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On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:53:02 -0500, robert bristow-johnson wrote:

> On 11/10/11 12:09 PM, Tim Wescott wrote:
>>
>> This is USENET.  There is no material that you can pour onto a flame
>> war other than gasoline --
> 
> weren't you the least bit firebug when you were a kid?
> 
> i remember several times, in the 60s, having some fun in the middle of
> Nowhere North Dakota with less than 10 cents worth of Regular.  even
> more so when mixed with fireworks and cherry bombs and M-80s.
> 
> this thread might be fun to watch, not that i support Vlad in abusing
> the newbs, or anyone else he wants to pick on, but it can be interesting
> to observe.

No, I was not the least bit a firebug when I was a kid, and I find that 
suggestion offensive.

I was a f***ing HUGE firebug, which was a bit of an embarrassment to my 
dad, the assistant chief and chairman of the board* of the local fire 
department.

Fortunately my cousin and I found a great way to channel it: we spent a 
lot of time on the Oregon coast, and in the spring we'd start little 
driftwood fires on the beach.  Then we'd find EVERY BIT of combustible 
material that we could lever out of the sand, drag it to the fire, and 
pile it on.  The goal was to go down to the sand with a dozen matches and 
a pocket knife, start a conflagration worthy of Nero, and leave with a 
pocket knife and eleven matches.

(NO PAPER or other accelerant of any kind -- if you can't dig driftwood 
out of damp sand and shave it fine enough to get a fire going with one 
match then you're a weenie.  The other 11 matches are because, if you're 
gonna be a wimp, you may as well be warm.)

* Yes, assistant chief _and_ chairman of the board.  He managed to keep 
those two roles _very separate_; he and the chief always made a point of 
knowing when he was the chief's boss and when he was the chief's 
subordinate, and never, ever, switching hats in the middle of a 
conversation.

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