I heard the same boast from this guy's american cousin. He claimed to be a mercenary who served with Grey's Scouts in Rhodesia.He knew half the people featured in Soldier Of Fortune and wore a fine set of Tiger Stripe cammies with a WW2 Merchant marine ribbon on the breast pocket. I waited until the night of a full moon ( this was an evening anthropology class) and challenged him to do it. Naturally he didn't have a magnifying glass on him. I produced a chunk of ice from the specimen freezer. I told 'Rambeau' the english major he had to carve a lens and start the fire before our professor arrived. Well, he was bent over a tinder pile on the sidewalk, holding a chunk of ice and looking furtively at the moon over his shoulder when the proff AND a campus policeman strolled up. We never did find out if it was true <img src="images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> A. I doubt it B. even if feasable it falls into the category of parlour tricks to impress the feable minded and C. real men use hand picked strike anywhere matches <img src="images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />