Random Thought Thread

Tonight I have learned that if you let a few of your fireworks set out overnight and they get a little damp, the charge that launches them into the air doesn't work very well and they go off a few feet off the ground instead.

You get the full firework experience.

I have to remember to do that again next year. Those were lit af.
 
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"What would NinJo do in this situation...help me NinJo...help me..."
 
Jo the Machinist said:
As in, making your wife fear for her life as they come straight at her.
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I think only a couple of them were genuinely hazardous.

In retrospect maybe I shouldn't have used them.


After the first few made it obvious that they were going to go off at ground level.

But it was just so dope.
 
Oooo... fireworks wars back in the day...

We'd line up across the field in 2 teams. Trashcan lids for shields, and shoot bottle rockets and roman candles at the other side.

I found this shop in Chinatown that would get all sorts of... questionable fireworks.

They had this box, called a Saturn Silo. 10x10 rows of plastic rocket heads sticking out the top, with fuses at 3 corners. Store owner says, "Skinny fuse here, shoot one by one. This fuse, shoot row by row. Big fuse here, shoot all at once".

I bought all 8 that he had.

Arnie's 'Commando' had recently come out, so I took some plywood sheets and built a rocket launcher replica like the square launcher in the movie, to hold 4 boxes at a time.

I loaded the first 4 into the box, with the skinny fuses in the middle and lit them, so it fired 4 rockets at a time. Sweet.

Then I decided to load the last 4 with the big fat fuses twisted together. Held it up and lit that.
FWOOOOOOOSSSSHHHHHHH...
PHWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!
As 400 rockets go screaming across the field all at once. My side disappears in a cloud of smoke and my guys are going, "What the heck was that? SHIT!!!".

We're coughing in this smoke cloud when we hear from across the field, "AYYY! WHATEVER THE F### THAT WAS. IT'S F###ING BANNED, MUTHA#####!!!".

🤣🤣🤣
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
Tonight I have learned that if you let a few of your fireworks set out overnight and they get a little damp, the charge that launches them into the air doesn't work very well and they go off a few feet off the ground instead.

You get the full firework experience.

I have to remember to do that again next year. Those were lit af.
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Couldn't find the original but this came to mind reading your post, Nathan....and subsequently Jo's.

 
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bluemax_1 said:
Oooo... fireworks wars back in the day...

We'd line up across the field in 2 teams. Trashcan lids for shields, and shoot bottle rockets and roman candles at the other side.

I found this shop in Chinatown that would get all sorts of... questionable fireworks.

They had this box, called a Saturn Silo. 10x10 rows of plastic rocket heads sticking out the top, with fuses at 3 corners. Store owner says, "Skinny fuse here, shoot one by one. This fuse, shoot row by row. Big fuse here, shoot all at once".

I bought all 8 that he had.

Arnie's 'Commando' had recently come out, so I took some plywood sheets and built a rocket launcher replica like the square launcher in the movie, to hold 4 boxes at a time.

I loaded the first 4 into the box, with the skinny fuses in the middle and lit them, so it fired 4 rockets at a time. Sweet.

Then I decided to load the last 4 with the big fat fuses twisted together. Held it up and lit that.
FWOOOOOOOSSSSHHHHHHH...
PHWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!
As 400 rockets go screaming across the field all at once. My side disappears in a cloud of smoke and my guys are going, "What the heck was that? SHIT!!!".

We're coughing in this smoke cloud when we hear from across the field, "AYYY! WHATEVER THE F### THAT WAS. IT'S F###ING BANNED, MUTHA#####!!!".

🤣🤣🤣
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sounds like something I'd like to do....

someday...


next week
 
ironwagon said:
Finally got out of town and outdoors today with the family and went to the Jemez Pueblo and Park area. It had been raining recently so the areas were quite the site. The one pic has a chipmunk just chilling on a rock. He even waited there while we reversed and got a pic. Then we came to a really cool rock area. The rocks looked like swiss cheese art. They were rough like sandstone. Beside that area was a small little forest area of quaking aspen. It was our first time going this far past the Gilman Tunnel (was in the movie The Maze Runner) and it's like a little paradise back there!
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Cool dog!! Shi Tzu?
 
Grenock said:
This is why you are supposed to attend the chapter meetings instead of skipping them every week, brother Nathan. As a member of the high council in the Collectors of Carothers Knives fraternity, I am trying to conduct part of the initiation ritual here, so they will no longer be, uninitiated, but instead, fully initiated CoCKs who are proud to finally be part of the brotherhood. Seriously, we will never get through the paddling ceremony much less the branding of the D3V emblem on their asses if you don't get on board here. As the original. and arguably, the biggest CoCK out of all of us, we don't need you going soft on us.
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Wait!!!…..Which cheek were we supposed to get the brand on ?
 
bluemax_1 said:
Oooo... fireworks wars back in the day...

We'd line up across the field in 2 teams. Trashcan lids for shields, and shoot bottle rockets and roman candles at the other side.

I found this shop in Chinatown that would get all sorts of... questionable fireworks.

They had this box, called a Saturn Silo. 10x10 rows of plastic rocket heads sticking out the top, with fuses at 3 corners. Store owner says, "Skinny fuse here, shoot one by one. This fuse, shoot row by row. Big fuse here, shoot all at once".

I bought all 8 that he had.

Arnie's 'Commando' had recently come out, so I took some plywood sheets and built a rocket launcher replica like the square launcher in the movie, to hold 4 boxes at a time.

I loaded the first 4 into the box, with the skinny fuses in the middle and lit them, so it fired 4 rockets at a time. Sweet.

Then I decided to load the last 4 with the big fat fuses twisted together. Held it up and lit that.
FWOOOOOOOSSSSHHHHHHH...
PHWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!
As 400 rockets go screaming across the field all at once. My side disappears in a cloud of smoke and my guys are going, "What the heck was that? SHIT!!!".

We're coughing in this smoke cloud when we hear from across the field, "AYYY! WHATEVER THE F### THAT WAS. IT'S F###ING BANNED, MUTHA#####!!!".

🤣🤣🤣
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We had bottle rocket fights also when I was a kid. Well, until one of mine hit and popped on my best friends little brother's forehead, right between his eyes. He was ok, but they didn't want to play anymore. 😆
 
That brings back a memory of my boys playing HALO. I kept hearing this baritone voice saying “head shot”.
We used aluminum pipe to aim in our bottle rocket fights. Lol, buddy of mine used to keep a dozen or so rockets in his shirt pocket…… till I landed one right in his chest and it lit all the ones in his pocket, lmao
 
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