At last month's Roundtable (a meeting for Scout leaders) the discussion leader told two stories about lighters - one was of a kid who threw an "empty" butane lighter into a fire, and it exploded, putting a rock into the kid's forehead and knocking down two tents by the force of the blast. The other was the welder story. The first was told in first person, i.e. the guy claimed he was there when it happened. Has anyone heard the first story as an urban legend?

Alison, here is the "Cookie Recipe" as I received it from my sister. In the days before the internet, it would have been transmitted by a chain letter. To the rest of you, I apologize for taking up forum space.