#209479 - 02/09/13 02:45 PM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
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old hand
Registered: 11/13/11
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Loc: Lancaster, UK
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Outside's a monotonous drizzle
With clouds of a boring, dull grizzle
I felt near to despair,
So I lit up a flare
And a sparkler to watch them all fizzle.
Dunno if you have 'sparklers' your side of the pond? They're a silvery-grey, bullrush-shaped blob on the end of a wire, which you light up and they burn with a bright, sparkling light as you wave them around. Great fun! Kids like me love them.
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#209483 - 02/09/13 07:59 PM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 06/23/08
Posts: 8429
Loc: Land of the Flat Water
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Probably illegal? Could be but we are so behind the
rest of the world that I would not know. But I saw
some last July Fourth.
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#209486 - 02/10/13 02:35 AM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
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Registered: 06/05/10
Posts: 1554
Loc: Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi
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Outside's a monotonous drizzle
With clouds of a boring, dull grizzle
I felt near to despair,
So I lit up a flare
And a sparkler to watch them all fizzle.
"What a strange thing! To be alive beneath cherry blossoms" _________________________ Kobayashi Issa (Poems)
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#209492 - 02/10/13 01:53 PM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 06/24/02
Posts: 7210
Loc: Vermont
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[quote=Rhubarb Commando]
Dunno if you have 'sparklers' your side of the pond?/quote]
Had 'em when I was a kid, but I haven't seen any in decades. Probably illegal now. Not illegal here. Actually they're one of the few types of fireworks that can be bought at a regular store, such as a grocery store around the 4th of July. WE bought several boxes this year and still have some around. Lit a few the other night at a party!
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#209495 - 02/10/13 04:19 PM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
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Registered: 05/10/10
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Loc: Alaska
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#209496 - 02/10/13 05:31 PM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 08/06/01
Posts: 6786
Loc: Worcester, MA
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Either way - sparklers are the last remnant of legal fireworks in many places in New England, or at least here ( = Massachusetts). Anything else you hear around here- and there is plenty - was probably imported from the South, or perhaps China.
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#209498 - 02/10/13 06:27 PM
Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 06/24/02
Posts: 7210
Loc: Vermont
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Just an offhand, cynical remark. No reason to believe it's true. heh no worries!
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