After watching Western and other adventure movies back in the day I grew up thinking nitro, quicksand, one-card draws, dance hall girls, and straight shots of whiskey would be a big problem. As it turned out, my only issue was modern-day dance hall girls. Way more destructive than nitro and all the others put together.
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
The one where the old dynamite was sweating out nitro glycerine....
Seriously, I seem to vaguely recall some old movie or TV show where that was part of the storyline... Anybody remember it or know?
think John Wayne was in it.
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
With the movies and tv shows I watched as a kid, I really thought nitroglycerin and quick sand would be much bigger problems in adulthood than they turned out to be.
He would build a shaped charge out of "glycerin". He said it would give you a hell of a headache!
Jim; Good afternoon my cyber friend, I trust that this finds you and your fine family well.
A quick story about headaches and nitro....
My late father had an "interesting" sense of humor as well as ongoing heart issues so he carried a Nitro puffer.
We were up tooling around the mountains hunting one fine BC fall afternoon when he began to feel slightly unwell.
Of course I began to pilot the rig down towards home, but he said he'd just take a quick shot of Nitro and see if that made him feel any different, which he did.
Shortly after, he muttered that it wasn't working, took another quick shot of it and then handed it to me - while I'm still driving mind you Jim....
He says something akin to, "Here take a quick shot son, I don't think it's working".
So I did.
Immediately Jim, it was as if someone large, say someone who could seesaw with yourself, had stuck my head in a vice and was endeavoring to round out the square corners!!!
Needless to say I stopped the truck Jim and when in the fullness of time I could again open my eyes, I recall Dad chuckling and saying that it must be working okay, both because of my reaction and he was feeling better now.
Honestly I do not recall if we went home after that or exactly what transpired.
But the instant headache, that much I recall with immense clarity.
Such was hunting with my late father sometimes and that likely explains why folks find me a tad "quirky" sometimes as well.
“Today the safe-breaker no longer requires those beautifully fashioned, delicate yet powerful tools which were formerly both the admiration and the despair of the safe manufacturer. For the introduction of nitroglycerine, ‘soup’ in technical parlance, has not only obviated onerous labor, but has again enabled the safe-cracking industry to gain a step on the safe-making one. The modern ‘yeggman,’ however, is often an inartistic, untidy workman, for it frequently happens that when the door suddenly parts company with the safe it takes the front of the building with it. The bombardment of the surrounding territory with portions of the Farmers’ National Bank seldom fails to rouse from slumber even the soundly-sleeping tillers of the soil.” —Scientific American, January 1856
Not a movie but worth sharing.
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