A few years ago for November the 5th...
...my mate Steve had a bonfire party. It was only a small gathering; him, his girlfriend and her daughter, along with me, my (then) girlfriend and her daughters, just having a couple of drinks and a handful of fireworks.

We let off a couple of sparkly things, then it was time for... the rockets! Steve had bought some fairly large ones and they looked like they were going to be pretty impressive.

Reading the packet, we found that we needed to prop them in a tube before lighting (as with most rockets, I guess).

Problem. We had no tube immediately to hand, so we lightly wedged the rocket into a hole in the ground. Wiggling it about a bit so that it was nice and loose we congratulated each other on our ingenuity and lit the fuse.

Retreating to a safe(ish) distance we then watched in mild consternation as the small orange glow of the fuse became a furious jet of sparks, accompanied by a loud whooshing noise, but no movement whatsoever.

Finally, the sparks ceased and we were treated to a moment's peace before there was the loudest BANG! that I've ever heard, and we were all showered with sparks.

We went and found a tube after that =)
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Fri 21 Dec 2007, 12:42, 4 replies)

fuck me
fuck me .....is that the best you can do?
I can think of a hundred stupider things, like dressing as Dandini from Cinderella for your wedding forinstance.
( porky, Fri 21 Dec 2007, 13:08, closed)

Ah we do that....
every year cos we're pissed. this year we blew up 4 on the ground before we gave in and got a vodka bottle.
( Peej, Fri 21 Dec 2007, 14:09, closed)

Haha porky =)
No, there'll be many more I'm sure...

Dandini from Cinderella?
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Fri 21 Dec 2007, 14:25, closed)

Yeowch
I had a tube, but it was unstable. I nearly set a shed on fire!
( jim_bob can herd cats., Sat 22 Dec 2007, 9:07, closed)