Once when I was a wee Ethel
My mate and I had a great idea; buy lots of deodorant cans and matches!

We found an old speaker box in the woods and made a little fire inside it, nothing nuts that'd burn the forest down (we did have, erm, some sort of sense).

It was starting to go out, so we fed it a bit of kindling (being scouts et al) and some bright spark (i.e. me) decided to get it going by spraying the deodorant directly onto the flames.

From above it.

WHOOOMPF (I remember the sound well)

I must have leapt like a ninja cat being spooked, for I escaped unscathed! woo!

The speakerbox wasn't so lucky though, in my primeval urge to get out of the way of the 6ft flames, I dropped the can into the box.

We looked at each and ran any which way!
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Tue 31 Mar 2009, 9:53, Reply)