I used to do that with large spent rifle brass (.30-06, .270, and .300 Win Mag, etc) using FFFF black powder and cannon fuse. I can't imagine that using that much flash powder, much less in a CO2 cartridge or shotgun hull!
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We actually didn't use powder per se, we would cut the heads off matches and stuff them in. The very last time we blew one off we put the cartridge in a hollow metal tube to aim out over the valley like the speeding projectile it became. The major mistake we made was that the tube was made of aluminum, and we didn't use a fuse. It took off with a BLAM, never to be seen again, while filling my buddy's leg with shards of aluminum. He ended up going to the emergency room to have the aluminum removed and leg stitched back up. After that experience we thankfully moved on to much safer activities.
When I was a teenager my grandpa gave us a full paper grocery bag full of M80's and cherry bombs. I think they had been up there since my dad was young. We blew a lot of stuff up with those. I still have all my fingers and eyeballs, miraculously.
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Vernors Ice Cream, Farrells restaurants, and McDonalds original fried cherry pies.
Ya gotta watch out for electrical engineers from Purdue. We figure $#!+ out lol
Just on Christmas Eve we were all talking about growing up and what our parents would (or wouldn't) let us do. This was in the early days of cable TV, and back when MTV actually played music.
One of the folks was saying that his parents wouldn't let him watch MTV. I replied "Yeah, neither would my parents. But this was back in the days of cable TV boxes where you would use a physical key to lock out channels, so I just borrowed the key from the girl across the street and turned it back on." I mean, it's not like these keys were unique...
As a kid, my parents thought I might either become a locksmith or a burglar because I enjoyed finding ways in (or out) of places that I wasn't supposed to be able to...
I think, in hindsight, my parents are grateful that I chose to use my powers for good...
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Car engine compartments into which you could actually climb, before EPA, transverse mounts and front wheel drive.
'67 Chevelle, for instance.
'67 Chevelle, for instance.
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I really liked the ginger ale, did not know Vernors made ice cream. Yeah, I did a birthday or two at Farrells, remember the big deal they made when you ate the "Pig Out"?. Fun as a kid, as I recall....
Near 14 mile and Woodward in the '70's, been a long time, but remember it well.
On a beer related note, when 14 year old, me and a few friends used to get one of the dudes hanging around the liqure store in strip mall around 13 mile & woodward, gave them $10, and we got a case of Colt 45 or Stroughs malt liquer, and they got a pint of Nite Train, Thunderbird, or Ripple. Win win, and then we went bowling and watched the drive in from the train tracks, and rode our bikes regardless of rain or snow.
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Costco polish dogs.
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I always have to stock Vernors Ginger Ale for holiday get togethers.
I tastes like no other and it has that nifty habit of zinging your nose the first sip or two.
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14 and JohnR, Oakland mall. The Pizza jooint with the organ was at Universal mall, but the pizza was crap and the organ was rarely played.
Southwyck Mall, Toledo Ohio.
I spent so much time there. I know it's gone now. Don't know what replaced it. God I miss being a kid and running around that mall. I apologize 40 years later for the shoplifting and for eating all the samples at Hickory Farms.
I spent so much time there. I know it's gone now. Don't know what replaced it. God I miss being a kid and running around that mall. I apologize 40 years later for the shoplifting and for eating all the samples at Hickory Farms.
Are you in Patagonia?
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nope
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I didn't think you were!
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Knock that off!
You don't want the Marshalls to have to move him again!
You don't want the Marshalls to have to move him again!
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Finders Keepers.
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When my kids were little I used to watch them go through those twisty tube sides, they have ridiculous friction and the kids usually didnt make it to the exit. I wanted to sneak in a can of turtle wax ( I once slid off a freshly waxed car, it is slick) and give it s quick coat to put the thrill back in slides. But I would feel bad if there were a bunch of kids doing Mach 2 horizontally through McDonalds...
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Good name for a song.
Maybe not good enough to be a good name for a rock band, but awfully close.
Bass Pale Ale. Even visited Epcot earlier this year and I went to the Rose & Crown Pub in the England pavilion. I asked about it and the bar tender who I see all the time there told me that they discontinued it here in America. I thought he was joking at first and then I didn't see the tap handle anymore. I guess it is still being made in England but Anheuser Busch InBev does not import it and will not produce this in America anymore. Sad...
John
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That is kinda sad though tbh it's not a game changer for me now. 20-30 years ago that was one of my go-to beers because it was a flavorful tasty ale compared to the macro crap, but in the last...15 years...there's plenty of flavorful go-tos now...
Cheers!
Cheers!
Surge. Suuuuuuurge.
They brought it back a few years ago, and then as we say in ham radio, "It faded out as fast it came in". It was a part of my teenage-hood.
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Jolly Alcoholic - In Remembrance 2023
wait, i still don't know what happened to these either....
I wish more states would ban them. Utterly wasteful and unnecessary.
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Single use plastic bags are far more harmful and wasteful than paper bags. At least paper bags can be recycled. As long as they are reused, then reusable bags are a decent answer (whether that be paper, fabric, or even plastic if necessary).
And heck, single use plastics in general are awful. Plastic recycling is a myth. I find the thick disposable plastic drink cups and foam coffee cups especially infuriating. What's wrong with the cardboard cups that were fine for years?
And heck, single use plastics in general are awful. Plastic recycling is a myth. I find the thick disposable plastic drink cups and foam coffee cups especially infuriating. What's wrong with the cardboard cups that were fine for years?
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lol, i guess what we need then is star trek transporters to automaticlly fill my fridge.... 
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Jolly Alcoholic - In Remembrance 2023
i was a bag boy at a grocery store for a while, i always hated those people, lol if they want me to use their damn bags then they have to start paying more, so my CEO overlords don't have me trying to work like a crack fiend's pace.....
in my head the only place reusable bags are appropriate, are a hippie health food store....
