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DaFinker

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Yeah, decade too early for me, but I had/have a ton of plastic soldiers set up in armies of the main combatants in WW2 :cool:
We did a garden in our backyard when I was a kid and would always get a delivery of dirt each year for it. Before we distributed it, I'd build my own "Navarone" in the dirt pile, get in the back of my dad's El Camino with my Crossman 766, to play sniper. Took the heads off of a few of them, and had a radioman (the thickest of them) that had a copper BB lodged in the middle of his chest. It was a warm time of year, so the plastic got a little more malleable and less brittle outside. :LOL:

There would be battles, usually involving golf or tennis balls, maybe dirt clods, and, occasionally, firecrackers. ;)

Of course now kids can get arrested or expelled from school for finger guns or biting a sandwich or poptart into an "L" shape.
 

EchoFoxtrot

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We did a garden in our backyard when I was a kid and would always get a delivery of dirt each year for it. Before we distributed it, I'd build my own "Navarone" in the dirt pile, get in the back of my dad's El Camino with my Crossman 766, to play sniper. Took the heads off of a few of them, and had a radioman (the thickest of them) that had a copper BB lodged in the middle of his chest. It was a warm time of year, so the plastic got a little more malleable and less brittle outside. :LOL:

There would be battles, usually involving golf or tennis balls, maybe dirt clods, and, occasionally, firecrackers. ;)
Boys will be boys eh :ROFLMAO:

I must have been 11-12 and my brother 5-6. We used fireworks in the sandbox to simulate artillery and mines with our GI Joe's. . . Until one of the neighbours told on us and we had to stop "Before we blew our fingers off" pff
 

Pixillin'

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Yeah, decade too early for me, but I had/have a ton of plastic soldiers set up in armies of the main combatants in WW2 :cool:
Yeah, WWII was still big when I was a kid. In the Southern Midwest it was almost an obsession still in the 70s. There was barely a time of day or night when at least one of the 5 TV channels wasn't showing a WWII movie. Of course there were still veterans of that one everywhere you looked back then.

Boys will be boys eh :ROFLMAO:

I must have been 11-12 and my brother 5-6. We used fireworks in the sandbox to simulate artillery and mines with our GI Joe's. . . Until one of the neighbours told on us and we had to stop "Before we blew our fingers off" pff
One afternoon, when the adults were all overfed and drunk we basically made an improvised grenade - emptied out a few hundred Black Cats worth of gunpowder into an old pop can, ran a long fuse down and then stuffed the rest with ... something, don't remember. Anyway, there were bits of Red Wagon everywhere and a small fire.
 

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EchoFoxtrot ... quick question ....

what does Wanished mean :unsure::ROFLMAO:

is that a foreign language for vanished ? :LOL:

sorry i had to mess with ya .. ya know :love:
 

DaFinker

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EchoFoxtrot ... quick question ....

what does Wanished mean :unsure::ROFLMAO:

is that a foreign language for vanished ? :LOL:

sorry i had to mess with ya .. ya know :love:
It's the Latin pronunciation of "vanished" (if "vanished were actually a Latin word...). He just forgot to use italics to show that it was a phonetic spelling of the word rather than the actual. ;)
 
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