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Originally Posted by billyboy
remember the Beechams pills sold n little paper twists? Used to buy like that in Dieppe, only they were not .Beechams pills but little explosives. so with a few of them and a rubber band to launch them we could, under the cover of darkness keep the night watchman on the next ship on his toes. Just dropping one on the deck would result in a bang heh heh heh
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Not familiar with them, but in a former life, when at the church youth club dances, after they'd turned the lights down a bit, one of our number had a mixture wrapped up in paper which he would distribute around the dance floor. Expecially during a quick step, or a foxtrot, the shoes scraping over this unstable mixture would produce a stream of sparks and a crackling sound. I think it was a mixture of iodine and perhaps sodium sulphate. Could always catch the culprit by the iodine stains on the hands.
