Kevin's Watch

I haven't.
When I was a kid I often used to light the local woods on fire.
I'm sure there were some animals that got singed.
Does that count?
Can I join your freakish hair burning club now?

Like Sea, I've bured my hair on a candle before, and like Danlo I had a gas waterheater fireball me. That resulted in a facial burns, a stay in the hospital, and a new much shorter haircut.

Crap. The "smell of singed hair" stuff reminded me. I *did* set my hair on fire -- last year, by accident. Mom would receive candles as gifts but almost never burned them. When I was sorting through her stuff last spring, every time I ran across a candle, I set it on the coffee table and lit it. And at one point, I bent over the coffee table to pick up something on the other side of the candles and szzzzzt.

As long as arm hairs count , then yes, and as long as 'by accident' covers trying to show off while drunk, then I'm a yes by accident.

I thought that incident was long ago forgotten Thanks, DotD!

aliantha wrote:Crap. The "smell of singed hair" stuff reminded me. I *did* set my hair on fire -- last year, by accident. Mom would receive candles as gifts but almost never burned them. When I was sorting through her stuff last spring, every time I ran across a candle, I set it on the coffee table and lit it. And at one point, I bent over the coffee table to pick up something on the other side of the candles and szzzzzt.

My mom has several she hasn't burned. I don't understand it. I love candles and have them burning all the time.

btw we burn candles all the time... for reading and stuff. Welcome to Nigeria.

Poor kitteh!

Lyr, my mom had this thing about some candles being "too pretty to burn". There was one of those dipped-and-carved-into-scrollwork candles that were big in the '80s, and one that someone had brought her back from the seashore that you were *supposed* to light to truly enjoy -- the flickering light inside would make the shells and whatnot on the outside look like they were underwater. That one was even designed so you could burn out the inside part of the candle and put another candle in it to enjoy the effect again. And still she didn't burn it.

hahaha My cat used to singe her whiskers all the time when I had candles lit. She liked licking the wax.

deer of the dawn wrote:A long time ago I set my hair on fire by mistake.

Baby's on fire, better put her in the water.
Look at her laughing, like a heifer to the slaughter.

I don't recall the name of the band that sang that song but supposedly the guy wrote it after a woman at a party set her hair on fire just because he asked her too. duh.

Yeah, like Danlo said, Brian Eno. I hadn't thought of that song for years, and it takes me back to my early college days when I was working as a DJ for the college radio station.

I've burned arm hair on purpose, and I think once head hair by accident. Unfortunately, I don't have any good stories.

What hair?

I've flamed my facial hair any number of times. I have also tarred my hair to my shoulderblade, and superglued my eyelashes to my eyelid, which resulted in yanking out eyebrow hair when my finger stuck to it while trying to detatch lash from lid.
All done while in purely ordinary states of consciousness. More pity me.
(Not all at the same time of course...don't want you to think I'm stupid )
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I've singed(melted?) hair on my arm before, both on accident and on purpose(the accident came first, followed by the purposeful one, because I thought it looked cool the way the hairs curled up as they burned).

...and then it started to smell bad, and I never did it again.

magickmaker17 wrote:I've singed(melted?) hair on my arm before, both on accident and on purpose(the accident came first, followed by the purposeful one, because I thought it looked cool the way the hairs curled up as they burned).

...and then it started to smell bad, and I never did it again.

Dear gods. The first post of yours I've read on the Watch in *months*, and it's this.

I'm focusing on the "never did it again" part...

aliantha wrote:

magickmaker17 wrote:I've singed(melted?) hair on my arm before, both on accident and on purpose(the accident came first, followed by the purposeful one, because I thought it looked cool the way the hairs curled up as they burned).

...and then it started to smell bad, and I never did it again.

Dear gods. The first post of yours I've read on the Watch in *months*, and it's this.

I'm focusing on the "never did it again" part...

probably a good idea.

I've never had my hair burn, on purpose or otherwise.