# I set my hair on fire yesterday.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-set-my-hair-on-fire-yesterday/507498
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [August 24, 2009, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-set-my-hair-on-fire-yesterday/507498 "2009-08-24T14:11:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2009, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-set-my-hair-on-fire-yesterday/507498/21 "2009-08-25T19:44:31Z")
This seems somehow appropriate.
**WHOOOOSH!**
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### Author:  [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2009, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-set-my-hair-on-fire-yesterday/507498/22 "2009-08-25T19:55:03Z")
“When you’re on fire, people will get out of your way.”
-Richard Pryor
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### Author:  [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2009, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-set-my-hair-on-fire-yesterday/507498/23 "2009-08-25T19:56:05Z")
> [@Zsofia](#):
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> The automatic ignition was broken on my dad’s grill when my boyfriend and I were at his beach house for the 4th of July. We tried to make hot dogs. My boyfriend has a luxuriant handlebar mustache. Do you see where this is going?
To an incorrect verb tense in your penultimate sentence? 😉
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### Author:  [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2009, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-set-my-hair-on-fire-yesterday/507498/24 "2009-08-25T20:11:17Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#):
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> To an incorrect verb tense in your penultimate sentence? 😉
_golf clap_
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### Author:  [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2009, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-set-my-hair-on-fire-yesterday/507498/25 "2009-08-25T20:16:24Z")
> [@Zsofia](#):
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> The automatic ignition was broken on my dad’s grill when my boyfriend and I were at his beach house for the 4th of July. We tried to make hot dogs. My boyfriend has a luxuriant handlebar mustache. Do you see where this is going?
I have learned that, when lighting a barbecue with no working ignition, you should always throw in the match BEFORE turning on the gas.
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### Author:  [@Ceejaytee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ceejaytee)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2009, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-set-my-hair-on-fire-yesterday/507498/26 "2009-08-25T20:44:55Z")
But think of all the exercise you got running around! And you’re heart was probably pounding–that must be good cardio! Oh, we’re not on SparkPeople right now?
I’m glad you’re okay. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tastes_of_Chocolate)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2009, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-set-my-hair-on-fire-yesterday/507498/27 "2009-08-25T20:59:30Z")
> [@Bookkeeper](#):
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> I have learned that, when lighting a barbecue with no working ignition, you should always throw in the match BEFORE turning on the gas.
A co-worker was grilling on a gas grill, in a windy weather. At some point after he started up the grill, the wind blew out the flame. Co-worker noticed and pressed the ignition button.
The lesson that day was: First you turn off the gas, then you open the top and let the trapped gas escape, then turn the gas back on and relight.
Otherwise you hear a big: waBOOM noise, as the lid of the grill flies up and back. If you happen to be leaning towards the grill, to check if things relit, you get to singe off one side-burn, half a mustache, one eyebrow and matching eyelashes, and you get to wear bandaging on one ear, until the burns heal.
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### Author:  [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2009, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-set-my-hair-on-fire-yesterday/507498/28 "2009-08-25T21:02:21Z")
> [@Clothahump](#):
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> We’re supposed to clean it? That’s where the flavor comes from.
[Hank Hill]No! Use propane! Taste the meat, not the heat![/Hank Hill]
Glad you’re okay, **MsWhatsit**. Still, it sounds like a scary moment.
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