"Montblack" wrote in message
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("Gig 601XL Builder" wrote)
Shouldn't that read, "Circa 1960 I built two different models of
atomic-powered bombers." Otherwise I have to ask, do you glow in the dark
now?


"Let's go up to the schoolyard and blow up models with firecrackers."

"Naw, we'll simply shut off the reactor core's main 'coolant valve' in my
B-36, then sit back and watch what happens."

Ok, but if I get radiation sickness, I'm telling mom!"

(...you could still do that kind of thing in the 60's, and early 70's.
Actually it was encouraged - "Don't blow those things off around here, the
baby's sleeping. Why don't you run on up to the schoolyard if you're going
to be making a racket!")


Ah, yes. The good old days before bicycle helmets and the when children were
told to be home by the time the street lights come on. And yes too we were
given medium order explosives and told to go have fun.

My wife and I were talking just this morning how as children my friends and
I would have tortured any kid who was wearing a bike helmet.