fishingbuddy:
your comment about warming up cognac in a stainless cup brought to mind the following.
when i used to "group travel" with 3 other guy's, it was a real chore because they wanted to party more than travel and fish.
one night. (Tequila" night), actualy everynight turned into Tequila night, but i digress, one of the boy's brought out a bottle of cognac and was explaing how it should be properly consumed.
by then my fellow paddlers were pretty well inebriated and since i'm a very light drinker, i was babysitting as usual!!
well, one of the "boy's" decided he would try the cognac, the "right" way and while the rest of us were setting up a makeshift card table, our friend was hovering over the fire, "warming" his cognac :-/ :-/.
unfortunatley, he was so drunk, he was using a PLASTIC cup and got it so close to fire, it melted and next thing we hear,  is a yell and turn to see a giant ball of flame shooting into the air!!!
As often the case, the good Lord was watching over the drunk and other than some singed eye brows, he was okay :-/ :-/.
Okay, being  a relative term to those guy's!!!
it's funny now, but at the time, not so much ;) ;).