Random Thought Thread

AriesTheCam said:
Lmfao we weren't contracting hepatitis, we we're having bb gun wars 😂 (well, until one kid got a pump one.. ow)
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We had rare instances of someone getting shot with a BB gun...usually in the butt. (Like I did by a vagrant in an abandoned home when I discarded some flyers I was supposed to be delivering for the local movie house as a kid.)

But we had rock and bottle wars that were epic. Unfortunately, I beaned one kid and I thought I must've killed him because his father chased me and I hid on the roof of our building until nightfall. (I got my own coconut busted open by a rock too, thrown by a girl, no less. The utter indignity. No one else witnessed that one, however. Don't let it get out.)
 
bluemax_1 said:
Well now we’re mixing topics.

Who else used to love McDonalds nuclear apple pies? The filling was so danged hot, it would burn the crap out of you if you weren’t careful. Nibble a hole in the corner and blow on it to cool it. Still burn the crap out of your mouth and tongue 😅
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Hotter than lava!


Hot pockets as well. They have two temperatures: “singe-the-skin-off-your-mouth-hot”…….and “ice cold”. 😁
 
bluemax_1 said:
Who else used to love McDonalds nuclear apple pies? The filling was so danged hot, it would burn the crap out of you if you weren’t careful. Nibble a hole in the corner and blow on it to cool it. Still burn the crap out of your mouth and tongue 😅
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I'm surprised that it was their coffee that ended up in a lawsuit and not their lava filled pies.
 
Mendoman said:
We used to make “guns” from pvc or whatever else we could cobble together and have bottle rocket wars.
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Fireworks wars! Yeahhhh!!!

Not just bottle rockets. Roman candles, too. And the lids from metal trashcans, as shields.

One year, I went to a shop in Chinatown to buy fireworks, and the owner says, “Want to see the good stuff?”. Shows me a whole bunch in the back of the store, and I point and say, “What are those? What do they do?”.

He says, “Ahhhh… Saturn Silo. 100 rockets. See all plastic nubs on top? All rockets, 10x10. Light this fuse, shoot one by one. Light THIS fuse, shoot row by row. Light this BIG fuse, shoot ALL together. This BIG one, you light and run!”

I said, “How much? I’ll take all 8 of them”.

The Arnie movie Commando had just come out, so I went home and grabbed some plywood, and built a ‘rocket launcher’ like the one in the movie, that could fit 4 of the Saturn Silos in the front, and spray painted it OD green.

We had a fireworks war planned for a weekend night a couple weeks away. I showed up with these, and MY buddies go, “Whoaaaa… what the heck is THAT? Looks like the rocket launcher from Commando”. “Yup. That was what I was going for”. “Whatcha gonna do with it?”. “You’ll see”.

We lined up on either side of the park (about 40-50yds apart). Our team against their team. I load up 4 Saturn silos and light the single-shot fuses. The first few shots, they were more or less in sync, shooting off four whistling rockets at a time (that exploded with a snap, like small bottle rockets), but once they got out of sync, it was kind of cool, because it was almost sort of like rapid fire.

My team; “Man!!! That’s cool!!!”
Me: “Y’all ain’t seen nuthin yet…”

When I dumped the 4 spent ones and reloaded, I decided to load them so I could twist the BIG fuses together, and use a cobbled length of fuse to connect, and light.

Everyone gets ready, and on the word GO! I light the fuse and wait for it to set them off.

Four HUNDRED rockets go screaming across the field. I catch a brief glimpse of people diving every which way, before vision is obliterated by the cloud of smoke, and we hear 400 snaps as the rockets are popping on the other side of the park.

We’re all coughing. My buddies are going, “Holy shit!!! That was insane!!! What the hell are those?!!!”.

Then from across the field through the cloud of smoke, we hear their team leader yell, “AYYY!!! WHATEVER THE F### THAT WAS… IT’S F#####G BANNED, MOTHERF#####!!!”
 
Murphjd25 said:
I got my nose broken in the third grade. I guess I was being mean to a girl, she kicked me right in the nose with her cowboy boots. 🤣

I also broke my right wrist in the 5th grade, and again in the 7th grade. 🤣
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I broke my arm in a fight with Dean M. over Lois F. in 5th grade. I had him in a headlock and tripped and snap...
 
Blues said:
But we had rock and bottle wars that were epic. Unfortunately, I beaned one kid and I thought I must've killed him because his father chased me and I hid on the roof of our building until nightfall. (I got my own coconut busted open by a rock too, thrown by a girl, no less. The utter indignity. No one else witnessed that one, however. Don't let it get out.)
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Got hit in the face with a tennis ball sized rock during a “rock war”. It knocked out my partial from a skateboarding incident, and another tooth on the bottom that I then had to have a (another) root canal and a new partial.
Good times.

Mendoman said:
We used to make “guns” from pvc or whatever else we could cobble together and have bottle rocket wars.
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This is what we saved our old wiffle
ball bats for.

bluemax_1 said:
Fireworks wars! Yeahhhh!!!

Not just bottle rockets. Roman candles, too. And the lids from metal trashcans, as shields.

One year, I went to a shop in Chinatown to buy fireworks, and the owner says, “Want to see the good stuff?”. Shows me a whole bunch in the back of the store, and I point and say, “What are those? What do they do?”.

He says, “Ahhhh… Saturn Silo. 100 rockets. See all plastic nubs on top? All rockets, 10x10. Light this fuse, shoot one by one. Light THIS fuse, shoot row by row. Light this BIG fuse, shoot ALL together. This BIG one, you light and run!”

I said, “How much? I’ll take all 8 of them”.

The Arnie movie Commando had just come out, so I went home and grabbed some plywood, and built a ‘rocket launcher’ like the one in the movie, that could fit 4 of the Saturn Silos in the front, and spray painted it OD green.

We had a fireworks war planned for a weekend night a couple weeks away. I showed up with these, and MY buddies go, “Whoaaaa… what the heck is THAT? Looks like the rocket launcher from Commando”. “Yup. That was what I was going for”. “Whatcha gonna do with it?”. “You’ll see”.

We lined up on either side of the park (about 40-50yds apart). Our team against their team. I load up 4 Saturn silos and light the single-shot fuses. The first few shots, they were more or less in sync, shooting off four whistling rockets at a time (that exploded with a snap, like small bottle rockets), but once they got out of sync, it was kind of cool, because it was almost sort of like rapid fire.

My team; “Man!!! That’s cool!!!”
Me: “Y’all ain’t seen nuthin yet…”

When I dumped the 4 spent ones and reloaded, I decided to load them so I could twist the BIG fuses together, and use a cobbled length of fuse to connect, and light.

Everyone gets ready, and on the word GO! I light the fuse and wait for it to set them off.

Four HUNDRED rockets go screaming across the field. I catch a brief glimpse of people diving every which way, before vision is obliterated by the cloud of smoke, and we hear 400 snaps as the rockets are popping on the other side of the park.

We’re all coughing. My buddies are going, “Holy shit!!! That was insane!!! What the hell are those?!!!”.

Then from across the field through the cloud of smoke, we hear their team leader yell, “AYYY!!! WHATEVER THE F### THAT WAS… IT’S F#####G BANNED, MOTHERF#####!!!”
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Don’t forget the jumping jacks!
I used to light them and then throw them up above the opposition. You never knew which way they would take off. Sometimes resulting in friendly fire. I actually had one shoot straight back at my face. When I ducked to avoid the jumping jack, I slammed my face into my knee and knocked out my aforementioned two partial fake teeth.
Good times.
 
Cap’n Smudge said:
Got hit in the face with a tennis ball sized rock during a “rock war”. It knocked out my partial from a skateboarding incident, and another tooth on the bottom that I then had to have a (another) root canal and a new partial.
Good times.
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So you’re the reason I couldn’t have acorn wars in the early 90s…thanks. 😂
 
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