wtf is going on there?

frat boy lights drink on fire
frat boy drinks drink on fire
frat boy puts himself on fire

unfortunate

ah well, live and learn.

This exact episode happened to the idiot roommate of a good friend of mine, except he also managed to burn up a college textbook in the process.

Same here. Well, not the textbook part, but he managed to burn up half his face. (In fact, I mentioned the story to the last poster who used this avatar.) Long & short: Geoffie Mead Walker, heir to the Mead Paper estate, decided to impress ladies 1st semester frosh yr. with drinking antics learnt at his prestigious boarding school. Already pickled, he began slamming shots of B-151, some lit others not. About to polish off the bottle, he threw back one last shot, this one most definitely on fire. Unable to get all of it down his gullet, the remaining juice started his face on fire. I was pretty wankered myself and only remember the lot of us laughing hysterically while Geoffie slapped his face to put out the fire. He eventually extinguished the flames by smothering his face in a pillow.

He continued to booze until he passed out - apparently the rum already in his stomach numbed the pain till early the next morning when he was rushed to ER by his roommate. 2nd & 3rd degree burns and brutal scabs all over his lips for the remainder of the school year. It may sound evil, but I love it when the rich kids fall flat on their faces. ONe of my favorite W. Anderson lines: 'Get them in the crosshairs and take them down.'

Didn't Twilight Kid have that avatar for, like, a day and a half?

Yes'm...bout week and ahalf actually, but who's counting.

(In my Jim Morrison voice)..."I am the avatar king....i can do anything...."

that's actually taken verbatim from the father of the Wilson brothers, who is a pretty damned interesting guy himself. i have one of his books and it's very well written.

...for the fratboy, fortunate for everyone else (one man's tragedy is another's comedy).

"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die."
-- Mel Brooks

Well played. I pulled that one out on somebody just last week.