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Wizard of Woodstock

On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:09:33 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Apr 28, 11:03*am, Wizard of Woodstock wrote:
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:22:19 -0400, BAR wrote:
Wizard of Woodstock wrote:
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:34:58 -0700, "Mike" wrote:

Oh, and explosions - the bigger the better.
Come to my place for the 4th! Illegal (in CA), and VERY good. Shhhhhhh....

Heh - I just came back from SC - I got some stuff that...well, let's
just say it's in the artillery class. *:)

My county will arrest you if they catch you with sparklers.

Pansies. Sparklers?

Unbelievable. *Hell, when I was a kid, we used to chuck 1/8 sticks of
dynamite around like fire crackers - nobody ever got hurt. *Maybe we
were just smarter than the average kid now days. *:)

Had a friend who's dad was a pyrotechnics guy as a hobby! He'd make us
some cool stuff! Made me a small bomb once, and I chucked it in my
uncle's old cast steel concrete mixer! The end result was lots of
pieces of the barrel all over the place, and an ass kicking that I
received!

Ever see that episode of Mythbusters where they loaded up a cement
truck with 3 tons of HMX?

There was nothing, and I mean nothing, left of that truck. :)

Last week, they did a thing about making diamonds and went to the
University of New Mexico School of Mining Engineering - did something
similar with RDX - about 1500 lbs of the stuff in a tall tube.

The shock wave was simply amazing.

One of my favorite TV shows - 'splosions galore!!