A cyclist pistol

Philip · 21st December 2006, 06:52 AM

Vandoo,
We may be showing our age by fondly reminiscing about how we "reinvented the wheel" when we were kids (in your post you basically described a late medieval hand-cannon, if it weren't for the cherry bomb). Kids nowadays are too much into those silly electronic gadgets, and their parents are too darn protective anyway. We sure had fun back then, didn't we?

Fernando,
Did you do stuff like this when you were growing up in Portugal? My friends at the Irmandade do D.E.S. hall, older guys born in the Azores, said that there were men in the little villages who made their own rockets and bombs at home, and fired them off during the festas when the cortejo bearing the statues and church banners marched through the town. Azoreans are crazy anyway, on Terceira they have this "tourada a corda" which is street bullfighting, the bull is run through the village with strong men holding a rope so it won't go into the cantinas and houses while young guys impress their lady loves by playing it with jackets and open umbrellas.

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21st December 2006, 06:52 AM	#14
Philip Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: California Posts: 1,036	Vandoo, We may be showing our age by fondly reminiscing about how we "reinvented the wheel" when we were kids (in your post you basically described a late medieval hand-cannon, if it weren't for the cherry bomb). Kids nowadays are too much into those silly electronic gadgets, and their parents are too darn protective anyway. We sure had fun back then, didn't we? Fernando, Did you do stuff like this when you were growing up in Portugal? My friends at the Irmandade do D.E.S. hall, older guys born in the Azores, said that there were men in the little villages who made their own rockets and bombs at home, and fired them off during the festas when the cortejo bearing the statues and church banners marched through the town. Azoreans are crazy anyway, on Terceira they have this "tourada a corda" which is street bullfighting, the bull is run through the village with strong men holding a rope so it won't go into the cantinas and houses while young guys impress their lady loves by playing it with jackets and open umbrellas.