with rubber tubes)

Indiana Jones and the Crystal skull shows several slingers trying to hit Indiana.

On Peanuts Christmas Special, Linus uses his blanket as a sling for snowballs.

A technique for space travel is commonly known as the sling shot principle (or some variant) in which a space ship uses the Earth's gravity to speeds unreachable by chemical propulsion alone. This is exactly the same as using a large scale sling.

That's all I remember for now.

A sling for playing fetch with your dog.

well wellslung - how about compiling a list for the wiki ?

There was also an Episode of Lost where one of the characters, I forget whom, was knocked out by a stone from a sling.

O, and just one more thing, short slings dont have that much power. Not tryin to argue, Im just telling the obvious truth!

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You know every time I think you've said something really stupid - you go and top it with something even more ridiculous.
Slings have absolutely no power - no sling regardless of length has any power.
It's The SLINGER that causes the sling to perform.
And a 13 foot sling is ricidulously unwieldy. As far as combat goes. I'll take a 30 inch sling with a 200 yard range against your 13 foot sling and your claimed 500 yard range any day of the week. I know what I can do with a sling. It's realistic and scares the crap out of most people the first time they see it.
If I don't get off 5 accurate shots to your one inaccurate one - I'll boil and eat my sling (the special one I made out of fresh pasta)

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Ah yes, case in point in the 'most stupid thing said about slings this week' awards.
A sling can not 'blow someones head off'.
You might - just 'might' - get penetration of the skull with a shaped glande and a perfect shot. But the head will stay attached to the body. Slings cause most damage by concussive shock or breaking bones. Ie: a solid impact can cause internal damage.
Yes lead glandes can penetrate and did.

However for accuracy, power is generally dialed back so knocking someone out is a realistic result from a very accurate shot.
And yep I remember that lost episode as well  

Mr. Boss wrote on Mar 18^th, 2009 at 11:57am:


Presumably they would need to use your special long sling technique, but since we dont have a video or description of it we cant possibly comment...