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God, I feel mischevious this morning!

When I was little, I use to build entire towns out of cardboard boxes, complete with windows, doors, streets, etc. Sometimes I even placed little army men here and there in the town. Then I would set fire to the whole thing! Mwahahahahaha! Burn, Baby! Burn! :D

When I got older and joined the real military, one of my favorite things was blowing shit up. I loved that, man! There was this one bridge in Vietnam spanning a gorge that was the quickest way for infiltrators coming down the Ho Chi Minh Trail to get into our Area of Operations. The VC and my Team kept up this running battle about whether the bridge was going to be there or not. We must have blown that damned bridge about fifteen times! The gorge was pretty deep, so all the pieces had a long way to fall. God, that was fun! :D

I just love the smell of cordite in the morning! There really aren't many problems in life that can't be solved with 100 lbs of C-4 plastic high-explosive and 1,000 feet of detcord!

http://img.military.com/Shock/videos.do?displayContent=79631&ESRC=soldiertech.nl

[ Yeah, yeah. I know. Tsk on me! Sue me! :p ]

God, I feel mischevious this morning!

When I was little, I use to build entire towns out of cardboard boxes, complete with windows, doors, streets, etc. Sometimes I even placed little army men here and there in the town. Then I would set fire to the whole thing! Mwahahahahaha! Burn, Baby! Burn! :D

When I got older and joined the real military, one of my favorite things was blowing shit up. I loved that, man! There was this one bridge in Vietnam spanning a gorge that was the quickest way for infiltrators coming down the Ho Chi Minh Trail to get into our Area of Operations. The VC and my Team kept up this running battle about whether the bridge was going to be there or not. We must have blown that damned bridge about fifteen times! The gorge was pretty deep, so all the pieces had a long way to fall. God, that was fun! :D

I just love the smell of cordite in the morning! There really aren't many problems in life that can't be solved with 100 lbs of C-4 plastic high-explosive and 1,000 feet of detcord!

http://img.military.com/Shock/videos.do?displayContent=79631&ESRC=soldiertech.nl

[ Yeah, yeah. I know. Tsk on me! Sue me! :p ]
Damnit i aint signing up for that!

I built plastic model battleships and set them afloat. Then shot them with a wrist rocket slingshot.


On a side note, I helped my 12 yr old build a Sumerian city out of clay and styrofoam last night. It came out pretty good. Lots of detail.

Maybe, after its graded, we'll torch it. I dont know where the hell you store something like that anyway.

I built plastic model battleships and set them afloat. Then shot them with a wrist rocket slingshot.

On a side note, I helped my 12 yr old build a Sumerian city out of clay and styrofoam last night. It came out pretty good. Lots of detail.

Maybe, after its graded, we'll torch it. I dont know where the hell you store something like that anyway.
Man, what is it about lil boys and blowin' shit up???

Remember fireworks? After I got access to them, I thought I'd died and gone to heaven! I use to put those "Cherry Bombs" in cardboard houses, little vehicles and army trucks, etc. The effect was always spectacular! :D

Show your 12-year-old what a cherry bomb can do to a styrofoam building! Mwahahahaha! [ I really am a bit demented, you know! ] :D

I built plastic model battleships and set them afloat. Then shot them with a wrist rocket slingshot.


On a side note, I helped my 12 yr old build a Sumerian city out of clay and styrofoam last night. It came out pretty good. Lots of detail.

Maybe, after its graded, we'll torch it. I dont know where the hell you store something like that anyway.
I made Hadrians Wall out of Cement.
it had a 70cmx70cm Base it was pretty heavy.

I made Hadrians Wall out of Cement. It had a 70cmx70cm Base it was pretty heavy.
Wow! Now that would have been a bit of a challenge. Hmmm. About two feet of det cord would probably have worked! :D

Wow! Now that would have been a bit of a challenge. Hmmm. About two feet of det cord would probably have worked! :D
You wouldnt get near it!
I would man it with 2 Legions with Full Auxilliries and Ballisitas Biatch!:p

You wouldnt get near it!
I would man it with 2 Legions with Full Auxilliries and Ballisitas Biatch!:p
A pox on your Legions, ho! :D

When I was little, I use to build entire towns out of cardboard boxes, complete with windows, doors, streets, etc. Sometimes I even placed little army men here and there in the town. Then I would set fire to the whole thing! Mwahahahahaha! Burn, Baby! Burn! :D
Didn't that melt all the toy soldiers? (Or is this one of those "in my day, toy soldiers were made of solid tin, not like these weak little plastic wimps you get nowadays"?)

I used to build lego towns and then either crash lego trains into them or throw lego planes at them (which I guess sounds rather sinister post-11th September). Unfortunately highspeed lego trains can do a lot of damage to wooden furniture.

Man, what is it about lil boys and blowin' shit up???
Heh, when I was a tyke I used to take a magnifying glass and try to burn leaves 'n stuff w/it

Didn't that melt all the toy soldiers? (Or is this one of those "in my day, toy soldiers were made of solid tin, not like these weak little plastic wimps you get nowadays"?)

I used to build lego towns and then either crash lego trains into them or throw lego planes at them (which I guess sounds rather sinister post-11th September). Unfortunately highspeed lego trains can do a lot of damage to wooden furniture.
Yeah, the "enemy" soldiers would be incinerated! I use to go through those bags of 100 plastic soldiers at the rate of about one a month.

Never knew there was such a thing as a "lego train." I probably would have figured out how to cut the fuse on a cherry bomb so that the train would self-destruct just as it entered the station! Mwahahaha! [ gets a far-away look in his glazed-over eyes ] :D

Heh, when I was a tyke I used to take a magnifying glass and try to burn leaves 'n stuff w/it
I think most of us have tried that at one time or another. I once tried to use a magnifying glass to light a firecracker fuse, with almost catastrophic results! Heh!

Heh, when I was a tyke I used to take a magnifying glass and try to burn leaves 'n stuff w/it
I never actually managed to set anything on fire with a magnifying glass (probably 'cause the magnifying glass was old and scratched and the stuff was damp), but I did singe my name into a bit of wood at school.

I never actually managed to set anything on fire with a magnifying glass (probably 'cause the magnifying glass was old and scratched and the stuff was damp), but I did singe my name into a bit of wood at school.
Early on, I learned there's always more than one way to skin a cat! If that magnifying glass didn't work, I would find something that would! I may have been a bit demented, but I was a persistent lil cuss! :D

Grenade in Washing Machine (http://www.big-boys.com/articles/gernadewash.html)

Man, what is it about lil boys and blowin' shit up???

Remember fireworks? After I got access to them, I thought I'd died and gone to heaven! I use to put those "Cherry Bombs" in cardboard houses, little vehicles and army trucks, etc. The effect was always spectacular! :D

Show your 12-year-old what a cherry bomb can do to a styrofoam building! Mwahahahaha! [ I really am a bit demented, you know! ] :D
Those things worked well on the crappers in Jr. High School, too!

Grenade in Washing Machine (http://www.big-boys.com/articles/gernadewash.html)
ROFLMAO!!! Yeah, I've seen that one. That would have been fun to be there in person to see. :D

Those things worked well on the crappers in Jr. High School, too!
Hehehe! I'm told that the police in my old hometown are still looking for me due to that sort of activity! :D

I never actually managed to set anything on fire with a magnifying glass (probably 'cause the magnifying glass was old and scratched and the stuff was damp), but I did singe my name into a bit of wood at school.
Lol, now that I realize it, none of my leaves ignited coz they were so thin.

A pox on your Legions, ho! :D
Sets Irish Setters on your Arse!

I was basically entitled (in my mind) to unlimited destruction as a kid... California, during the building boom.. they were taking my roaming land, and I did everything I could to slow their progress. :p

For years I could wander as far as the eye could see, so I took it personal when the developers showed up with their earthmovers, shaving the hills down into sterile wastes before putting up cheap clapboard box-houses with illegal migrant labor.. me and a friend of mine took every opportunity to sabotage their operation, with a national park to disappear into if the cops showed up, which would happen occasionally.. my escape route took me into a 15-mile by 3-mile preserve that I knew every inch of, so I could calmly jog off of steep hillsides, knowing exactly where to land, if I was chased.

Cheap explosives from Rosarito helped on many occasions, too. :)

I made a pressure bomb once.

EDIT - Didn't work very well though. It was disappointing, actually.

Sets Irish Setters on your Arse!
Ooooooooooo! I am sooo, like ... scared! :D

I was basically entitled (in my mind) to unlimited destruction as a kid... California, during the building boom.. they were taking my roaming land, and I did everything I could to slow their progress. :p

For years I could wander as far as the eye could see, so I took it personal when the developers showed up with their earthmovers, shaving the hills down into sterile wastes before putting up cheap clapboard box-houses with illegal migrant labor.. me and a friend of mine took every opportunity to sabotage their operation, with a national park to disappear into if the cops showed up, which would happen occasionally.. my escape route took me into a 15-mile by 3-mile preserve that I knew every inch of, so I could calmly jog off of steep hillsides, knowing exactly where to land, if I was chased.

Cheap explosives from Rosarito helped on many occasions, too. :)
Tsk! You sound like an Eco-terrorist. :eek:

Actually, I know exactly how you feel. I had much the same thing happen when I was a bit older and somewhat intimidated by the local constabulary.

My younger son bought a nice home here in Kernersville a couple of years ago, with a lovely stand of trees right in his backyard ( about 20 acres or so ); had a creek running through it and everything. The lady who owned it sold it to a developer, who promptly cut down all the trees, ran the creek through an underground pipe, and is building cheapo cookie-cutter houses which he's selling for exhorbitant prices! SIGH! :(

I was basically entitled (in my mind) to unlimited destruction as a kid... California, during the building boom.. they were taking my roaming land, and I did everything I could to slow their progress. :p

For years I could wander as far as the eye could see, so I took it personal when the developers showed up with their earthmovers, shaving the hills down into sterile wastes before putting up cheap clapboard box-houses with illegal migrant labor.. me and a friend of mine took every opportunity to sabotage their operation, with a national park to disappear into if the cops showed up, which would happen occasionally.. my escape route took me into a 15-mile by 3-mile preserve that I knew every inch of, so I could calmly jog off of steep hillsides, knowing exactly where to land, if I was chased.

That sounds very "Che Guevara" of you!

When you were young? How about now?

God, I feel mischevious this morning!

When I was little, I use to build entire towns out of cardboard boxes, complete with windows, doors, streets, etc. Sometimes I even placed little army men here and there in the town. Then I would set fire to the whole thing! Mwahahahahaha! Burn, Baby! Burn! :D

When I got older and joined the real military, one of my favorite things was blowing shit up. I loved that, man! There was this one bridge in Vietnam spanning a gorge that was the quickest way for infiltrators coming down the Ho Chi Minh Trail to get into our Area of Operations. The VC and my Team kept up this running battle about whether the bridge was going to be there or not. We must have blown that damned bridge about fifteen times! The gorge was pretty deep, so all the pieces had a long way to fall. God, that was fun! :D

I just love the smell of cordite in the morning! There really aren't many problems in life that can't be solved with 100 lbs of C-4 plastic high-explosive and 1,000 feet of detcord!

http://img.military.com/Shock/videos.do?displayContent=79631&ESRC=soldiertech.nl

[ Yeah, yeah. I know. Tsk on me! Sue me! :p ]

Nothing demented about that. It's normal for guys to like to destroy things. I'm the weird one. I never liked to destroy things I created. I would have never burnt down a village I had made. My friends thought I was wierd about that. They would want to help destroy my lego cities. But anyway, I still think fire and explosions are cool, I just find creation cooler then destruction. But hey, sometimes things just need to go and in that case I'm all up for helping destory it.

:D I used to play with plastic soldiers with my brother, to ensure my victiry I always melted the soldiers together to create hybrid super soldiers (the fumes were terrible though)

When you were young? How about now?
Heh! I'm slightly less demented, but still an SOB! Happy now? :p

:D I used to play with plastic soldiers with my brother, to ensure my victiry I always melted the soldiers together to create hybrid super soldiers (the fumes were terrible though)
ROFLMAO! "Hybrid super-soldiers" sounds awesome! :D

Nothing demented about that. It's normal for guys to like to destroy things. I'm the weird one. I never liked to destroy things I created. I would have never burnt down a village I had made. My friends thought I was wierd about that. They would want to help destroy my lego cities. But anyway, I still think fire and explosions are cool, I just find creation cooler then destruction. But hey, sometimes things just need to go and in that case I'm all up for helping destory it.
Most of what I "create" has to do with words ( http://paradigmassociates.org/ParadigmHeart.html ), but they're kinda hard to blow up. So I had to content myself with things like buildings and bridges. Once we blew up an ammo dump. Now THAT was spectatular! :D