"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Ya know, I'm starting to wonder if we've just seen a major
technological breakthrough -- or just a price drop -- in fireworks?
Literally EVERYONE I've talked to this year, from towns across the
USA, has been emphatic about how THEIR fireworks display was the "Best
ever!"

Maybe the Chinese dropped their prices enough so that every city in
America could afford a first-class fireworks display this year?

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30612

CHINA STOCKPILING MASSIVE FIREWORKS ARSENAL
"WASHINGTON, DC-Satellite photographs have revealed the recent
test-detonation of several hundred extremely small explosive devices in the
remote Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of Southwestern China, sources from
the U.S. Department of Defense reported Monday."

....Since China is already in possession of enough fireworks to delight the
entire world 50 times over, we can only assume that they're gearing up for
an imminent celebration of unprecedented size."...