How to accidentally almost immolate yourself, Me-style

December 16th, 2007
  1. So first you hang some wicked-awesome candle holders on the wall.
  2. Then you light the candles because candles with un-burned wicks are pretentious, according to Miss Manners.
  3. Then you realize that you want to blow those candles out but they’re up really high.
  4. Then you decide (here’s where the Susan-logic comes in) to use your canned air to blow them out.

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Turns out that’s not so much a practical and innovative way to blow out a really high candle as it is a low-budget and extremely effective way to create a mini-flamethrower.

  
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6 Responses to “How to accidentally almost immolate yourself, Me-style”

  1. jenipants on December 16, 2007 2:06 pm

    OMFG!!! Are you ok???? And, holy fuck, woman, don’t you read the can????

  2. SuperBadGirl on December 16, 2007 2:19 pm

    Oh yeah, I am fine.

    And why would I read the can, when my superior logic is so… superior to accepting instruction?

    *ahem*

    *is a pretty lucky moron*

  3. jenipants on December 16, 2007 2:22 pm

    you’re such a dork. But, I <3 you anyway.

  4. Dimreaper on December 16, 2007 4:41 pm

    This is a case of where logic overcomes common sense. I did something similar years ago - my crappy old car kept getting ice on the inside of the windscreen, so I decided that a good spray of WD-40 (don’t know if you have that in the US - a kind of light oil in a spray) on the inside of the windscreen would leave a nice coating that would repel water once it dried. No - it looked like someone had smeared vaseline all over the the windscreen. Took me an hour to clean it all off *Blush*

    On the upside - you now know that if anyone ever breaks in then you have a lethal and psychologically scary weapon in the house.

  5. SuperBadGirl on December 16, 2007 5:39 pm

    Always supposing they will let me take the time to light those candles then find the canned air at the bottom of the junk drawer, yes!

  6. Heidi on December 18, 2007 7:14 pm

    *hugs* for Susie.

    I’m still trying to picture Dim’s face after realizing the WD-40 wasn’t going as planned. LOL (Yes, we have that here, too, fortunately for me.)

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