Larry Jaques on Sun, 05 Jul 2015
07:13:10 -0700 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
On Sat, 04 Jul 2015 11:38:29 -0700, pyotr filipivich
wrote:

Larry Jaques on Sat, 04 Jul 2015
04:40:31 -0700 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:

"It used to be that the USA was pretty good at producing stuff teenaged
boys could lose a finger or two playing with."

Remember =real= Roman Candles? I miss those more than ever on the
4th. We USAF brats used to gather around Lake , LRAFB and shoot them
toward the center, dozens of candles at a time in all colors of the
rainbow. It was truly beautiful, with the sprays from the ground and
the sparkling cannonballs in the air.

Per my father, Sandy Oregon (the small town which is "my home
town") used to sell the most roman candles in the state of Oregon.
Seems that regularly, the various business owners would meet for a cup
of coffee and a roman candle, the stand on opposite sides of the main
drag and fire them at one another.

Har! I'd love to have seen that.

Me too. Apparently, back in the day, we all died regularly from
our every day activities, burning down he town ever day at 10.

It is a wonder any of us lived to go to high school. Well, no, we
all suffer for a long time after we died instantly.

Why when I was a boy, it was nothing to blow our hands off every
morning, and it still didn't keep us from our class work!
--
pyotr filipivich
Old farts these days - not like when I was a boy! We used to
have us Real Geezers in those days! Now, they'll let anybody
with a little gray hair be an old fart!