We should all be deaf or dead

[Cobrabill]

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[Dan40]

Dam,
I'm normal! After trying so hard to be strange................

Dan

[VRM]

Using cotton swabs is pure aural sex.


(My mum always said I'd go deaf if I kept using those things...)

Steve

[Ron61]

And they don't count the loud, blaring music that can be heard for 5 blocks by these teen agers in their cars as a cause of ear problems. And I used to eat more of the cookie dough than my Mother could manage to get into the oven to cook. Boy, am I a mess.

Ron

[Jay Little]

Originally Posted by Ron61

I used to eat more of the cookie dough than my Mother could manage to get into the oven to cook. Boy, am I a mess.

When I would try that, my mom would show off her mad spatula skillz!

[sllib]

I used to smoke, drink beer, and watch TV while reloading shotgun shells. I guess I'm lucky to have ears to swab!
Bill Stradtner

[Wayne Maybury]

Ok, what's up here? I use cotton swabs to clean my ears (doesn't everyone?) but the only time I perferated an ear drum was by taking an especially bad fall while water skiing. By the way, if you don't use cotton swabs to clean your ears, what are they for anyway?

I usually don't eat raw cookie dough but I don't have a CO detector either (we heat with electricity) and we have 3 smoke detectors. I didn't know that not have a rubber mat in the shower was a fatal error.

Now as far as beer and power tools goe, what's up with that? I mean my garage is full of power tools and I have a beer fridge full of beer out there. The first thing I do before using a power tool is to open a beer. Don't these guys know anything about beer, power tools, garages?

Wayne

[DAVID GAGNARD]

Originally Posted by sllib

I used to smoke, drink beer, and watch TV while reloading shotgun shells. I guess I'm lucky to have ears to swab!
Bill Stradtner

My reloader is mounted on an old table in my workshop, no TV, but I still smoke and drink beer while reloading.........

Also sit real close to the TV sometimes just cause my momma said I'd be sterile if I did....don't want anymore kids at my age anyway....


David

[Fred Douglass]

......shoving one all the way through and out the other side!

What's next, helmets in the shower?

George Orwell said it all and said it first.......

[FWB]

what!!!! Q-tip for cleaning ears? i thought they were just for cleaning tape deck heads.

i've been doing it wrong all these years,

[Joe Wicked]

If all the experts are right, I must have died at 2 and just never realized it. Riding downhill in my steel radio flyer wagon trying to steer it myself was the best. No helmet, no knee pads. Hell as kids we used to weld our own go-kart frames out of scrap metal and weld an old lawn mower engine on it. They would usually last for a few months and start to fall apart, so we would try to make a better one. I got hurt more feeding the hogs then I ever did at play activities.

[Fred Douglass]

Those things uster TEAR around. Now, you can take a nap on them safely.

S'truth.....we've produced a nagtion of panty-waist sissies!

[Joe Wicked]

I never got to experience those, but I used the pulleys from an old drill press to give myself a 4 speed transmission. Had the county sheriff tell me that I can't be going down the gravel road doing almost 50 mph in an unlicenced vehicle. Especially with no seat belt, and no protection of any kind on. He wasn't too happy when he caught me again later the same day.

[Ron61]

Freddie,

Years ago we used to have a Go-Cart track just North of me where you could go rent them and they had different classes which you had to prove you could drive before they let you move up. The top class ones would really fly and there was no safety stuff on them or around the 1 1/2 mile track. But they were fun even when I was picking myself up from a crash and wondering if all of my body parts were still where they were supposed to be. It was great back in the days before the Govt. decided to make everything safe for kids. And with all of the stupid things I did and tried with others, I do not recall anyone ever getting seriously hurt unless you consider the occasional broken leg or arm a serious injury.
But my favorites were the imitation Soap Box derby cars that we made out of orange crates and any wheels we could scrounge up when I lived down at Santa Barbara. We would drag them to the top of the mountain and then ride them down the fire roads they had cut. Few made it all the way down as they shed wheels and parts like confetti in the wind, and I left enough skin on various trees around there to cover six people. And I still had a lot of fun.

Ron

[Joe Wicked]

Exactly Ron. I was passing Mario Andretti in that go-kart. I was the worlds best race car driver and nothing was more real. We really used our imagination and it became real in that moment. I still remember the euphoria when I beat Mario by inches at the finish line.

[Ron61]

Joe,

With what we had to work with, using our imagination was almost a requirement. I remember using ropes to haul old timber way up in a tree to build a tree fort and when we got through it was so heavy that when all four of us got in it, the tree limb broke. What fun falling down through those tree limbs and pretending we had been hit by an artillery round.

Ron

[Fred Douglass]

....our music was better, our cars were faster (at least the hot-rods-remember those "T-buckets" with huge Olds engines in 'em?) and the v-drive "ski-boats" rippin' around Ft. Lauderdale were DEFINITELY faster than the stuff nowadays. We only saw helmets on race-car drivers and jet-jocks!

Carrion,

[Wayne Maybury]

Did any of you guys ever get very serious about firecrackers / fireworks?

We used to be able to buy these firecrackers that were about the size of a 12 gauge shotgun shell. We would hammer a 2 or 3 foot piece of ~3/4" pipe in the mud sticking more or less straight up. Next we would light one of those firecrackers and drop it in the pipe, followed by an appropriate sized ball bearing or maybe even a round rock. The objective was to see just how high we could launch that ball bearing.

We also played a lot with sling shots, BB guns, matches and anything that would burn. Looking back, I have to wonder how none of us were not seriously injured.

Wayne

[Buzz]

I dunno Phreddy, there's some pretty dam' quick stuff being turned out nowadays!
(But I do agree about the dumbing-down and pussification of modern society!)

[Fred Douglass]

...trust me.....a V-drive ski-boat with a blown Caddie (lotso' them ripping between Port Everglades and Government Cut at. let's say....90+ mph!) would "put paid" to the ciggies of today. At least on flat water. They were, essentially the precursors of "drag boats". And.....a 1150-lb. (all up, wet-weight) fiberglass T-bucket with 650 hp. blown Buick nailhead or an Olds........well, Krikeys...at least in a straight line....saya-fookin'-nara to just about anything on wheels!

Up at Lauderdale Lakes, the young sports would race the T-buckets v.s. the drag boats. Now THAT was worth it!!

As for fireworks? Cherry-bombs, M-80s, "quarter sticks", etc. all "dedicated to the 'gators etc. up the New River or the phishy-wishies out on the reefs. A cherry-bomb alternately (and repeatedly) dipped in Elmer's glue and BB's made for a nasty thingamabobby! We were below savages.

It took decades to civilize me.......

Chow,