“Kids, don’t try this at home”
Is there any male of any age that hears that and says “Oh, OK, I’ll stay away from that, then”
Don’t try that at home is practically a COMMAND to try it at home.
Fortunately, shows like Mythbusters have a bigger budget than I do, so I’m not likely to rent one of the Blue Angels to see if sonic booms can break glass.
But if i had that kind of scratch, you can bet I would.
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I’m one of those to whom, “You can’t do that.” is a moral challenge. Before I was married, I rented a small shack that started life as a bigger shack and was told by the City of Seattle that I needed electricity and tried to force me to buy it. I lived in that shack for two years warmed by a homemade wood burning stove and entertained by a battery radio and a girl friend whose interest was piqued by the fact that I neither had nor wanted electric lights. Making love in a small shack illuminated by a kerosene lamp and heated by a small wood burning stove can be a very uplifting experience. Especially in the middle of a major metropolitan area. All because some officious ass told me I couldn’t and threatened to enforce his will by force and threat of violence.
Dunno about breaking windows but it can rattle them.
As to the don’t try this, most if the dumb things I did try no one ever said it was a bad idea till the dust settled.
Maybe I need to hand out with a little smarter crowd.
What I want my last words to be:
“The money’s in the…”
What they will probably be:
“Hey, watch this!”
“You can’t do that!”
“Watch me.”
“Ok, we’ll try this over at Bob’s house instead….”
If I had a troupe of baboons, a hundred pounds of Silly Putty, and a dozen sets of snorkels and swim fins, you’d better cool believe I’d try this at home.
You’d better have a big home.
I always assumed that pulling shrapnel out of your own epidermis with needle-nose pliers was a rite of passage…
You, Mr. B, and another friend all have more than one story that begins ‘I didn’t know the wind was blowing that way before the explosion’…. Or ‘And there was that time when I caught on fire’…. Or ‘Catastrophic metal failure can be a very interesting experience’….
SO of course you’re going to try ‘this’ (whatever it is) at home.
I’d join your production team.
Oh – one thing we *wouldn’t* do is loft a cannonball into someone’s house.
Unless that house was the target.