From: owner-angry-psychos-digest@smoe.org (angry-psychos-digest) To: angry-psychos-digest@smoe.org Subject: angry-psychos-digest V7 #188 Reply-To: angry-psychos@smoe.org Sender: owner-angry-psychos-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-angry-psychos-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "angry-psychos-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. angry-psychos-digest Saturday, July 6 2002 Volume 07 : Number 188 Today's Subjects: ----------------- @poe.org email update? ["aNfrey cHeng" ] NPR my 4 of july near death experience [Kimberly Davis ] Re: NPR my 4 of july near death experience ["Reg" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 00:33:16 -0500 From: "aNfrey cHeng" Subject: @poe.org email update? k, i've been wondering this for a while. . . since http://poe.org/email/ isn't there any more, where do we update our @poe.org email aliases? peace, anf ps: damn, it's been a while since i posted... hi everybody who hasn't heard from me in ages :D - --- anfrey cheng anfrey@anfrey.com www.anfrey.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:58:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Kimberly Davis Subject: NPR my 4 of july near death experience I went to my fiance's parents house to shoot off fireworks. They had bought about $200 worht of fireworks and had the really cool ones that have the launch tube and go up and explode. They're kinda like the professional ones. Well any way they had shot most of those off when my future brother-in-law lit one that did NOT do what it was supposed to do. Instead of going way up in the air and then exploding into the beautiful shower we had expected, it went up about ten feet and exploded over everyone. No one was harmed, so they decided to shoot another one. Well to understand their thinking you have to understand that my fiance is a combat engineer who loves playing with C4 and his dad is a former firefighter. Yeah that's right the 4th of July spent with piromaniacs. Well the next run was even worse. This one didn't even make it off the ground. Also it was one of the double explosions so once again we got the bejesus scared out of us. And after everyone recovered from either the shock (those of us fairly close) or fits of laughter (the assholes on the hill who thought it was freaking hilarious) we saw that his dad had succeeded in blowing up the launcher. So having escaped death twice I went and played with the safe sparklers. Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 01:25:16 -0500 From: "Bad Bender" Subject: Re: NPR my 4 of july near death experience I lit some of those off tonight. I've been fortunate to have no problems. The ones I used had a 2" ball at the top with a small cylinder at the bottom. They make a loud noise then shoot high up, probably the same ones you used. I grew up on the east coast of Virginia, in the Hampton Roads area, and all the cities there have banned fire works. It gives them a lower rate on fire insurance if they ban it. I didn't really have fun with them until I moved to Alabama. In the counties it's legal and that's where I went today. My baby son doesn't like fire crackers, it scares him, but the sparklers make him smile. It's good that you weren't hurt, you had, um, trained professionals on scene so to speak. > I went to my fiance's parents house to shoot off > fireworks. They had bought about $200 worht of > fireworks and had the really cool ones that have the > launch tube and go up and explode. They're kinda like > the professional ones. Well any way they had shot > most of those off when my future brother-in-law lit > one that did NOT do what it was supposed to do. > Instead of going way up in the air and then exploding > into the beautiful shower we had expected, it went up > about ten feet and exploded over everyone. No one was > harmed, so they decided to shoot another one. Well to > understand their thinking you have to understand that > my fiance is a combat engineer who loves playing with > C4 and his dad is a former firefighter. Yeah that's > right the 4th of July spent with piromaniacs. Well > the next run was even worse. This one didn't even > make it off the ground. Also it was one of the double > explosions so once again we got the bejesus scared out > of us. And after everyone recovered from either the > shock (those of us fairly close) or fits of laughter > (the assholes on the hill who thought it was freaking > hilarious) we saw that his dad had succeeded in > blowing up the launcher. So having escaped death twice > I went and played with the safe sparklers. > Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free > http://sbc.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 01:01:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Wayne Sassano Subject: Re: NPR my 4 of july near death experience I played roman candle tag with my friends on the beach while a huge crowd was firing off their fireworks from out of state. The air was thick with smoke and anti-british sentiment. The roman candle tag was AWESOME, I think anyone should try it once. And its completely safe, too. My 4th of july was great. :) Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 03:42:12 -0500 From: "Bad Bender" Subject: Re: NPR my 4 of july near death experience How do you play that game? > > I played roman candle tag with my friends on the beach > while a huge crowd was firing off their fireworks from > out of state. The air was thick with smoke and > anti-british sentiment. The roman candle tag was > AWESOME, I think anyone should try it once. And its > completely safe, too. > > My 4th of july was great. :) > Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free > http://sbc.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 10:38:29 EDT From: NoisyPollution@aol.com Subject: Re: NPR my 4 of july near death experience This sounds like my New Year's episode with roman candles. It was about four years ago and I was fourteen.... My friend's boxer, Evol, had gotten into the fireworks and eaten them although somehow she survived... uh getting to the point, I was shooting a roman candle and they usually shoot off about four times. Well, I thought mine were done and it was pointed towards my foot and my friend ran up to me and slung the firework out of my hand upwards toward the sky and blam! it went off. Needless to say, my friend saved me from a footless future. Peace, }}Y{{eLissA Free spirits have always suffered violent opposition from mediocre minds- Albert Einstein ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 12:25:48 -0500 From: "Reg" Subject: Re: NPR my 4 of july near death experience - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wayne Sassano" To: Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 3:01 AM Subject: Re: NPR my 4 of july near death experience > The air was thick with smoke and > anti-british sentiment. love that quote man. =) - -reg ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 12:32:54 -0500 From: "Reg" Subject: Re: NPR my 4 of july near death experience i had a near death experience last year on the 4th. since fireworks are banned in our county, my friends and i decided to go to our other friends ranch just outside the county. chris bought about $100 worth, johnny another $150, ernest about $200, and me, the big spender, about $30. yea i'm cheap who cares. anyway, everything was going great. lots o' splosions and bright lights. well one of ernests' neighbors decided to show up with his daughter. the daughter was doing good until she decided to follow our leads and throw the ones that are supposed to be lit on the ground. well, she was behind us, we were standing underneath the tree, and when she threw it up, it hit the tree, came back down, went off about 2 inches from my ear, landed to my shoulder and then fell to the ground. i was out of it for a couple of minutes, but i was driven by revenge! i wanted to get that little brat! sadly, my common sense wasn't affected and i didn't attack the girl. plus, her father was like this big ol' biker guy and he could've easily kicked my ass... so that's my near death experience. - -reg ------------------------------ End of angry-psychos-digest V7 #188 ***********************************