Ah yes MD 20/20, the one time I attempted a back flip. Good times, good times.
On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 10:55 AM Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Oh gosh. I remember MD 20/20. It was made by Mogen David (the "MD"). We all
> called it Mad Dog 20/20. And "20/20" was what you could not see after
> drinking it.
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> On 2/9/2021 8:09 PM, Steve Jones wrote:
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> the most we had was phone call and pages (before drug dealers took over
> pagers, tons of people around here had them) that the quarries were blasting.
> We had a tragic incident where a lady was out mowing and didnt get the page.
> a chunk of stone happened to fly almost a mile and croaked her off her riding
> mower. Im guessing it didnt matter what that lady did that day, it was her
> last regardless.
> There are three sheds at one of our quarries, all us youth always knew that
> one of the sheds had the boomsticks, I know that there were a lot of plans
> hatched (usually with MD 20/20 or Mickeys) to appropriate the goods, but none
> came to fruition. I assume obituaries would have been in order had anybody
> actually acted on the plans.
>
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 8:57 PM Chuck Macenski <ch...@macenski.com> wrote:
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>> I saw those commercials on TV in NW Indiana / the Chicagoland area.
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 7:58 PM Chuck McCown via AF <af@af.afmug.com> wrote:
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>>> I listened to a This American Life podcast about him last night.
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>> On Feb 9, 2021, at 6:45 PM, Jaime Solorza <losguyswirel...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>
>>> You should read up on our local celebrity true life detective Jay J.
>>> Armes...his hands were blown off by those left by railroad tracks...
>>> He rescued Marlon Brando's son who was kidnapped using Cheater Bella , a
>>> Vietnam era helicopter pilot I believe from Baja California...he also
>>> started as an assassin on Hawaii Five 0...
>>> He was a pretty good county commissioner...
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 9, 2021, 4:59 PM Chuck McCown via AF <af@af.afmug.com> wrote:
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>>>> When I was young they had posters at grade school showing us what blasting
>>>> caps looked like and to tell a grup if we saw any. I think there may have
>>>> been tv commercials too. Just piqued my interest. Maybe it was due to
>>>> growing up in logging country in Oregon. Did they do this in other places
>>>> too?
>>>>
>>>> I found the lock open on an explosives locker at the county gravel pit and
>>>> played with caps and sticks of dynamite. I never had the guts to actually
>>>> try to set it off but I took them out and messed with them.
>>>>
>>>> Couple of farm kids in the area got into their dads caps and it killed one
>>>> of them and blinded the other.
>>>>
>>>> I wonder when this ceased to be a thing?
>>>>
>>>> The big display boards they brought into JR High showing all the different
>>>> kinds of drugs piqued my interest too...
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