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  • To further clarify: I used my flame-thrower to repel representative Jason Chaffetz when I ran into him at the local Orem, UT Rudfuckers.

    Stuff We Did This Weekend 2010

  • Simon did not cook the pie by taking a Clairol foot spa to pieces and rebuilding it again as a flame-thrower, and the pie looked just like a pie – not an Elizabethan shoe.

    The Good Cook: Grace Dent's TV OD 2011

  • Log in to Reply rebel4309 (UID#9278) on November 15th, 2009 at 10: 33 pm eye bleach … STAT!! also, where is the tard with the flame-thrower when you need him?

    good morning son | My[confined]Space 2009

  • To clarify: all one needs to make a flame-thrower is a can of hairspray and a cigarette lighter.

    Stuff We Did This Weekend 2010

  • He muttered that Red should have been more careful with that flame-thrower.

    Blonde, Black and Blood Red nathreee 2010

  • I jumped behind a table, Butch loaded and aimed his bazooka, while Hathor hid himself behind Butch and Red stormed into the group of guards with a flame-thrower, shouting some kind of battle-cry.

    Blonde, Black and Blood Red nathreee 2010

  • Dame Edna, that ladylike Australian flame-thrower, has used this technique to funny effect over the years.

    A theatrical manifesto: hands off the audience! Peter Marks 2010

  • Drew Storen, Tyler Clippard, Sean Burnett, Slaten, Coffey and Henry Rodriguez, the flame-thrower whom the Nationals acquired when they traded Josh Willingham to the A's, are likely to claim six of seven relief spots.

    Nationals set to add Todd Coffey Adam Kilgore 2011

  • This is coming from the GOP flame-thrower herself.

    Palin urges restraint at town hall meetings 2009

  • Only a very few women, it was found, could even carry and use a flame-thrower with any effect.

    The Lensman's Children Fred Kiesche 2010

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  • "In 1943, chemists at Harvard came up with a cheap and simple way to thicken petrol into a gel. Not only was it easier to use in flame-throwers in this non-drip form, but it would conveniently stick to things – wood, metal, flesh – as it burned." - 'London Review of Books', 29 Nov 2007.

    November 26, 2007