Debunking Humor...

[JMartJr]

 

[Gary C]

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That was my first career choice. Terribly disappointed to discover it was fictional.

 

[Mendel]

That was my first career choice. Terribly disappointed to discover it was fictional.

Shoulda gone with "mad software mogul".
(John McAfee being the prototype, but there are others.)
Technically, that's mad computer scientist.

 

[Ann K]

Shoulda gone with "mad software mogul".
(John McAfee being the prototype, but there are others.)
Technically, that's mad computer scientist.

When my grandson was about ten or eleven, he had a "mad scientist" themed birthday party. My son in law brought home a number of lab coats for them all to wear, miscellaneous flasks with colored solutions, and a Van de Graaff generator that the department was throwing out. A hair-raisingly good time was had by all!

 

[Todd Feinman]

When I was 11 or 12 I was busy making flash powder with friends. A dangerous thing, but different times.

 

[Ann K]

When I was 11 or 12 I was busy making flash powder with friends. A dangerous thing, but different times.

I think that was about his age when my son got hold of some ammunition (source unknown), whacked a bullet with a hammer, and frightened himself when it went off and ricocheted off the basement walls. (I never heard the details of the story at the time because "Don't tell mom!") That's also about the age when he nearly set the garage on fire. I'm amazed so many kids actually made it to adulthood!

 

[Todd Feinman]

I think that was about his age when my son got hold of some ammunition (source unknown), whacked a bullet with a hammer, and frightened himself when it went off and ricocheted off the basement walls. (I never heard the details of the story at the time because "Don't tell mom!") That's also about the age when he nearly set the garage on fire. I'm amazed so many kids actually made it to adulthood!

OMG! I did that too when I was a little kid!
I was living at my great grandparents house (born 1900), and I got a bullet and hit it repeatedly with a hammer till it went off. I also rafted at a nearby waterway where many kids drowned and got whipped with a belt for it.

Darwin Awards all 'round!!!

 

[MonkeeSage]

OMG! I did that too when I was a little kid!
I was living at my great grandparents house (born 1900), and I got a bullet and hit it repeatedly with a hammer till it went off. I also rafted at a nearby waterway where many kids drowned and got whipped with a belt for it.

Darwin Awards all 'round!!!

We did that too with an unfired shotgun shell we found in a field. Being young dumb males, our first thought was clamp it in vice grips and hit it with a hammer until it explodes. Thankfully it didn't actually go off. After plan A failed we cut it open and tried to burn the gunpowder, but it was wet so it just fizzled.