During the midst of last night’s gaming, after we’d defeated a fire spirit (with, I later discovered, a great deal of help from the GM: at least 3 of our characters should have died, which actually came as something of a relief to me, because I couldn’t believe we’d defeated it so easily!), Jean was saying to Arthur, “Maybe we could use one of those things to power your steam-engine ideas instead of using coal.”
To which Arthur replied, “Ah, yes, you’re suggesting an infernal combustion engine!”
We actually stopped and applauded. :)