No distractions while you are handling the hot stuff, PLEASE!

So, Blast, would you let me put holes in things before you blew them up, or would it be a race to see if you can make it disappear before I can draw a bead?
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
-- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)