The only MST3K I've seen on video was "This Island Earth", which was great. I didn't know there were more out there. I'd love to have them all.

It used to be a regular series on cable. Funnier than hell! Unfortunately they only released a few episodes as "movies." Maybe they will come out with a box set collection of the whole series soon. They've released just about every other show.

It used to be a regular series on cable. Funnier than hell! Unfortunately they only released a few episodes as "movies." Maybe they will come out with a box set collection of the whole series soon. They've released just about every other show.

I used to catch it on Sat. mornings when I could. I always hope for a box set to be released, but I didn't know some of the episodes were available. I'm off to eBay right now.

The only MST3K I've seen on video was "This Island Earth", which was great. I didn't know there were more out there. I'd love to have them all.

"This Island Earth" was funny. I remember a toaster (or Pop Tart?) reference in that one putting me in stitches.

"Attack of the the Eye Creatures" was one of my favorites, partly because of the title screw-up, but also because of the other dreadfully low production values. If I'm remembering the right film, it looked like they only had one complete "monster" costume and then a bunch of masks, so you'd see one complete bad guy, but his cohorts would be clearly wearing jeans and tennis shoes.

Another one that got a pretty good MST3K treatment: "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians," one of the most heinous creations in the history of humanity. But hey, 'tis the season and all that.

Blake

BLOW UP THE REACTOR!!!

How’s he going to do this? By stopping for explosives at the dynamite shack between town and the army base.

THE DYNAMITE SHACK???

Ever live in a town with a DYNAMITE SHACK?

Well ... yes ... actually. It wasn't really a shack, it was a store that sold explosives for agricultural purposes. Dynamite, M-80's, that sort of thing. The dynamite was used for blasting rocks and tree stumps. M-80's were used for blasting carp and suckers in ponds. I'd buy M-80's by the gross and use them for other things. I still have some in fact.

But four sticks of dynamite to destroy a reactor?!? That's silly at best. A friend of mine was part of a dynamiting crew doing demolitions for highway construction years ago. When one project was finished, and they were instructed to move to a new location, my friend was told to knock apart the explosives shed. (It was just nailed together.) He decided he would do it the easy way. He inserted a detonator and fuse in one stick of dynamite and hung it from a string in the center of the now empty shed. It blew the door off of the shed. He nailed the door back on and hung two sticks from the string. It blew the door off again. Getting a little annoyed, he nailed the door back and hung four sticks from the string. The explosion blew the wooden shed to smithereens, and Larry got a good dressing down from the foreman.

Larry was quite expert with contained explosions, but he'd never had any experience using uncontained dynamite.

The construction crew had to build a new shed.

Ken V.

Well ... yes ... actually. It wasn't really a shack, it was a store that sold explosives for agricultural purposes. Dynamite, M-80's, that sort of thing. The dynamite was used for blasting rocks and tree stumps. M-80's were used for blasting carp and suckers in ponds. I'd buy M-80's by the gross and use them for other things. I still have some in fact.Ken V.

:eek: I haven't seen an M-80 since I was a kid!! Man we used to have fun with those. At that age watching a pop can explode was like seeing an A-bomb go off. Of course pop cans became boring after a while... Ahhh, the good ol' days.

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.

Standard disclaimer: Don't try this at home, blah blah blah....

Blake

:eek: I haven't seen an M-80 since I was a kid!! Man we used to have fun with those. At that age watching a pop can explode was like seeing an A-bomb go off. Of course pop cans became boring after a while... Ahhh, the good ol' days.

One of the fun things we used to do was to place a lighted M-80 on the ground and put an empty 3-pound coffee can -- open side down -- on top of it. After it exploded we'd examine the opened can -- split apart at the seam -- and the domed bottom which was blasted high into the air. It was also fun to light one and send it high into the air with a wrist-rocket sling shot. We'd also blast carp and suckers out of the irrigation canals when they began to get too numerous, and the same thing went for our friends farm ponds. Their parents loved it because they would get their ponds cleared for free and the dead fish made good fertilizer.

I just checked, and I still have 19 left from the last half-gross I bought. Hmmm, maybe I ought to get some new rubber for the old wrist rocket.

Ken V.

I just remembered another thing we did in college. A friend and I took a half dozen M-80's, pushed lighted cigarettes on the end of the fuses at different lengths, and laid them against tree trunks across the street from the Dorm one night. The police arrived after the third one went off, and when the fourth one exploded, they got out their flashlights and started looking in the right area. I gather one cop was standing with his back to the next one that went off. All we could see was a flashlight go spinning into the air.

Things that go boom are FUN!

Ken V.

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.

Standard disclaimer: Don't try this at home, blah blah blah....

Blake

Yeah, but how many people have LN2 at home? One nasty prank a guy did at work years back was to dip a guys brown bag into LN2 and freeze his lunch solid.

I also used to have fun making gas bombs. You light an oxy-acetylene torch, adjust for a slightly oxidizing flame, snuff out the flame, fill a balloon with the gas, and tie it off. Tape a couple inches of cannon fuse to the side and you have one hellacious noise maker.

Ken V.

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!

Yeah, but how many people have LN2 at home? One nasty prank a guy did at work years back was to dip a guys brown bag into LN2 and freeze his lunch solid.

Ken V.

That reminds me of back in high school. A friend and I used to go around after school and talk with our favorite teachers. We were talking to the Algebra teacher, and he accused the Chemistry teacher of putting his lunch in the freezer. We then went to confront the Chem teacher who immediately burst out laughing and said "Somebody put his lunch in the freezer?!?! That's hilarious! I wish I HAD thought of that."