how about we all support the US on the fourth?

rudeguy

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by changing our avatars to the US Flag?

you dont have to...but it would be cool to see all of us computer nerds showing our pride!
 

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I AM an American.. :) We THE PEOPLE ARE America. Without THE PEOPLE there is NO America.


Alright, bottle rockets and fire crackers for everyone! W00T!
 

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Originally posted by: mastertech01
I AM an American.. :) We THE PEOPLE ARE America. Without THE PEOPLE there is NO America.


Alright, bottle rockets and fire crackers for everyone! W00T!

"Offer void where prohibited by law"

;)
 

rudeguy

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Originally posted by: Hayabusarider
Originally posted by: mastertech01
I AM an American.. :) We THE PEOPLE ARE America. Without THE PEOPLE there is NO America.


Alright, bottle rockets and fire crackers for everyone! W00T!

"Offer void where prohibited by law"

;)

unless you can run down to Indiana and buy them

<~~ from Michigan
 

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Here in Lawton we have fireworks stands galore, selling loads of them to the populace of the city... But it IS illegal to light them within the city limits.. LMAO! :D
 

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I remember the good old days of real firecrackers. We used to take an empty vegetable can and an empty Campbell soup can. Set the larger can on the ground, drop a lit firecracker in the can and drop the soup can inside the big one. Nice little explosion chamber. Used to send the soup can to the top of an old black walnut tree, about 60 feet up. Those were the days :beer:
 

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Originally posted by: mastertech01
Here in Lawton we have fireworks stands galore, selling loads of them to the populace of the city... But it IS illegal to light them within the city limits.. LMAO! :D
Same thing here in Sand Springs, suburb of Tulsa, fireworks stands everywhere but illegal to use them in the city. Oh well....just finished watching the city fireworks show from my back yard. Started at 9, ended at 10. Helluva show!!! Tulsa's is tomorrow night and luckily I can see it as well. Just another advantage of living on a hill that overlooks both cities.

 

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Originally posted by: shinerburke
Originally posted by: mastertech01
Here in Lawton we have fireworks stands galore, selling loads of them to the populace of the city... But it IS illegal to light them within the city limits.. LMAO! :D
Same thing here in Sand Springs, suburb of Tulsa, fireworks stands everywhere but illegal to use them in the city. Oh well....just finished watching the city fireworks show from my back yard. Started at 9, ended at 10. Helluva show!!! Tulsa's is tomorrow night and luckily I can see it as well. Just another advantage of living on a hill that overlooks both cities.


That would be nice :) Fort Sill has a great display each year, but the past few years you have to buy tickets for the all day rock/country concert they have and the fireworks are the end of the day treat for the concert. I used to take my children to see the fireworks from across the highway, but now since 9/11 they have closed all access to that part of post.

So now I have to drive to Altus to see anything or buy tickets. Or just wait for the neighbors to shoot off thier illegal fireworks! HEHEHE!
 

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I remember the good old days of real firecrackers.

"Firecrackers"? Hell, we used to call those sort of things blasting caps.

But it IS illegal to light them within the city limits.. LMAO!

Sure, just like it was "illegal" for us to set charges bigger than 50 lbs. on post. Needless to say, range control was not pleased when at the end of the day we lit off most of the entire quarterly allotment for our batallion in one shot ;)
 

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Originally posted by: glenn1
I remember the good old days of real firecrackers.

"Firecrackers"? Hell, we used to call those sort of things blasting caps.

But it IS illegal to light them within the city limits.. LMAO!

Sure, just like it was "illegal" for us to set charges bigger than 50 lbs. on post. Needless to say, range control was not pleased when at the end of the day we lit off most of the entire quarterly allotment for our batallion in one shot ;)

I hope that wasnt in a howitzer tube! :D

I think when I was young the M-80 was the firework of choice.. :)
 

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I hope that wasnt in a howitzer tube!

LOL, nope, don't think the heavy metal guys have an equivalent to about 2500# of C4 stuffed with a few dozen blasting caps, a few hundred pin flares, detcord, and some other assorted toys coming up on their expiration dates. And if you do, i'd love to be the guy calling in that fire mission ;)
 

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Hey, we do still have that old NUKE tube up there, but that is still one helllllla charge! LOL
 

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Hey, we do still have that old NUKE tube up there, but that is still one helllllla charge! LOL

Davy, Davy Crockett, King of the wild frontier...

 

shiner

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Originally posted by: mastertech01
Originally posted by: shinerburke
Originally posted by: mastertech01
Here in Lawton we have fireworks stands galore, selling loads of them to the populace of the city... But it IS illegal to light them within the city limits.. LMAO! :D
Same thing here in Sand Springs, suburb of Tulsa, fireworks stands everywhere but illegal to use them in the city. Oh well....just finished watching the city fireworks show from my back yard. Started at 9, ended at 10. Helluva show!!! Tulsa's is tomorrow night and luckily I can see it as well. Just another advantage of living on a hill that overlooks both cities.


That would be nice :) Fort Sill has a great display each year, but the past few years you have to buy tickets for the all day rock/country concert they have and the fireworks are the end of the day treat for the concert. I used to take my children to see the fireworks from across the highway, but now since 9/11 they have closed all access to that part of post.

So now I have to drive to Altus to see anything or buy tickets. Or just wait for the neighbors to shoot off thier illegal fireworks! HEHEHE!
That's kind of a raw deal man.... Where I live I have a great view of downtown Tulsa(11 miles away) from my back yard. Tulsa puts on a hell of a show every year at the main River Parks area, which is just about 2 miles South of Downtown. Sooo....I get a great view.

 

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