This tropers mother has expressed a preference for a fajita skillet over a frying pan due to the lighter grip and... It's probably best I don't continue.

This Troper heard of someone in the news who hit a burglar with a frying pan.

This Troper has a family story that goes a little like this. "My Great Grandfather (or some-such) came back from World War 1 a drunk. (could you blame him?) Well anyway, he set up his own still in the basement of his house. Now, my Great Grandmother was a good Christian, and she could not stand to see her husband like that. One day, he came upstairs drunk as anything, and he twirled her around and planted a big ol' smooch on her. Well, this was enough of that! She grabbed her skillet (a big cast iron thing that weight nearly twenty lbs) and whacked him across the head with it, and knocked him out with one blow. Well, he woke up on Sunday, and as his wife was going to church he thought he might go along as well, and he became a Christian that very day." Spoken in the good ole colloquial accent.

I was in a sporting goods store and in the camping section was GI-FUCKING-NORMAS frying pan (the pan was 2 feet in diameter and the handle was around 3, but it doesn't actually weigh that much). This is litarally a FryingPanOfDoom.

This troper used to work on a trail-building crew, and among the common loan supplies from the conservation corps was a truly enormous cast-iron skillet.

This Troper's Uncle is the victim of a frying pan incident involving his aunt (the troper's not the uncle's). how? He has the evidence of a permanent bump ''square on his forehead''.

While never having seen this in action, aside from fiction, I did get an interesting piece of advice from my sister-in-law that she got from one of her relatives "Heat up the frying pan before you hit him with it"

At a family reunion, there was a stray dog trying to eat all of our BBQ food. I was the first to react, cuz I saw him coming. My weapon? Wok. Sadly, the poor things couldn't take the impacted... But we had a nice little lunch in it's honor. We named him Spicy.

Variation: I made a story where this dude used a pressure pan to defend himself from a robber...that turned out to be his best friend...

I did an improv exercise in which my partner was threatening me with a knife in kitchen. My immediate response: "I'll see your knife and raise you a cast iron frying pan. Now which do you think will hurt more?" Said with a pretty good imitation of Tranquil Fury. It was unanimously decided that my mimed weapon was more dangerous than his mimed weapon.

My drama class had gag frying pan of doom. It was rigged to make the sound of a piece of metal striking a person quite forcefully by means of a mere tap on the head.

A friend of this troper once ran a Deadlands game in which of the characters was a sturdy frontier wife. Who once drove off a werewolf with a frying pan. "Git out'n mah kitchen, ya mangy varmint!" *WHANG!* A very good roll, and presumably the spending of many fate chips, had the werewolf running away and yiping frantically.

My Grandad (who is pushing 80 at the time of writing) has a story from when he was a young Cop where he answered a domestic disturbance call and had to try and talk down a very drunk and angry husband. After a few failed attempts he started to get angry at my Grandad, when all of a sudden *whack* he collapsed to the ground. Behind him stood his wife, Frying Pan in hand. Grandad excused himself and left.

This troper's class was told a true story by his teacher once about two boys who were best friends. One day, in cooking class, they apparently came to a heated disagreement over something or another, and one twanged the other in the head with a frying pan. His retina detached and he was left permanently blind in one eye. Needless to say, they weren't best friends after that.

I have an FTO character whose weapon of choice is a copper frying pan. It's very effective, at least at crushing small animals. If you don't go back to FryingPanOfDoom ''this instant'', I'll hit you with one! D:<