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Red Neck And Ka-bloom !
1 posted on 07/04/2010 11:35:45 AM PDT by llevrok
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To: llevrok
"Here....hold my beer and watch this!"
2 posted on 07/04/2010 11:37:08 AM PDT by Gaffer ("Profiling: The only profile I need is a chalk outline around their dead ass!")
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To: llevrok
Talk about Industrial Strength Stupid...

As an aside if one fills a few balloons with this mixture, ties them to a stake, and shoots them with tracer rounds the result is rather impressive.

3 posted on 07/04/2010 11:37:29 AM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: llevrok

Acetylene is fun stuff!


4 posted on 07/04/2010 11:38:37 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, A Matter Of Fact, Not A Matter Of Opinion)
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To: llevrok

Stupidity will be on display this evening all across America. Alcohol will flow and fuses will be lit. Guns will be shot straight up.


5 posted on 07/04/2010 11:39:19 AM PDT by Sender (It's never too late to be who you could have been.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Hold my beer and watch this ping!


8 posted on 07/04/2010 11:41:05 AM PDT by Clay Moore (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of a fool to the left. Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: llevrok

Wile E Coyote.....SUPER genius!


9 posted on 07/04/2010 11:42:15 AM PDT by Grunthor (I like you but when the zombies chase us, I'm tripping you.)
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To: llevrok
Should have used condoms and static free spray lube.
10 posted on 07/04/2010 11:43:56 AM PDT by kbennkc (For those who have fought for it freedom has a flavor the protected will never know .F Trp 8th Cav)
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To: humblegunner; Eaker

ping for the next H.A.T. gathering....


11 posted on 07/04/2010 11:46:14 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: llevrok

Could have been a Darwin Award contender


14 posted on 07/04/2010 11:51:17 AM PDT by GeronL (Just say NO to conservativecave.com, it rots your teeth!)
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To: llevrok

Calcium carbide+water= acetylene. Tons 'O' Fun for all ages.

15 posted on 07/04/2010 11:54:38 AM PDT by Seven plus One
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To: llevrok

Idiots get into trouble using Plastic garbage bags. Those Acetylene double bonds make a hell of a noise.


17 posted on 07/04/2010 12:01:13 PM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: llevrok

Homemade Hindenburg!


19 posted on 07/04/2010 12:13:39 PM PDT by 6SJ7 (atlasShruggedInd = TRUE)
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To: llevrok

Never thought of this.
Then again, i didn’t learn of the Potato cannon until i was 35.....probably a good thing.


21 posted on 07/04/2010 12:22:34 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: llevrok

Thought it said “wedding gas.” LOL With the balloons my brain believed it to be totally logical.


27 posted on 07/04/2010 1:14:46 PM PDT by madison10
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To: llevrok

The stories I could tell describing the delights of stoichiometry.


29 posted on 07/04/2010 1:43:40 PM PDT by stormer
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To: llevrok
After WW-2 we used to buy weather baloons at the Surplus store, fill them with oxygen/acetylene, put a long fuse on them and release them at dusk at evening rush hour and blow out a lot of windows when it went off at about 10,000’.
34 posted on 07/04/2010 1:59:55 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: llevrok

Even luckier they weren’t transiting a tunnel when this went off. That would’ve been quite the 4th-of-July sparkler.


36 posted on 07/04/2010 2:14:11 PM PDT by RightOnTheLeftCoast (Obama: running for re-election in '12 or running for Mahdi now? [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahdi])
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To: llevrok

Hey watch this!


57 posted on 07/04/2010 7:00:44 PM PDT by woofie
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To: llevrok
We used to fill a pipe up with the stuff and leave one end open. When the boss would pass by some guy would light it off and he would always jump about five feet straight up.

Eventually we got tired of it.

58 posted on 07/04/2010 7:04:38 PM PDT by Cold Heat
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To: Bacon Man; Hap

I seem to recall filling glass bottles with calcium carbide rocks, catching the fumes (acetylene?) in balloons, putting the balloons in a big paper bag, taking the bag to Mom’s school dumpster and lighting it ... I mean, um, wow, what a dream I had!


66 posted on 07/05/2010 5:39:54 AM PDT by Xenalyte (Yes, Chef!)
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