Stay At Home Humor

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[Tank]

This put a big smile on my face
Worthy
Cause I know most of you guys had some fun with these quarter sticks of dynamite
Not sure about the quarter stick, that’s what we always said
I sure did !
almost worthy a thread of what you did with them since we are past the statue of limitations

 

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[DaveNV]

This put a big smile on my face
Worthy
Cause I know most of you guys had some fun with these quarter sticks of dynamite
Not sure about the quarter stick, that’s what we always said
I sure did !
almost worthy a thread of what you did with them since we are past the statue of limitations

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Under a three pound coffee can. Light it and run like hell.

Dave

 

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[Ken555]

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[T_R_Oglodyte]

This put a big smile on my face
Worthy
Cause I know most of you guys had some fun with these quarter sticks of dynamite
Not sure about the quarter stick, that’s what we always said
I sure did !
almost worthy a thread of what you did with them since we are past the statue of limitations

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My story - wasn't M-80s, but Black Cats. We didn't mess with M-80s much, somewhat because we knew how dangerous they could be, but mostly because they were too expensive. For that amount of money, we could get smaller stuff that we could have more fun with instead of having just one massive explosion. Literally, we believed that we got more bang for the buck that way.

Getting on with the story .... in high school, a few of us would occasionally spend the night at the house of one of the friends. The friend's family had an RV parked outside, and that was where the parents had us stay, so that we could stay up as late as we wanted playing poker and other stuff, without disturbing them. And occasionally we would venture out post-midnight.

Right behind the friend's house was a creek. There was a local short-haul rail line that went near his house, and a block or so away was a bridge where the rail line crossed the creek. The sides of the bridge were made of concrete; the top of the concrete wall formed low parapet along the length of the bridge, sticking up about two feet high, and maybe one foot wide.

We placed a line of Black Cats along the length of the parapet on one side of the bridge. Used about 2 packs, as I recall - about 16 or 20 per pack. Then we laid down a band of lighter fluid along one edge of the parapet, located so that when we lit the lighter fluid, the fluid in turn would start the fuses on the Cats. The concrete absorbed the lighter fluid, so we used an entire can of fluid to create the trigger line to be sure that we got combustion. Then we lit off the lighter fluid.

It was more wonderful than we had hoped. We had flames shooting up about two or three feet high along the length of the bridge. Then the firecrackers started going off.

At the house next to the tracks, the homeowner kept some small animals. The first to stir were the chickens, and the rooster started crowing. That rousted the guard dogs (kept and trained for defense of the animals). The dogs were yelping and growling and howling, clawing at the fence and running around making a clamor. Then the goats got into it as well.

We could see lights coming on in the house, and we knew the homeowner was going to be out soon, almost surely with heat, so we took off while we could. We had to take a circuitous route back so as not to raise suspicion. We couldn't just saunter down the street where all the houses were. By the time we were getting back near the house, we heard the police sirens. So we laid low in an empty lot filled with tall grass and bushes, while the cruiser went up and down the street, shining the spotlight all over the place, and checking out the field where were hiding. I knew we couldn't be seen, but I was afraid the grass pollen was going to cause me to start sneezing.

Eventually we made it back. Decided it was best to keep a low profile the rest of the night.

 

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[plpgma]

This put a big smile on my face
Worthy
Cause I know most of you guys had some fun with these quarter sticks of dynamite
Not sure about the quarter stick, that’s what we always said
I sure did !
almost worthy a thread of what you did with them since we are past the statue of limitations

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Looking back on some of the high jinks we pulled as kids, I feel fortunate that I survived childhood without losing any body parts (especially fingers when I look at that M-80)!

 

[plpgma]

This put a big smile on my face
Worthy
Cause I know most of you guys had some fun with these quarter sticks of dynamite
Not sure about the quarter stick, that’s what we always said
I sure did !
almost worthy a thread of what you did with them since we are past the statue of limitations

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Of course -- we also learned how to make out own little Black Cats out of cap gun rolls! Sure they would blow up a lot during construction -- but at least all that produced was a slight 2nd degree burn, a lot of ribbing and a date with the wooden spoon when mom found out!

 

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[DaveNV]

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[Rjbeach2003]

This put a big smile on my face
Worthy
Cause I know most of you guys had some fun with these quarter sticks of dynamite
Not sure about the quarter stick, that’s what we always said
I sure did !
almost worthy a thread of what you did with them since we are past the statue of limitations

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We had 2" Salutes, same thing but fuse came out of end. They banned them in Washington in the late 50's or early 60's. They came 50 to a box. When the last 4th came that they were sold we took our extra money and bought a few boxes. They would stay lit under water and we would tie them to metal bars or something and drop them in the Sound (Puget Sound), or burrow a hole in a sand bank and light them off. We managed to stretch their use out a couple of years.

 

[clifffaith]

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Mom used that wooden spoon on me until the day she backed me into a corner and I realized I was a couple inches taller than she was. I told her if she hit me with it I'd take it from her and hit her back. My brother wore leg braces for part of his childhood -- don't know how many spoons broke on his braces but he got so he'd turn into the spoon so it would hit his brace and not his butt.

 

[BJRSanDiego]

One time when we went down to Tijuana (a short drive) I asked some of the street and alley vendors if they sold cherry bombs and they acted confused with that name. Then I started asking about M80's. One vendor told me that he had M8000's (no kidding !). I asked to see one and he produced a "firecracker" that was perhaps 5 inches long and, like the M80, had the fuse out the side. I asked if it was safe to try to carry those across the border. He told me "No problem! almost everyone makes it across without getting caught". I decided to pass. In fact I would have passed on any fireworks to smuggle across the border.

 

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[Ken555]

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