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rwheels · 03-09-2021, 05:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Dpc2u

Absolutely! Graduated from that to making them out of steel pipe, an oxygen acetylene torch for the propellant, and d-cell batteries to launch out of it. Those suckered would fly an 1/8 mile!

We would all be considered terrorists today.

Buug959 · 03-09-2021, 05:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Dpc2u

I dunno, I was partial to the steel tipped flying spears, aka, lawn darts.

We used to attach model rocket engines to these killers.

Buug959 · 03-09-2021, 05:22 PM

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Originally Posted by rwheels

Anyone make one of these?

Yup with apple juice cans and a ball of tightly wrapped black electrical tape at Scout Camp.

MKSixer · 03-09-2021, 05:23 PM

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Originally Posted by rwheels

Anyone make one of these?

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Originally Posted by Dpc2u

Absolutely! Graduated from that to making them out of steel pipe, an oxygen acetylene torch for the propellant, and d-cell batteries to launch out of it. Those suckered would fly an 1/8 mile!

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Originally Posted by TiMSport

dialing Homeland Security......

"Yes I'd like to report the existence of a sleeper cell in Tennessee... "

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Originally Posted by Dpc2u

😁

If any kid did 10% of what we did growing up, they'd be one or all of the following:

Suspended from school
Expelled from school
Have a local record
In jail
On the no-fly list
Federal Pen
Federal Black site (in the US)
GITMO
Federal Black site (at sea)

I think I've just about covered it.

jsf721 · 03-09-2021, 05:25 PM

You look at the wine and dinner thread before the girlie one !

Buug959 · 03-09-2021, 05:26 PM

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UncleWede · 03-09-2021, 05:33 PM

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Originally Posted by MKSixer

If any kid did 10% of what we did growing up, they'd be one or all of the following:

Suspended from school
Expelled from school
Have a local record
In jail
On the no-fly list
Federal Pen
Federal Black site (in the US)
GITMO
Federal Black site (at sea)

I think I've just about covered it.

I was just about to issue the @ signal - whew

vreihen16 · 03-09-2021, 05:35 PM

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Originally Posted by cmyx6go

Wasn't a big video game player, other than Pac Man when we cut out of HS and went to the bar. And as luck had it, I stayed home the day the principal and some teachers raided said bar during classes.

Back in the olden days when the drinking age was 18, our school used to have a ski club that hit the slopes every Thursday evening. One of my 10th grade teachers was the advisor, and we always had a test on Friday mornings after a ski club outing. She didn't know how to ski, so she spent her time at the ski resort's bar making sure that none of the students were partaking. Long story short, the students were buying her drinks before long, and she didn't remember a thing...until the Friday morning hangover and subsequent quiet test time.

Our school's only 11th grade English teacher used to own a watering hole in a neighboring town, and was always voted in as the senior class advisor. He would buy every student their first drink at his bar on their 18th birthday.

Both of them would probably be jailed by today's standards.....

rwheels · 03-09-2021, 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by MKSixer

If any kid did 10% of what we did growing up, they'd be one or all of the following:

Suspended from school
Expelled from school
Have a local record
In jail
On the no-fly list
Federal Pen
Federal Black site (in the US)
GITMO
Federal Black site (at sea)

I think I've just about covered it.

And all before the age of about 15.

TiMSport · 03-09-2021, 06:38 PM

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Originally Posted by LemansE90335xi

We used to attach model rocket engines to these killers.

Speaking of which, I had a friend in middle school that built a rocket out of his mom's tampon. Not used, lol.

MKSixer · 03-09-2021, 07:40 PM

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Originally Posted by rwheels

We would all be considered terrorists today.

Without doubt.

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Originally Posted by LemansE90335xi

We used to attach model rocket engines to these killers.

We would take the Boy Scout model rockets. put in our own built in ordinance, and launch them into the next neighborhood. It was all blind luck that we didn't burn down a house or 20 while setting the flora on fire. Sometimes it's better to be lucky than whatever we were. Model rockets were put on the list I was banned from playing with pretty early on.

MKSixer · 03-09-2021, 07:41 PM

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Originally Posted by TiMSport

Speaking of which, I had a friend in middle school that built a rocket out of his mom's tampon. Not used, lol.

Had it been used, he would be on the bioterrorism list which is a special kind of horrible.

TiMSport · 03-09-2021, 07:47 PM

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Originally Posted by MKSixer

Had it been used, he would be on the bioterrorism list which is a special kind of horrible.

....

Sara · 03-09-2021, 08:41 PM

It’s 20:41 and you’re in bed

rwheels · 03-09-2021, 08:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Sara504

It’s 20:41 and you’re in bed

Isn't that normal?

rwheels · 03-09-2021, 09:53 PM

Sara · 03-09-2021, 10:10 PM

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Originally Posted by rwheels

What the hell are those

UncleWede · 03-09-2021, 11:15 PM

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Originally Posted by rwheels

Still use

Never used

Esteban · 03-09-2021, 11:52 PM

My method of opening.

3798j · 03-10-2021, 06:55 AM

the "John Wayne" method...p38

Lady Jane · 03-10-2021, 07:11 AM

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Originally Posted by rwheels

And all before the age of about 15.

Yep...I was nicknamed "Calamity Jane" by the Military Police. Took a jeep for a spin that was parked in front of the PX. No keys needed as it had an ignition lever. My dad taught me how to drive standard and my legs were long enough to reach the funny looking clutch. I went w/o dessert that night...

King Rudi · 03-10-2021, 07:19 AM

Can openers? Amateurs....I gently stroke the edge of the lid and whisper to the can. It opens itself for me.

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