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That's nothing. I heard that some really weird people like to make up puns in the afternoons.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Sad to say, on a much smaller scale, I used to make 'percussion caps' with potassium chlorate and sulfur. If hit really really hard it explodes with an amazing noise for a small amount.
Some of the mixture, the size of a green-pea, wrapped in aluminum foil to hold it together, was close in volume to a cherry-bomb.
Unfortunately, . . .
My right ear (hand I held the hammer in) has shown the (permanent) price one pays for such load noises repeated so often and so near. Not terrible, but high frequency loss is such that I couldn't hear a watch tick (when they used to tick) right up next to my ear on that side. Lesson learned: loud sounds really do cause hearing loss.
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WHAT?
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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FAT? Who you callin' FAT?
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I used to do the same with the heads shaved of matches. I once found some used .22 shell casings, filled these with match shavings and crimped over the top. Dropping a brick on them made a very big bang, and I once managed to shoot myself in the leg with the casing. A large bruise, but no penetration.
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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Ah - you missed the real fun:
Empty CO2 cartridges ->
Drill Out Neck ->
fill with Calcium Hypochlorite/Sulfur mixture and short piece of fuse. ->
Slide down pipe with back capped with reducing union so fuse stick out ->
Light fuse -> Almost silently, the little steel rocket shot forward.
That thing could split a brick in half and keep going. Once in a while, if reused a few times, they blew up. Lucky the pipe kept the pieces from flying.
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I've long determined that no matter how weird you think something is, someone, somewhere, genuinely enjoys it. And there's probably a serious web page devoted to it.)
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During my halcyon college year, we started dropping plastic bottles that we put some chunks of dry ice in, then a few ounces of hot water, then dropped them down air shafts and open (don't ask) elevator shafts. The noises were very pleasing, and the only evidence was a shattered plastic bottle and some water.
Nitrogen Tri-iodide also made loud noises, after drying from the solvent it becomes a contact explosive.
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I hadfun with Coppere or silver aside. lso madfe water balloons with a touch of butyric acid. That's a smell to gert your opponent's attention.
Unfortunately or maybe fortunately, I later grew up.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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They could easily turn that into quite a spectacular combat sport, if you ask me! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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If you have the day off of work, why are you on the CP Lounge? I thought everyone used the CP Lounge to get away from work, but if you have no work, why not live life? 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I thought you knew: I'm everywhere.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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What makes you think I was referring to you?  [innocently whistling]
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Because after getting away from work on the CP lounge often enough, it becomes one's life even when not at work. 
Marc
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Perhaps we don't all have the day off.
I'm working today, but will be MIA next Monday. I'll be Day 4 of a gaming binge[^] that'll be starting with going home early this Friday. Unfortunately there haven't been any Markov Chain patch notes[^] this time around.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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If computer games were about food, would we have The Elder Rolls V: Fry Rim? Winecraft? Supper Mario?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Nope. We'd have The Bacon Rolls, Baconcraft, Bacon Mario.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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How about Grilled Wars? World of WarKraft? Frying Pandemic?
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Assassin's Creole
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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Jeremy Falcon
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Grand Chef Smoker?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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The ever fattening "Wings Quest" series?
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Don't forget Buffalo Wing Commander.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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