Oban Fireworks Hitch.

Due to a technical fault the Oban firework display which was supposed to last half an hour with a musical accompaniment, somehow set off all the foreworks at once and lasted only a minute. I feel sorry for a lot of the people there as Oban is the main town for miles around and a lot of people would have had to travel a large distance to attend the show.

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Leeds had there display friday night, They wouldnt pay the overtime to have it saturday..

Remember when we were young? Council had nothing to do with it. The young kids went out weeks before, hunting for anything made of wood that wasn't nailed down, so they could make a bonfire. A "Guy" was then made out of old clothes and straw and put in some poor un-suspecting mother's good pram and wheeled round the streets with 2 or 3 kids begging everybody for "A penny for the Guy!" Proceeds from that went to buy fireworks and all the locals from that area went along to watch. We used to put spuds in the dying embers for something to eat later on.
Changed days now.

Chumping we called it, All the wooden gates off the houses went, Outside toilet doors, the works, Always stood on a plank with a nail poking through too,

I got the cops to my door one time. We nicked all the wood off a brand new fence in the middle of nowhere. Cops knew where to look though.

Old Tyres, black smelly smoke. Over 60,000 people at Lewes Bonfire last night, we sat in a pub near by and watched, Dog slept right through.

There's always some mad feck who wants to pour petrol on it...

The Lone Ranger wrote:There's always some mad feck who wants to pour petrol on it...

That was me, Ex air force paint sprayer came to work at the garage, We said lets see if he had a sense of humour, Filled the stove up with all sorts, He lit it, And blew him off his feet, He wasnt there long,

Fill beer bottles up with petrol and sugar and lob them at fire.

We had a genius in our gang when we were kids. He could make bombs out of sugar and weed-killer. Don't know how we're all still alive.Crazy stuff...

The Lone Ranger wrote:Due to a technical fault the Oban firework display which was supposed to last half an hour with a musical accompaniment, somehow set off all the foreworks at once and lasted only a minute. I feel sorry for a lot of the people there as Oban is the main town for miles around and a lot of people would have had to travel a large distance to attend the show.

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My wife says this is like me, promise to last half hour but only lasts one minute. I don't know what she could possibly mean??

3rdforum wrote:

The Lone Ranger wrote:Due to a technical fault the Oban firework display which was supposed to last half an hour with a musical accompaniment, somehow set off all the foreworks at once and lasted only a minute. I feel sorry for a lot of the people there as Oban is the main town for miles around and a lot of people would have had to travel a large distance to attend the show.

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My wife says this is like me, promise to last half hour but only lasts one minute. I don't know what she could possibly mean??

Tell its coz she is so HOT, gets you off each time.

3rdforum wrote:

My wife says this is like me, promise to last half hour but only lasts one minute. I don't know what she could possibly mean??

Do you have a musical accompaniment as well D?

3rdforum wrote:

My wife says this is like me, promise to last half hour but only lasts one minute. I don't know what she could possibly mean??

Could be the musical accompaniment is too fast try a slow beat.

The Lone Ranger wrote:
Do you have a musical accompaniment as well D?

Just an OBOE and the odd Fiddle.

The Lone Ranger wrote:
Do you have a musical accompaniment as well D?

Well I've been known to hit a few high notes!

Topdog wrote:

3rdforum wrote:

My wife says this is like me, promise to last half hour but only lasts one minute. I don't know what she could possibly mean??

Tell its coz she is so HOT, gets you off each time.

She'd be wondering what I did wrong if I said that!

innit wrote:

3rdforum wrote:

My wife says this is like me, promise to last half hour but only lasts one minute. I don't know what she could possibly mean??

Could be the musical accompaniment is too fast try a slow beat.

I'd need one of those time keepy thingamajigs what do you callthem....... a metronome??

Topdog wrote:

The Lone Ranger wrote:
Do you have a musical accompaniment as well D?

Just an OBOE and the odd Fiddle.

Well, if she played my organ, I'd blow my trombone!

3rdforum wrote:

I'd need one of those time keepy thingamajigs what do you callthem....... a metronome??

Here's one...

Oban residents to get free fireworks show later this month from the company who mucked up.
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Load of fireworks going off round here tonight, might be cheaper after the 5th ?