He blowed up REAL good!
Posted on 07/04/2009 5:05:37 AM PDT by rhema
A few reminders about fireworks, taken from the warning labels:
1. Do not hold in hand. This is apparently so nonintuitive it must be stamped on every item; you must wonder how stupid Chinese factory workers think we are: What else do we need to tell these idiots? Also, do not put in pants. Do not sleep with lit fireworks. Do not juggle.
2. Place on level surface. This one mystified us in North Dakota, a land so flat it made the gentle rolling hills of Iowa look like a brutal Himalayan range. Daddy, what does that mean? Well, it's a part of the Earth that goes down instead of stretching flat for miles. Dad, you're scaring us.
3. Light fuse. This is the second item on the list of instructions, and it's akin to a hamburger wrapper that says "put food in mouth," then feels obligated to note "chew" as step two. . . .
Nowadays we can't buy fireworks that go up, because sometimes they don't. Boomers, with our usual ability for rewriting the past, insist that we had it great, and no one got hurt. Why, Mom used to clear out our stuffy noses with ladyfingers. Kids today with their DVDs and Harry Potter don't know what it's like to bring down a crow with a Roman candle.
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I just finished a book about members of a bomb squad; I have no desire to blow up anything this weekend, LOL!
He blowed up REAL good!
In Wisconsin, you actually could blow something up, couldn't you? In the faint-hearted people's republic of Minnesota, you'd be well advised not to.
(you must wonder how stupid Chinese factory workers think we are:)
American peoples elected the biggest thieves and liars and are indeed worthy of the disrespect of all nations who know Obama and the democrats and the people who elected them are indeed stupid.
Lileks works for the Star Tribune, a leftist paper that champions enmeshing all of us in a smothering nanny state of millions of rules and regulations that govern every aspects of our lives. And he laments only the passing of good old fashioned fireworks? Sorry, I don’t find this amusing and I certainly am not sympathetic.
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