Well maybe not all, GW did you ever blow up your green army men in mock battles to rate the charges of your fire crackers?
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Hear, hear....................!!
I have heard bamboo would make the containment of the gas a little better LOL
I bet this group of fine Gentlemen have burnt and destroyed a many military models in their childhood. Mock battles were fun.
I didn't have dolls to play with growing up, but we blew the shit out of lots of stuff with fireworks, including those we made ourselves.
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Thanks Roster. Our medical system is breaking down. Doctor's are all retiring and access in an emergency is getting difficult.
It does, especially if you wrap them in tape. We used to pack spent 12 gauge shells with flash powder and use a fuse through the primer hole.
I was lucky, my rich cousins got all the new top rated toys that were handed down to me within a year or two in brand new condition.
They were so spoiled they never even open some of the boxes.
I agree, the whole system is now composed of Doctors from other Boarders right here in the States
So frigging Sad.
Oh don't get me started on home made toys
Old flash cubes set off by 9 volt battery worked wonders and from far away a car battery
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What good is insurance if you don't have access to a doctor....
Just image what we could have done with having old cell phones to play with.
I have said too much
I have said too much
Just remember a doctor is still a doctor even if they graduated bottom of the class
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Off to see the doc!
got an abscess on a front tooth and ran out of antibiotics
off to the salt mines!
got an abscess on a front tooth and ran out of antibiotics
off to the salt mines!
Good Luck, I am having the same with a back wisdom tooth, hate the dentist.
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We were simpler, lower tech... but my betcha we wuz equally accurate as well as broader usage possibilities.
The ole wooden spool match cannon. They came in many equivalents:
1. Simple rubberband-grabs-match, pull and release (pistol equivalent)
2. Double Bbl - #1 with a hole big enough to hold two matches (shotgun eqivalent)
3. Stalin Organ - #1 that has hole big enough to hold 3 or more matches (artillery)
4. Sniper - A very special spool that could shoot accurately.
5. Fire Arrow - A spool as above drilled out so a 25c wooden arrow would fit through. Matches taped around the arrow point.
Lastly, I give you a genuine, fast-reloading, matchstick firing pistol. It works thisaway:
The barrel/breech swings open and you load a match stick into the chamber. The head of the match stick is facing rearwards. You cock the hammer and pull the trigger. The hammer strikes the match head igniting it and the combustion propels the match stick. Ba-da-bing:
Do you own such a pistol ?
I have made the spool match shooter as a kid My Pops taught me how to build them
Forgot about them until you posted this Thks Walt
Love the gun
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Nope. The one pictured is it. You could put some BB's in a loading slot. You jacked it back for each shot like a Luger by holding the serrated grip. That loaded a spring which would push an air plunger when you pulled the trigger.
