California thinks they are the leaders of the world because they banned plastic drinking straws. What they don't know is the school I attended banned drinking straws in 1968 due to spit wad wars. Didn't stop us though because along about that time a little company named Bic started making or at least we started seeing them in stores a ball point pen that all you had to do was pull the end out with the ink tube attached and you had the perfect spit wad gun. albeit a tad smaller than the paper soda straws they made great blow guns for kitchen matches as well and a glancing hit would strike them for an added thrill. Bonus points for setting the stack of test papers on fire a top the teacher's desk.