Bottle Rocket

created by andric0n

(idea) by SluggoSlacker (6.1 y) (print) ? (I like it!) Sun Mar 04 2001 at 3:41:33

Often a term used to describe someone who, like a bottle rocket, lives a short, fast life, which often ends in tragedy ("He was so young. Just another stupid bottle rocket"). See the Wes Anderson film, bottle rocket.

M-80, the holy grail of firecrackers	Rushmore	Owen Wilson	The Royal Tenenbaums
Wes Anderson	Holden Caulfield	radar gun	bottle rocket war
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler	IMDb	cherry bomb	Uncle Tupelo
What did you love when you were a kid?	Take the Money and Run	Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid	lawnjart
The French Connection	jetpack	The Darjeeling Limited	Sugar glass
Cauchy sequence	Bottle grenade	Luke Wilson	Sundance Film Festival

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