Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight"

From	Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
Newsgroups	rec.arts.sf.written
Subject	Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight"
Date	2018-04-24 21:54 -0700
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 4/24/2018 6:05 PM, Greg Goss wrote:
> djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote:
> 
>> In article <pbni1o$3cc$1@dont-email.me>,
>> Dimensional Traveler  <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>>> On 4/24/2018 6:33 AM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
>>>> In article <fk7sjmFu5p9U1@mid.individual.net>,
>>>> Greg Goss  <gossg@gossg.org> wrote:
>>>>> djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> And so it is ... in large doses.  Hal, since his heart surgery
>>>>>> (ten or twelve years ago), carries a little tiny vial of
>>>>>> nitroclycerine tablets in his shirt pocket.  Every now and then
>>>>>> he has to get a new set because they have a limited shelf life.
>>>>>> He's never used any.
>>>>>
>>>>> Has he ever tried banging on the expired ones?
>>>>
>>>> NO.
>>>>
>>>> An education as an engineer and long years as a programmer have
>>>> made him professionally paranoid about doing dumb things.
>>>>
>>>> He says, "Any bang would be very minimal."  But he's still not
>>>> going to try it out.
>>>>
>>> Of course not!  That's what neighbor's kids are for.
>>
>> No neighbors' kids in the immediate vicinity.  And if we tried it
>> out on Vincent, there would be Words.
> 
> He's an engineer.  Four minutes to rig a drop-hammer with a string
> trigger from ten feet away.
> 
For some reason that reminds me of something my father and uncles did 
once when they were young.  They were in to model rockets.  (Please note 
this would have been in the 1950s, maybe early 1960s.)  They made a 
rocket out of a steel pipe and fuel for it from a mix of sugar and 
hydrogen-peroxide.  (I see some of you out there wincing!!)  My 
grandfather agreed to let them try to launch it on the condition that 
they be in a ditch a hundred yards away.

Pieces of the pipe landed a hundred yards away from the ditch.  On the 
other side from where they started.  :D

-- 
Inquiring minds want to know while minds with a self-preservation 
instinct are running screaming.

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xkcd, "turkish deslight" Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-04-13 12:12 -0500
  Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-04-13 12:15 -0500
    Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-04-13 19:31 +0000
      Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2018-04-14 04:16 -0700
        Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-04-14 15:12 +0000
          Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" mcdowell_ag@sky.com - 2018-04-14 10:09 -0700
        Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" Johnny1A <johnny1a.again@gmail.com> - 2018-04-23 20:17 -0700
      Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" Johnny1A <johnny1a.again@gmail.com> - 2018-04-23 21:04 -0700
        Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-04-24 04:25 +0000
  Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-04-13 10:31 -0700
    Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" T Guy <tim.bateman1961@gmail.com> - 2018-04-14 06:41 -0700
      Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" T Guy <tim.bateman1961@gmail.com> - 2018-04-14 06:48 -0700
  Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" Chrysi Cat <Chrysicat@gmail.com> - 2018-04-13 11:33 -0600
    Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2018-04-13 17:53 +0000
      Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-04-13 19:40 +0000
    Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-04-13 12:57 -0500
      Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-04-13 19:41 +0000
        Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-04-13 15:53 -0500
          Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-04-13 21:20 +0000
            Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-04-13 17:23 -0500
              Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-04-14 00:20 +0000
                Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> - 2018-04-15 02:28 +0000
                Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-04-15 02:52 +0000
                Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-04-14 23:14 -0500
                Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-04-15 05:06 +0000
                Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2018-04-15 01:55 -0500
                Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" Cryptoengineer <treifamily@gmail.com> - 2018-04-15 11:32 -0500
                Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2018-04-15 05:17 -0600
                Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> - 2018-04-15 12:59 +0000
                Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-04-15 15:03 +0000
          Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" Sjouke Burry <burrynulnulfour@ppllaanneett.nnll> - 2018-04-14 04:57 +0200
            Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" Chris Buckley <alan@sabir.com> - 2018-04-14 14:26 +0000
            Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-04-14 21:23 -0500
            Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-04-14 21:27 -0500
              Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" Cryptoengineer <treifamily@gmail.com> - 2018-04-14 22:10 -0500
                Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" peterwezeman@hotmail.com - 2018-04-14 20:47 -0700
                Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-04-14 23:21 -0500
                Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2018-04-15 05:23 -0600
                Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-04-14 23:18 -0500
                Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-04-15 05:07 +0000
                Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2018-04-15 01:57 -0500
                Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-04-15 15:05 +0000
                Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2018-04-15 14:22 -0600
                Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" Johnny1A <johnny1a.again@gmail.com> - 2018-04-23 21:01 -0700
                Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2018-04-15 14:49 -0600
                Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-04-15 22:36 +0000
                Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2018-04-19 04:11 -0700
                Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2018-04-19 04:55 -0700
                Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" Johnny1A <johnny1a.again@gmail.com> - 2018-04-23 20:55 -0700
                Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-04-19 13:27 +0000
                Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-04-19 09:50 -0700
                Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-04-19 20:09 +0000
                Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" D B Davis <g@crcomp.net> - 2018-04-20 23:43 +0000
                Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2018-04-20 16:48 -0700
                Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2018-04-20 20:20 -0700
                Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2018-04-21 00:40 -0500
                Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-04-21 00:10 +0000
                Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" D B Davis <g@crcomp.net> - 2018-05-05 14:12 +0000
                Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2018-04-19 10:30 -0700
                Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2018-04-19 04:46 -0700
                Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" Johnny1A <johnny1a.again@gmail.com> - 2018-04-23 20:21 -0700
                Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-04-24 04:27 +0000
                Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2018-04-23 23:11 -0600
                Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2018-04-24 05:14 +0000
                Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" Moriarty <blues95@ivillage.com> - 2018-04-23 22:21 -0700
                Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-04-24 13:33 +0000
                Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2018-04-24 08:21 -0700
                Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-04-24 15:56 +0000
                Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2018-04-24 19:05 -0600
                Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-04-25 03:59 +0000
                Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2018-04-24 21:54 -0700
                Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-04-24 14:38 -0500
    Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-04-13 19:38 +0000
  Re: xkcd, "turkish deslight" T Guy <tim.bateman1961@gmail.com> - 2018-04-14 06:39 -0700

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