How To Build The Only Five Campfires You'll Ever Need

There is no camping without a campfire, unless your idea of camping is sitting around the warm glow of a laptop screen outside your home, so avid campers have to know their way around a pile of fiery wood.

Groups like the Boy and Girl Scouts teach young recruits how to build a campfire out of gathered wood and kindling, but the basic Tipi style they teach you doesn't last as long as the Star, and isn't as effective for cooking as the Platform.

So if you’re planning on heading to the great outdoors this summer you should check out this article that teaches you How To Build The Only Five Campfires You’ll Ever Need, and make sure you invest in a Zippo lighter (or some waterproof matches) before you go!


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Reminds me of a summer where I was Maintenance Director at a Boy Scout camp and one of my duties was to set up a campfire for the end of each two week camping session. I tried to make them memorable. My favorite was a lakeside campfire. Had the Archery Director and another counselor dressed up as Indians, paddle a canoe down to the campfire side and lit the campfire with a flaming arrow. Epic.
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A good place to get your "i.e's" and "e.g's" right you should get the podcast called "Grammer Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing."

Good stuff, yo!
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I specifically remember learning that i.e. can also mean "in exemplum," which makes that usage of it identical to e.g. Anybody know of a debunking of that notion?
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For people, I use "et alia" (or "et al.") rather than "etc." It means "and others." I've never heard of "i.e." meaning "in exemplum," but a quick search via Google shows that this is a common (mis?)perception.
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Reminds me of my favorite sequence from Get Shorty:

"Ray "Bones" Barboni: Let me explain something to you. Momo is dead. Which means that everything he had now belongs to Jimmy Cap, including you. Which also means, that when I speak, I speak for Jimmy. E.g., from now on, you start showing me the proper fucking respect.
Chili Palmer: "E.g." means "for example". What I think you want to say is "I.e.".
Ray "Bones" Barboni: Bullshit! That's short for "ergo".
Chili Palmer: Ask your man.
Bodyguard: To the best of my knowledge, "e.g." means "for example".
Ray "Bones" Barboni: E.g., i.e., fuck you! The point is this: is that, When I say "jump", you say "OK", okay?"
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Shabby! Not only is a commenter trying to pull a fast one (with a phony phrase, "in exemplum," for "i.e."), but also the main post has an error in each explanation of three additional abbreviations,
(1) "C.f." should be "Cf." -- without the extra period.
(2) "Etc." is not "the abbreviation for "etcetera" -- but rather the abbreviation for "et cetera" (with a space between the two Latin words).
(3) "QED" is not the "abbreviation for quod erat demonstradum" -- but rather the abbreviation for "quod erat demonstrandum" (with an "n" before the second "d."
Tsk, tsk!
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