"See this here shrapnel wound? Lemme tell ya a little story 'bout that. There ah wuz, a-belly crawlin' toward the keg, when alla sudden there wuz this big ol' splosion. My butt hurt like hell, lemme tell you. Well, I wuz eatin' the pickled eggs all day, so course the first thing I checked wuz muh pants, to see if somebody'd been followin' me around with a lighter...."
We used to toss cans of WD-40 into the campfire. They make a nice mushroom cloud fireball when they go off.
Are you channeling John Kerry? ;-)