Comments on: FIRE GOOD

FIRE GOOD

loquacious — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:13:36 -0800

How to build and start a fire. How to build and start a fire with stone age tools. How to start a fire in an emergency. How to start a fire without matches. How to start a fire with sticks. How to start a fire with air - and possibly inspire the birth of the diesel engine. How to start a fire with ice. How to start a fire with chocolate and a coke can.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:16:30 -0800

This post inspired by and in honor of me making a fire tonight with a flint and some dryer lint. Yay fire!

By: stavrogin

stavrogin — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:40:41 -0800

How can I rekindle my passion?

By: hortense

hortense — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:41:32 -0800

To Build a Fire

By: infini

infini — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:10:20 -0800

"We didn't start the fire"... billy joel We didn't start the fire It was always burning, since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No, we didn't light it but we're trying to fight it.

By: pracowity

pracowity — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:10:29 -0800

How to make matches. How to try to make matches but instead probably burn your hands down to stubs and burn your eyes out of their sockets and incinerate your home and every human and animal in or near it. So don't try it. Playing with matches, a girl can get burned.

By: phaedon

phaedon — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:26:52 -0800

There are several ways to start a fire with a flashlight, this probably being the most ridiculously cool way. But you can also go with the steel wool contacting the battery method.

By: DU

DU — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 04:45:46 -0800

How to fail to make fire without matches

By: solipsophistocracy

solipsophistocracy — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 06:44:17 -0800

All the paramilitary bullshit and thinly veiled homoeroticism aside, I was really glad that my parents made me do boy scouts for a couple years so that I could know things like this. Now I found out I could have learned it on the internet all along? Man!

By: hydrophonic

hydrophonic — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 06:58:57 -0800

How to start a fire with a balloon. Or a condom.

By: mattoxic

mattoxic — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 07:00:01 -0800

"We didn't start the fire"... billy joel I hate Billy Joel with a passion not found in any Billy Joel song. We didn't start the fire, what fucking pap is that? Perhaps it should be "We accept absolutely no responsibility for out disastrous foreign policy, dooo da, doobie doobie doo.. no, responsibility ohhhh yeah... "

By: ZenMasterThis

ZenMasterThis — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 07:25:47 -0800

MetaFire.

By: It's Raining Florence Henderson

It's Raining Florence Henderson — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 08:03:24 -0800

That burning sensation? Not fire.

By: Tehanu

Tehanu — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 08:10:27 -0800

Fire can be good. Fire can be fun. Fire is ecologically important. Whatever your purpose, be careful.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 08:22:04 -0800

Thank you, infini and mattoxic. Notice that I didn't reference Billy Joel's low hanging fruit. I did this on purpose. Namely because the guy is a unitard. Now - thanks to the power of the internet - on a computer I don't even have speakers or headphones hooked up to - thanks for a few too casually misplaced words - I'm going to have that fucking song stuck in my head all fucking day. Thank you. Thank you very much. Another wonder of the internet: Stalking new-found enemies and ordering up precision orbital strikes from the comfort of your own bed.

By: madamjujujive

madamjujujive — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 08:24:04 -0800

the Tao of charcoal.

By: infini

infini — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:00:27 -0800

er... how did you know I was surfing on my bed? I like billy joel...waaaaaaaaaaaah... whatever happened to "Honesty"?

By: loquacious

loquacious — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:03:06 -0800

"But how will I know when I have received enlightenment?" asked the novice. "Your fire will then not go out," replied the master.

By: goatdog

goatdog — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:08:13 -0800

Build a Fire.

By: fuse theorem

fuse theorem — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:58:09 -0800

Ditto, solipsophistocracy, I learned how easy it was to start a fire in Girl Scouts and spent one pre-teen summer making little fires around the house, unbeknownst to the off-doing-other-things 'rents. It was just pages from newspapers and catalogs mostly and I put them out very quickly. Thank goodness I grew out of my little leaning toward arson...Girl Scouts was a bad influence.

By: shimmerglimpse

shimmerglimpse — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:57:46 -0800

Looks like I've got a perfect activity to share with my 8 year old son. Fire building 101. Thanks a million.

By: Twang

Twang — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:22:22 -0800

One thing seems to be missing: how to keep the fire going *after* starting it when you're out in the woods, after a rain, and everything -- including the usually dry tinder hidden under matted grass, and low-hanging dead branches -- is completely soaked ... and you didn't bring anything that would burn. (Note: assume, for the sake of argument, that tearing into the park's outhouse walls is verboten -- and that you're not driving a woodie.)