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(Photo by Helen E. Raleigh of C.W. Slagle Antiques, via Popular Mechanics)

Given the season, one might be grateful to Popular Mechanics for its round-up of The Top 6 Water Guns of All Time…

As we pack for the pool, we might might stutter a respectful “Th-th-th-th-that’s all, folks!,” as it was on this date that Melvin Jerome “Mel” Blanc– the voice of Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, and countless other Warner Brothers/Looney Tunes (and later Hanna-Barbera) cartoon characters– died in 1989…  just a year after voicing Daffy Duck in his classic Who Framed Roger Rabbit duel with Donald…

(source: The B.S. Report)