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LOL -- everyone's experiences jive with mine. I was a pyromaniac too as a kid. My buddy Matt actually blew several fingers off when making a pipe bomb (they sewed them back and he got like 90% of normal range of motion, so it was okay). Karl almost chopped off his own foot with an axe. I broke my nose into several pieces while riding my bike through a construction site at high speed; I hit a metal bar with my face -- I stopped and my bike kept going. Ah, those were the days.

Btw, I think you people are being way too hard on Suzanah Juras and the "Femme de Maison" girls. Toplessness is a serious problem affecting a large chunk of the attractive U.S. female population and it's nothing to be taken lightly! These poor girls are simply trying to make a living with their God-given "talents", which is all they have. What's wrong with that?

Honestly, you people are so cruel and heartless sometimes!

SP,

Not every woman wants two lumps of silicon put into their chest. However, the coming recession may change their minds, per OO's observation.

I really don't get the appeal though. These guys are smart enough to know that the women are only feigning interest in return for money. What's do they get out of this?

Also, $2M estate is a pretty lame setting for an exclusive club.

@LILLL,

Your friend is Harry Reems?

SQT,

There's always a chance you'd end up with a Peter P on your hands..."mom, you're driving too fast" and "mom, can we go out for sushi?"

Thanks for the link, LILLL.

It’s a different approach to Christianity

That's putting it mildly. If church had been like that when I was growing up, I might still be going.
...Nah, who am I kidding! :twisted:

Not to be blasphemous, but...

Amen to that!

SQT,

"got a hold of some gun powder"

Let us just ponder that for a moment. Got a hold of some gun powder. Hmmm?

What good can come of this? I had to laugh at LILLL w/ the designated burn area! Good idea! I have to respectfully disagree w/HARM though as there is a "pyro club" that not only tolerates adults playing with things that go boom, they actually ENCOURAGE it. It's the world' largest canoe club and they call it the U.S Navy! Where you never grow old and you only grow up if you want to. Sad really.

What it was doing there, I have no idea. Maybe self-loading bullets???

Yeah, lots of guys do their own re-loads, either to save $$ or because the guns use hard-to-find (and expensive) ammo. With some rare antique/collector guns, it's the only way to supply ammo.

SQT,

Oh I'm sure of it. Usually guys get them from old shot gun shells left over from dad's last duck hunting trip or whatever. Gun safety. Much important. We've all had a few laughs here but I had a client that was an ER Doc. and many of these stories are not laughed at down the road. Like SP said, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye".

Oh, btw they no longer endorse the use of "bungee cords" to secure those loads of landscaping timbers you picked up at Home Despot! They now account for something like over a third of all eye related injuries! Me? I just buy a few extra in case some fall off. That's me! "Mr. Safety"

Kidding.

SP,

Perhaps, and no doubt about it, that woman was no lady. However, I do feel uncomfortable when someone treas me as a lady. It's gallant, but utterly unnecessary now that (sensible) women wear pants and flat heeled shoes.

I try to hold the door for anyone behind me who is carrying a lot of stuff. It just seems like common courtesy.

LILLL,

LOL! Perhaps. I don't notice if other people do it, but it seems to me a logical thing.

As for more elaborate displays of gallantry. I used to be friends with an ex-Marine and he would always open doors for me and walk next to the street on sidewalks (he explain the tradition goes back to days of big dresses and horse drawn carriages, so the inevitable mud wouldn't ruin the lady's dress), and it just got a bit awkward.

Plus, my boyfriend is a bit clumsy so I prefer to handle a lot of stuff myself than wait for him. I'm perfectly happy getting him to drive and pay for dinner though. :P

SQT,

The odds don't look very good, does it?

So far

blowy: HARM, SP, WW2, DinOR

non blowy: (maybe Peter P)

I think you better know the worst case scenario

I knew a guy in college who was into catching and keeping poisonous snakes. I think his life's ambition was to climb K2.

I didn't start blowing things up until I got to college. I teamed up with a Chemistry major and we made some *really* impressive explosives/fireworks. We stopped after we blew out all the windows in the courtyard one night and got the police called on us.

Jimbo,

Was that how you flunked out of CalTech? :-)

I blew up stuff too. I stopped after a mishap involving a model rocket (the real big kind), a farmers field, and lots of fire trucks.