Your first memory of a fireworks display? I WAS A LITTLE KID AND WE WERE SITTING ON TOP OF THE NEIGHBORS STATION WAGON
Is there any certain person or persons that come to mind in regard to this holiday? Maybe a nice memory from a while back? NOT PERSON. LIBBY, OUR 2ND BULLDOG WAS BORN JULY 4TH 2000. WE NAMED HER LADY LIBERTY - IT WAS SO APPROPRIATE. SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN 9 YRS OLD TOMORROW
Does your family put on their own "extravaganza" on the 4th? Whose yard gets blown up? NO, FIREWORKS ARE ILELGAL IN ILLINOIS
How far have you gone (distance) to see a fireworks display? NOT FAR AT ALL SINCE EVERY TOWN AROUND HERE HAS THEM
What is the best item for lighting them off? Matches? A candle? A bar-b-que click lighter? A cigarette? BLOW TORCH. MY BROTHER USED TO USE ONE
Have you seen the fireworks display at Disney's Cinderella's Castle? NOPE
Are you gonna bar-b-que somethin'? What? NOPE
How many people are coming over for the shindig? Or are you going over to their place? NONE
Does your state allow fireworks to be purchased by individuals? NOPE
Did you throw sparklers as a kid? YES
Ever tossed firecrackers at each other? YES
Did you ever have a block party (like we're doing)? NOT THAT I REMEMBER
Have you ever kissed under the fireworks? YEP
Have you ever "done it" during the fireworks? (I can see the face you're making right now!) NOPE
Did you just smile? NOPE
What did you do last year for this holiday? WENT TO A LOCAL FEST
Are you going to watch the Sci-Fi Channel's 4th of July Marathon? NO
Do you know what a "punk" is? YEP
Will you watch the Macy's Spectacular tomorrow night? NO
Is your lawn littered with burned out fireworks shells the next morning? NO
Who gets to clean up that mess? THERE IS NO MESS
What else would you want to tell us about the 4th, that I may have left out? DON'T DRINK AND DRIVE
How many times have I used the word "fireworks" in this survey?(haha! got ya!) 8 INCLUDING THIS QUESTION
I want everybully to think back to 4th's-gone-by and dredge up all those great memories for this one. Feel free to expound in as much detail as you like. This is gonna be a great holiday!! Have you got a stash (of fireworks) at your house right now? I'm not telling! Anyway, hands on keyboards? Ready? GO!
Will you watch the fireworks at home or go out to a display? GO OUT
Do you listen/watch the Boston Symphony do "Stars and Stripes Forever" along with the fireworks in Boston? I DON'T LIVE IN BOSTON
Brain teaser: what's the true meaning of the 4th of July? OUR INDEPENDENCE FROM ENGLAND
What's the worst trick you've ever played on someone using fireworks? BLOWING OFF A BELT LOOP ON LEVIS
Who gets to light them off? WHOEVER HAS THE BIC
Is/are your bully/bullies scared and duck for cover during the booms? NO
What's your favorite firework? Rockets? Aerial Bombs? Roman Candles? Fountains? What? THE PRETTY ONES THAT EXPLODE AND DROP DOWN LIKE RAIN AND THE ONES THAT MAKE COOL THINGS LIKE HEARTS
Did you ever put a cherry bomb in someone's mailbox? NO
Tell us about the time somebully got injured or did something stupid with fireworks. NO ONE EVER DID
Did you know, if you empty a rum bottle (except for the dregs in the bottom) and seal the top and then run hot water on the closed bottle for a minute, it will build up pressure and you can remove the cap and ignite the opening of the bottle neck? (But you gotta move quick to do it right.)Yeah, I done it many times. Always a blue flame.
Sue
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