> heh... heh heh heh. i have been reminded of a couple of incidents involving the guys from my youth group (specifically, the guys from my grade in my youth group) and fire.
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> Last summer, we went on a bike trip, as most of you already know. Between the 3rd and 4th days, we had what was known as "Break Day" - one day on which you could chill at the campsite, go to a water park, or go to Busch Gardens. Several of those in my grade, including me, stuck around and had a rather enjoyable day doing nothing in particular.... soon before those who had gone to one of the parks were to return, the leaders asked the guys to start barbecueing hot dogs and such for dinner. Well, the guys couldn't get the grill lit. They tried and tried and they just plain couldn't. So my friend Lizi decided to help, and got it lit in less than a minute. They haven't lived that one down yet.
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> More recently, on the Junior Weekend, the guys had the brilliant idea of starting a fire in the fireplace of their cabin. Should've been fine, actually - some of them knew what they were doing. But then one guy, in order to make the fire bigger or something like that, poked something up the chimney and managed to close the flue. Needless to say, their cabin filled quickly with smoke. They were forced out of the cabin, and the fire was somehow put out, and they all smelled like smoke for the rest of the weekend. In a huge monster freeze game later on in the weekend, the event was parodied hugely... involving someone yelling "I'll take care of it! I'm an Eagle Scout!" and throwing himself into the (fireless) fireplace.
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> Anyway, yes, guys and fire are a funny funny thing. And those are my stories.
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> uni"i love the guys anyway"peg

Yes, and scary sometimes, too.

Once, when I was in the Royal Rangers(back in my Assemblies of God days), we had a "building a campfire" test. First, we put a few concrete blocks as a barrier. Then, one guy dumped *all* the pinestraw in the middle, then some of them set to lighting it. There was already a small fire, when someone started pouring *lighter* *fluid* on it. I backed away quickly. Amazingly, *nothing* *happened*. No flare-up, no exploding lighter fluid can, which I would've expected to happen, just a normally-burning fire. I guess the lighter fluid didn't hit the fire.

I do hope that trick wasn't tried again, since there wasn't a tragic occurance that time.

Nyperold