The Ultimate Man’s Guide to Fireworks

[trekgeezer]

You know me and another fellow here at work about my age were discussing this topic one day and we figured by modern standards we should be dead already because we basically did everything that kids are protected from now.

One of those things is fireworks, we threw all the safety precautions to the wind.  I remember when the spark off a punk fell in my brother's firecracker bag, it was fun watching him dance around.  But it was really fun watching my yankee nephew dancing around when a spark got into his coat pocket igniting the firecrackers there in.

One of my brothers cobbled together a gun from some pipe for use with bottlerockets, I liked the ones that doubled back on him.


Hey what fun is youth without a little stupidity thrown in.

Here's the manly guide to fireworks


http://artofmanliness.com/2008/07/01/the-ultimate-guide-to-best-fireworks/

[AndyC]

Reminds me of being 18 years old in the passenger seat of my buddy's Plymouth Horizon, holding a two-foot length of cardboard tube from a carpet roll, with a hockey puck duct-taped in one end. We did this a few times after coming home from the drive-in, nice and late. Light a bottle rocket, drop it in the tube, stick it out the window and fire it over the head of some poor guy staggering home from the bar, or past somebody's bedroom window. Then drive like hell out of there with maybe a few honks of the horn for good measure.

We were pretty ingenious in our stupidity.

[Patient7]

A friend of mine built an air cannon a while ago and we once tried to shoot a smoke bomb out of it.  Didn't look to cool but it's still awesome.  When I can though, I will go to Indiana and get as many fireworks as I can smuggle back.  I will then enjoy having my hand blown off.

[indianasmith]

I used five bottle rockets fused together and a GI Joe parachute to give a toad the ride of his life one time . . . AND when they went off, he wafted safely to the lake and swam off, dragging my parachute after him!!

[Trevor]

I was never allowed fireworks as a kid: it wasn't my folks who banned them, it was during the war years in Rhodesia. One crack of a firework and the next crack would be the security forces breaking your toes. 

The worst use of fireworks that I have ever seen is in Jackass The Movie where SteveO puts a rocket in his bum and uses said bum as a launching pad for the rocket. 

[Mr. DS]

I love fireworks but only if I'm lighting them off.  Thats why I get board watching the professionals.  Unfortunately they're pretty much banned in my state.  I used to love lighting off M-80s, jumping jacks and other stuff.   I think they should be legal everywhere personally.  If you're that stupid to hold a cherry bomb in your hand when you light it, you should get injured.