You guys are @*$%*!!* mad.

Seriously.

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Calm down my friend. Go and sling some stones - and don't start throwing around stereotyped labels. We can all play that pointless game.

I'm not a 'typical' anything.

English,

I don't think the stopper retaining gizmo would hold up to the stress when launched like that. Also I'd hate to use my bottles to test that do to the fact that they are great for filling with my home brew wines and stouts (by themselves they are not only almost flamable and also tasty 8) ).... Might be more fun to make a peace offering with the mead, get the opponents passed out drunk,and then attack in the middle of the night with a small band of guys with chainsaws(or maybe just sharpend spoons, big sticks and slings used as garrets).
There is more than one way to de-hair a feline.

Hobb... "may the sporks be with you" 
As far as who started  flinging incendery ammo or where the name for the fire bottles came from is not realy clear to me... I'm starting to think that "Greek Fire" was a gelled alchol based napalm. Anyone who has tasted Grappe I'm sure would agree...

i no th molotov cocktail was in vented by the russian weapins scientist , molotov during ww2 to combat the panzers. also they trained dogs torun uder tanks but it back fired wen the dogs ran back under their own tanks cos thats wat they wa trained with! funny and sad.

I was actually threatened by someone with a sharpened (plastic) spoon.  I laughed.
I am sure the stopper thing on the bottle would be able to withstand such torment.  Besides, it is one use.
I think that the Molotov Cocktail, in the modern sense, was invented during the Spanish Civil War.  I have just been reading a book on said conflict, and it mentions the first use of such incendiary devices.
Grappe is possibly the most disgusting alcoholic drink I have ever tasted.  "Fire Water".  I believe it tasted to me a bit like watered down industrial alcohol.
Not entirely sure of the naming of the device, the Molotov, but I have actually used one (this may sound very weird, but we have an insane science teacher.  He helped us make some very interesting things.  Once, a flour bomb broke one of the gas taps at the school.  Also, one of my friends (he is American, from Tennessee in fact) makes little explosives using sugar and fertiliser, inside two tin pie containers with a piece of cardboard separating the two substances and a pin as a detonator.  He blew the wheels off a wheelie bin).  Anyway, at least none of that is as extreme as what was shown on the (superb) documentary film "Bowling for Columbine":  a young guy was interviewed and asked about the "Anarchist's Handbook", or some such thing.  He said that he had only recently made a "few gallons of napalm".

Might have posted this before, but here it is again.  A staff slinger firing a grenade (likely similar to a Molotov cocktail).  This would have broken on contact and caused fires.  This was a common practice in naval battles of that period.  Fire is a ships worst nightmare despite having water all around them.  Greek fire, in particular, was noted to be resistant to water.  Dowsing the flames with water only spread the fire. 



Chris