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Top Ten: Ways we were going to light the bonfire this year

Matt Melton

The ancient leader of the firestarters

10. Potassium and water. We love chemistry!

9. Medieval flame-throwing catapult. Bonus points if the ball of fire lands in the outhouse’s toilet.

8. Back an alumni’s Ford Pinto into the bonfire.

7. Small criticality accident… Very small, we get them all the time. Perfectly safe.

6. Alumni-coordinated Tomahawk missile drop from underwater nuclear submarine. Make sure to duck. You’ll know when.

5. Molotov cocktail.

4. 1.5 million volt Tesla coil. Don’t wear anything metal…at all…

3. Surgical tube slingshot from the Percopo balcony.

2. Fiery virgin sacrifice to the volcano gods.

1. Give three Purdue engineering grads a box of matches and a gallon of gasoline and see how long it takes them to figure it out.

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