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To: Crusher138
It was our 7th grade science teacher that taught us how to make gunpowder.

LOL. My 7th grade science teacher wouldn't teach me (probably good judgment on his part), so I went to the library encyclopedia and looked it up. I later snuck into the science lab, got the ingredients, mixed them together, poured out a line and lit it. Poof! It left a terrible scar on the wall and stunk up half the school. I eventually had to fess up. The grownups were not happy. 45 years later, that scar still remains.

74 posted on 04/07/2016 11:10:29 AM PDT by KevinB (Barack Obama: Our first black, gay, Kenyan, Socialist, Muslim president!)
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To: KevinB

As I remember it, we made about 5 pounds of the stuff.

The “rocket” was about 4’ long and we had a “shuttle” on the back of it which was about 1.75” long.

Lucky we didn’t kill ourselves!


75 posted on 04/07/2016 11:33:39 AM PDT by Crusher138 ("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")
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