HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!!!

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-07-04 02:48am

"Wang Chi: Here's to the Army and Navy and the battles they have won; here's to America's colors, the colors that never run.
Jack Burton: May the wings of liberty never lose a feather."

Knife · Post by **Knife** » 2003-07-04 03:18am

neoolong wrote:"Wang Chi: Here's to the Army and Navy and the battles they have won; here's to America's colors, the colors that never run.
Jack Burton: May the wings of liberty never lose a feather."

"Its all in the reflexes."

Agent Fisher · Post by **Agent Fisher** » 2003-07-04 11:51am

As a wise man once said "the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots."
I salute those men and women who have fallen for their country.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-07-04 12:29pm

That was funny. Every year during our forth of July celebrations the town fire department sets a small building they threw together on fire and then uses its equipment to put out the blaze. Generally there is some theme, in 1991 they had a propane fooled wooded oil well, they had the world trade center after the first attack, once it was the local 911 dispatch center. Well this time around it was just a house with two people sitting on the roof with fireworks.

So smoke starts coming out of the building and the fire department speeds around the parking lot to set up its massive ladder truck pluck them from the seven-foot high roof . Then they cut a hole through the 10x10 foot roof and back off, waiting for flames and nice thick black smoke to show up so there a more impressive show. Standard for this thing.

Well twenty minutes later where all still waiting for flames, I'm joking with my best friend and had been for some time that they should throw a 55 gallon drum of gasoline in there to put on a real show. Well, frustrated by the wait a fireman approaches half concealing a gas can. He walks around the back, one side is part open. Suddenly flames appear and he trots off. However the flames immediately disappear, leaving only small amounts of smoke. So he scurries back out, you can kind of hear him pouring out the whole can and suddenly the flames are about five feet high coming out of the hole in the roof and pouring out of eves. Three house lines then crush the flames with some strange kind of foam for wood fires. It's also cool to see the volunteer fire department of a town of 6000 running around with multiple FLIR units that are probably more advanced then what the original M1 carried.

All very amusing. the opposite happened back when they had the propane oil well, the flames where so large they had to reel out extra hoses and turn down the pressure.

Solid Snake · Post by **Solid Snake** » 2003-07-04 12:43pm

Knife wrote:
For the patriots who fought for our independence, and the patriots who continue to defend us to this day. Thank you.
Your welcome.

May the young in Iraq, Afganistan, Korea, Yugaslavia, Japan, Germany, England (gotta watch those guys), and locations undisclosed,

Watch your back, and Godspeed.

I say also say, you're welcome.

And for the troops out there right now, who could celebrate the 4th with a live firefight, come back, alive and in one piece, ok?
...God Bless America...

Cal Wright · Post by **Cal Wright** » 2003-07-04 01:01pm

Happy Fourth of July folks!

I am proud to be an American! For anyone questioning that, I say this. I've made mistakes, we've all made mistakes. Some people say we shouldn't be ashamed of ourselves. But I say we should be as proud of our mistakes as our achievements. For both help us to learn and to grow as a people and a nation. So to this, I am proud. In a way, it proves I am a person. A living person who wakes up each morning and makes decisions either for good or for bad. God damnit I am proud to be a fucking American. I salute any and all millitary past, present and future. ¤§¤

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-07-04 01:21pm

Bloody colonials, get back in the Commonwealth.

C'mon, we'll give you free warm beer for life!

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-07-04 01:26pm

*Plays Springsteen*

Lonestar · Post by **Lonestar** » 2003-07-04 03:05pm

I ran 'Battlestations' on the Fourth of July at boot Camp last year. At the ceremony afterwards they played "I'm proud to be an American."

Wasn't a Dry eye in the room, I tell you.

"If tomorrow all the things were gone,
I’d worked for all my life.
And I had to start again,
with just my children and my wife..."

Oberleutnant · Post by **Oberleutnant** » 2003-07-04 03:13pm

Well, uhh . . .

Happy 4th of July to you guys on the other side of the puddle.

Arrow · Post by **Arrow** » 2003-07-04 08:11pm

Happy 4th, everyone.

Post by **Coyote** » 2003-07-04 08:13pm

WooHoo! Good ol' USA, I love my home and I'm proud to serve her. We may not always be perfect but who the hell is, anyway? Damn fine Constitution, damn fine Bill O' Rights, and damn fine ideals.

Now it's time to get drunk, then start lighting fires and playing with explosives. It's great living in this country!

("Gawd, the Yanks'll be insufferable for the weekend! More so than usual!"

)

Saurencaerthai · Post by **Saurencaerthai** » 2003-07-04 08:15pm

And a fine 4th to you all!!! Don't get too much money stolen by carnies at the carnival!!

FaxModem1 · Post by **FaxModem1** » 2003-07-05 01:05am

Its offical, were now 227 years old. And not a wrinkle on her.

I lost 2 bucks to carnies

God bless our soldiers, may they come back in one piece.

I never got a hot dog either

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2003-07-05 01:09am

I've only heard one explosion today. Curious.

Mitth`raw`nuruodo · Post by **Mitth`raw`nuruodo** » 2003-07-05 01:18am

XaLEv wrote:I've only heard one explosion today. Curious.

I've been helping wake up the neighborhood with the biggest and loudest fireworks i've seen available to consumers.

There's this one tube that does nothing but emit a small shower of sparks and a REALLY FUCKING LOUD BOOM, pause, repeat for a longer time, pause, and just when you think it's over, it emits its ear-piercing boom for a solid 20 seconds. I still hear ringing in my ears (one started to go off before I was done lighting others)

Enforcer Talen · Post by **Enforcer Talen** » 2003-07-05 01:23am

I was at boston pops.

that r0ck0r3d.

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2003-07-05 01:34am

I find it ironic that so many americans are so patriotically narcissitic as to believe that 1812 was written about the war of 1812. Simpletons.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-07-05 01:38am

XaLEv wrote:I've only heard one explosion today. Curious.

Sucks for you. At one point I could see two separate displays from my roof in addition to two others, which happened at other times.

IRG CommandoJoe · Post by **IRG CommandoJoe** » 2003-07-05 01:44am

SyntaxVorlon wrote:I find it ironic that so many americans are so patriotically narcissitic as to believe that 1812 was written about the war of 1812. Simpletons.

You mean the 1812 Overture?

Alex Moon · Post by **Alex Moon** » 2003-07-05 02:08am

WOOHOO!!! Happy Fourth of July

We're proof once again that raw squirrel meat and whisky beat tea and crumpets anyday.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2003-07-05 07:37pm

I didn't have anything against 4 of July until Bill Pullman decreed that it should be considered a worldwide celebration of the Independence Day from aliens we never depended from in the first place

Darth Gojira · Post by **Darth Gojira** » 2003-07-06 07:54am

Went to the Taste of Chicago

, cruised the Field Museum

, and then went back home to kick some Aztec ass

. All while imagining a "Braveheart vs. Gladiator" thread

. (As you can see, I forgot to take my pill that day)

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-07-06 09:46pm

[grumbles] I got drunk off my ass, but that made me happy. I is a happy drunk.

But I hate holidays. They should go away. All of them.
Except maybe Halloween. That one I can tolerate.
~ver

Raptor 597 · Post by **Raptor 597** » 2003-07-06 10:55pm

IRG CommandoJoe wrote:
SyntaxVorlon wrote:I find it ironic that so many americans are so patriotically narcissitic as to believe that 1812 was written about the war of 1812. Simpletons.
You mean the 1812 Overture?

Why yes. *Rings a church bell over your head*