[AT] OT if you ever wondered what to do for friend who hasitall when his 60th birthday is coming.

[Al Jones]

Back then, dynamite was seen as a tool.  And a pretty effective one, if you 
knew how to use it!

Al

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From: "Mark Greer" <markagreer at embarqmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 10:12 PM
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Subject: Re: [AT] OT if you ever wondered what to do for friend who hasitall 
when his 60th birthday is coming.

> I've probably told this here before, but my neighbor up the street tells a
> story about dynamite that would NEVER happen today. Lawrence is 
> 70-something
> and has farmed all his life. When he was in high school his father called 
> in
> to town and ordered a case of dynamite from the local hardware to blast 
> some
> stumps out with. Larry G knows who they are (Johnson's in Orrville).
> Lawrence walked over to the hardware after school and picked up the case 
> of
> dynamite and then got on the school bus and took it home. If you tried 
> that
> today you'd be on the national news in no time flat.
> Mark
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "charlie hill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
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> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 6:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] OT if you ever wondered what to do for friend who has
> itall when his 60th birthday is coming.
>
>
> So much for the land of the free.  Can you imagine what would happen if we
> did that in the US these days?  Growing up I had a friend who's 
> grandmother
> gave him a case of dynamite for Christmas every year.   He rode around the
> country setting off dynamite like most of us did fire crackers.   Don't 
> mean
> to be political by this but things sure have changed more here than they
> apparently have in other places.
>
> Charlie
>
>
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