I'm kinda like you, LH, with the cherry bomb fixation. Yeah, they would blow up in the pipes at the old Falls Church High School and everyone in the entire school would hear em'. That was cool, fir sure. But they would also blow up in the stream where the water was backed up and then a bunch of little fish would float to the top fir a while. Some forever (sniff...). But when I was around 14, I discovered the ultimate. The cherry bomb/ blow gun. Now you could take a cherry bomb and a rubber stopper and a 5 foot tube and get a cherry bomb about a hundred feet from you before it blew up. This was real cool on Holloween night. You could blow up a pumkin with a match and a hefty blow. Ya know them blow guns are real easy to aim and mw and my hoodlum frineds could almost decide which eye of the Jacko-Latern to send the cherry bomb thru... Of course, it would cost you a rubber stopper but, hey.... Only worry was a short fuse where the danged thing blows up in the tube and blows yir danged teeth down yir throat but that never happened and, being 14 'er so, you never think of that kind of stuff....

Bobert