This could have been a contender

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Hmm, an eggcup doesn't sound like much. Maybe there were lots of fumes from the other stuff he had already tried. At any rate he would be inelligible for a full darwin because, at 75, he is assumed to have already done all the reproducing he is going to do. He probably could have got honorable mention. He's probably still eligible for that but I think it was more not having adequate ventilation, than the gas itself.

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I think I've been to Scun-thorpe*.... (Spent a summer as an exchange student with a family in Lincoln many years ago.)


*Without the hyphen, I get censored due to four certain letters in the middle.

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Don't know about the Darwin award, but during my teaching years way back at the dawn of computers for the masses, I ran across and news item where some neighbors called the police to investigate a gunshot from the house next door. It seems an older gentleman got frustrated with his computer and let it have it right between the registers of the CPU with a .357 magnum pistol.
No charges were brought against him because there wasn't any local law against killing computers in cold blood in your own home with a firearm.

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*lol* And there's that rule about no faking or starring out swearwords. Hee hee hee.

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Not even Discharging a Firearm within city limits?

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Could've used "That City"

On another board I frequent, a recent discussion about places to eat in downtown Chicage contained numerous references to the "Hanthingy Tower."

Yes, the board software was automatically replacing those four letters with "thingy."

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I've been to the Han-Male-Chicken Tower in Chicago, very nice place.

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sounds like an episode of home improvement

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That one reminded me of an incidence in Denmark several years ago, during a flareup in a war between a couple of bikergangs(I believe it was Bulls―t¹ and Hells Angels) for control over drugsales, where an army expert was called in to testify about the power of the Carl Gustav recoilless rifle produced as evidence and he realized that it was loaded and could have fired at any time during handling.

Denmark may be a country of nice people, but when we do have gangwars, the word war is appropriate.

1) The word is used as a proper name here, not as an explentive, so I hope it's acceptable.

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Trying to make sense of computers, The Error Log.

as to the OP, I would have thought that it was perfectly reasonable to use petrol to remove glue. I think that it is BS that an eggcup of the stuff would produce enough fumes to create an explosion. IIRC he was advised to use cleaning fluids by the shop he went to for advice, when this useless advice transpired to be useless he then use the petrol(which he should have use in the first place) and the combination of the cleaning fluids and the petrol probably gave off the fumes.
So unless I am wrong it should be the shop adviser who should get the Darwin prize.
and this advice is pathetic, next he will be saying that gin is for drinking not cleaning the silver.

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Do you get 'Mythbusters' on your TV? Two US guys, or rather one guy and a moustache with a small bald man attached. They tried to ignite petrol fumes with first a mobile phone and then static electricty. The first was a failure, the second - also a failure! Until they introduced a Leyden jar into the circuit, for more spark. Then it went caboom!

But it was how they loaded the test container (a plexiglass box the sixe of a car) with petrol fumes. They used a air powered spray gun, just like you would use to spray paint. They also experimented to find the best spray pressure and volume for a stoichiometric, most explosive mixture of fuel and air. It wasn't easy and they used a LOT of fuel. With that in mind, I really don't believe that an egg cup full is enough, unless it's in a shoe box.

Jhn

Really??

S****horpe

PS: how about that