How not to fill a Zippo…
Kind of reminds me of adventures I had when I was a teen, that I sort of kept to myself thereafter. Buried forever in the private mental file marked “things you should never do again with gasoline and black powder.”
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They say that Louis XIV had the inscription Ultima Ratio Regum cast into all the cannon of the French Army. It means “The Ultimate Argument of Kings,” and that always struck me as one of the most honest and up-front things any ruler or would-be ruler ever said. “We can dress it up prettier than this, but when it comes down to the unvarnished truth this is what it’s about: You’ll do as I say or I’ll send my goons to kill you.”
I thought about that for a long time. If there’s an ultimate argument, it seems only logical that there must be an ultimate answer. For years I thought the ultimate answer must be the bullets in my rifle, but it never seemed quite right. I’ve got bullets – he’s got frigging Cannon Balls. I mean, if there were three hundred million rifles throwing bullets at him, then maybe. But we all know that’s not going to happen. So if there’s an ultimate answer to his ultimate argument, it sure as hell ain’t bullets.
It finally came to me – and that’s when I abandoned the city and most of my stuff, and gave all that was behind me a good stiff Randian Shrug.
The ultimate answer to kings is not a bullet, but a belly laugh.
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Video doesn’t load for me. Is that the one where he overfills and sets himself on fire?
It’s an old gif where some guy fills the case with fluid and then tries to shove the insert down onto it. Flicks the striker and sets his desk on fire.
So Joel,you could say that the old guy in the gif made a fuel of himself… ☺
That’s pretty good Mike, a fuel of himself indeed.
I’m pretty sure this is the video Joel was referring to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPOezklCDe0&ab_channel=WHATZAA
There was the time the young me put a bullet firmly in a vise, and then tapped the primer with a hammer & nail. I still don’t know how that case missed my face! Stupid. But at least I was smart enough to learn from the experience
I tried blowing up a baggie of gasoline with a firecracker. It did not make the fireball I expected. All it did was make a large cloud of gas vapor that I discovered when I lit a match.
I won’t be doing that again either.
It’s science folks!
Mystery is how so many of us are still alive.
(I stopped most of the insane loco in my youth, but the spark to still play there, lives.)