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Message: <blockquote data-quote="alsih2o" data-source="post: 1250651" data-attributes="member: 4790">i had a junior year art project of taking any object less than 12 inches in any direction and increasing all of it's dimensions by 10. we got carried away and filled the school lobby with a 8 foot taco, a 8 foot pencil, a giant hamburger, a pink pearl eraser that could have been used as a sled, the english teachers glasses, a hall pass that looked like a blanket, 3 phillips head screws and a compass (the circle drawing kind) that was later used in an assault on a student (not by any of the creators).   ------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 days before graduation i was busted for setting off a "bomb" on the grounds.  we were arguing about how to best set off incendiaries and i mentioned a formula using pottasium permangenate and XXXXXXXX. when called on it we stole the materials form the lab and mixed them appropriately, with me being confident it would flame up in about 5 minutes.  i set up a sink full of water in my darkroom and had the device in a film can on a board stretched over it. when it started smoking, then flaming (within 15 seconds of my prediction) i turned the board up and dropped the device in the sink full of water. HOWEVER, pottsium permangenate is K MN O4! it makes its own oxygen to burn! so there it was in 6 inches of water, flaming and smoking and steaming. the darkroom filled quickly we were panicking, the smoke started to seep out under the door and everyone outside panicked.  the assistant principal gave me quite a lecture, he was mostly upset at the fact that we stole the materials but he was quite impresssed with the device and our gumpshun. he gave me stren lecture about how he could expel me, but he liked me and let me off. ah, good times.....i learned i could set off explosives in mall fountains from that episode. god, i was a horrible kid.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /></blockquote>

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