Posted on 08/15/2014 9:54:14 AM PDT by Drew68
Bactine? Heck, we sloshed on the mercurochrome. Had to have our daily doses of mercury, right?
Did you and me live next door to each other?
Model rocket with nose cone full of black powder, and both nose cone and engine epoxied in to the rocket body.
Amazing, window-rattling fun.
Children are either to the left or the right of the pink short shorts, not sure.
My buddies did that too, except we didn’t have access to black powder, so we would take firecrackers, empty them out, and use that to fill the cartridges.
Choking the cousin made me laugh out loud. Did you get into trouble?
Don’t forget blowing up things with carbide( Bangzite)
Lot’s of high schools in Virginia did.
Yep. The teachers' lounge inside was a cloud of smoke and we had our own smoking section for us students outside. Once in a while a teacher would join us.
My brother is an occasional smoker and elementary school teacher. He's not allowed to possess tobacco anywhere on school grounds, even in his car. He's all but quit and switched over to e-cigs. He says there's few worse transgressions a teacher can do than to show up to class smelling like smoke.
My 4th grade teacher used to smoke at his desk before the morning bell rang.
Different times...
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Last year, hidden in the rafters in my parents garage at their lake house, we found a box similar to this. We got them out and started playing until mom came out and said she had been looking for them because they were dangerous and needed to be thrown away promptly.
Kind of a bummer. They were more fun that horse shoes.
I was born in 1958. The neighborhood stores sold BB’s, slingshots, marbles and fireworks.
I shot a bottle rocket down a yellow jacket hole. You just can’t run fast enough.
The steel balls from a pachinko machine worked especially well in a wrist rocket - also 1.4” ball bearing, which for some reason were in plentiful supply in my dad’s garage.
Mixing baking soda and vinegar was always good for some quick easy fun. My older brother did it once it a sealed glass jar, with predictable results.
Yes indeed! And that cousin grew up to be a crazy, non stop talking Democrat. I wished I’d kept the bottom on “up” but I gave her some time to breath before auntie caught me.
better than a musket
Aerosol can flame throwers were popular in my neighborhood.
Spray paint was good. Ether starting fluid was the best.
I was thinking “I’d like to roll the window up on a few liberal cousins right now.”
My younger brother and I once improvised “bee suits” from winter clothing and threw earth clods at a wasps’ nest. We ran like heck inside, taking along a few wasps. No stings, though, so we were lucky.
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