bad-tempered misinterpretation

[baratron]

I saw a sig file which reads: "There is a flame lurking within all of us deep in our souls trying to escape. All you have to do is reach down, far below the surface and bring it out into the world like a new-born child in the palm of your hand." What does it say about either me or the company I keep that I read that as "flame" in the sense of flaming an idiot?