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Is the "Slapstick Effect" only for those things purposely designed and 'waved as weapons or does it apply to things can be used as improvised weapons as well. Every fen with a flying car has a weapon, after all. It's a big, blunt guided missile with no warhead that does its own mass in blunt trauma. Does the effect apply to vehicular melee?
In addition, if you, for example, 'wave a blade for hardness and edge, but it's still, essentially, just a sword or knife, does it get scrambled by the effect?
I thought we'd covered this way back when. Blades and clubs can be waved for durability and edge-keeping. It's guns and things where you have to be clever.
Remember, the Slapstick Effect protects people, not objects (hence A.C. getting moded instead of drowning when submerged, and Miyu's built in gun ends up making people look like they've been in a Loony Tunes cartoon complete with smoking/wrecked scenery).
On 'waved Nerf, I'd say the Slapstick Effect would hold especially well as it's a non-lethal weapon. As such, any heating of the resultant liquid on impact could easily be handwaved away. (As an almost liquid I'd say the amount of heat generated would be small on liquifaction, but bigger on solification as it has to cool to be a solid).