charl: Having experienced a few hangovers in my life, I stand by dehydration being the big factor, atleast for me. Any time I've drank a substantial amount of alchohol, and then drank a substantial amount of water (and a multivitamin, admittedly, to cover the B-vitamin loss, but I'd take one, anyway), I've never experienced a hangover.
You're right about the conversion of alchohol into poison, though, so it's certainly not the only factor, and alchohol may affect different people, differently.
SimRobert2001: That's what I meant by "
might someday soonish"
It means that no, I don't have any ETA on that one from Toady.
Tenebrais: Beer doesn't explode. Distilled alchohol might, but not beer. The highest alchohol content I've ever seen for beer, ever, has been 29% ABV (58 Proof) for 'Hair of the Dog Dave', and that was for barleywine that had been double frozen, reducing the water content to 33%. I'm pretty sure that's the strongest commerical beer that's ever been produced. If not, I'd like to know about it.
For alchohol to really be igniteable, it has to be 40% ABV, or 80 Proof.
You might manage to set less strong alchohol on fire, but it's not going to be easy, and it's almost certainly not going to explode, unless you toss a hand grenade in the vat.