(Continuing from the ''Firefly'' example on the Main EscalatingWar page) This editor was present for that 500 person flipping off of Filion. It was ''Dragon*Con'' 2005, and Jewel was assisted by good friend Peter David, with whom she'd worked on SpaceCases. Filion's expression was astonished, and his verbal response amused but unprintable.

This (excessively nerdy) troper engaged in a war of escalating calculators with another classmate, starting with simple scientific calculators and working our way up to TI-89's. The war was ended when this troper went old-school and dug out his father's slide rule (a more elegant instrument for a more civilized time).

Oh, yeah? Well, ''my'' daddy...

This troper had two uncles insistent upon giving the other a better gag gift. This stopped after one uncle had to cut a new pair of gloves out of an engine with a torch.

This little "poke" war that this troper participated in with a friend from middle school. Scenario starts out with something like this: Friend pokes me in the stomach. I poke her back. She pokes me again, this time twice. I retaliate with poking her with a pen. Eventually, our little war had escalated to the point where we were trying to whack each other with pool noodles, and in the process, we had used just about everything we could lay our hands on: feather dusters, chopsticks, Sharpies, etc.

That story reminds this troper of the 'Water War' she had with a friend in 6th grade. It started with me pretending to dump a bottle of water on her head while saying "Pour!" It eventually escalated to us competing to see who could come up with the most water-related words. We would say them to each other in the hallway. We took turns. The first person to be unable to think of another water word would lose. The gaps between turns lengthened, and we both went off to different schools after 6th grade so the whole thing was never resolved.