Dynamite is NOT a Candle

[Gabriel]

I used to keep the Preparation H next to the toothpaste.

 

[Alpo]

Pucker up?

 

[Dead Duck]

I used to keep the Preparation H next to the toothpaste.

I used Toms Toothpaste when it first came out.
Liked it so much I got Toms Shaving Cream too. With the shaving cream, you put just a dab in your palm and rub your hands together and it would foam up quite a bit. It was like concentrated stuff. Real strong.

Oh, and it also comes in a familiar tube.
Guess what happens when you brush your teeth with it?

 

[Ziggidy]

An M80 is NOT dynamite!! Just like a pistol and 200 rounds of ammo is NOT an arsenal, and a semi auto weapon is NOT a machine gun. STUPID MEDIA spoon feeding the sheepies

I'm going back to my old neighborhood many years ago. Back then the M80 and 1/4 stick were totally different. M80's (firecrackers) were closely equivalent to cherry bombs and silver solutes; none that were ever closely related to what we called the 1/4 stick, which was more powerful. Maybe that is not what it was, but that is what we called it. That's not fake.....just the way it was.

 

[Hkindiana]

I'm going back to my old neighborhood many years ago. Back then the M80 and 1/4 stick were totally different. M80's (firecrackers) were closely equivalent to cherry bombs and silver solutes; none that were ever closely related to what we called the 1/4 stick, which was more powerful. Maybe that is not what it was, but that is what we called it. That's not fake.....just the way it was.

What the old old timers called a "1/4 stick" WAS just an OVERSIZED M-80 filled with FLASH POWDER. The "1/4 stick" was just a marketing ploy to say that it was as LOUD as a 1/4 stick of dynamite. As I stated before, REAL dynamite requires a blasting cap to set it off.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

As I stated before, REAL dynamite requires a blasting cap to set it off.

Until it doesn't.

 

[LarryC]

Back in the 50"s the M80 was talked about as 1/4 stick of dynamite. As a teenage several of us would get together and buy a few. We would take them under a Bridge that passed over the Kankakee River in Northern Indiana. When a car approached, we would light one and toss it either in or on the edge of the water. It made a big enough bang that almost everyone stopped to check their tires.

I sure don't know how an M80 could ever be mistaken for a candle!

 

[Ziggidy]

When I was younger, the M80's were red and had a wick on the side of it. Many years later I worked of a place where UPS would make a daily stop. One year the driver asked if we wanted any "quarter sticks" and sure, we did. They were off white, few inches tall and about an inching diameter - the wick was on top, not the side. Looked nothing like a M80, not even close; and allot louder.

Granted, it may not have been a 1/4 of dynamite, but it certainly was louder and more powerful than the much smaller M80.

I will agree, I do not understand how anyone could mistaken any firework for a candle.

 

[Hkindiana]

Until it doesn't.

True, but a fuse and a match could NEVER set it off, just shock on OLD unstable dynamite

 

[russc2542]

When I was younger, the M80's were red and had a wick on the side of it. Many years later I worked of a place where UPS would make a daily stop. One year the driver asked if we wanted any "quarter sticks" and sure, we did. They were off white, few inches tall and about an inching diameter - the wick was on top, not the side. Looked nothing like a M80, not even close; and allot louder.

Granted, it may not have been a 1/4 of dynamite, but it certainly was louder and more powerful than the much smaller M80.

I will agree, I do not understand how anyone could mistaken any firework for a candle.

Much like mistaking real guns for toys, it happens when you live in a nanny state like CT with no exposure to either. like anything, knowledge comes from (responsible) education and experience, not abstinence, taboo, and ignorance.