Fire!We were all in my aunt's kitchen at the back of her huge rambling Victorian house. I was only small and had wandered off to go to the loo, but given up after finding the hall full of smoke. "That was quick," my mum said after a few minutes. "Yes - it's all smoky," I replied.
I've never seen adults move so fast.
So, like my cousin who'd managed to set fire to the roof, tell us your fire stories.
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chthonic, Thu 3 Nov 2005, 9:11)
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Flaming snowmanBack in high school, my friends were trying to come up with a list of oxymorons. One guy said "Flaming snowman." Then another friend said "It...could...work!"
All it needed was gasoline(petrol, whatever). The first time we tried it was in a huge open field in full view of a very large mall parking lot. We were 16-year-old kids and had no idea how to obtain some gas. I tried getting some at the gas station with a two-liter bottle, but they lent me a gascan. We sent the thing up in flames.
The next year we started doing it in a more secluded ravine. Once, we heard people coming, so we all ran and hid, leaving these two adults to walk past a flaming snowman at night. I can't imagine what was going through their minds.
I've done everything I could to make this a tradition. Last Christmas I went back to my hometown and got some friends together on Christmas Eve to burn a snowman.
As I always do, here are some photos of the event:
Adding the secret ingredient
www.indecline.net/korea/archive/snowman/93.JPG
On fire
Blowing it out
www.indecline.net/korea/archive/snowman/85.JPG
The grand finale: tackling the crap out of it
www.indecline.net/korea/archive/snowman/83.JPG
Sorry if I don't usually
(, Fri 4 Nov 2005, 6:24, Reply)
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