X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fd88a,e4578d42ea2ee52c X-Google-Attributes: gidfd88a,public X-Google-Thread: fecf6,e4578d42ea2ee52c X-Google-Attributes: gidfecf6,public X-Google-Thread: f996b,e708576b564e39d7 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: spatula@kona.javanet.com (tv's Spatch) Subject: Re: The 4th of July Date: 1996/07/07 Message-ID: <4rogos$gkq@kona.javanet.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 164145894 references: <4rf821$s1j$1@mhadf.production.compuserve.com> <31dc59ed.8158872@news.iol.ie> <4rib23$9g4@nadine.teleport.com> <31df388a.64428947@netnews.worldnet.att.net> organization: The Book of Job Discussion Group followup-to: alt.stupidity,alt.stupidity.spatch newsgroups: alt.stupidity,alt.stupidity.spatch,alt.ascii-art In article <31df388a.64428947@netnews.worldnet.att.net>, Michael Roach wrote: >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 Looks more like a unicorn with mange, really, but Steve is a decent fellow and perhaps it's one of those unicorns-with-mange sparklers. > >| 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. Oh yes, bang snaps. "Safe to pop in your hands". Some kids were throwing them around at the fireworks display in Greenfield a few nights ago. I couldn't really figure out the scare factor involved in this. "OH GOD SOMETHING JUST WENT -POP- RIGHT NEAR ME! IT WAS ABOUT AS LOUD AS A SODA CAN OPENING! I HOPE IT DIDN'T HURT ANYONE!" Those with Silly String were being more obnoxious, really. -- hi, I'm tv's Spatch, and this is my spleen: http://www.javanet.com/~spatula MSTie #43790, TDC DoMPD, a.a-s TP Bus Driver Squad, prolly sumpin else too. "I don't trust this kid any farther than I can throw him." "Well, with your bad knee, Ed, you shouldn't be throwing anybody."