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| Thread ID: 26770 | 2002-11-05 04:26:00 | Fireworks night substitute | Susan B (19) | Press F1 |
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| 96066 | 2002-11-05 08:31:00 | I got a roman candle pointed at me when I was ten. The idea was to use the glowing edges to light my tom thums. The roman candle hadn't quite finished... Didn't put me off making 'crater makers' though. Spent many hours patiently breaking double-happys in half, collecting the gunpowder, and filling up empty twink bottles with the stuff. Had the police come around as a result of two rather excessive explosions :D (one took out a shrub and the other a sewer pipe..) Don't try this at home kiddies... SiK |
SoniKalien (792) | ||
| 96067 | 2002-11-05 08:46:00 | Using moon rockets and sticking them in your letter box like a bazooka launcher at the neighbours across the road... hehe... Ok, now that's just naughty... :8} Lo. |
Lohsing (219) | ||
| 96068 | 2002-11-05 08:48:00 | Double happys thrown under my motorbike wheels... I stayed on... just. Husband got a bad burn and lost half his beard after checking a homemade firework which hadn't gone off (that's industrial chemists for you - have to play) If you want fireworks - go download a copy of the Happy 99 virus and play with that. Far safer! |
Heather P (163) | ||
| 96069 | 2002-11-05 09:31:00 | Re-installing Windows costs nothing apart from your time. And it's SO MUCH fun isn't it. I use Win XP Pro and Linux RedHat on the other computer. Since installing WinXP Pro in a dual boot I have reformatted just once to get rid of the dual boot with Win 98SE. I have tried OS/2, Beos, DOS 3.3, DOS 5.0, DOS 6.22, Win 3.11, Win 95, Win 95 OSR2, WinMe, WinNT, Win2000 ( and I still use that at School ) Linux RedHat 7.3 and Win XP Pro. Hmmmm.... I'm 65 years old and still at school. Why.... I don't think I've learn't everything yet. Added to that I am what you might call the advaced class when it come to computers but I just want to get a paper saying so. Win XP Pro is my Operating system of choice. |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 96070 | 2002-11-05 09:42:00 | guy fawkes.... hell, why wait for guy fawkes? My favourate is firedancing with cans of petrol, the trick is to run towards the bonfire and pull the can back just as pulling back my dash, a big ball of petrol catches fire in front of you but at a safe distance... This is one of my party tricks learnt from my more reckless years TIMING IS EXTREEMLY CRITICAL. It looks great too. By the way Why do people celebrate Guy Fawkes the english anachists attempt to blow up parliment, when we have our own anarchist martyr Neil Roberts who died 20 years ago Nov 18th trying to blow up the Wanganui Computer centre? NZ culture is so damn compulsively imported! .Clueless |
Clueless (181) | ||
| 96071 | 2002-11-05 10:52:00 | Whoa there Clueless, let's not give any of our junior readers ideas that might fry them. Petrol is a nasty substance. I don't want to be a party pooper but people will do incredibly stupid things. There was a reality TV program on recently showing two kids (youths?) dousing their shorts in petrol and lighting it while other smarter types videoed them. They got burned. D'oh! I made my own gunpowder and built bombs too, and I made some stupid mistakes that could have killed or maimed me but I guess I got lucky. All that was on my own initiative and I shudder to think what could have happened if anybody had encouraged me. Let's keep the lunacy instruction manual private. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 96072 | 2002-11-05 11:08:00 | As i said "Timing is extreemly critical"..... I would not recomend anyone try it, least of all casually, dispite having the appearance of a mad "party trick", it took a very carefull analysis of exactly what was involved, a clear ground, a knowledge of just how fast i could pull back ( i was hell fit) and even with all that, i must admit, it also took a foolhearty attitude (my west coast days were quite mad really, i'm much better now thanx) The trick was making sure the fireball went into/above the bonfire, and most definatly not near me or the petrol can, or anyone else. The pullback was so sudden that it would leave my arms saw from the sudden reverse of my travell. It has been pointed out that if i had slipped instead of going back things would have got rather messy, particually as the rest of the can got involved. Anyway, this was intended as a confession of stupid things i have done, and not as an example of stupidity to copy And i still say stuff guy fawkes, celebrate Neil Roberts day! .Clueless |
Clueless (181) | ||
| 96073 | 2002-11-05 12:03:00 | Having seen either Sputnik 1 or 2 go overhead, and grown up with the Mercury and Apollo programmes, one of my tricks was finding some poor, defenceless insect (a woodlice or a spider), and turning it into an astronaut. Place astronaut in a small jar or tin. Tie container to a skyrocket. Light rocket. Recover spent rocket, and liberate groggy astronaut. Just like the space programme, there were numerous failures. Broken string, rockets unable to take off, etc., but eventually I got it just right. The G forces on the insect at liftoff must have been many times greater than on any real-life astonaut. |
Deebee (1184) | ||
| 96074 | 2002-11-05 15:07:00 | Baldy. Re "Fireworks are nothing now compared to when I was a kid" post. Was that when you were part of the Original Fireworks attempt in London??? Poppa John :D :D | Poppa John (284) | ||
| 96075 | 2002-11-05 19:57:00 | LOL :^O Billy 8-{) :D |
Billy T (70) | ||
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