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"Montblack" <Y4-NOT...4monty4blacky@yvisiy.com> wrote
> As kids, we would wait for a calm dark night to go out into the street
> with our "farmer matches" and a straw. We'd "shoot" the matches out the
> straw, up into the still night air, then wait to see where they landed.
> Hours of fun. Pops would come out, shoot up a few himself, say, "neat -
> make sure you watch out for cars," and return inside ...leaving us kids
> alone outside, to play with matches. :-)
We found that if you wrapped aluminum foil over the tip, (broke off most of
the wood first) then shaped the aluminum over the back a little like a
rocket nozzle, you could shoot them a good distance. Just need heat on the
tip to get it started.
--
Jim in NC
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