[Sca-cooks] Happy 4TH Of July!

[ruadh]

Remember they are periods toys.......
my fave firecracker demo [ former EMT-P] attach firecrackers to side of
Non-Fave Soda can [full & Open] . use least favourite flavour, more like to
watch it blow... lite and run. Bang. Now I send out the troops to locate all
the parts & wreckage, and measure the size of the Wet Spot. Now Lecture -
that could have been your fingers, and the wet spot,,,, well.  Have Fun -
but, play safe - Lite one for me.     Ru, who grew up with real NASA
explosives.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Prydwen" <gryphon at carlsbadnm.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 10:52 AM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Happy 4TH Of July!


> I used to love the Fourth, before I moved to New Mexico.  Here in this dry
> arid area, fireworks are legal.  So, from two weeks before the Fourth
> throughout the remainder of the summer, our local fire fighters and police
> have to constantly watch for brush fires, bottle rockets fill the night
> with "the rocket's red glare," whistle and pop, and inevitably, kids get
> burned.  I still delight in fountains, sparklers and snakes, but I
> seriously wish the aerials were banned from all but public displays put on
> by professionals.
>
> Prydwen (crawling off the soap-box and strolling to the Rock and spa.)
>
> At 10:05 AM 7/5/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>
> >Good to hear you can legally pursue what Jean Shepherd used to call the
> >Essential Thundering Report. The fascisti in the local government have
> >pretty well eliminated all but the large, highly controlled, allegedly
> >public fireworks displays, but none of us felt like dealing with the
> >heat, the noise, and the crowd.
>
> <snip>
>
> >I had to explain to my wide-eyed son that yes, once upon a time,
> >children all across America used to be able to buy fireworks and ignite
> >them, personally, and that in New York City, the first firecrackers
> >(theoretically illegal even in my day, but the laws were not
> >aggressively enforced)  would pop at around 8 AM, reach a crescendo at
> >perhaps 10 or 11 PM, and continue until three or four the following
> >morning.
> >
> >Adamantius