kill it with fire

i was about to light a candle (for a romantic candle-lit midnight snack – can’t really call it dinner) when i noticed the name of the matches i was using. they are called “titan matches”. the surprising part is that rather than being named after the mythological figure (denoting strength) they are named after saturn’s moon (which in turn is named after the mythological figure).

having a brand of matches named after an astronomical object is cool enough in itself, but the box also featured a rather funny warning label telling us that “fire kills children” (i suppose once you grow up you get used to it). and to top it all, these aren’t the cheap, unreliable matches made in china, no sir, they are made in india. cool