Bored? Light your socks on fire!

Doc

Doc

Administrator
Staff member
GOLD Patron
My daughter made a post on facebook saying:
Kayla is finally sleeping, so what do we do for entertainment: Light our socks on fire!

She was in this weekend and I asked her what that was about. I figured it was a joke that I was not in on. She said no, we really lit our socks on fire. :eek:

This prompted her to try to light her socks to show me :hide:. Hers would not light, and neither would her husbands. So they looked at mine and said those would work good. So .... I was dumb enough to say okay. They had me hold my foot out and lit a flame at the heal. The fuzz on the sock makes a blue flame go up to my toes. Then I'm stomping my foot on the floor to put it out. It did get hot. :bonk: (this burns the fuzz off the socks, that's why mine would light and theres would not ...I suppose they had burnt all the fuzz off of theirs already)

I never should have asked them what that was about :bonk: ...but I had never heard of it before. They talked like it was a common thing ...daughter had learned that at college (in between of her jello shot classes I'm thinking)
 
Please tell me I'm not the only one thinking this is horribly dangerous. Let's just say...that when you stand up to stomp out the flames, the flame lights your pants on fire...or the hair on a guy's leg...or the carpet...or you knock something over trying to put it out, or you trip because your feet are so hot that you knock yourself out and your feet burn up...

College kids do this?? Never heard of it.
 
College kids can and do behave idiotically. Just ask me.

When I was an idiot, we did shots of "Flaming Blue Jesus". That's a shot of Southern Comfort, lit on fire, poured ON FIRE, into your awaiting mouth. In the DARK.

And we danced drunk on balcony ledges, several stories above more concrete.

It's a wonder more of us didn't buy the farm in our 20's. Especially in the '70's.

Thanks for the story, Doc - as you know, I was curious (yellow). ;-)

Lee
 
Gosh, I do feel like an old geezer when I say "What will these kids think of next?" When my own kids were in high school, the big deal was lighting their farts..am I allowed to say "fart"? Anyway, it was pretty impressive....lots of potential for serious, permanent injury there, but thank goodness, I did end up with some grandchildren....
 
I only posted this as an explanation because Lee asked me about it in the 3 word post thread.

Vera, I agree, this could be very dangerous. Although I should mention I did not have to stand up to put out the flames, they burn up the fuzz and appear to go out on their own (but I did stomp my foot just to be sure).

I'd never heard of this before and my other daughter who went to a different Ohio college had not heard of it. Crazy.

MexcioKaren, lighting farts!!!! :yum: My first experience with that was in a dark room with 80 guys and all the sudden you see a blue flame here and there. :confused: I soon found out what it was and had to try it. Ahh those boot camp memories. LOL. :yum:
 
Interesting, I did this back in college. Not because it was cool or the in-thing to do…..I'm just a fire bug! :yum:

I remember sitting around the apartment with my shoes off and looking at my socks and how fuzzy they were. I was playing with a lighter and decided to touch the flame to the socks to get rid of all that fuzz…….WHOOF!

It's a trip. The flame just races up your foot! :w00t:

I used to also light those straggly strings on tears or worn spots in Levi jeans. WOW. If you thought the socks burned fast, try the jean strings!

Wait……NO, don't try that!!! It's insane and dangerous!

The socks I wear these days aren't so fuzzy like those back then, so I haven't tried this in a long time, but it sounds like it still works.
 
Keltin said:
I remember sitting around the apartment with my shoes off and looking at my socks and how fuzzy they were. I was playing with a lighter and decided to touch the flame to the socks to get rid of all that fuzz…….WHOOF!

It's a trip.
Click to expand...

You left out the getting stoned part....:yum:
 
:yum: :yum: Good thing CC, you didn't have any socks on!!!!!! :yum:

Good pic!!!!!! :thumb: :clap: :clap: :D
 
Hahahaha. We were camping Upstate in Woodstock, New York, & it rained on us all night. Hee-hee. (No. More 100's menthol.) That's my story, & I'm sticking to it.
 
You're not tricking me into answering that one, Food. lol What happened in Woodstock, stayed in Woodstock ;-) Didn't mean to hijack your thread, Doc.
 
No prob CC, it's more interesting than setting your socks on fire for sure!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Doc said:
My daughter made a post on facebook saying:
Kayla is finally sleeping, so what do we do for entertainment: Light our socks on fire!

She was in this weekend and I asked her what that was about. I figured it was a joke that I was not in on. She said no, we really lit our socks on fire. :eek:
Click to expand...

Don't take this the wrong way, Doc,

Are we suppose to be surprised? because she is your daughter.

:whistling:

Long as there isn't an accelerant present burning the fuzzies off the socks is pretty far down the dangerous list.

My clothes have been on fire before, not too big of deal long as their putout quickly.

(and you don't behave like my avatar)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top