Please Remember To Extinguish Your Cigarettes Before Filling Your Auto With Fuel. Should The Lit Cigarette Come Into Contact With The Gasoline, A Horrible Explosion Could Result. Thank You. Mahatma Gandhi, circa 1942
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The beginning of the Ghandi quote reminds me of a neighbor who once gave a series of lectures at our local library. His now famous first words were:
Good evening. First of all, please remember to light your cellphones within an hour or so – after I will have answered the last question, thank you.-
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Yeah. Gandhi sure had a way with words. He’d have made a great Star Wars character.
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Even in winter?
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Well, yes, unless the temp is below 25 degrees Celsius. In that case, fuck off.
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Understood
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$Amen$
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Interesting fact, when I was a kid I was over at a friends house, his dad was out in the garage working on a lawn mower. There was a small bucket with gas in it, he had used to clean parts with, and he had a cigarette dangling out of his mouth. I said something along the lines of “isn’t it dangerous to smoke so close to that bucket of gas?” He looked at me, took a drag from the cigarette, and tossed it into the bucket, then gave me the look. Turns out you can toss a lit cigarette butt straight into a small bucket of gas and it does not explode. It just puts the butt out.
Hollywood movies be damned.
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HOW DARE YOU DOUBT THE WORDS OF THE GREAT GANDHI!!!!!! Oh, fuck it! Never mind. I just made this shit up and don’t really care. I did have a friend once drop a lit cigarette into a bottle of turpentine, and it burst into flame, a HUGE flame, so, maybe, just maybe, my made up Gandhi shit is right. 🙂
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BTW, the concern about lit cigs around gas pumps isn’t the liquid gas. It’s the fumes. A lit cig can set off one hell of an explosion if the gas fumes ignite. So, I suggest you listen to Gandhi and stop being a smart-ass in regards to gas pump safety, OK? 🙂
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Lol! Yeah I know, it’s the fumes that are explosive, not necessarily the gas in liquid form. The gas bucket was open to the air, your turpentine event was in a bottle that probably still had a lot of fumes unvented.
I’m still not sure why every car that wrecks in the movies blows up? I mean damn, I’m afraid now if I have a flat the car may blow… 🙂
There was a time when my Camaro caught fire one day, but that was due to a caliper lockup and trying to limp it home @ 5 mph. There was a whoomf! And I saw a greenish flame shoot out about a foot higher than the hood. Good thing I had a fire extinguisher.
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I get very flammable myself, or my ass does, whenever I eat Mexican food. If someone behind me lites a cig when I’m out walkin’ after I’ve eaten it…BOOM!!! Instant explosion. 🙂
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That is definately a case of toxic, explosive fumes. 🙂 I’ll bet a nickel you were a blue flamer as a kid 😉 I was at a friends house, the usual hangout when we were kids, one night the guys were blue flaming, I laughed my ass off.
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You’ve not enjoyed life unless you’ve blue-flamed at least once.
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I refuse to acknowledge that I have lived, oh damn! Wait a minute, no I haven’t! lol
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Everyone else was doing it!
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If you can toast a marshmallow with a blue flame, you’re a true man.
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Lol I want to see that on Youtube.
Who eats the marshmallow?
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THAT I’d like to know.
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I guess that would be the final test of manliest man!
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Haha Jeff. You really are funny
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And that’s just how I look. 🙂
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That too. You make a fine friend and conversationalist
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I’m a much wiser and smarter man for knowing you, Noel. Of that I’m certain.
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That’s so kind of you to say. You, my friend fills my life with lots of humour. I am glad i know you
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We must share a few beers one day.
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I heard there’s a new french law which prohibits people to smoke in cars, at least if there are children in it.
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Smart law. They listened to the wise words of Gandhi.
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Only if there are children in the car. Still no law stopping me from putting a child in a cardboard box and blowing cigar smoke into it, though. So how pointless was that? 😀
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Before getting in the car, eat the babies, then you won’t have to worry about the law.
Smoke the right cigarette and you won’t have to worry about anything.
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$Amen$
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