Posted by finnegan at alb-24-195-56-35.nycap.rr.com on May 27, 2003 at 16:15:06:
In Reply to: Good Point. posted by DamYankee on May 27, 2003 at 14:42:50:
: Should we, then, promote a CSQ (Common Sense Quotient)? Post your test questions here.
: Q: When a tree on your propertty needs to be removed, do you:
: a. Hire a professional
: c. Do it yourself, making sure that all people and objects are out of harms way.
: c. pull it down with your pickup truck and a chain (thus pulling it down on your pickup.)
: d. Blow the fucker up!
okay, so i used to live next door to my best friend whose father was a retired NYPD officer and Vietnam vet. one night while hanging( read getting drunk and possible marijuana use) out with another old Vietnam buddy, they decided to remove a tree stump from the front yard using the knowledge they had picked up not in the war but while watching years of Looney Tunes cartoons as children. now, what he had was a tree stump that needed removing and a bunch of gunpowder in the garage, so like his hero Wyle E. Coyote, my neighbor made a trail of gunpowder starting from a safe distance leading up to the stump where he stuffed a large amount of powder inside. here's the fun part, unlike the cartoons, gunpowder doesn't just burn like a fuse until it reaches a substancial amount where it explodes, it just plain old explodes which it did right in my neighbor's face. burned off his mustache, eyebrows, and all the hair on the front half of his head plus second degree burns. hys-freakin'-sterical i tell ya'.
god, i hope someone actually reads this, too good a story to go untold.
-finn