On Sun, 8 Feb 2009 22:45:57 -0800, "Calif Bill"
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"HK" wrote in message
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Zombie of Woodstock wrote:
On Sun, 08 Feb 2009 20:39:46 -0500, HK wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3uyWRkoX4o

I had more fun with my Gilbert Chemistry set than you can imagine.
That's what got me interested in science and math to tell the truth.

My favorite thing was mixing up test sets for soil acidity, pH and
stuff like that. I even made a chemical Barometer once.

Man that was fun. My brother has all our American Flyer train sets - one
of my Dad's
friends at the Milwaukee Sentinel was a huge model train buff and gave
us a bunch of stuff every year. I never got into trains for some
reason - I was more into radios and chemicals. :)

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If we aren't supposed to eat animals, why are they made of meat?


I had chem sets and erector sets, too. I used to build some humongous
stuff with the erector sets, but if memory serves, there were no lock
washers, so everything eventually sort of loosed itself to bits.

I liked the part of the chemistry set where you made rocket fuel, etc. As
to erector sets, never had one, but since dad owned one of the bigger
machine shops in the area, I got to build with real steel. Could turn out a
great breech loading cannon on the lathe at 10 years old. Then could put
the chemistry set to use. Jetex fuses were the purchased parts.

Ah yes - explosives. We had plenty of explosives on the farm and I
got to help blow up rocks and tree stumps and gopher holes...

The Chemistry set was for something else.

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"All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to
your height."

Casey Stengel