Below: Apple's water gun Below: Twitter's water gun The decision to replace an emoji of a weapon to a child's toy was seen as a political statement when Apple in 2016 rolled out its own water gun emoji in iOS 10.
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It's like bringing a water gun to a war zone.
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It took the water gun to a whole new level.
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Hope you can also imagine deadly water gun battles in space!
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Mira grabbed the water gun from me and let me have it.
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Efron lost, resulting in a soaking session from Fallon and a water gun.
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Click here to view original GIFBuilding the world's largest Super Soaker water gun?
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Samsung also later replaced its gun with a water gun, as did WhatsApp.
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However, Emojipedia shows that not all companies have updated to the water gun.
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Apple replaced the gun emoji with a water gun in iOS 10. Really?
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Cleaners wash the street with a high-pressure water gun on Feb. 23.
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This one, from a water gun fight in the Netherlands, just made me happy:
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Talking Points: Apple will eliminate its pistol emoji and replace it with a water gun.
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Because what else are you supposed to do when you're drunkenly wielding a penis water gun?
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Carnival concession stand owner Bob, 69, gets Natalie all "sticky" during the alcohol water gun battle.
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SPEED In his youth, Mike McCarthy worked a water gun booth at the Maryland State Fair.
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That same season, a pitcher, Bret Saberhagen, fired a water gun loaded with bleach at reporters.
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Joy also caught her son Sire aiming for the girls with a water gun in the pool.
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"Are you kidding me?" said Krit, while shopping for a water gun at a Bangkok outdoor market.
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Sure, there have been variations, but at its core it's still a streaming, pump-action water gun.
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Jake, 28One time I peed in a mini water gun and sprayed the new kid with it.
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Jim Bowman is now in private practice Source: Kurtis Productions James Hammes having fun with a water gun .
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This week: a manager who makes $20,1003 per year and spends it on batteries for a water gun.
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Instead of the pistol, your phone will soon feature a green and orange water gun in its place.
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Twitter has now followed Apple's lead in changing its pistol emoji to a harmless, bright green water gun.
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Along with Twitter and Apple, Samsung and WhatsApp also display water gun emojis in place of an actual gun.
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It only switched to a pistol in 2016 — the same year that Apple opted for a water gun option.
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To Tharin, anything can be a weapon, whether is a water gun, a stick or a piece of cardboard.
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Digital gun control Apple's dumping its pistol emoji, in favor of a more politically correct neon green water gun.
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He couldn't have purchased a black water gun without an orange tip — because that would have been too dangerous.
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So said Hasbro, maker of the mega water gun, in a quarterly report that sent its stock plunging Monday.
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But Apple also made another important change: It's eliminating the pistol emoji and replacing it with a friendlier water gun, instead.
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If you don't remember the basic vibe of the Super Soaker, it was essentially an assault rifle in water gun form.
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When she attempts to access abortion providers' websites, squirt her with a small water gun so she learns to avoid them.
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From there you can aim your debunking at a target, like shooting a water gun through a hole in a fence.
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Or, if you're YouTuber Mark Rober (formerly a NASA engineer), it's time to build the largest water gun ever made (via Gizmodo).
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Make it not be your first choice, to take down a gunman, nor shoot a water gun or a sling shot, okay.
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If he sees one that might be Franklin's he'll slurp it into the bee vacuum, which looks like a child's water gun.
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Rivera&aposs lawyer asked for a shorter sentence, saying his client used a water gun to make sure no one got hurt.
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The singer and her son, Future Jr., enjoyed some sun and a little water gun action at a beach park Sunday in Seattle.
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But the nozzle can also be switched to have lower pressure, so you can have the most epic backyard water-gun battle ever.
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A gun — as opposed to a water gun — can be far more frightening when accompanied with a threat of violence in a tweet.
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A duck call (to lure the rubber chickens close enough to be shot out of the sky with a Super Soaker water gun).
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The patent was approved in 1986, and a few years later, it was snapped up by the Larami Corporation, a water gun manufacturer.
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When Apple users update to iOS 10, the pistol emoji will be gone, and in its place they'll find a lime green water gun.
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That's a ridiculous amount of money to ever invest in a water gun, unless you and your friends take your backyard battles extremely seriously.
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Back in 2016, Apple swapped out the graphic used for its gun emoji, replacing the realistically drawn handgun with a bright green water gun.
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The tool section of the emoji keyboard boasts an array of knives, a syringe, a water gun, a beeper, a battery, and a bomb.
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Again, it's not terribly complicated, but the Skid Shot is a little more finicky to operate and maintain than a water gun or dart blaster.
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In our sneak peek of next week's episode Lindsay holds a water gun and references Putin again so, of course, I will be tuned in.
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Rober, a mechanical engineer and former NASA employee, partnered with fellow YouTuber Bob from I Like to Make Stuff, to construct the mammoth water gun.
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Maybe we're grasping at straws here, but is it possible that this water gun situation was inspired by The Notebook's steamy kiss in the rain?!
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In 1.53, NASA engineer Lonnie Johnson accidentally invented a pressurized water gun that went on to become one of the coolest summer toys for years.
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McCarthy played Spicer as a revved-up, aggressive White House spokesman who fired a water gun at journalists and piloted a moving briefing room lectern.
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" Working in a hospital without that protective equipment, a nurse in a South Texas hospital told CNN, is like "going to war with a water gun.
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In another disturbing touch, Die Welt reports that the cyclist used a water gun to squirt the corrosive liquid at his victim's face in a separate attack.
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The switch to a bright orange and yellow water gun, rolling out now, mimics changes made by Apple, WhatsApp, Twitter, and Samsung over the last few years.
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The idea for the world's favorite water gun came to Johnson when he was working on some nozzles and shot a stream of water across the bathroom.
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Spicer Soaker: After Melissa McCarthy's SNL sendup, Sean Spicer wanted to blast the press corps with a water gun during a press briefing, but Trump said no.
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True, Facebook still uses it, but a spokesperson for the company confirmed to Emojipedia that it would also be replacing its gun emoji with a toy water gun.
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With friends and allies in the community and government, she organized Dancing Under the Stars nights, Super Soaker days for water-gun battles, puppet theaters, concerts and more.
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Singapore photographer Yafiq Yusman, who was there for Songkran, said one good trick is to carry a water gun and use it to provoke someone to spray you back.
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Granger Smith explained he had been outside doing gymnastics with daughter London, 7, as River and their other son, Lincoln Monarch, 5, were engaged in a water gun fight.
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But in 1982, U.S. Air Force and NASA engineer Lonnie Johnson invented a new generation of water gun by combining an empty soda bottle, PVC pipe, and acrylic glass.
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As the debate over gun violence in the US intensifies, it's clear Microsoft doesn't want to be seen as the only major platform not switching to a water gun.
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In our hypothetical example, imagine that instead of a water gun, you're pointing a blow dart gun at a water balloon attached to a funnel over the potted plant.
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There was a Batman figurine, a Rubik's Cube, slippers, a pink hairbrush, Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, a plastic rhinoceros, a toy ambulance, and a Japanese manga-themed water gun.
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Twitter is rolling out the latest updates to its emoji and one change is quite notable: its pistol icon is now that of a water gun, as Emojipedia noticed.
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The creators of the Spyra One have turned to Kickstarter and a ~$60,000 crowdfunding campaign to help transition their water gun from the prototype stage to making it production-ready.
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Granger explained on that day, he was outside doing gymnastics with his 7-year-old daughter London as his sons River and Lincoln Monarch, 5, were playing water gun fight.
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Granger explained on that day, he was outside doing gymnastics with his 7-year-old daughter London as his sons River and Lincoln Monarch, 1003, were playing water gun fight.
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And while we know it'll get warm again eventually, lounging under a cabana or getting soaked in a water gun fight still feels like a hazy memory from another life.
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In the skit, she chewed an entire container of gum, shot members of the press with a water gun and lunged at one with the White House briefing room podium.
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On probation, Meek can be and is charged with violations for, among other things, posing with a water gun in an Instagram photo to popping a wheelie on a dirtbike.
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One of the most recent updates included black hearts and a unicorn, and they also got rid of the gun emoji in favor of a much less threatening water gun version.
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The Secret Service found a hunting knife, a powerful firework, a Swiss Army knife, handcuffs, a clear water gun and a garrote — a wire that can be used to strangle someone.
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The show also includes three large oil paintings, nearly five feet by six feet, that this British artist blasted with a pressurized water gun and scraped off, over and over again.
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Sure, Trump's insecurities are painted on his public persona like bull's-eyes — perceived weakness, both physical and political — and it's difficult not to aim the carnival water gun right at the center.
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Meanwhile, she apologized for thinking Meyers's name was Beth Miyerrhzzz, licensing his name to a Japanese impotence drink, secretly giving him LSD, and shooting him in the face with a water gun.
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The change will help mitigate misunderstandings when a user on one platform sends a water gun emoji and it appears as a pistol for users on a different one, and vice versa.
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McCarthy's impersonation of Spicer, featuring her driving a podium through New York City, firing a water gun at reporters and repeatedly threatening to run them over with the podium, drew wide praise.
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"We are in the process of evolving our emojis to reflect our values and the feedback we've received," says Microsoft in a Twitter message, revealing a water gun replacement for the pistol emoji.
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But things get truly ridiculous with my favorite feature: a display that features a digital ammo counter that feels more at home on a futuristic rifle from Halo than an actual water gun.
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Armed with a stun gun, and what looked like a pistol—it was actually a toy water gun—the intruder zip-tied the couple and forced them to drink a sleep-inducing drug cocktail.
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Illustration: GizmodoThe pistol emoji has existed in one form or another since at least 2010, but in 2016 Apple shook shit up by replacing it with something completely different: a harmless, lime-green water gun.
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Also, the historically iffy track record of Kickstarters hitting their deadlines means you might have to wait until summer 2020 before you get the chance to take your $133 water gun for a proper spin.
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The Pineapple Water Gun looks so concerningly realistic that a VICE staffer, upon seeing it leaning against my desk, was compelled to leave a note on it that said this is NOT a real gun!
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In a Denver 7 video of the training, a simulated shooter roamed the gym floor waving around an orange water gun while teachers rushed him and middle schoolers used their body weight to pin him down.
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" The bulky, rhinestone-encrusted accessory includes a 6-month timer to keep track of necessary police station visits, hard copies of every state law, and a water gun to wake a person up from a "scream coma.
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At least the Sexual Assault Survivor Utility Belt comes with a water gun to "spray myself awake when I fall into a scream coma every time I think about how fucked up these laws are," as Linda says.
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White House press secretary Sean Spicer reportedly has a Super Soaker in his office — a reference to the "Saturday Night Live" skit in which Melissa McCarthy, impersonating Spicer, uses the water gun to silence questions from a reporter.
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Attendees could channel their inner press secretary Sean Spicer in a photo booth replica of the White House briefing room, which even included the same water gun and Barbie doll props featured in a "Saturday Night Live" sketch.
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He told the Belgian news website 7sur7 that he had stolen a bottle of gin from the VIP area at Tomorrowland 2016, in order to fill a water gun with gin and to spray his friends with it.
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While she has undeniably matured since she put out her first album in 2000, Furtado would still throw down $5 bills to squirt a water gun at an amusement park—she just wouldn't spend all her money this time.
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It would be so much fun â€" I would take Merkel to a soccer game; Trudeau and I would have a maple syrup water gun fight â€" that they probably would never want to hang out with anyone else ever again.
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Imagine trying to water a small potted plant with a water gun from different angles, said Alan Willner, an optical communications scientist at the University of Southern California and president of the Optical Society, the professional society that published Internet.
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Officials found an eight-foot black rope, handcuffs, both a Swiss Army knife and a knife with a six-inch blade, an M-180 firework, a laptop, an empty water gun and a garrote — a wire-like device used for strangulation, the official says.
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Last November, the Super Soaker was named to the National Toy Hall of Fame, along with Twister and the puppet, and with good reason: Like Kleenex and Walkman, the Super Soaker has become so ubiquitous that it's now synonymous with pretty much any water gun.
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As we were unsupervised for a while, my coworker and I decided to open some of the product boxes and shirk all our other duties to spend the entire morning running around our area in the park having a knockdown, drag-out water gun war.
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More than a century later, African American inventor Lonnie Johnson received a patent for his Super Soaker water gun, a toy that has generated more than $2628 billion in sales and has been among the top 28503 best selling toys in the world every year since 22019.
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It also takes a swipe at hotels, depicting a family having lunch poolside caught in the crossfire of a water-gun fight and a woman trying to relax on a chaise longue while a wild-haired fellow guest plays air guitar and loudly jams to the music playing in his earbuds.
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Photo: Andrew Liszewski (Gizmodo)Ping a co-worker in the head with a foam dart and you'll get an annoyed reaction at worst, but soak a co-worker with a water gun and you'll find yourself in a meeting with HR. Jakks Pacific's new Skid Shot blaster falls somewhere between the two.
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Apple is including options for basketball, running, and weight lifting The new set of emoji, which includes more than 100 variations when you take skin color options into account, also includes a water gun icon in place of the old revolver, a rainbow flag, and two different gender options depicting single-parent families.
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There is also a competition known as the Bush Woman Classic, in which women — and a few men in drag — must chop wood, flip a pancake, catch a fish (in a bucket), shoot a water gun at a man in a bear costume and then apply lipstick on the way to the finish line.
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Minutes after the Wolverines' second-round victory in the Midwest Region, John Beilein, Michigan's 64-year-old coach, emerged from the coaches' section of the locker room armed with a giant water gun to deploy on his players — a savvy move from a veteran of what has become a March tradition of players soaking their head coaches with cups of water in celebration of big wins.
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