I remember as a kid in Texas those "sticks".
I remember as a kid in Texas those "sticks".
Ewwwwwwwwww! You were downstream swimmers, were ya? If there were floaters, it meant someone had their outhouse venting to the creek and that water was all contaminated. Ick!
-- We're all here because we're not all there.
We once put a drop on an anvil and I hit it with a wooden handled hammer
- it split the anvil and we never did find the hammer head. I sometimes wonder how we survived our stupidity :-).
Back before water treatment plants, the best place to catch catfish in the river was near the main sewer outlet :-).
Larry Jaques wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
Nah, it was just the occasional snake. We were swimming in Oklahoma where they have all kinds of varieties of snakes to be concerned about.
Puckdropper
Ewwwwwwwww! #2. No wonder their spines are so nasty if you get poked.
-- We're all here because we're not all there.
Oh, we had those on the Base lake in Little Rock. Mostly the lovely water moccasins. We avoided moving sticks, too.
-- An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. -- Sir Winston Churchill
"Larry Blanchard" wrote
I knew someone that had one, but I don' remember how they worked.
Do you?
I like that one! Cannon ball sand!
We would take paper matches, and tear most of the shaft off, wrap a couple layers of aluminum foil around the head and crimp it shut around the remaining paper shaft to make a sort of nozzle. Then, lay it on the mantle and hold a candle or lighter below it and see who could get them to go the farthest. All of this inside, of course!
Stuppid kidds!
We made the higher performance model. Strike anywhere wooden match for more power. Break the head off, mount match head on pin. Wrap with tinfoil and mold tightly to pin. Pull pin out forming nozzle. Bend the center section of a paper clip up to make a launcher.
When we were kids we,, I had to pay neighbor kids 5 cents to make me one.... a wooden clothes pen kitchen match igniter and launcher. I never could quite figure out how to make one but the spring ended up on the outside of the two wooden pieces and you would c*ck it, insert the kitchen match head first, and then press back on the spring. The match would fly out out about
6 feet and on fire. Mom took mine away. ;~(
Wow, that sound like a lot of fun! Wish I had one...maybe he's still in business? : )
Bill
For all you over-the-hill juvenile delinquents here are movies and all sorts of directions for making clothespin guns:
Thet looked very similar from what I can remember some 50 years back.
Here it is!
That's the safest way to light your LOX-assisted charcoal fire.
-- To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. -- J. K. Rowling
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