You were caned at some point in your youth ?
MA

> On Nov 26, 2008, at 4:24 AM, apptech wrote:
>
>>>> this method can also be unreliable and the delay between mixing and
>>>> ignition can vary greatly due to factors such as particle size and
>>>> ambient
>>>> temperature.
>
>>> So unreliable that I could have injured or even killed my  
>>> secondary-school
>>> headmaster with it, in his own office. A story for another day :-)
>
>> Oh, come on, do tell ...
>>
>> This can only out-do Olins story of getting everyone to flush all the
>> toilets at once, when he was at the University Radio Station.
>
> Time does not allow me to tell it with the detail it deserves.
> Ask again in 3 months.
> Or the short version may suffice.
>
> It involves the school smoking club (clandestine), the school's arch  
> trouble
> getter into er (not me) (he ended up doing time for safe cracking in  
> years
> to come), one of the school's two resident bomb makers (not  
> clandestine
> enough), the head master and a cast of dozens. Said unreliably non- 
> igniting
> permanganate and glyerol fused device got as far as the headmaster's  
> desk,
> some while before I ... er said bomb maker did. I would have  
> thought  that
> safing (aka dismantling) a bomb of some potential on the headmasters
> blotter, in his presence, would have been grounds for expulsion, or
> suspension, or reprimand and certainly for caning. It  
> wasn't. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> .
>
> Is this yours?
> Yes sir.
> Take it away. Don't let me see it again.
> !
>
> There was some history behind that that probably saved m... er said  
> bomb
> maker .
>
> Anon ...
>
> R
>
>
>


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