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    Default So what are people doing for the 4th?

    any big plans?

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    Boyfriend and I's anniversary, and new house christening. We bought a new condo, and the roof is a huge deck with a hot tub. Gonna watch the fireworks and have some of our own.

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    Default Re: So what are people doing for the 4th?

    we're going out to some friends house in the country. They'll probably be about 50 people there..lots of kids, a pool, drinks, food, and a hellofalot of fireworks! I had a blast last year!





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    Going to a 4th of July party in Phoenix

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    I have to work that daytime. All I know it Im staying away from the beaches. Last year it was hell and people were selling their own parking spaces for like $75-150 and people were paying it too!!!

    Maybe I'll go up to a mountain top and watch stuff.
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    Booze-less BBQ, for sure. Might toss caution to the wind and hit the Renn. Faire in Bristol, Wis. on Saturday.

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    Disney's Yacht Club...again.

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    Gonna track down a couple cute young Marines my friend & I met last week & send them off in shaky-legs style ; )
    (they're going back to Camp Pendleton for deployment to Iraq)
    I'm going to cry happy tears because America is beautiful & I now live in the heart of it
    I'm going to cry some sad tears for the soldiers who died so I could enjoy life here

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    My ass is taking the damn train to the beach. Watching SuperMan and that Pirate movie. Going to some new restaurant who my bf's friend owes in Philly. Bar BQ with the familia. Watching the fire works in NY.

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    I don't know yet. My bf is out of town and I don't know what my friends are doing. If I can get ahold of someone doing something fun, I'll join them. Otherwise I'll just go to work and hope some of the cool boys come up from Pendleton like they occasionally do. I should talk to the club about unlimited 2-for-1's for military guys or something.

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    absolutely nothing.

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    Hmm...parade, fireworks, BBQ...you know...all the normal stuff.

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    Every year my next-door neighbor and I host a huge block party. He supplies most of the main food and I supply the fireworks. Last night I just made my trip out to Moapa, Nevada to get $322.45 worth of all the goodies. As Homer Simpson once said, "What better way to celebrate the birth of America than to blow up a small chunk of it." So we move our grills out to the front and fire 'em up. Then, everyone on the block brings a dish, we set tables up in the street to serve everything, and we all have a huge party. It's a lot of fun!

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    going out on the boat and then watching the fireworks, thats about it.

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    I don't like the fourth of july to noisy. I would perfer to stay in the house until its over but i might have to go to some dumb carnivil or something.

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    Growing up we did something similar to what DW mentioned, until one year everyone else went to Lake Conroe for the 4th (I was at UT swim camp). My older brother was shooting a roman candle, and it backfired, peppering his side with flaming hot magnesium (or whatever it is they use to make the flaming balls). If you look at it, you would think he got clipped by a shotgun.

    If that wasn't enough to make someones parents anti-firework, They were launching the fireworks off of a boathouse. The people who stayed overnight woke up to see it burning down w/ the boat dry docked. Apparently a hot cinder had slipped between the planks and ignited when the wind blew just right...

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    Fourth of July and Holloween were my two favorite holidays growing up. I guess they still are actually.

    Growing up in Vegas, we had a lot of open desert near my house (which has now been developed over for twenty miles past where I lived of course) and so every year, we had roman candle fights with our jackets on and garbage can lids for protection. I remember many times getting hit with those things but jeez was it fun! I guess we were too stupid to know that we could have gotten really hurt. But this was back in the day when you could get real M-80s and Cherry Bombs not these crappy M-800 wananbes. I remember the stuff we used to use actually put a hole in the ground when we lit 'em up. Now that was fun!

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    My father never liked firecrackers, only fireworks.

    My former college roommate works for a very prestigious law firm in Baltimore. I knew him when he would get high and eat Mrs. Dash chased with Balsamic Vinegar, then go shoot bottle rockets of the porch. One day his shirt caught fire, he ran back into the apartment, stepped on my glass chess board, splintering it into many pieces, and getting a piece impaled into his foot.

    A kid from down the street from me, who was a complete moron, had some M80's and ended up getting a piece of the red casing logged in his hand when he failed to put it down and get his hand away fast enough.

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    I am going to Niagara Falls to see fireworks, and I will call my aunt's place in Kansas and say hello to everyone and happy 4th

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    i will bbq too and then i will go to the highway near my place - there's a sweet spot on the bridge where you can get the best view of the town fireworks - in previous years i've seen people bring lawn chairs and sit by the side of the highway to watch the show - but last week i saw a sign on the bridge that said the state troopers will be handing out big fat tickets to anyone who does this this year - so we'll see

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    I hate holidays and weekends. uggh

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    Man I miss fireworks!

    Had some good times. I can remember one time being chased by them because we did not have the proper stuff for spinning wheels and some strange bottle rockets. The bottle rockets, did not launch, they skipped, and it was a funny sight.

    Since I'm way way way south of the border nothing is going on here.

    Now when we first moved here about this time 12 or so years ago some TV cook (cook not chef, his recipes were crap) was trying to say Americans had cherry pie on the Fourth of July... now I never heard or saw cherry pie (and yes I do mean the baked good) in the middle of summer, when the heat is blasting.

    Since it is cool here maybe I'll bake a cherry pie... but at 20+ a KG for out of season cherries I don't think so.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FrustratedBunny
    absolutely nothing.
    I'm doing what Bunny's doing. Even my relatives here will be out of state for a baseball tournament. I may grab a folding chair and go see our local fireworks display at the fairgrounds, but thats about it.

    The 4th is just like a lot of other holidays. It just isn't as fun as it was when I was a kid. Oh the memories of driving over the bridge to Missouri and smuggling as much contraband fireworks in our vehicle as we could get our hands on. We even removed the spare tire to hide them.
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    We'll just be doing a cookout here at home. We might catch some fireworks somewhere, but we're still deciding on that. Dan tried to get me to let him get some fireworks to play with here at home, but that's a no-go. Enough idiots blow their hands off every year, gotta keep my idiot safe. Heh.

    You can get them EVERYWHERE here though.

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    Ha ha... a few years when I was a kid, we would shoot bottle rockets at each other and throw them around after lighting them. It really is a miracle no one was hurt. I can't believe our parents just sat there and watched us do it.

    My best Fourth of July was in Australia. It was a regular weekday in the middle of winter over there, nothing special. I went to class and mentioned it was our big American holiday, so my friends decided to spend it with me. We went back to my apartment after class and grilled steaks, drank a bunch of beer and Mercury hard cider, watched Fahrenheit 9/11 (har!), and hung out playing with sparklers on the balcony (they were left over from New Year's). Toward the end of the night we were fairly drunk and we sat out on the balcony loudly singing the patriotic songs of both countries; I have a particularly fond memory of belting out "My Country 'Tis of Thee" while my Aussie friends simultaneously sang "G-d Save the Queen" (they have the same tune). The neighbors must have thought we were nuts.

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