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From: davef@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Dave Fiske)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: 9-volt / rocket launcher?
Message-ID: <5257@brspyr1.BRS.Com>
Date: 13 Jan 89 22:26:27 GMT
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In article <368@avsd.UUCP>, childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers) writes:
> In article <2617@ddsw1.MCS.COM> benfeen@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Ben Feen) writes:
> 
> > ... So I would never actually build a bomb, not even paint somebody's
> >chair with ammonium tri-iodide.
> 
> Interestingly enough, my brother tells me this is a very popular gag at
> MIT, except there they put it under toilet seats ...

In John McPhee's biography of Ted Brown, who worked on our nation's
nuclear weapons program, it is mentioned that Brown used to dab some
ammonioum tri-iodide in the keyholes of men in the dorm who were in the
habit of staying out late (with women, presumably).  Soon as they put
their keys to the lock--BANG.  Everybody on the floor knew so-and-so
had just dragged in.

Just goes to show, you CAN be a prankster in college, and still be
trusted to work on nuclear weapons.

(Also, we used to concoct this in junior high, but we were nice--all we
ever blew up was filter paper.)
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