I feel like a large number of my ideas wouldn’t leave much candle for being a metaphor for anything but hey-ho.
Match
Cigarette Lighter
Car cigarette lighter
Light off cigarette
Bonfire
Gas hob
Bunsen burner
Kitchen blow torch
Proper blow torch
Focussing sun’s rays
Rubbing sticks together
Wait for it to spontaneously ignite
Sparks from flint
Sparks from metal
Electrical sparks
Throw it in a fusion reactor
Underneath the next Falcon 9 launch
Launch it into the sun
Light a stick from another source, touch to candle
Make candle out of alkaline metal, throw in water
Place on top of a tall building in a thunderstorm
Heat in an oven
Attach to lithium battery and overheat
Move candle fast enough to self-ignite through air friction/compression
Put in path of meteor strike
Attach to front of rocket during re-entry
Rub it very fast
Shine a spotlight on it (you said to light it, right?)
Cut away some of the heavy bits (you said to light it, right?)
Laser pointer
Laser from dvd player
Immerse in oil, light oil
Leave it in a church and wait for someone else to light it
Put it on a cake and tell everyone it’s my birthday
Superman’s laser vision
Attach to firework
Ask someone else to do it
Pay someone else to do it
Threaten someone else if they don’t do it
Swap candles with someone else and light each other’s
Turn it to dust and create dust explosion
Use car spark plugs
Inside an engine’s combustion chamber
Off car bonnet left out in the sun
Off concrete heated by the sun
Attach to nuclear bomb
Off the boiler pilot light
Inside the boiler
In a powerplant
Flamethrower
Cruise missile
Conventional bomb
Out of a jet engine on aircraft
Attach to Bloodhound SSC jet/rocket
Wait until candle goes out, then reverse flow of time
Sell it in a shop – whoever buys it probably wants to light it anyway
Leave in wildfire area
Coat candle in phosphorous and light like a match
Put it in an explosive atmosphere, create spark
Napalm
Gunpowder
Shoot it with explosive round
Shoot it with a tank
Rocket launcher
Grenade
Light it upside down
Go back in time to the big bang, light off that
Leave it in a science classroom
Light it off a splint
Off a bulb filament
Use it to block off a high performance computer’s cooling vent
Rub it between my hands
A very hot radiator
A personal heater
Electric blanket
Overheat a resistor
Battery spark
Capacitor spark
Use a fake (electric) candle and switch it on
Use a trick self-relighting candle, light it using some method, then blow it out. Let it re-light itself
Superheat the wax
Increase pressure?
Magnesium strip
In a volcano
In a waffle iron
Off a clothes iron
Off the Olympic torch
Off the Bangle’s Eternal flame
TNT
An elaborate timing contraption a la Wallace and Gromit
Minecraft creeper
Light a virtual candle
Off a toy rocket
Toaster
Kettle heating element
In a particle accelerator
Ask the candle nicely to set itself alight
Pray
Write to Santa to ask him to light my candle as a Christmas present
Off another candle (now ask me how I lit that one)
I feel like a large number of my ideas wouldn’t leave much candle for being a metaphor for anything but hey-ho.
Match
Cigarette Lighter
Car cigarette lighter
Light off cigarette
Bonfire
Gas hob
Bunsen burner
Kitchen blow torch
Proper blow torch
Focussing sun’s rays
Rubbing sticks together
Wait for it to spontaneously ignite
Sparks from flint
Sparks from metal
Electrical sparks
Throw it in a fusion reactor
Underneath the next Falcon 9 launch
Launch it into the sun
Light a stick from another source, touch to candle
Make candle out of alkaline metal, throw in water
Place on top of a tall building in a thunderstorm
Heat in an oven
Attach to lithium battery and overheat
Move candle fast enough to self-ignite through air friction/compression
Put in path of meteor strike
Attach to front of rocket during re-entry
Rub it very fast
Shine a spotlight on it (you said to light it, right?)
Cut away some of the heavy bits (you said to light it, right?)
Laser pointer
Laser from dvd player
Immerse in oil, light oil
Leave it in a church and wait for someone else to light it
Put it on a cake and tell everyone it’s my birthday
Superman’s laser vision
Attach to firework
Ask someone else to do it
Pay someone else to do it
Threaten someone else if they don’t do it
Swap candles with someone else and light each other’s
Turn it to dust and create dust explosion
Use car spark plugs
Inside an engine’s combustion chamber
Off car bonnet left out in the sun
Off concrete heated by the sun
Attach to nuclear bomb
Off the boiler pilot light
Inside the boiler
In a powerplant
Flamethrower
Cruise missile
Conventional bomb
Out of a jet engine on aircraft
Attach to Bloodhound SSC jet/rocket
Wait until candle goes out, then reverse flow of time
Sell it in a shop – whoever buys it probably wants to light it anyway
Leave in wildfire area
Coat candle in phosphorous and light like a match
Put it in an explosive atmosphere, create spark
Napalm
Gunpowder
Shoot it with explosive round
Shoot it with a tank
Rocket launcher
Grenade
Light it upside down
Go back in time to the big bang, light off that
Leave it in a science classroom
Light it off a splint
Off a bulb filament
Use it to block off a high performance computer’s cooling vent
Rub it between my hands
A very hot radiator
A personal heater
Electric blanket
Overheat a resistor
Battery spark
Capacitor spark
Use a fake (electric) candle and switch it on
Use a trick self-relighting candle, light it using some method, then blow it out. Let it re-light itself
Superheat the wax
Increase pressure?
Magnesium strip
In a volcano
In a waffle iron
Off a clothes iron
Off the Olympic torch
Off the Bangle’s Eternal flame
TNT
An elaborate timing contraption a la Wallace and Gromit
Minecraft creeper
Light a virtual candle
Off a toy rocket
Toaster
Kettle heating element
In a particle accelerator
Ask the candle nicely to set itself alight
Pray
Write to Santa to ask him to light my candle as a Christmas present
Off another candle (now ask me how I lit that one)