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Originally Posted by thepetek
When we were kids we used to make a fist and take one of those butane lighters and just pour the gas in til you could FEEL it and then flick the flint and open our hands. WHOOSH!!!
One guy I knew was so bold as to fill his mouth and breathe out. Pretty cool.
That might melt wax, and it never hurt any of us, and we were dumb kids.
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I'm reminded of one of Richard P Feynman's anecdotes
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They got the benzine ready, I stuck my hand in the water in the sink and then into the benzine and lit it... and it hurt like hell! You see, in the meantime I had grown hairs on the back of my hand, which acted like wicks and held the benzine in place while it burned, whereas when I had done it [as a kid] I had no hairs on the back of my hand."