The evidence accumulates:

Derb—Regarding the melting beer bottle: A few years ago Dave Barry (paraphrasing from memory) told of a bunch of guys who made a huge rubber band and shot a Buick into the air with it. Barry reported that men who heard about the project all said, “Cool!” Women who heard about it said, “Why?”
The chasm between the sexes is wide and deep.

[Me] Indeed. Now, if you were to put a Buick onto a humongous log fire, would it melt?

(Somewhere in America, a Corner reader is picking up the phone to call his buddies. “Hey, guys, let’s try this…”)