Maggers Wrote:I know this is a generalization, and I'm sure there are some female demolition specialists, but....
I wonder why, for the most part, girls don't like blowing things up?
Although I do love to watch a controlled explosion, like an old building coming down. That is awesome!
Richard Kendrick Wrote:I have absolutely no idea why we did this when I was kid but we used to cover M80s in glue and roll them in BBs. Light it and run. Yikes! :o
Disclaimer: Do not try this at home.
RIK
Lisa Wrote:Great review, Paul. You should do more!
Have you ever seen Teenage Zombies? I highly recommend you check it out if you like absolutely terrible movies. It is bee-ay-dee bad.
Lisa
Ken Valentine Wrote:One nasty prank a guy did at work years back was to dip a guys brown bag into LN2 and freeze his lunch solid.
Gerald Rice Wrote:Of the I was a Teenage... series. Foremost in memory was I was a Teenage Zombie. All zombies are mindless, eating creatures except for this teenager who is completely normal except for his sudden skin color change and lack of a pulse. I don't remember a lot except that one of the zombies looked a lot like Ron Jeremy...
Blake Wrote:In the "Fun and Possibly Dangerous Things to Do" category, I'd have to add liquid nitrogen. It's not an explosive, of course, but there is a way to get a similar effect. I used to work at a planetarium, and we had a whole bunch of the stuff for a science exhibit we had at the time. We discovered that if you take an empty plastic container -- say, one of those nice, thick ones designed to hold motor oil; it should be really strong -- and pour just a little bit of the liquid nitrogen in it and seal it, the nitrogen evaporates so fast that the pressure inside increases dramatically, causing the container to explode quite loudly in a few seconds. We used to seal the container and throw it in a nearby dumpster for a nice, loud echo effect. I'm amazed campus police never showed up.I saw something similar to this on "Mr. Wizard" one time and can't believe he was showing kids how to do this. I may be wrong on exactly how he did this...
Standard disclaimer: Don't try this at home, blah blah blah....
Blake
Richard Kendrick Wrote:I have absolutely no idea why we did this when I was kid but we used to cover M80s in glue and roll them in BBs. Light it and run. Yikes! :o:eek: That is one thing we didn't do!! we just shot each other with the BB guns instead. Never at the face though!! Usually at the ass for the total effect of hilarity.
Disclaimer: Do not try this at home.
RIK
Ken Valentine Wrote:Yikes is right!I have 2 friends who did the same but used a bit of garden hose instead of a paper. The explosion was far more intense than expected and Jason's parents easily heard it since they were just in the back yard. Needless to say they got into MAJOR trouble. At least Jason was smart enough to throw the thing instead of holding it like Rick dared him to (thinking it would be like a Roman candle).
When I was about 13, a friend and I pulled the bullets out of a bunch of .22's, cut apart a couple of shotgun shells, opened an entire pack of firecrackers, and mixed all the various powders together. We then poured it all into the center of the rather large Sunday Denver Post newspaper, slipped in a bunch of firecracker fuses Scotch taped end to end, folded up the paper and bound it all up with some fine wire we found. We put it into a small hole in the ground, lit the fuse and ran.
We only did this once as we were made to clean all the confetti from the neighbors yards.
Not one speck of paper landed in our yard, and I'm still scratching my head over that.
Ken V.