I was feeling a bit Harry Potter today, so I cooked up some fireball sauce and talked my collegue into doing a class demo:

Well, that would never do, so, back to the labORatory, for the perfect pyrotechnic elixer that would throw a colored fireball some distance:

Much better! So the mad doctor (he had just given an exam and was dreadin the grading) vaporized the first row:


Then he asked for a volunteer (mmwaa-hahaha):

Ok, maybe tone it down a bit, and it's a textbook flying fireball:


Or as some people put it, willful destruction of state property:

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