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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Anti-fireI'm sure all you dedicated science students have at some point be shown how to make custard bombs... all you need is a metal tin with a tight fitting lid. Stick a pipe through the side of the tin and attach some tubing and you are away.
Our science class gathered in the gym to be shown how much rapidly expanding gas custurd powder generates when blown into a flame. The teacher filled the end of the tube in the tin with powder, lit a candle, hammered on the lid and signalled to the head of the class to blow down the tube.
For some reason he decided to give it an extra big blow. So big that he needed to draw a big breath in first. Unfortunately, he'd already placed the tubing to his mouth.
So - no explosion, no tin lid flying up into the rafters of the gym. No. Just one head of class unable to speak or breathe because his mouth is full of congealed yellow custard.
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