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You obviously do not have eleven-year-old boys in your house! LOL!! Got be a 'guy' thing!!
~Mama.Dragonfly487
posted by
Mama.Dragonfly
on June 28, 2005 at 7:11 PM
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Mark,
Sorry, I didn't mean to throw that image into your mind about me cracking a whip. Or did I? hehe
posted by
SpitFire70
on June 26, 2005 at 3:26 PM
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Talion,
Well now that sucks! Actually, I have heard that a handful of times. There's an apartment complex across a small field area at the end of my street (my street is a dead-end) and it used to be full of riff-raff.
posted by
SpitFire70
on June 26, 2005 at 3:25 PM
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kingmi,
I know they are. In fact, I've been feeling like an honorary member lately. The passenger side window of my car is stuck half way down so I put a cadaver bag in the window when it rains. It's lots of fun.
posted by
SpitFire70
on June 26, 2005 at 3:24 PM
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Craking whips? You tease!
My neighborhood has a certain redneckticity factor.....just a slight flavoring. However, on 4th of July it's about the same as downtown Baghdad on Day 2 of the Shock & Awe. Well, slightly louder.
posted by
mark2556
on June 26, 2005 at 1:40 PM
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SpitFire70
In my old neighborhood, the Crack-Pop usually meant two or more parties were having a disagreement of some kind. The next thing you heard was the wail of the sirens.
posted by
Talion
on June 26, 2005 at 1:27 PM
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Spitfire, Yes well, as I told my ex the day she informed me of how many
of my students had prostitutes as mothers, "prostitutes are people too". Same goes for WT.
posted by
kingmi
on June 26, 2005 at 1:25 PM
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Hammock,
My brother and his friends did all that, too. Must be a guy thing.
posted by
SpitFire70
on June 26, 2005 at 1:22 PM
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kingmi,
And don't forget for white trash, too!
posted by
SpitFire70
on June 26, 2005 at 1:20 PM
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Jimmy, yep. That sounds about right
coming from you!
posted by
SpitFire70
on June 26, 2005 at 1:18 PM
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JJ,
Acepromazine would probably not do a thing for ya. Sowwy! Stay away from fireworks. And pants cuffs, too.
posted by
SpitFire70
on June 26, 2005 at 1:18 PM
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Fuh cryin' out loud!
Where do people around here buy their fi-crackies? That's about the tenth time I've heard someone talk about spending ''hard earned money'' on a few poppers.
Yeah, like wow!! Now we gots ta use jus foodstamps on groceries. No cash for booze'n'butts this week. Fuck! These kids are puttin' us inna porehouse quick. Sure as shit no ridin' round on White Horsies for a while, 'less I can sell some foodstamps for nothin'. Damned Shit!! 
JJ
This isn't out loud, is it?
posted by
Jack_Flash
on June 26, 2005 at 3:36 AM
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LOLz
It takes us back to the days when blowing your hard earned money (or Parents hard earned cash money) was fun to blow up in a fraction of a second.
Sure! Why not? Its not my money, its Moms, and Dads, and they're at the bar getting drunk anyway. Lets blow some sh!t up! Just so long as its not my hands.
4th of July is on the Horizon.
posted by
Hammock_Noweilz
on June 26, 2005 at 3:02 AM
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Spitfire, It is a tradition that dates (for Americans at least) to the Revolutionary War. For sure we do not realize that, or why we do the fireworks. But we do it anyway. Like saying grace, using knife and fork, shaking hands with the right, going to church. Customs, traditions and language. All very important facts of life in any culture.
posted by
kingmi
on June 25, 2005 at 10:47 PM
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They are only fun if you can blow something up...
or set it afire...
posted by
jimmy68
on June 25, 2005 at 9:33 PM
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Spiffy,
Good to see you about.
I'm going to the vet for some acepromazine. I can then sit around with the dogs and ''groove'' at the TV. Do people need two?
You're lucky. In my hood that sound is gunfire. On New Years I always sit in a corner of the living room to acquire ''panoramic brick cover.''
I like Strat's idea about the RPF (Rocket Propelled Firecracker) setup. Next time I go to Puerto Peñasco I'm taking along a chunk of PVC tubing and some kind of makeshift sight. The rockets down there have about a 50-60 yard range, probably even better through tubing, and look like a 5 inch chunk of broom handle taped to a launch twig. They go off with the power of a good Cherry Bomb. That's where the drunk I once told you about baked his hand at the ass-end of a skyrocket. Remember? You were eating potato chips.
If you have never played with skyrockets or BIG firecrackers, you have missed one of the most ecstatic experiences of man on earth. You do have to be careful. We were once throwing them at each other's feet and one caught in my pants cuff. It blew the hell out of my pants leg and left my ego and my ankle bruised, but I'm here to tell about it.
I never do that anywhere near pets. They totally freak. 
JJ
posted by
Jack_Flash
on June 25, 2005 at 8:25 PM
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HolyG,
Ask your vet for Acepromazine. About 25 mg will do the trick for them. Seriously!
posted by
SpitFire70
on June 25, 2005 at 7:43 PM
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Strat,
I dunno if these idiots are aiming this crap at their little brother (or hopefully not their dog or something!)
posted by
SpitFire70
on June 25, 2005 at 7:42 PM
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ginnieb,
Definitely a
posted by
SpitFire70
on June 25, 2005 at 7:41 PM
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I'm dreading next weekend. Montana is probably too deaf to even hear them now, much less to be afraid. But they just might be loud enough. Charlie will be terrified. Even though I live in the city where they're technically not allowed, I live a couple of blocks from a country club that has a fireworks show. And there's usually one at the Cotton Bowl, just a few miles away. Poor dogs.
posted by
Holy_Grail
on June 25, 2005 at 7:00 PM
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They're obviously not doing it right, Young Miss.
Over the counter fireworks are only good for two things -- blowing up objects and waging war. Shooting a bottle rocket in the air is a yawn. Shooting a well-aimed bottle rocket from a vacuum cleaner tube at a moving target -- like your little brother -- is, pardon the pun, a blast!
posted by
strat
on June 25, 2005 at 6:55 PM
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Hmm...didn't know that happened here...
...although I have noticed a inordinate number of places that sell fireworks! I took a photo once of a sign outside a store in VA...it read "Guns, ammo, fireworks and beer sold here"...that's a pretty scary combination!
posted by
ginnieb
on June 25, 2005 at 6:34 PM
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David,
I'm glad my Stonci (the Rottweiler) isn't afraid, but my 3 1/2 mth old German Shepherd puppy is showing signs of noise fear. (Thunder and stuff) I just act like it's "no big deal" and she seems to overcome it. Fingers crossed that it works!!
posted by
SpitFire70
on June 25, 2005 at 6:32 PM
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We keep fans on in a few rooms to quell the noise a bit
Even with the AC on. This helps somewhat!
posted by
David1Spirit
on June 25, 2005 at 6:13 PM
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Happens every year!
And every year from mid-June to about mid-July my dog is a nervous wreck!
posted by
David1Spirit
on June 25, 2005 at 6:12 PM
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