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You've got some important paperwork to get rid of, and the paper shredder is not working. Or, well... it's just not symbolic enough, really. Because this paper is Very Special to you. Get the kerosene and the matches. It's time to build a fire.
Not just any fire, either. This is almost always a special Hollywood fire that knows exactly what parts of the documents that you're burning that are the most important to you. Be it a loved one's face, your ''own'' face, an important phone number,
A variation on this with the paperwork is to mark up or disfigure the important picture instead of burning it. But that's sort of for wusses. We recommend you go with the bonfire.
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* In one of ''[[Neuroticaly Yours|Foamy's Fan Mails]]'', Foamy [[Hair-Trigger Temper|gets so pissed off]] at all the redundant [[Fourth Wall Mail Slot|mail he gets]], that he collects it all into a large stack and sets it on fire and burns down the studio as well, so he never has to do a Fan Mail episode again. Fires back at him when he has to do the next one in the burned out remains of it. The episode is appropriately names "
{{quote|'''Foamy:''' ''"And what do we have here? It's a fucking pack of matches! Uuhhaaaaa..... Matches!!! Fire on a stick! Woo-hoo-hoo-hooooo!!!"''}}
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* In 2002, a Colorado forest ranger allegedly chose to burn some letters from an estranged husband despite a fire ban. The fire escaped the pit and resulted in the Hayman Fire, the largest forest fire in Colorado history.
* [[Truth in Television]]: Cryptographic [[wikipedia:One-time pad|one-time pads]] for intelligence operatives were sometimes printed on highly flammable nitrocellulose, since it burns quickly and without leaving any residue.
** Spy planes have thermite igniters in case they are ever downed. Not for the crew to defend themselves with, but to burn computers and equipment that are classified. Nothing says
** Also common practice with un-salvageable military vehicles on the battlefield, as described in [[Black Hawk Down]]. Accounts from Operation Iraqi Freedom identify M1A1 Abrams tanks as the most difficult to properly sanitize.
* In America, at least, once a homeowner has successfully paid off their mortgage in its entirety, it's customary to burn said document (this was demonstrated on [[MASH]]).
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