Kite Tubing Update For KV - Page 2

MaggieL · 06-29-2006, 11:58 AM

"Cliff jumping"? Sounds like a real bright crew out there...

Pangloss62 · 06-29-2006, 12:28 PM

3' and Rage got me thinking. I feel so lucky that I grew up without too much adult supervision. We didn't have kite tubes, but we didn't need them. I would take off on my bike and ride to places unknown. No helmet. Abandoned buildings or buildings under construction were always cool. You learn about the world that way. No supervision is not always a bad thing. And that tennis ball cannon? Just great! 5 soda cans stacked together with each can's top and botton cut to leave a half-moon of metal. Leave the bottom of the bottom can uncut, but punch a small hole on the bottom edge. Cut the entire top off the top can. Stack the cans to form a tube and alternate the openings. Use duct tape to bind them together. Pour some Ronson brand lighter fluid liberally into the top of the cannon and let it slosh around until the entire insides of the can are coated and a small pool of fluid ends up on the bottom. Place a tennis ball into the top can. Put a flame to the hole at the bottom. POW!!! Best damn device I've ever had the pleasure to make and use. Good, safe, Summer fun. I tip my hat to the Tom and Bill Patterson, the "Patterson Twins" for teaching me that one. What are friends for, after all?

farfromhome · 07-01-2006, 12:14 AM

Hmmm... I think Travis (my fifteen year old) and I are all over this. I firmly believe that "safety" is one of the most commonly used reasons in the accelerating dumbing down of america.

MaggieL · 07-01-2006, 07:13 AM

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Originally Posted by farfromhome

Hmmm... I think Travis (my fifteen year old) and I are all over this. I firmly believe that "safety" is one of the most commonly used reasons in the accelerating dumbing down of america.

Well, don't miss the "Kite of Death" thread here...all about why the government should spend your money to tell you what to do so we make sure morons stay in the gene pool.

wolf · 07-01-2006, 12:30 PM

The real problem is that by the time someone can afford the Kite Tube of Death, they have probably already reproduced.

zippyt · 07-01-2006, 09:33 PM

Pangloss62,

Make one of those out of steel pea cans , or Snappy Tom cans and launch Eggs , sloppy but FUN !!!

footfootfoot · 07-04-2006, 12:11 AM

Schaefer shorties: Fold a beer can in half, back and forth repeatedly until it splits in two. Tuck one half inside the other and you ow have waht looks like a half sized beer. Stick a fire cracker in the drinking hole and overturn the can. Use care not to put out the fuse by crushing it. Step back. Bang.

H.S. physics teacher taught me that one.

I also read about an Oxy Acetylene potato canon. Stainless pipe, etc. shot a spud through a 1/2 sheet of CDX from 50 feet. That'll leave a mark...

07-04-2006, 01:49 AM

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Originally Posted by MaggieL

"Cliff jumping"? Sounds like a real bright crew out there...

A high excitement threshold and low heart-rate has nothing to do with intelligence and thrill seeking personalities ARE the safe side of the coin, the other side of our personalities are crime and violence. You choose, because those ARE your choices.
In fact, those who have those attributes tend to be very intelligent.

xoxoxoBruce · 07-04-2006, 09:56 AM

"Oxy Acetylene potato canon"....now there's something I don't have....yet.

MaggieL · 07-04-2006, 10:44 AM

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Originally Posted by rkzenrage

A high excitement threshold and low heart-rate has nothing to do with intelligence and thrill seeking personalities ARE the safe side of the coin, the other side of our personalities are crime and violence. You choose, because those ARE your choices.
In fact, those who have those attributes tend to be very intelligent.

Ah...so "I"m jumping off a cliff because otherwise I'd be mugging an old lady. Look how smartt I am"?

I get plenty of excitement flying once in a while.

Ibby · 07-04-2006, 11:06 AM

Ah, the potato launcher...

My great-uncle-twice-removed-or-whatever-the-fuck-he-is has a band.

The Fabulous Spudcannons.

They rule.

07-04-2006, 01:29 PM

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Originally Posted by MaggieL

Ah...so "I"m jumping off a cliff because otherwise I'd be mugging an old lady. Look how smartt I am"?

I get plenty of excitement flying once in a while.

Thanks for illustrating that you have no idea what you are talking about.
Little help.
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/art...?artid=1188701
http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~raine/PrefrontalGlucose.pdf
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi...1986.tb00301.x
http://books.google.com/books?id=44T...+thrill+seeker
http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogu...sbn=0521432006

jinx · 07-04-2006, 02:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MaggieL

Ah...so "I"m jumping off a cliff because otherwise I'd be mugging an old lady. Look how smartt I am"?

I get plenty of excitement flying once in a while.

Maybe you're just not that smart...

MaggieL · 07-04-2006, 04:39 PM

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Originally Posted by jinx

Maybe you're just not that smart...

Yeah, well, I'm just not smart enough to sit around seaching the web for neurochemical excuses for violent behavior, claiming it's a marker for intelligence.

Sorry to disappoint...we can't all live on the edge; it'd break off. :-)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash"

These days, most states are franchulates or Burbclaves, much too small to have anything like a jail, or even a judicial system. So when someone does something bad, they try to find quick and dirty punishments, like flogging, confiscation of property, public humiliation, or, in the case of people who have a high potential of going on to hurt others, a warning tattoo on a prominent body part. POOR IMPULSE CONTROL. Apparently, this guy went to such a place and lost his temper real bad.

06-29-2006, 11:58 AM	#16
MaggieL in the Hour of Scampering Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Jeffersonville PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia) Posts: 4,060	"Cliff jumping"? Sounds like a real bright crew out there... __________________ "Neither can his Mind be thought to be in Tune,whose words do jarre; nor his reason In frame, whose sentence is preposterous..."

06-29-2006, 12:28 PM	#17
Pangloss62 Lecturer Join Date: May 2006 Location: Atlanta Posts: 768	Kaboom! 3' and Rage got me thinking. I feel so lucky that I grew up without too much adult supervision. We didn't have kite tubes, but we didn't need them. I would take off on my bike and ride to places unknown. No helmet. Abandoned buildings or buildings under construction were always cool. You learn about the world that way. No supervision is not always a bad thing. And that tennis ball cannon? Just great! 5 soda cans stacked together with each can's top and botton cut to leave a half-moon of metal. Leave the bottom of the bottom can uncut, but punch a small hole on the bottom edge. Cut the entire top off the top can. Stack the cans to form a tube and alternate the openings. Use duct tape to bind them together. Pour some Ronson brand lighter fluid liberally into the top of the cannon and let it slosh around until the entire insides of the can are coated and a small pool of fluid ends up on the bottom. Place a tennis ball into the top can. Put a flame to the hole at the bottom. POW!!! Best damn device I've ever had the pleasure to make and use. Good, safe, Summer fun. I tip my hat to the Tom and Bill Patterson, the "Patterson Twins" for teaching me that one. What are friends for, after all? __________________ Things are never as good, or bad, as they seem.

07-01-2006, 12:14 AM	#18
farfromhome Management Consultant Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Portland,OR/Conesus,NY Posts: 166	Hmmm... I think Travis (my fifteen year old) and I are all over this. I firmly believe that "safety" is one of the most commonly used reasons in the accelerating dumbing down of america. __________________ When you ain't got nothing-you ain't got nothing to lose.

07-01-2006, 12:30 PM	#20
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	The real problem is that by the time someone can afford the Kite Tube of Death, they have probably already reproduced. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

07-01-2006, 09:33 PM	#21
zippyt LONG LIVE KING ZIPPY! per Feetz Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Arkansas Posts: 7,661	Pangloss62, Make one of those out of steel pea cans , or Snappy Tom cans and launch Eggs , sloppy but FUN !!! __________________ "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. " Brother Dave Gardner

07-04-2006, 12:11 AM	#22
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	Schaefer shorties: Fold a beer can in half, back and forth repeatedly until it splits in two. Tuck one half inside the other and you ow have waht looks like a half sized beer. Stick a fire cracker in the drinking hole and overturn the can. Use care not to put out the fuse by crushing it. Step back. Bang. H.S. physics teacher taught me that one. I also read about an Oxy Acetylene potato canon. Stainless pipe, etc. shot a spud through a 1/2 sheet of CDX from 50 feet. That'll leave a mark... __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

07-04-2006, 09:56 AM	#24
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	"Oxy Acetylene potato canon"....now there's something I don't have....yet. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

07-04-2006, 11:06 AM	#26
Ibby erika Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: "the high up north" Posts: 6,127	Ah, the potato launcher... My great-uncle-twice-removed-or-whatever-the-fuck-he-is has a band. The Fabulous Spudcannons. They rule. __________________ not really back, you didn't see me, i was never here shhhhhh

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