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Spoiling the fun for future generations in Texas, the cannonball “dive” is now banned.

But you can kiss your cannonball goodbye. A new state code has all but outlawed the high dive.

Since 1964, the city-owned Cottonwood pool in Richardson, on West Belt Line Road, with its 3-meter board, has served as a chlorinated firing range. Forty-two years of cannonballs. And can openers, preacher seats, watermelons, and flying squirrels (to depart from the munitions metaphor). Not to mention, for those who appreciate the splashless entry, jackknives, swan dives, and one-and-a-half front flips.

But not this summer.

What a lame lame summer this will be for Texas.