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From: microa@worldnet.att.net (Michael Roach)
Subject: Re: The 4th of July
Date: 1996/07/07
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It was the dawn of the Third Age of Mankind, the year the Great War came
upon us all, when sdc@teleport.com () said:

[sip]
|     .:;.
|------;.:'    
|     '"::    

Hey that's no swizzle stick!

|Here's a sparkeler

oops

|                   but I got no idea what those things are that pop when
|cars run over them. Unless of course you mean those white things that
|look like a chocolate chip. But they pop when you throw them into the
|street before the cars get to run over them.

I don't know what you're talking about, but I used to get those white
things that looked like paper wrapped around little crystals and twisted on
the end. They popped when I threw them at my brothers or the dog.

Michael--I seem to recall they also popped when I missed
-- 
"Instead of chewing gum, try chewing bacon", Dr. Nick Riviera