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xiphiasIAN: "Hey, Lis?"
LIS: "Yes?"
IAN: "Will you be the voice of adult reason?"
LIS: "Um, sure. . . what's going on?"
IAN: "No, you don't understand -- I'm not going to tell you unless you promise NOT to be the voice of adult reason."
LIS: "Is this something dangerous?"
IAN: "Um. . . not really. . . "
IAN: "Well, Ben and I were downstairs, watching the candles. [ed. note: we don't leave our Hannukah candles burning unattended. Partially for safety, and partially because it's an excuse to just goof off for half an hour to an hour. And partially because the commandment of Hannukah is to, y'know, watch the candles and enjoy them.] And we were talking about flaming alcohol. And Ben mentioned that, one time, when he was bored in college, he figured out how to make a soda can into an alcohol lamp. He took a soda can, turned it upside down, put rubbing alcohol in the depression in the base, and lit it. And then we realized that you could put olive oil in that kind of depression, too. And if we could find a wick, then we could make an oil lamp."
LIS: "Have you done this yet?"
IAN: "Anyway, Ben and I realized that he has MORE than eight empty soda cans lying around, AND he has a hot-glue gun."
LIS: "You haven't done anything yet, have you?"
IAN: "Just proof-of-concept. We made an oil lamp out of one of the cans, and it works great, but we haven't made the hannukiyah yet. . . "
LIS: "Yes?"
IAN: "Will you be the voice of adult reason?"
LIS: "Um, sure. . . what's going on?"
IAN: "No, you don't understand -- I'm not going to tell you unless you promise NOT to be the voice of adult reason."
LIS: "Is this something dangerous?"
IAN: "Um. . . not really. . . "
IAN: "Well, Ben and I were downstairs, watching the candles. [ed. note: we don't leave our Hannukah candles burning unattended. Partially for safety, and partially because it's an excuse to just goof off for half an hour to an hour. And partially because the commandment of Hannukah is to, y'know, watch the candles and enjoy them.] And we were talking about flaming alcohol. And Ben mentioned that, one time, when he was bored in college, he figured out how to make a soda can into an alcohol lamp. He took a soda can, turned it upside down, put rubbing alcohol in the depression in the base, and lit it. And then we realized that you could put olive oil in that kind of depression, too. And if we could find a wick, then we could make an oil lamp."
LIS: "Have you done this yet?"
IAN: "Anyway, Ben and I realized that he has MORE than eight empty soda cans lying around, AND he has a hot-glue gun."
LIS: "You haven't done anything yet, have you?"
IAN: "Just proof-of-concept. We made an oil lamp out of one of the cans, and it works great, but we haven't made the hannukiyah yet. . . "