[Mr Ramsbotham]

LOL, you seem to be really taken with that; thanks! I think that idea sprang from something that occurred when I was in the tenth grade. I was sitting through a very boring English class and amused myself by watching one of my classmates, a goofy guy who was always getting in trouble. He caught a fly, surreptitiously stole a long hair from the girl sitting in front of him, and painstakingly tied one end of the hair to the fly's neck and the other to a pencil. He let the fly go, and it proceeded to soar in perfect circles around the pencil. Having seen it, I literally couldn't contain myself, but burst out in laughter, interrupting the entire class.

Whenever I relate this story I always end by observing that I never knew what became of that guy, but am convinced he either ended up a great unsung inventor or met his end in the electric chair.

[PapaBear3625]

There is a reason why “Hold my beer and watch this” is a guy meme.

[rlmorel]

Heh, that is a great story! Seriously, a touchstone of my brother and I is the infamous "Butt Rocket Boy"

When it blows up at the end, it is like an exclamation point on the stupidity of boys, and we all have it to some degree. But it is what makes being a boy so much fun, and so scary.

I was so clumsy and accident prone that there was a time I seriously never thought I was going to survive to adulthood...and then, somehow...I made it...:)