🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <5kj1aa$nkg@portal.gmu.edu>,
Michael T Shinn <mshinn@osf1.gmu.edu> wrote:
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}John M Atkinson (jatkinso@ANTISPAMgmu.edu) wrote:
}: %Odd, the people I learned it from were very well trained EOD and SF folks.
}: %Precisely the first people I would trust with the blasting caps AND with
}: %the detotator.  Maybe you need to widen your circle of friends. *grin*
}
}: 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?  
-- 
Matthew T. Russotto                                russotto@pond.com
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit
of justice is no virtue."