Yeah...the good old days....kids today are really boring.....no
initiative....I take my grandkids out and teach them bad things like
building forts out of junk from the barn and climbing trees and sticking the
hose down the groundhog hole.....Protective Servioces will probably cart me
away one day....
"felton" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 22:40:10 GMT, "katysails"
wrote:

My brother used to throw aerosol cans into our 55 gallon trash burner
when
we were kids....split it down the sides and flattened it....was quite the
sight....and he didn't have to go to Purdue to accomplish it....

Growing up in a relatively small town in the middle of nowhere, there
used to be a lot of things done to break the boredom that would now be
on the national news. Amateur bomb making, death defying pranks and
the like. Times have changed, though.

Come to think of it, it wasn't all that uncommon to see folks with
missing fingers when I was growing up... One of the side effects of
that "go outside and play" theory of child raising.



"felton" wrote in message
news
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 19:23:48 GMT, "Scout"
wrote:

While searching for a charcoal starter-chimney, I stumbled upon this
unique
method of getting the grill ready in a hurry.
Don't miss the picture.
Scout
http://home.att.net/~purduejacksonville/grill.html

Yowee. Looks exciting...to watch from afar

Reminds me a little of the old joke. A new skydiver was making his
first jump. He pulls the first ripcord...nothing happens. He tries
the reserve chute...nothing happens.

As he is falling towards Earth, he sees someone else on the way up.
As they pass, he asks, "excuse me, you do you know anything about
parachutes?" The other guy replies, "sorry, no, do you know anything
about propane stoves?"

Hey, I said it was an old joke.

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 23:10:59 GMT, "katysails"
wrote:

Yeah...the good old days....kids today are really boring.....no
initiative....I take my grandkids out and teach them bad things like
building forts out of junk from the barn and climbing trees and sticking the
hose down the groundhog hole.....Protective Servioces will probably cart me
away one day....

Grandkids? You can't be old enough for grandkids. Don't you have any
armadillos to chase? That used to be fun. Maybe it still would
be...I'll have to be on the lookout, although I was never really sure
what to do with them once I caught them. The pursuit was fun, in a
Lord of the Flies sort of way. We used to go snake hunting a lot..to
catch them. Now I have really gotten too old to remember what the
appeal was of catching snakes.





"felton" wrote in message
.. .
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 22:40:10 GMT, "katysails"
wrote:

My brother used to throw aerosol cans into our 55 gallon trash burner
when
we were kids....split it down the sides and flattened it....was quite the
sight....and he didn't have to go to Purdue to accomplish it....

Growing up in a relatively small town in the middle of nowhere, there
used to be a lot of things done to break the boredom that would now be
on the national news. Amateur bomb making, death defying pranks and
the like. Times have changed, though.

Come to think of it, it wasn't all that uncommon to see folks with
missing fingers when I was growing up... One of the side effects of
that "go outside and play" theory of child raising.



"felton" wrote in message
news On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 19:23:48 GMT, "Scout"
wrote:

While searching for a charcoal starter-chimney, I stumbled upon this
unique
method of getting the grill ready in a hurry.
Don't miss the picture.
Scout
http://home.att.net/~purduejacksonville/grill.html

Yowee. Looks exciting...to watch from afar

Reminds me a little of the old joke. A new skydiver was making his
first jump. He pulls the first ripcord...nothing happens. He tries
the reserve chute...nothing happens.

As he is falling towards Earth, he sees someone else on the way up.
As they pass, he asks, "excuse me, you do you know anything about
parachutes?" The other guy replies, "sorry, no, do you know anything
about propane stoves?"

Hey, I said it was an old joke.

In article ,
katysails wrote:
Yeah...the good old days....kids today are really boring.....no
initiative....I take my grandkids out and teach them bad things like
building forts out of junk from the barn and climbing trees and sticking the
hose down the groundhog hole.....Protective Servioces will probably cart me
away one day....

I taught my twin cousins to throw food at their grandmother. :-)




--
Jonathan Ganz (j gan z @ $ail no w.c=o=m)
http://www.sailnow.com
"If there's no wind, row."

"katysails" wrote in message ...
My brother used to throw aerosol cans into our 55 gallon trash burner when
we were kids....split it down the sides and flattened it....was quite the
sight....and he didn't have to go to Purdue to accomplish it....


When my big brother was home on leave he gave me some huge orange
smoke signals, he was in a air and sea rescue crew in the USN. The
Orange Smoke flares went strait to school. Filled the whole building
with the thickest orange smoke ya ever seen.. Never got caught....

And we used to buy rubbers at the gas station on the highway. Remove
the gas pipe from the back of the space heaters and fill the rubbers
up until they were the size of a 3 foot long watermellons.

We get 3-4 together with a long firecracker fuse and let them go at
night.
They would make a huge fireball a couple of hundred feet up in the sky
over our small town. Even made the local papers with 100's of
sightings and hundreds of diffrent explainations from UFO's to natural
ball lighting. Never got caught...

Flying UFO dry cleaner bags... candle powered & balsa wood. Lucky we
didnt burn down the town with those.

Estes rocket engine powered everything.

Oh for the good ol days...

Joe







"felton" wrote in message
news
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 19:23:48 GMT, "Scout"
wrote:

While searching for a charcoal starter-chimney, I stumbled upon this
unique
method of getting the grill ready in a hurry.
Don't miss the picture.
Scout
http://home.att.net/~purduejacksonville/grill.html

Yowee. Looks exciting...to watch from afar

Reminds me a little of the old joke. A new skydiver was making his
first jump. He pulls the first ripcord...nothing happens. He tries
the reserve chute...nothing happens.

As he is falling towards Earth, he sees someone else on the way up.
As they pass, he asks, "excuse me, you do you know anything about
parachutes?" The other guy replies, "sorry, no, do you know anything
about propane stoves?"

Hey, I said it was an old joke.

Nixon's father should have pulled out.

--
Jonathan Ganz (j gan z @ $ail no w.c=o=m)
http://www.sailnow.com
"If there's no wind, row."

"Jonathan Ganz" wrote ...
My father should have pulled out.

In article ,
Joe wrote:
"katysails" wrote in message ...
When my big brother was home on leave he gave me some huge orange
smoke signals, he was in a air and sea rescue crew in the USN. The
Orange Smoke flares went strait to school. Filled the whole building
with the thickest orange smoke ya ever seen.. Never got caught....

One would have thought that your parents would have been smart enough
to use birth control after your big brother was born, but then they're
probably Republicans too.
--
Jonathan Ganz (j gan z @ $ail no w.c=o=m)
http://www.sailnow.com
"If there's no wind, row."

"Jonathan Ganz" wrote

I stayed home mostly and played with my Barbie dolls.

Jonathan Ganz (j gan z @ $ail no w.c=o=m)





Joe wrote:
When my big brother was home on leave he gave me some huge
orange
smoke signals, he was in a air and sea rescue crew in the USN. The
Orange Smoke flares went strait to school. Filled the whole
building
with the thickest orange smoke ya ever seen.. Never got caught....

One would have thought that your parents would have been smart
enough
to use birth control after your big brother was born, but then
they're
probably Republicans too.
--

Did you find a chimney? In Scouts, we used to use #10 cans, with the
top and bottom removed and holes punched in the sides.

Scotty


"Scout" wrote in message
...
While searching for a charcoal starter-chimney, I stumbled upon this
unique
method of getting the grill ready in a hurry.
Don't miss the picture.
Scout
http://home.att.net/~purduejacksonville/grill.html

Scotty Potti wrote....

In the trailer park we use #10 cans, with thetop and bottom removed and holes
punched in the sides. Yee Hawww! Dem's is good ole savins!