Was giving someone a “hot foot” a popular practical joke in the 1930s-1940s, as apparently indicated in many Bugs Bunny cartoons. You know what I mean–usually someone will be standing guard, and Bugs or Daffy Duck will stick several matches in the crease of his shoe just above the sole, and then light another match and sets them all on fire. Hilarity ensues as the guard hops around with one foot flaming.
Has anyone ever carried out this practical joke? Has anyone’s grandfather ever carried out this practical joke?
No idea where it began… but I was at a party once where a guy pased out on the couch, and a couple of others guys stuck a match between his toes (he was barefoot) and lit it… he woke up when the match burned down to his foot and left a nice blister! Wasn’t funny at the time (or now either!)
For revenge he emptied a fire extinguisher into the room…
I didn’t hang out with those guys too much after that…
I use a variation of that particular trick. If someone is engaged in conversation it is quite easy to sneek behind them and hold your lit lighter near their ass. (only if they are wearing jeans!) The denim must absorb quite a bit of heat because I have, in the past, been able to hold that sucker there for up to 4 seconds. At that point you can remove your lighter and quickly move away. (emphasis on ‘quick’)
I’m not sure what kind of fire extinguisher it was… but it seemed to suck all of the O2 out of the room pretty quickly! At least it seemed that way… course we were all drunk at the time.
We all evacuated the area as fast as possible, tho…
There’s also “The Shock.” You know, when you see on TV where someone touches hot current and and they light up, their eyes bug out and their hair stands on end. Funny!
So anyone remember quite a few years ago when these guys decided to pull that on one of their sleeping friends? They took a cut-off electrical cord, attached the wire to his toe and plugged it in. Funny!