I did just about what you did! I just had a small "accident" camping out and cooking Bologna on a "Bunsen Burner"! There was a girl about a year older than I was. She was "one of us guys"! Well we were on the "camping trip" in the fields behind our houses. The Bunsen Burners somehow got out of control and we burned the entire field down! It was about 3/4 mile long and maybe 3-400 yards wide! We skated on that one>>>nobody found out it was us! LOL!!! I just looked it up, I could not remember the name of the burners we used. They were called Sterno!
Now that is a great story! I wish we could still live like that in today's times!I remember my father telling how when he and my uncle were young they made a cannon out of pipe (early 1900's) and used black powder; loaded it with gravel and used leaves for tamping. When they set it off they didn't know my grandfather was in the corn field...well, the cannon was a success, got my grandpa with the gravel and set the field on fire. Some how, he never got around to saying what grand pa did.
Someone probably posted this and I FORGOT, but how about Captain Kangaroo, Mr. Greenjeans, and Bunny Rabbit?
I think you know you're getting old when you have more doctors than friends...