re: #98 avanti

He was far from a expert. I could do a better job even without a google search. As a matter of fact, I would have probably been put in jail for the stuff I did as a teenager. You could buy all the ingredients to make gunpowder at my local drug store and we’d blow up trees and such for grins. I later moved on to model rockets though, using Jetex solid fuel.

Good that you had the sense to not have your fun in Times Square.