Cigarette lighter

Do they have invisible bubbles in NZ?

Have you noticed that a lighter costs less than half a cigarette.

I make that about 13p. Where do you buy ? I saw a scientific calculator in a 'pound-shop for, well, £1. Strange. Good value compared to a smoking license. Professor Le Grand appears to have his head stuck where the sun doesn't shine. ID cards to stop under-age drinking has been a rip-roaring success. Not.

Yep! 10 in a packet from poundland:

http://www.poundland.co.uk/pages/default.aspx

I bought several of the scientific calculators because people at work wanted them. One didn't work: now what's that about "you know you're an engineer when,... you spend N hours repairing something worth next to nothing". It turned out to be a tear in the paper that the keyboard matrix was printed on.

LOL. That one should have been staring me in the face ! I usually get cheap re-fillable lighters, preferably in distinctive colours to stop everyone pinching them. The poundland style look a bit too cheap - the flints often give up before they're spent. I agree about the time spent on fixing stuff that is easier replaced. There's a perverse pleasure in finding out what's wrong and fixing it. Imagine the joy of replacing that paper with something better ! My last visit got me a USB keyboard vacum cleaner, complete with interchangable nozzles and a boost function. What's not to like.

That reminds me of the Seinfeld episode "The Wizard" where Kramer gives Jerry's dad a tip calculator called the Wizard and Jerrys father in turn gives it to all the old timers at the retirement community in Florida where he is campaigning for President.

Come to find out Kramerr got a really good deal on Whizzers - the cheap knock off - and that it in fact miscalulates tips. This greatly upset the community.

Ha! Yup. That was a good one.

cr3

I guess I should go to work now. Drat.

Now for the not so "lighter" side of disposable lighters

http://www.fws.gov/midway/lighters.html

Sorry for being such buzz kill on what was a light discussion.

Oh, dude your downer!~

That was a very good article!! Now if we could only invoke a sense of responsibility in the litterbugs on Midway. I personally use the trusty Zippo which my wife bought me many years ago. If I were to throw it away, I would find myself shorter, after the application of the skillet to my head. My trusty Zippo does not have the anti-child mechanisms that throw-aways have so it is much easier to use, and in a REAL pinch, I could fuel it with unleaded gasoline... which is what I use in my camp stove and lantern.

Bill

I shouldn't laugh. No, I really shouldnt...... PMSL !

What % of the posters to this thread Smoke?

= 100% seems a bit high to me (but then so do several of the posters...)

Ok so 100% is not accurate, but you are much more likely to view the thread if you use lighters on a regular basis. i was counting all the guests as 1 person & 3 opinions, offsetting wangito & possibily Q

CR3 is a smoker.

But you are not, correct?

That looks like a 'must-have' accessory !

mice ain't stupid .......

Every smoker should have one, I think. What's with the Bourne Ultimatum mouse, then? Remember, the early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese...

It's not the BUm, it's the Impossible Mouse Federation with the rat-likeThomouse Cruise. Cool graphics.

Good grief...

I have resorted to using the grill in the kitchen before now, but it's a bit of a pain to take the thing on camping trips because the cable extension gets snagged up. Those magnesium sparking stick things work good, but you need some decent tinder. Scouting resources wouldn't tell me about chemicals. In a film Anthony Hopkins said fire can be made from an ice lens, but he never proved it.

"...fire can be made from an ice lens..."

This should be possible, given clear enough ice and a well-formed lens, but I'd not care to be where I could make the attempt.

It should be possible to make an ice-lens and test this. I'll google it sometime if I remember. We haven't got any sun at present.

Back in the day, I got tired of the 'projects' Scouting offered for merit badges, too simplistic for me, and started grinding my own lenses. Havent touched polishing rouge for years, but got some pretty decent results for a kid... Clear ice should work, the index of refraction is different from glass, but we're not talking telescopic quality here, just something good enough to focus the sun on some dry tinder. Or maybe some...

Tee hee. I'd need to find one of those machines that makes clear ice. I'm not sure how to do this in a normal freezer - it must be down to the rate of cooling. It would be good fun to try - I'll set my brain cogs in motion......

Here's a solar lighter

& a self cleaning dog

That's a really neat gadget, but the dog would be hellish useful around the house. Not for poop-scooping, general tasks I hasten to add ! I wont both of them.

Some dude appears to have made an ice fire-lighter.

Thus proof of concept for the ice lens - although he didn't mantion how long it took him to carve/chip it out of a block. Think I'll stick with a firestick...

And here we thought the self-cleaning oven was the nazz!

"...you've all missed the obvious..."

Well, spank me pink and call me Rosey! Obvious on the face of it, indeed! So that's why I don't fall down when smoking...I knew there'd be a reason.

It also explains why I stagger home from the pub - the lighter is lying horizontal in my pocket, and all the fuel sloshes up and down it's length.

You've cracked the code, Mate! Keep it vertical...

I've heard it said an Irishman's sober so long as he can grasp a blade of grass to keep from falling off the Earth. Don't know the truth to this..

Don't want to end up like Drew (), so I'll play it safe ;

Lovin' the solar-powered cigarette lighter, but on a cloudy day, yer back to the matches...once again demonstrating that nothing is perfect.

I just found the coke and chocolate method !

Now that's really...

But chocolate? I'd pick the toothpaste and git 'er dun!

What a great plan. Next time I go canoe camping, instead of a box of matches or a lighter, I'll take along a case of coke and a couple dozen chocolate bars. That should also take care of the lighter fluid sloshing around

Yeah, way safer than the flammable liquids, low-flash point gases, or even the high-hazard match heads. Better also take a full can of patience, because it looks like you'll be in for a bit of polishing, though. Oh, and don't forget to take that bright sunshine you'll need...

Hey E-Man, you are one sick puppy! I love it.

Great way to end off a snowy Toronto day. We're in for a "bit of a blow" as the Brits say, while I can just see you basking on the beach with an icy Sam Adams or a Bud, laughing your a** off.

Cheers!

Not lately, I haven't - 2.7 inches rain Sat., and while Sun. was nicer weather, still dampish. Yesterday was better, but I was at work, while today, storms moving in and high(er) winds with rain in the forecast. Tonight, COLD (high 20's) and tomorrow night (low 30's), warming toward the end of the week. I know, I know, ain't a patch on the 12' of snow y'all have up there, but it always snows there this time of year, right? Here, never.

Man, that's balmy weather. When we crawl out of our igloos and the temp is as high as 20 - 25 and the sun's out, we put on our T-shirts and fire up the barby. Nothing like a nice rack of smokey ribs, beer cooling in the snow, great tunes and sunshine. Yeah, we get that only a couple times a year, but then we got no 'gators chasing our dog through the back yard spilling our beer.

Global Warming will ruin all that of course and melt most of that 12' of snow, but hey, life's like that isn't it?

Have a good one...

PS : this sure beats working, doesn't it ?

Ahhh, we just toss the gator on the barby. Beer marinade uses up the spillage. Global warming will make you keep yer Molsons/LaBatts in the fridge, but oh, well! We'll slather on the suntan oil and get over it, right?!?

Ohmegawd, we gotta use a fridge?! There go the hydro bills. Damn this Global warming. Did AL Gore invent that too? On the bright side, though, we'll be able to do more bass fishing and cool the beer in the lake.

Cheers E-Man, it's almost punch-out time and gotta go scrape the ice and snow of the car so I can get home. Shoulda brought the dog sled today but the dogs looked outside and said "no way".

Catch ya later. Maybe we can brighten up another day sometime. Have a good evening.

Global Warming? more like climate change.

Been unusually wet & cold here. Today is slightly above normal sunny upper 60's, my grass has seemingly grown over night!

2.7" of rain, wouldn't that be the equivelent of 27"+ of snow?I think this is a Yorkie for Chris

Holloween fun

Even I know that's a bird ! The Yorkie had massive ears when it was born. They were like giant saucers on it's head, and somehow it kept them all perky and upright. A miracle of bio-engineering that must have required more uplift than the Thames barrier.

Who's the sheep for, or are you just being self-indulgent ?

I started a file for strange images contained in emails from my circle of spam which one should be the unoffical maskot?

They're really cool Garth. Personally I like the Fraligator (or is it a frocodile), it's got menacing potential. It would be excellent in a b-movie horror.

The last one is for Del even though I haven't seen him around here.

Pointed snout - it's clearly a frocodile. I rather fancy the tuxedo-clad badger, but you know my motto - we don't NEED no steenking badgers! The cardinal fox has class...leaves that one out!

It's getting confusing! Now I'm posting these on 2 different threads & trying not to duplicateone for our lupine brotherwalrakeet?

Hmmm...a tufted titwolf, a polar tiger, and a walrakeet...nearly as bad as:

the real deal!

Now look, there are limits to how much people will believe !

I was just shooting in the dark on the education thread.

I always enjoy when several people stamp their feet & loudly exclaim their disgust & threaten to leave. A certain Aussie seems to be outraged most of the time.

This is sort like the corner pub where all the old guys get together to grouse [bitch].

Tee hee. I must go catch up there in a minute. Some of the best ideas are drawn on beer mats. You'd love the TV series Grumpy Old Men, it's hilarious. I may adopt the tag line 'Enraged of Etherville'.

I like what they did to Del ! The Polar bear/tiger thing looks a bit of a pansy.

I don't have a saying for CR4

But I do have a mascot for KrisDel

& the only know pic of CR3 [Texas Charley}

PMSL. Looks like a Squat and a Dimpanzee !

ROFLMAO! I would have guessed the names as Carrel and Chesapanzee, but that's just me...

You and SparkY and your magic cameras!