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Koohii stories:

1) [RoboTact] 25-8-2007(268): This is a military-grade staple gun! It can be loaded with real missiles.

2) [Thunderball] 24-9-2007(50): In order to get your 1st grade, or first-dan (だん) black belt, you have to learn hand to hand combat with new weapons - first the grapple involving the staple gun, and then the missile deployment technique.

3) [Nuriko] 8-4-2008(39): Imagine a really mean teacher who grades papers with a staple-gun that shoots out staples (in a missile-like fashion) onto the paper to form the letter "F". She even uses such an opportunity as target practice. She gets way over to the other end of the class and shoots the little "staple missiles" onto the paper, cackling all the while.

4) [Filip] 6-3-2008(26): When you are first dan, your punches hurt like a staple gun. When you are 10th dan, like a missile. So 1st grade is staple gun, 10th grade is missile. OR The first dan fellas are training with staplers. The 10th dan are whirling around rocket launchers (trick is not to set it off when you are doing all kind of fancy tricks. That is why there are so few 10 dans).

5) [Jasta] 10-1-2009(9): First graders in the army can use staple guns. Only when you are of high rank can you fire a missile.

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