Boom!

Home-made Cannon

Kids, do not try this at home!Then where, Dad? At school?

Ingredients: Kitchen matches, kitchen foil

3X2 piece of foil. KEEP AWAY FROM CHILDREN. Its over kids, sorry, guess we can all go home now.

Place two matches tete-a-tete while daughter dutifully wonders when it will be her turn.

Dutiful daughter's eye-view

Roll, baby roll, snugly but not tightly.

Bore the core, then weigh down one end of the edge of a inflammable table, point away from organic garden.

C'mon baby light my fire!

Numerous failed attempts later, I try by poking pinholes in the foil near the match heads to ignite them.

The center burned, but held!

You can see the blackened ring around the center of the foil.

Suicide cannon: it shoots the projectile, but destroys itself. (Also, suicide toes.)

Recovered projectile and remnants of cannon.

Let's add some more masala!

Pack the extra match head in as well.

FAIL! Again!, but