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On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 16:27:12 +0100, Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:
Nice rant.

Is that all !
I had prepared my flame-proof undergarments and chainmail overcoat
expecting flames&flack from the PC brigade

Indeed: you need a small mine with a trembler trigger...

I'd settle for a small yours with some plut*&%um and a proximity
detector
I have toyed with the idea of a petrol vapour (a lá carburettor
principle) blower and a remote blue touchpaper device !

Mind you, thinking of oleum in your other post, I have in the past,
a long time ago in my youth,,, played with a nitrating mixture of
fuming nitric and conc. sulphuric involving tol%^ne.
I wont mention the hoped-for product cos it'll set the "watchers" into
a tizzy ! ( if they are not already !)

Ah. I used to do that regularly with cotton-wool - to see - well, not
exactly, but thereabouts - why, refer to
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/gnu.htm

I also tried it with a certain trihydric alcohol otherwise used in cake
icing, suppositories and to adulterate cheap wines to give them body.

Once...

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Rusty
Emus to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co full-stop uk

Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/gnu.htm

We used similar stuff for giving fish a bit of a fright as well

An initial interest in fireworks led to an interest in colouring
them, which led to an interest in spectroscopy which led to an
interest in the electron structure of the shells (no not that kind of
shell Rusty ! ) of atoms which led all the way to Schrodinger and God
playing dice (Einstein - on quantum mechanics). Kids dont have that
kind of intro to science and engineering any more,,,
ooops, I think I just ranted again

I also tried it with a certain trihydric alcohol otherwise used in cake
icing, suppositories and to adulterate cheap wines to give them body.

Crumbs! I never even contemplated doing that, my hands were never
steady enough :-))

Once...

I would have thought that once was one more than was wise !

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I also tried it with a certain trihydric alcohol otherwise used in cake
icing, suppositories and to adulterate cheap wines to give them body.

Crumbs! I never even contemplated doing that, my hands were never
steady enough :-))

Once...

I would have thought that once was one more than was wise !

It was done with the help of a pair of fast feet (I was about fourteen
or fifteen) and thereafter by remote control.

'Thereafter' isn't a bad word, under the circumstances.

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Rusty
Emus to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co full-stop uk
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/