Posted on 09/20/2015 3:32:50 PM PDT by 4yourcountry
Nah, she was 17 and had a car. Folks did not approve, but I didn’t care: she had a car!
Thnx for the serenade. XD Great song in it’s day.
You are way funny...:D. Although I am happy...I think I’ll stick with with It Was A Very Good Year for the evening. Clap, clap.
LOL!
Well, pictures don’t lie.
When I was 14, I had a lousy science project because I wasn’t into science.
A classmate of mine, however, invented a prototype weapon that shot an electronic pulse.
The FBI confiscated it, and the kid never came back to school.
True Story.
Yes, and sometimes on CHU.
Awwwwww... That doggie looks like my gal Lynn-Dah.
She has LOTS of toys. LOL. I spoil her.
Sounds like what the muslim kid did, took a working digital clock apart and put it in box.
What would TSA say?
I don't think they would say "Welcome Aboard, enjoy your flight."
I remember Van de Graaf generators being a lot of fun. Cool thing to set on the coffee table when you have a few friend’s over, especially if they don’t know what it is.
My dad was/is a gunsmith and a rabid skeet and bench shooter... he was particularly fixated on the really obscure wildcats. We had mountains of various powders for his reloading habits. So, I can’t say all of the stuff I experimented with during my early teens, homeland security would probably show too much of an interest. I will say, I had a hellof a lot of fun though.
After high school, my best friend moved into an apartment. The neighbors above him continually played loud music when he was trying to sleep.. he worked midnights at a FedEx hub. He built some contraption.. took him weeks. But I remember when he hooked it up. He unplugged everything in his apartment before he turned it on. I don't at all understand what it did, but it apparently fried every electrical device in the building... like 8 apartments. I remember him pretending all his stuff was broke when the landlord came around. No one ever knew what happened as far as I know. maybe I've said too much
I built a couple of digital clocks back in the early 70s, but was in my early 20s then. One I installed in my car in place of the hated “fasten seat belts” light, the very presence of which pissed me off. The other was in a nice hand-made aluminum box, and I gave that to my parents for Christmas. I got it back when they passed, still have it, and it still works.
Neither of the clocks exploded.
It seems you and I walked in the same footprints of fire.
At 12, took apart my dad’s Hallicrafters World Band radio (a fantastic dialable tuner) and put it back together with all tubes working. Had no airconditioning but had screened windows— the old style copper screens in the windows.
Wired the entire house— every single window screen— together with the antenna outlet. Was able to tune in to Radio Albania, any time. Could hear the spittle from the Chi-com mouthpiece Albanian station, just as clear as could be. Also, Radio Moscow (with the tick tock timer sound as well as burst transmissions and coded message sequences) and Radio Havana.
Boy, sure miss that Hallicrafters. Wonder if you can still find them as vintage working condition. There was a kit to make them, years ago.
Well, all the great inventors had to start somewhere! LOL!
Tesla used to make lightening in his little NYC apartment.
The landlord must have LOVED that!
When I was 14, I was working on a science project trying to determine whether it was the color or the motion of the dewlap of male green anoles which was significant in their communication with one another. No clocks for me! I was (and still am) hooked on living stuff.
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