On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:10:42 +0000, Richard Brooks
wrote:

|!Dave Fawthrop said the following on 15/02/07 08:34:
|! On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:26:50 -0000, "Mike Cawood, HND BIT"
|! wrote:
|!
|! |!"Richard Brooks" wrote in message
|! ...
|! |! alexander.keys1 said the following on 13/02/07 20:43:
|! |!
|! |! There was a great kids book in the local library that mentioned that
|! |! hydrogen peroxide mixed with manganese dioxide was what powered some WWII
|! |! torpedoes. There was also a small projectile launcher experiment using
|! |! the two same materials on the same page.
|!
|! |!Isn't getting kids to experiment with explosive materials somewhat
|! |!irresponsible, even in those days?
|!
|! I never lost a friend to explosive experiments, or putting bangers into
|! bottles, or shooting rockets at each other
|!
|!I just remembered a mate of mine who was a bit of a nutter.

Darwinian evolution. Gets rid of the nutters before they can have children

|!His
|!grandfather had the usual workbench in the garage, so clamped a length
|!of fishing rod in the vice, filled the end with weedkiller and sugar,
|!bent the end around and put a small pile of the same on the bench and
|!lit it. Someone had decided to shut the garage doors which were made
|!out of that sheet asbestos and the brass fitting made a neat hole in the
|!door.
|!
|!Then again, he used to throw railway fog warning mines at brick walls
|!and pick up the ones that were dented and threw them back at the wall.
|!We didn't know such things existed until a police officer came to our
|!school and described them with drawing on a blackboard to us as some
|!other kids had knicked a consignment earlier.

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