You really slay me. For serious.
Such a violent answer, from such a genteel personage! Let’s see what our genteel panelists had to say:
HardlySanguine: candles
Hoopy Frood: A flamethrower
Dr. Girlfriend: A blowtorch… well it probably only works once!, for a match!
antonio107: Gasoline
Dolores Reborn: Candles
notfrommensa: Fireflies
Well, played, everyone! This game ends with the score of 2-1 in favor of cmkeller!
Congratulations to our latest champion!
Way to go, cmkeller!
You, know. For some reason, I had it in my head that a blowtorch and a flame thrower were the same thing, when they are quite different.
I actually own a blowtorch; I just wish I owned a flamethrower.
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the person that wanted to light the xmas tree wanted to save money.
Don’t candles, flamethrowers, blowtorches, gasoline all cost something, either in the capital cost or supplies?
Obviously, Fireflies is the definitive answer!!!
Now if it was Dumb Donald or his wife Dora, or Weird Willie, candles and blowtorches would be good answers.
Hey man, my family is from Eastern North Carolina. There’s big savings in arson.
Around here there’s no fireflies (lightning bugs!) to be found at Christmas time. 
So you’d have to pay to have them flown in, and the poor critters probably wouldn’t survive the cold. That is a good answer, though!
Maybe he insured it?
Granted, he’d probably only be able to pull this off once assuming that the investigators couldn’t prove arson.
Which makes me wonder if you can actually take out an insurance policy against XMas tree damage. I mean, it’s a rather inconsequential piece of property.
Ditto. I thought of fireflies, but here in Chicago, all the adults are dead this time of year. And if you actually managed to capture and have some live long enough to be alive at Christmas, they’re cold-blooded like all insects, which means they’re going to die as soon as you put them in cold temperatures anyway.
I mean I guess if you have a bunch of really long-lived fireflies in climate-controlled enclosures (and I thought we were supposed to save money) and started piping pheremones into those enclosures so they had the desire to mate (since that’s what the whole flashing lights thing is about anyway), you might be able to light your outdoor XMas tree with them, assuming you’re not violating some weird zoning ordinance.
Personally, I’ll just use a flamethrower. It’ll be cheaper and much easier. Less time I need to commit to the process as well.
One last extravaganza for 2011? 
Sure, we can try to squeeze one more in.
Look for a new game to start Thursday around 3 pm.
Yay!
Sorry for the delay, everyone. Today wound up being busier than expected for a day off.
Expect the new game to be up around 8 pm ET.
Looking forward to the final game of the year, but sadly will not be able to participate. I’ll read the re-runs after the original has aired though!
New game begins now!
The first two responses I receive will be the contestants, the next six will be the panelists. 
Please PM me now with your response to this:
Yay! New game!
Room for two more!
Alrighty, then! We’ve got all our panelists in, so it’s time for contestant #1, antonio107, to share with us his answer to this:
What date it’s on!
That Dora’s pretty dumb, isn’t she?
Let’s see what our panelists had to say:
notfrommensa: What day it is, a match!
HardlySanguine: how to play a kazoo!
**Maus Magill **: The Old Year
cmkeller: what year it is, which the judge, citing the holiday season, is going to ding for a match!
Dolores Reborn: What date the party is on!, another match!
Hoopy Frood: anyone named Eve
So that’s 3 matches for antonio107 in round 1. Now let’s see what contestant #2 can accomplish. Dr. Girlfriend, please cast your thoughts over your question, as I ask our panelists now to PM me with their best response to this: