Early/mid 60s.

Post #294,295 by Silverlock 10/5/07 9:46:58 PM Reply	Early/mid 60s. My stepfather was courting my mother at the time and he was a chemistry major. He bought me a set that had some fun stuff in it. A couple of explosions and several stink bombs later it was confiscated. ----------------------------------------- Atheism is a religion in the same sense that not collecting stamps is a hobby.
Post #294,296 by Lily 10/5/07 11:40:11 PM Reply	In the 8th grade My best friend Jimmy Farsakian and I set his garage on fire while playing with his chemistry set. I miss Jimmy.
Post #294,314 by CRConrad 10/6/07 1:52:09 PM Reply	Wazzat supposed to come out the way it did? i.e, "Peace over his memory; fortunately the fire brigade were able to save the rest of the house before digging for his scorched remains among those of the garage"? Just wonderin', an' all... [link\|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode\|Christian R. Conrad] (I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.) Ah, the Germans: Masters of Convoluted Simplification. — [link\|http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/?p=1603\|Jehovah]
Post #294,316 by Another Scott 10/6/07 1:54:58 PM Reply	:-) I had similar questions.
Post #294,317 by Lily 10/6/07 2:04:32 PM Reply	Nope We lit up the bottle of alcohol used for the little bunsen burner to see what would happen and caught his garage on fire. We put it out ourselves with a hose, but oh, did we get in trouble! Now that I think about it, it was probably 6th grade, not 8th grade. In 8th grade we had moved on to neighborhood football and street hockey. I was the only girl. It didnt occur to me that I got tackled a lot more than anyone else. I was kinda naive. A late bloomer, you might say.
Post #294,329 by CRConrad 10/6/07 6:29:09 PM Reply	Oh, not all that late, I'd say... ...if you were already worth tackling all that much by eighth grade. Some girls "bloom" a lot later than that. :-) [link\|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode\|Christian R. Conrad] (I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.) Ah, the Germans: Masters of Convoluted Simplification. — [link\|http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/?p=1603\|Jehovah]
Post #294,357 by Lily 10/7/07 10:38:33 AM Reply	Re: Oh, not all that late, I'd say... chuckle That's not what I meant. I had the boobies. I just wasnt all that interested in boys yet, so I naturally assumed they weren't interested in me in "that way". It made me mad that they were. I just wanted to play football and burn things down. Matter of fact, I still want to play football and burn things down. Boys are confusing.
Post #294,299 by Andrew Grygus 10/6/07 1:18:41 AM Reply	I had a big double fold-out Gilbert set . . . . . but I enhanced it with stuff from a set at least a generation older I found in my grandparents basement - evidence that what you got in a chemistry set had already declined by the mid fifties. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #294,327 by a6l6e6x 10/6/07 5:52:24 PM Reply	Sounds like the set I bought in the 1950's. My parents tossed it after I left for college. I remember a Qualitative Chemistry lab where everyone was handed a different powder to test and identify. I identified the potassium permanganate on sight. Not enough hubris to just hand it back to the teacher. :) Alex Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law. -- Sophocles (496? - 406 BCE)
Post #294,332 by crazy 10/6/07 7:21:15 PM Reply	Where was your glycerin?
Post #294,344 by a6l6e6x 10/6/07 10:35:15 PM Reply	At this point, I'm not even sure it was in the kit. Alex Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law. -- Sophocles (496? - 406 BCE)

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