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[The Bean]

Unlike OP’s Jeep (maybe?), this thread has exceeded all expectations. It’s amazing what the JT community can achieve.

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[sbach66]

I ain't gonna be the only one who doesn't post in this trainwreck.

I find it utterly compelling and can't look away.

 

[Challenger85]

Last time I played racquetball, it involved filling it with gas, lighting it on fire, and kicking it up and down the street on fourth of July. Cops were called, we dispersed, and all our parents asked us if we knew anything about it. Nope! Don't know anything. Huh? No mom, my sneakers always look melted and smell like napalm. duh.

Oh crap, someone mentioned wisdom here. I'll show my way out.

My mother wouldn't have minded as long as we didn't ruin shoes (pretty expensive on their budges) - instead of kicking gas filled balls down the street, we built tennis ball cannons. About 5 or so beer (or pop) cans, cut both ends out of all but one.
The one you left the ends on, use a nail and punch a hole in one side next to the bottom. Then tape them all together end to end, with the intact can being the bottom can, all the others taped to the top.
Squirt lighter fluid in the hole in the bottom can, shake it just a bit, drop a tennis ball in the top, light the fluid through the hole - BOOM, that thing would go a city block.
The task was made easier by the fact that our mother supported our doing it, furnished the tape, matches, etc. and when we ran out of lighter fluid, we'd borrow some change from her and ride bikes to town to buy more.
We used firecrackers to shoot soup cans clear up almost out of sight in the sky - firecrackers furnished by - yup - Mom and Dad. They furnished the soup cans as well.

Damn that takes me back to when I was 22. Bachelor. Had a buddy that a really nice 3 level townhome his mom paid for. She made me pay her $300 a month. We partied every weekend all weekend with 30-100 people, it was wild. We also had a lot of bad ideas…I remember we got a crap ton of fireworks and had a bunch left over. One Sunday night were all drinking and thinking about stuff to do. Me and a few others decided it would be a GREAT idea if we take all the fireworks, cut them open and pour out all of the gunpowder into a tennis ball. ?

So we do and we fill this thing to the brim with gun powder and toss in a wick. Next day we’re all ready to go and light it. So we take it to a park and go under a bridge and we light it and we run giggling like school girls.

It sounded like a bomb went off, I’ve never heard anything so loud ? We also didn’t really plan it very well because it was an express highway and the smoke was so bad it billowed out and completely engulfed the highway and nobody could see so everyone was coming to a screeching halt from 80MPH. We ran so fast and laughed so hard, thankfully nobody got in an accident.

Let me know if you want to know about that one time my sister and I thought it would be a good idea to hang a dummy we made off a bridge with a rope around his neck. That poor cop. ?

 

[Higher_Ground]

Peach cobbler with ice cream. Or as my former coworker would say, "a la monde"

I did the whole tennis ball filled with gasoline thing too! It shot out a 4 ft flame and let out a roar before we freaked out and smothered it. We used to take apart the long strings of fire crackers and set them off individually to make it last. The fuses on some of those things were extremely short.

Nowadays karma has returned the favor in spades and my neighborhood sounds like something out of a WWII movie for a week 2x a year.

 

[jeepers29]

My mother wouldn't have minded as long as we didn't ruin shoes (pretty expensive on their budges) - instead of kicking gas filled balls down the street, we built tennis ball cannons. About 5 or so beer (or pop) cans, cut both ends out of all but one.
The one you left the ends on, use a nail and punch a hole in one side next to the bottom. Then tape them all together end to end, with the intact can being the bottom can, all the others taped to the top.
Squirt lighter fluid in the hole in the bottom can, shake it just a bit, drop a tennis ball in the top, light the fluid through the hole - BOOM, that thing would go a city block.
The task was made easier by the fact that our mother supported our doing it, furnished the tape, matches, etc. and when we ran out of lighter fluid, we'd borrow some change from her and ride bikes to town to buy more.
We used firecrackers to shoot soup cans clear up almost out of sight in the sky - firecrackers furnished by - yup - Mom and Dad. They furnished the soup cans as well.

Ah, the good ole days when parents weren't afraid of their own shadows.

 

[Orange01z28]

Why pie is better than cake

some light reading

Also…does anyone really put a slice of cheese on their pie? Ive always sorta wondered what it tastes like…aside from apples and cheese.

My dad talks about this. I brought it up at work and no one had heard of it besides the guy from Mississippi

 

[Gliebig]

Anyone else watching Ryder Cup?

 

[ShadowsPapa]

My dad talks about this. I brought it up at work and no one had heard of it besides the guy from Mississippi

The cheese has gotta be a regional thing. No one around here does it.
In Iowa with the country folks, the German population, etc. - It's often served with ice cream -
pie à la mode

The term originally was "fashionable" or "Stylish" but became to describe pie with ice cream.
French term - Pie à la Mode meaning "pie in the current fashion" or "fashionable pie"

 

[aceisback]

When I see how far this has gone.

Oh you just hang on…

 

[jcarbs]

12 pages of suspense, and we still don't have an answer or no why the OP is so upset. If this was a novel, I would have given up by now and moved on to another book! Must say the posts have been fun to read.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

 

[ShadowsPapa]

12 pages of suspense, and we still don't have an answer or no why the OP is so upset. If this was a novel, I would have given up by now and moved on to another book! Must say the posts have been fun to read.

I usually skip to the last half dozen pages on a book - the problem is that the final chapter hasn't been written yet.

Time for the time machine and zip forward a few weeks.

 

[aceisback]

12 pages of nonsense , and we still don't have an answer or no why the OP is so upset. If this was a novel, I would have given up by now and moved on to another book! Must say the posts have been fun to read.

There, fixed it for ya.
Seems it still has a was to go yet.

 

[IamPro2A]

Apple pie sucks, pecan is better.

But...
Is it PEA-CAN pie?
Or is it PEA-CON pie?

 

[Munkey Boy]

Wait, are you saying you put Hobbits in your pie? What kind of monster are you?!

Pear pie is by far the best. A couple years ago I found a pear tree on what I thought was abandoned property. There’s an old dilapidated house there with a pear tree that has the best pears I’ve ever tasted.

Turns out the guy who lives across the road from the property watches that tree like a hawk and calls the cops whenever anybody goes near it. I’m gonna have to figure out to pick pears in the dark…

The trick with Pippin is shaving the hair off his feet. Mmmm, Hobbitlicious.

I lived in San Leandro for a couple years and the house behind us had a Pippin tree growing right outside my bedroom window. I could reach over and pick them directly without him ever knowing. Doubt he cared anyway. And yes, Hobbits grow on trees.

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