Daytona 500
Feb 19th 2006, 10:19 am
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Re: Daytona 500
Originally Posted by gruffbrown
Doesn't the album take off if they all flap their wings at the same time?
Perhaps if a figure emerges from their ranks who can unite them to work in unison for the greater good then that might one day happen - a butterfly nelson mandela if you will.
Feb 19th 2006, 10:23 am
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Re: Daytona 500
Originally Posted by BigDavyG
Fortunately butterflies aren't great team players so they haven't been able to get themselves sufficiently organised for that to happen as yet.
Perhaps if a figure emerges from their ranks who can unite them to work in unison for the greater good then that might one day happen - a butterfly nelson mandela if you will.
Perhaps if a figure emerges from their ranks who can unite them to work in unison for the greater good then that might one day happen - a butterfly nelson mandela if you will.
Feb 19th 2006, 10:24 am
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Re: Daytona 500
Originally Posted by gruffbrown
It works with flies....
Feb 19th 2006, 10:24 am
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Re: Daytona 500
Originally Posted by gruffbrown
It works with flies....
Feb 19th 2006, 10:26 am
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Re: Daytona 500
Originally Posted by BigDavyG
I get the feeling that you had that one queued up and ready to go
Feb 19th 2006, 10:27 am
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Re: Daytona 500
Originally Posted by Angry White Pyjamas
Nah I tried that once when I was a kid...they couldnt get airborne so I torched them with my dads lighter in disgust.
Feb 19th 2006, 10:28 am
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Re: Daytona 500
Originally Posted by Angry White Pyjamas
Nah I tried that once when I was a kid...they couldnt get airborne so I torched them with my dads lighter in disgust.
Feb 19th 2006, 10:30 am
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Re: Daytona 500
Originally Posted by gruffbrown
I used to do that with Action man, the flame proof firefighters suit wasn't flameproof, surprise, surprise
Feb 19th 2006, 10:31 am
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Re: Daytona 500
Originally Posted by BigDavyG
I think you'll find that they would have responded better to a little love and gentle encouragement
"Fly you sods! No? Ok" ....pfffsstssst...next experiment
Feb 19th 2006, 10:38 am
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Re: Daytona 500
Originally Posted by Angry White Pyjamas
I did once make a "booster rocket" out of a can of Easy Start (remember that?) to which I strapped my action man ...I then stuck him ontop of a bonfire in order to make him Astronaut man...I think he made about 100 foot before falling to earth in a fiery ball of ethyl alcohol.
Feb 19th 2006, 10:44 am
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Re: Daytona 500
Originally Posted by gruffbrown
Making cannons in metalwork and using gunpowder from fireworks and ball bearings, we were nasty little buggars really
Feb 19th 2006, 10:46 am
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Re: Daytona 500
Originally Posted by BigDavyG
Did no-one else enjoy making apple crumble in home ec then ???
Feb 19th 2006, 11:02 am
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Re: Daytona 500
Originally Posted by gruffbrown
Making cannons in metalwork and using gunpowder from fireworks and ball bearings, we were nasty little buggars really
I remember we went round the local chemists buying ingredients to make black powder...which we then made all sorts of fun things from, mostly involving crimped 1 inch copper pipe. Could you imagine kids doing that now?
Funnily enough I was recently showing my daughter how to make soda bottle rockets using vinegar and baking soda....I havent yet got her onto how to make bombs.
Feb 19th 2006, 11:03 am
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Re: Daytona 500
Originally Posted by Angry White Pyjamas
LOL.
I remember we went round the local chemists buying ingredients to make black powder...which we then made all sorts of fun things from, mostly involving crimped 1 inch copper pipe. Could you imagine kids doing that now?
I remember we went round the local chemists buying ingredients to make black powder...which we then made all sorts of fun things from, mostly involving crimped 1 inch copper pipe. Could you imagine kids doing that now?
Feb 19th 2006, 11:05 am
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Re: Daytona 500
Originally Posted by gruffbrown
Swan vestas and tin foil
We actually made a working and functional mortar when I was 13 capable of lobbing fiery bombs around a 100 yards.
