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Paulina
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No names were used.
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[Edited on 4-5-2007 by Paulina]
\"Well behaved women rarely make history.\" Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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Cypress
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Knew an ex-pogey boat captian with a missing index finger. He was tossing an m-80 out of the wheel house. Would make a school of pogies jump so the
purse boat could wrap 'em up. Blew up in his hand.
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DERN
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Gee Steve, didn't mean to ruffle your back hairs, but you couldn't have ratted yourself out any better. That was classic!
That was my dictation by the way, just Paulina's fingers typing.
You're forgetting the fact that I was there and witnessed the whole thing from start to finish. It's a good thing you had the posse that you did to
help calm down the situation on both parties behalf. Call me a liar if you want, but that is exactly how the whooooole story went down. I realize the
fact that people loose their memory with age, but I still have mine.
Just for fun let's test your memory on that particular trip!
( Insert Jeopardy theme song here)
1.) What time of year were we there and why?
2.) Who all was with us?
3.) What was the weather like?
4.)What was the name of that downstairs Hooker bar we visited? (extra points cause I can't remember either)
5.) What taco stand did we eat at prior to going back to San Miguel?
6.) Who met up with you at K58?
7.) Who won money on the pool? (hint for question #1)
I think you get the point. The story was straight from the start. I'll post under my name from now on so you won't have to jump Paulina's ars. I
fully expect retaliation but I'll still sleep good tonight. If you look at the big picture, and based on the questions asked, it would make for a
great trip report!
See you in "the" baja!
DERN
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DENNIS
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I'm waiting for an answer with directions to #4.
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jerry
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i agree sharks
a lot of simple pleasures are being demented by people who are getting old i may gain in age but
ill never grow up; ill never grow up; ill never grow up;
and you cant make me grow up
matter of fact im shrinking, shrinking, shrinking, but ill never grow up
jerry and judi
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Sharksbaja
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DON\'T SQUINT! Give yer eyes a break!
Try holding down [control] key and toggle the [+ and -] keys
Viva Mulege!
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Packoderm
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Just an old Baja fireworks memory of mine
On my very first trip to Baja, we bought a bunch of fireworks from a roadside store just south of Ensenada. Further down the peninsula, we stopped
when we saw a great big dead cow on the side of the road. It was lying on its back with its mouth wide open. We tried to stick an
M-something-or-another the size of the cardboard cylinder of a toilet paper roll in the cow's mouth and then light it. But the cow was just too
stinky. We couldn't get close enough. There don't seem to be enough dead cows in the wintertime - the only time I get to travel to Baja these days, so
I may not get the chance to see how it would work out. Also, the lack of dead cows in the wintertime ruins the fun of being able to spray paint
graffiti on them such as "bite me," "eat me," and "don't have a cow" and stuff like that for all the drivers-by to see. You have to have both white
and black spray paint in order to do that because some cows are white and some are black.
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Sharksbaja
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See!
That's the "real" reason vacationers carry spray paints with them!
Pack, that's disgusting!
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Baja Bernie
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Darn Dern!
I like your story best and you should stick with it! One typical late night scene at da beach in Baja with a bunch of grown (?) ups playing
kids.
4Baja, We all know it didn't happen.........just a case of Derns darn imagination..........but then he does have witnesses.
My smidgen of a claim to fame is that I have had so many really good friends. By Bernie Swaim December 2007
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MrBillM
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Bib Bang Boobs
As I have said often to others regarding Adults (including Fireworks lovers that I know), when it comes to the Big Bangs that do nothing other than
make noise, I give the user the benefit of the doubt and figure they're just another A-Hole. The alternative would be that they're retarded.
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viabaja
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Bajaeng - keep em on the Pacific side!! After reading these posts, you should be getting the drift!!
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Lee
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Setting off fireworks or flying kites
I don't get it. Light off firecrackers, get a kick out of the explosion, revel in the light display, and I'm an a**hole. Fly kite's that do no
more than titter around in the air, and it's a Kodak moment.
My guess is that Mexican's love the sound of fireworks as much as I do. Can't imagine Mex parent's objecting to the danger of fireworks around
their children, either.
Call me retarted but I'm happy fireworks are used openly in Baja.
Do it in Colorado, and you'll be arrested. More PC happy marooons with nothing better to do than point out the dangers of gun powder.
Viva Mexico.
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DanO
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I'm still waiting for Max to post about his gigantic homemade roman candles. Anyway, IMHO, if used with appropriate safeguards, fireworks are good
clean fun. The two main things I avoid are (1) holding anything in my hand and lighting it (duh!) and (2) setting things off after the neighbors have
retired for the evening. That being said, most of my neighbors down south are avid pyrotechnicians, including one family from Idaho who are devout
mormons. Man, they love to blow stuff up (I hate to imagine what they'd be like if they drank coffee and tequila).
Then there's my buddy who for a New Year's show sprayed down my old Christmas tree with diesel and gas, took it down to the beach, and secured what
looked like a half stick of dynamite to its base. He tethered some 60 lb test to a rock behind the tree, secured the other end at a station on the
cliff above, threaded a piece of PVC pipe onto the line, and taped a bottle rocket to the pipe. Just a simple matter then to light the bottle rocket
and launch the pipe down the line. It ignited about halfway down, zipped into the tree and exploded, igniting the fuel and the tree and when the fire
reached the bottom, the half stick of dynamite. Truly an impressive display, and much fun was had by all (I recall a few shouts of "encore,
encore!").
\"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.\" -- Frank Zappa
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Sharksbaja
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Dag nabit Luke!! Light a nuther one!
My oh my! You just never know.....
Panties in a twist?
Quite frankly, people need to offgas occasionally. You stiffs with the sensitive lives most definitely should stay home , lock the doors and pray.
Pray that those noises are for fun and not for intentional harm. You know, like in urban L.A. where firecracers have been replaced by the 9mm. And you
can buy those any time of year. In fact they are more "correct" in L.A. than a cherry bomb. Carry a cherry bomb these days and you may be called a
terrorist and go to prison, but carry a 9mm and a pocket full of bullets and you're just considered a normal resident.
For defense against A-holes with m-80s what else.
Not really funny but I'll bet Mr. Bill has an opinion on that!
Dang I love these emoticons.
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Barry A.
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FIRE CRACKERS, and such-------
Let me ponder this subject for a while---------seems to me that compared to what me and my friends did as children these noise-makers you can get
today are fun, and pretty harmless if handled by normally intelligent folks (duh)-------and they are really exciting!!!
We used to sneak down to where the Navy Seals (then UDT) trained and gather up the electric blasting caps left by them on the beach, bringing them
home, wiring them up, and attaching them to our electric train transformers and blowing up our play forts, and such. That was great fun, and we all
still have our body-parts, as far as I know. Bet you could not do THAT today. Those blasting caps were REALLY noisy!!!!
Ahhhhhh, the things we survived before OSHA. Today, what is left for the kids to do for kicks------ drugs????? I prefer our explosives for getting a
"thrill", and we ALL need a thrill now and then-----even now. 
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thebajarunner
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By Popular Demand...
o.k. rocket men,
here is my thread from last year on really, really, really serious stuff.
engage at your peril
http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=17208#pid1475...
also, for the query on buying rockets in Ensenada, they are available at several of the junky tourist places on the tourist strip, try the East side
of the street, a couple blocks north of El Cid.
and, negotiate if buying more than one or two...
(ask Elgatoloco about the time our camp sent rockets over his beach camp- and we didn't even know each other)
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MrBillM
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Suspicions Confirmed
I'm glad to see once again my evaluation of the "Big Bang" crowd confirmed.
Over the years, I've found myself dealing with LOUD, OFFENSIVE, PROFANE Clods letting off their "Gas" in ways determined to offend others around them
and display their inability to cope with the effects of Alcohol in a civil manner. Clearly, while they've heard the phrase that "Your Rights END
where mine begin", they give it NO serious consideration, determined to act as if they haven't progressed past age 10. In the U.S., I've dealt with
them by calling the law or confronting them with the ubiquitous 9mm or 45acp. In Mexico, it's been a little different and, sometimes, patience has
been required to confront the situation, but I've always found a way, some of which I'd rather not be known.
There is NO excuse for FUN Behavior which interferes with the rights and enjoyments of others. PERIOD.
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Barry A.
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Wow------------This time, Mr. Bill, you have gone wayyyyyyyyy to far in your wide sweeping condemnation of others---------
In general I support what you say here, but there are many, many exceptions. I will not go into the dozens of things that "people" do that tend to
offend my senses. When they happen, I just suck up and get over it as I really do not have the right to impose my eccentricities and unreasonable
standards on others, in my opinion. It is called "getting along"!!!!
My answer is to spend much of my time in semi-isolation with folks that tend to have similar standards, and that do NOT offend each other. Now if
some yahoo invades that solitude, then he will have to deal with our condemnation, but to make such wide sweeping comments like you just made is
anti-social, it appears to me.
What do you think?
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Sharksbaja
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I think a gun brandished to intimidate someone can get you killed. For a firecracker. That is some serious hate!
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shari
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Whoahhhh...lots of weird stuff in THIS thread! Anyway, this is my favorite BIG BANG story....where I lived in Guerrero Negro was a cool barrio with
tons of kids who loved playing tricks on everyone, especially the nasty old fart who lived across the street from me whose nickname was "culero". My
favorite rascally amigo came to borrow some tinfoil but me being afraid he was gonna make a crack pipe asked What for? and he came in and showed me
what it was for...he crinkled up the tinfoil and stuffed it in a litre pastic pop bottle then poured some muriatic acid in it, put the cap on and
threw it in the guys tin garbage can...WHOOOOAH KABAAMMM...it was the loudest bang I'd ever heard and we laughed like hell! I hate loud bangs,
firecrackers etc. but I must admit, I loved that bang.
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