Beans

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July 24, 2007 at 8:14 pm #20604

July 24, 2007 at 8:14 pm #20605
	Which beans are best for exploding on bonfires? Heinz, Branston, supermarket own brands ~ or those cheapo ones for 10p a tin?
July 24, 2007 at 8:24 pm #20606
Tony C. Smith	Cheap ones! More tins to go on the fire!
July 25, 2007 at 10:24 am #20607
	Dear Tony and Ciaran please can i have my second technician rating back.
July 25, 2007 at 1:47 pm #20608
	jason charles wrote:Dear Tony and Ciaran please can i have my second technician rating back. Ah, it’s more fun to earn it back! Proves your dedication to the SOFA!
July 25, 2007 at 3:02 pm #20609
	awwww
July 25, 2007 at 4:49 pm #20610
starflyer3000	maybe it’s because i’m american, but why are people throwing beans on fires? not that i object, mind you; i’m all for fire and burning things in a legal, responsible way. (fire is cool )
July 25, 2007 at 5:33 pm #20611
Tony C. Smith	starflyer3000 wrote: maybe it’s because i’m american, but why are people throwing beans on fires? not that i object, mind you] Not beans! Tins of beans on an open fire! That’s the key. And if you’re keen… see how many times you can jump over them before said tin of beans explode. Somewhere in a past show I tell of my passion for all things fire. Oh, you should see a tin of beans explode… it’s a grand sight. It’s not a grand sight or feeling for that matter when they explode with your charlie hollocks (bollocks) in the line of fire!
July 25, 2007 at 6:39 pm #20612
starflyer3000	Is it like a celebration, or do people just throw cans of beans on open fires for the fun of it? Kinda like in college, my friends and I would spray hairspray on the doors in the dorm (they were metal, btw) and light those on fire, which is pretty cool.
July 26, 2007 at 4:40 am #20613
	I put one of those airline-sized plastic bottles of rum in a campfire once. My friend had passed out so he didn’t notice the burn holes in his jeans after the explosion. In retrospect, beans would have been a safer alternative. Plus I was hungry at the time, so it could have been two birds with one stone.
July 26, 2007 at 5:50 am #20614
starflyer3000	hmmm… that might have worked, but you may have been wearing the beans instead of eating them.
July 26, 2007 at 6:06 am #20615
	starflyer3000 wrote:hmmm… that might have worked, but you may have been wearing the beans instead of eating them. At that point, I don’t think it would have mattered.
July 26, 2007 at 6:29 am #20616
Tony C. Smith	starflyer3000 wrote:Is it like a celebration, or do people just throw cans of beans on open fires for the fun of it? I like that thought, a one that we in England have a special day where villages up and down the country, celebrate a custom dating back to the birth of this fair isle by skipping over fires with exploding tines of beans. (Just for the – hey they didn’t have tines of beans in the olden days – people out there. They used pigs bladders in the beginning and later Tupperware (trademark). Though this later period in the history of the bean-prancing (as locals around Northumbrian coast call it) was a time of unrest, as inevitable the Tupperware receptacle melted before the highlight of the night, that grand and moving performance – The Jump of the Silly Bastard.
July 26, 2007 at 6:46 am #20617
	Tony C. Smith wrote: Does it fall under the purview of the Ministry of Silly Walks?
July 26, 2007 at 6:52 am #20618
starflyer3000	lol… that’s awesome… something like that deserves to be a real celebration; unfortunately, i don’t often find myself near open flame with a can of beans, so i don’t think i’ll be able to experience it for myself.