Strange Brew by John Deering for May 04, 2012

How corny.

The revenge of the mutant pop corn ( or how Popping Man got his super powers).

Ummm — I think I’ll pass, too many alpha and beta particles for my diet. No, honest really, ask your doctor…

Ancient history lesson: In 1963 I was a nuclear weapons technician in the Army, and I was SOOO envious of the lucky guys who got to go to Johnson Island in the Pacific for the last atmospheric nuclear tests before the Atmospheric Test Ban Treaty took effect.

Shortly afterward we got orders to go into our storage bunkers and paint out the X in the model number of our Nike Hercules anti-aircraft missile warheads, meaning that now they had been tested and were no longer considered “experimental” despite having been in the arsenal for many years. I’m not totally positive, but I think that may have been the test that caused the EMP burst that blacked out Hawaii. Ah, good times, good times.

Not quite true. It’s not recommended for permanent resettlement since the local inhabitants would be eating food grown in the soil. So, why not turn it into a tourist mecca?

Now with glow in the dark kernels!

I don’t want to go to an island, just a bit of sea surrounded by coral. Specifically, the No Bikini Atoll……

What happened at Bikini wasn’t funny atoll

Now that’s a real Jiffy Pop.

Now THAT would be KWICK pop! ;-)

I remember as a kid waking up early to watch the nuclear bombs go off in Nevada on TV. Those were the days!

We bought ourselves an air popper because microwave popcorn started exploding in our small microwave. It makes better popcorn,too.

Using aluminum foil with such radiation? Oy! You could damage something!