🚀 go-pugleaf

Thus Spake russotto@wanda.vf.pond.com (Matthew T. Russotto):


%}: Depends-the military types are generally OK, (although I'd like to know what
the
%}: hell happened to Cpl. Warren's finger) but civillians who make this stuff
for
%}: kicks sometimes scare me.
%}
%}Well dynamite was invented by a civilian. *grin*
%
%Didn't he invent the blasting cap as well?  Guy named Nobel, family
%was into nitroglycerine, IIRC...
%
%People like to see things blown up.  Evidence: the popularity of
%fireworks and building implosions.  What's wrong with that?  

It's fine.  I'm a pyro.  I do what I do for a living because I like explosives.
But I also have the brains not to blow myself up in the process, which is more
than many of the amateurs out there do.


John M. Atkinson
jatkinso@gmu.edu
"A nation which despises its soldiers will all too soon 
have a despicable army
                 --Jerry Pournelle