Happy 4th of July 2013-7-4

[MerchManDan]

Mmm. I may not own a car, but I'm certainly feeling dirty.

[Aleister Crow]

Here's hoping that everyone who celebrated the holiday had a great time, and managed not to blow up anything important this time.

[Cyberpawz]

Here's hoping that everyone who celebrated the holiday had a great time, and managed not to blow up anything important this time.

What's the fun in that? I scared the neighbors with mine... Caused a mushroom cloud in my back yard... had a few interested people involved after the fact. Thankfully I'm here to say no jail time, especially since it as all smoke after the fire ball went away that was

[jwhouk]

Apparently the boss took the holiday weekend off.

[eee]

Here's hoping that everyone who celebrated the holiday had a great time, and managed not to blow up anything important this time.

What's the fun in that? I scared the neighbors with mine... Caused a mushroom cloud in my back yard... had a few interested people involved after the fact. Thankfully I'm here to say no jail time, especially since it as all smoke after the fire ball went away that was

Did you come running out in a cap with side flaps and start telling the police about the aliens you done seen setting off them there fireworks?

[MerchManDan]

Apparently the boss took the holiday weekend off.

Yup, not even with a word of warning. Ah well, he's earned a break.

[Cyberpawz]

Here's hoping that everyone who celebrated the holiday had a great time, and managed not to blow up anything important this time.

What's the fun in that? I scared the neighbors with mine... Caused a mushroom cloud in my back yard... had a few interested people involved after the fact. Thankfully I'm here to say no jail time, especially since it as all smoke after the fire ball went away that was

Did you come running out in a cap with side flaps and start telling the police about the aliens you done seen setting off them there fireworks?

Lol, naw. Just ended up saying sorry, I knew the officer that was there. They know I tend to dabble with gunpowder and other fun stuff

[kingklash]

It's been raining all day here... *sighs* If it was sunny, I'd put on shorts and a bikini top like Monica and Wash my truck... Something tells me that a Wapsi Square car wash with Monica, Shelly, Amanda, Bud, Brandi, Jin, May, Phix and Tina would devolve into a water and soap suds fight that would leave half the population of Wapsi Square in the hospital with irregular heart rhythms...... hehehe

"Would you like your undercarriage done? HEY< JACK!"
*Shelly comes running up*
"I thought your name was Shelly, not Jack."
"Oh, Jack's not my name, "jack" is my job!"
*proceeds to lift car over her head*

[NOTDilbert]

Good Muppet reference!

[Dave]

Here's hoping that everyone who celebrated the holiday had a great time, and managed not to blow up anything important this time.

Lotsa fun... did public-safety amateur-radio communications for a local city's fireworks display, which meant hanging out in the launch/fall-out zone in fireman's wildland jacket and hard hat. Didn't get to actually fire anything myself, but had big fragments of 4" cardboard mortar shells falling to the ground all around me... some still trailing hot coals. Never been so close before... quite a thrill and the city event went well... nobody injured, no fires, no lost children or body parts.

[Timotheus]

I stopped messing with amateur fireworks back in college. The unofficial chemistry and physics club would make up some pyrotechnics for various celebrations and launch them over the campus quad for effect. Our Junior year we got our hands on an Estes V-2 rocket model with a camera and parachute that the owner didn't want any more. We cast a hollow explosive charge that weighed the same as the camera and parachute and replaced them with it in the nose of the model and then added a shock sensitive explosive detonator to the top so it would go boom when it landed. We then aimed it out the third floor window of the junior dorm over the football field toward the last cornfield in the area.

With "Frue Morgan Wir Bomben Auf England" playing on the stereo, our V-2 was launched, unfortunately it was meant to be launched vertically not at an angle so it immediately veered off course toward the tree line between the quad and the football field, landed in a pine tree, and did what it was supposed to.

Apparently, according to our post mortum, we were off an order of magnitude on the yield calculations as well, as the whole pine tree went up in flames and windows were rattled in the monastery across the road. That's the only time I've actually seen people from the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms respond to a fire. Thankfully the campus had no security cameras and the code of silence held. But word came down from Dean Weinlander (Ex Marine Col and Korean War Vet) that there had better never be a repeat, so a vow was made to lay off self propelled explosives and home made demolition charges on campus.

[bmonk]

Apparently, according to our post mortum, we were off an order of magnitude on the yield calculations as well, as the whole pine tree went up in flames and windows were rattled in the monastery across the road. That's the only time I've actually seen people from the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms respond to a fire. Thankfully the campus had no security cameras and the code of silence held. But word came down from Dean Weinlander (Ex Marine Col and Korean War Vet) that there had better never be a repeat, so a vow was made to lay off self propelled explosives and home made demolition charges on campus.

Good story--but was that monastery Benedictine? And, if it was, what state???

[Timotheus]

Um, I plead the fifth. And it had nothing to do with root beer.