Anyone done a Canadian Bonfire night???
#76
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Re: Anyone done a Canadian Bonfire night???
No...if you're only going to do it in your spare time, then no uniform with scrambled egg (braid), no pension, no benefits.
Last edited by Steve_P; Nov 3rd 2009 at 4:12 pm.
#77
Re: Anyone done a Canadian Bonfire night???
Absolutely! With a Stetson even! possibly optional turban.
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Re: Anyone done a Canadian Bonfire night???
"scarecrow bangers"
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#82
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Re: Anyone done a Canadian Bonfire night???
Oh well I could always just buy really crap fireworks that barely work up a fizzle. I can still have a fire, beers and fire up the grill. It was only ever an excuse to have some beers during the week anyways and to satisfy the Candian's curiosity about the whole thing. Ha.
#83
Re: Anyone done a Canadian Bonfire night???
Oh well I could always just buy really crap fireworks that barely work up a fizzle. I can still have a fire, beers and fire up the grill. It was only ever an excuse to have some beers during the week anyways and to satisfy the Candian's curiosity about the whole thing. Ha.
Ha, the crappy fizzly ones. Ahh the memories.
Classic banger.
And the assortment your Dad got from the garage on the way home from work.
#84
Re: Anyone done a Canadian Bonfire night???
Ha, the crappy fizzly ones. Ahh the memories.
Classic banger.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2523/...aa4041a5a6.jpg
And the assortment your Dad got from the garage on the way home from work.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2784/...0a3544a8fa.jpg
Classic banger.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2523/...aa4041a5a6.jpg
And the assortment your Dad got from the garage on the way home from work.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2784/...0a3544a8fa.jpg
I also remember splitting them apart to make bigger BANGS! Also getting a clip round the ear by a policeman for sending off said bigger BANGS.
Damn I sound so old! but I'm only 51!!
#85
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Re: Anyone done a Canadian Bonfire night???
I remember taking a length of half inch copper pipe flattening one end with a rock and bending over the flattened end to make a handle.
Placing a lit banger down the open end followed by a small ball bearing or rock and aiming at anything breakable that was handy.
I also seem to remember lit up pub signs being favourite targets.
Placing a lit banger down the open end followed by a small ball bearing or rock and aiming at anything breakable that was handy.
I also seem to remember lit up pub signs being favourite targets.
#86
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Re: Anyone done a Canadian Bonfire night???
....the old "banger gun" - we just used to let the banger fire out, you added shrapnel!
#87
Re: Anyone done a Canadian Bonfire night???
I remember taking a length of half inch copper pipe flattening one end with a rock and bending over the flattened end to make a handle.
Placing a lit banger down the open end followed by a small ball bearing or rock and aiming at anything breakable that was handy.
I also seem to remember lit up pub signs being favourite targets.
Placing a lit banger down the open end followed by a small ball bearing or rock and aiming at anything breakable that was handy.
I also seem to remember lit up pub signs being favourite targets.
Dear god this definatley is a male thing i'm sure. When we were younger my mates family would always have a huge Guy Fawkes party and guarantedd the guys would put a banger (the bigger the better) into any vessel that would explode (which was turned upside down on the firework).
Why do guys find this sort of stuff hilarious
#88
Re: Anyone done a Canadian Bonfire night???
The best thing was throwing bangers down into the old underground Victorian toilets (all glazed tiles and echo-ey)... what a noise if you were in there!
You felt like you were a commando lobbing grenades into a German pill-box... well, I did.
You felt like you were a commando lobbing grenades into a German pill-box... well, I did.
#89
Re: Anyone done a Canadian Bonfire night???
I forgot to add that the reason for the clip on the ear was because a couple of us were making bigger BANGS in clay pipes on a building site. We used a couple like cannons to fire metal etc.
The one we got caught on is when we sealed both ends (to see what would happen) and KERPOW >>>SHATTER<<<< -- shrapnel flying around our ears broke a couple of windows in a newly build home, just as the copper came on the scene
THAWACK! (ringing in ears) that is when kids knew they were kids and coppers did the right thing to keep us on the straight and narrow.
The one we got caught on is when we sealed both ends (to see what would happen) and KERPOW >>>SHATTER<<<< -- shrapnel flying around our ears broke a couple of windows in a newly build home, just as the copper came on the scene
THAWACK! (ringing in ears) that is when kids knew they were kids and coppers did the right thing to keep us on the straight and narrow.
#90
Re: Anyone done a Canadian Bonfire night???
This sounds like fun! I remember throwing them around like handgrenades (backfired when my target stepped back and knocked me into a fish pond then fell on top of me ...., I nearly flipping drowned!)