Phil, will you stop doing this, you are rattling so many old memories. Good god, yes Jetex engine stuff, I remember that. You'll be on about tiger nuts and frozen jubblies next.....

Frozen Jubblies were wierd because you had to bite the corner off the cardboard thing, and then suck the stuff out through the ice crystals...

My most favourity motor was the Atom 35, using Jetex smoke pellets for propulsion. It used to make balsawood gliders fly well when screwed to the base and the ignita wick was lit.

I mostly used the motor pellets for pop-pop boats!
[edit]Noo, that was some kind of pellets soaked in meths, wasnt it![/edit]

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One lab chemical I played with was a variation on nitrosoamine. This was a colourless liquid which turned venal blood red when mixed with urine.

We tried it out in the female toilets at Redlands teacher training college, Bristol, in the mid 1960s.

ROTFLMAO...you very, very bad, bad boy!

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One lab chemical I played with was a variation on nitrosoamine. This was a colourless liquid which turned venal blood red when mixed with urine.

We tried it out in the female toilets at Redlands teacher training college, Bristol, in the mid 1960s.

ROTFLMAO...you very, very bad, bad boy!

What I did not mention, TGG, was the tightly stretched cling film we placed across the bowl, after dropping in the chemical, then lowering the toilet seat.

A double wammy

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Regarding Phil's question - I used to make lots of nitrogen triiodide by dissolving iodine crystals in 88 ammonia for 2 hours, with lots of shaking. Drain, wash and store in wet paper towels.

Aah, that was it.
You ended up with purple liquid with sludge in the bottom, which you put on the towels. Then gently drop down the 7-storey stairwell.

One lab chemical I played with was a variation on nitrosoamine. This was a colourless liquid which turned venal blood red when mixed with urine.

We tried it out in the female toilets at Redlands teacher training college, Bristol, in the mid 1960s.

And did you get expelled?

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One lab chemical I played with was a variation on nitrosoamine. This was a colourless liquid which turned venal blood red when mixed with urine.

We tried it out in the female toilets at Redlands teacher training college, Bristol, in the mid 1960s.

ROTFLMAO...you very, very bad, bad boy!

What I did not mention, TGG, was the tightly stretched cling film we placed across the bowl, after dropping in the chemical, then lowering the toilet seat.

A double wammy

And did you get expelled?

Not likely. They never found the perps.

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Frozen Jubblies were wierd because you had to bite the corner off the cardboard thing, and then suck the stuff out through the ice crystals...

True, but it was the biggest Ice lolly you could get for fourpence anywhere!!

Frozen Jubblies were wierd because you had to bite the corner off the cardboard thing, and then suck the stuff out through the ice crystals...

True, but it was the biggest Ice lolly you could get for fourpence anywhere!!

Free Frozen Jubblies please - heres a bob.

Frozen Jubblies were wierd because you had to bite the corner off the cardboard thing, and then suck the stuff out through the ice crystals...

True, but it was the biggest Ice lolly you could get for fourpence anywhere!!

Free Frozen Jubblies please - heres a bob.

I am aftaid there will be a charge, just for you Sir!

Each one will cost one and six (1/6)

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Ok heres a florin, that will be a tanner change then..... ;-)

Ok heres a florin, that will be a tanner change then..... ;-)

In your case, Chris, I will accept 2Bob. But, if you want a better specification the price will go up to half a dollar!

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Ok heres a florin, that will be a tanner change then..... ;-)

In your case, Chris, I will accept 2Bob. But, if you want a better specification the price will go up to half a dollar!

How about 2 chickens and a goat?

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Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected the expected?
If it makes sense, DON'T do it.

Ok heres a florin, that will be a tanner change then..... ;-)

In your case, Chris, I will accept 2Bob. But, if you want a better specification the price will go up to half a dollar!

How about 2 chickens and a goat?

Bandit - Chris and I are looking at real UK money, not the Micky Mouse decimal stuff we have been forced to use since February 1972. All the terms we are using were for real amounts.

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Ok heres a florin, that will be a tanner change then..... ;-)

In your case, Chris, I will accept 2Bob. But, if you want a better specification the price will go up to half a dollar!

How about 2 chickens and a goat?

Bandit - Chris and I are looking at real UK money, not the Micky Mouse decimal stuff we have been forced to use since February 1972. All the terms we are using were for real amounts.

Yes I know. I have a few of those coins myself.

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Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected the expected?
If it makes sense, DON'T do it.

Ok heres a florin, that will be a tanner change then..... ;-)

In your case, Chris, I will accept 2Bob. But, if you want a better specification the price will go up to half a dollar!

How about 2 chickens and a goat?

Noo! Me mam only give me two bob an she wants me to get a dozen eggs and a pint of milk as well!

Ok heres a florin, that will be a tanner change then..... ;-)

In your case, Chris, I will accept 2Bob. But, if you want a better specification the price will go up to half a dollar!

How about 2 chickens and a goat?

Keep me out of this......

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Sounds like another sacrifice to the forum gods.

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start milking the family pet...

Lets hear it for the thruppenny bits, you all know exactly where you can stick your euros......

Come orf it! You used to be able to buy a Knightsbridge House with one of these -

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