Asked if it would backfire on Wednesday night, Gallen said: "It was a joke, why would it backfire?" It may have stoked the fire in Lewis' belly but Gallen's barb barely registered in the Queensland camp.
Barclays has further stoked the row over bankers' pay by handing out shares worth almost £32m to its management team, including the under-fire chief executive Antony Jenkins.
Many said they felt the NSA's programmes have been mischaracterised and stoked fears over national security to justify their existence.
Thursday's strikes loom, and underneath the inevitable theatrics from both sides, there's a sense of an achingly familiar problem: trade unions stoked up and ready for action, leaders talking in terms of a long march through the autumn and beyond, but no real sense that their case has even begun to cut through to the public.
But barely an hour earlier, as a last day that had been stoked and whipped to a froth from the outset approached its climax, things had finally got out of hand.
Moore is glad to be catching up with friends in London, excited about the festival he's playing the next day, and stoked about unveiling a new video he hopes "is going to blow some minds".
A céilidh was blazing, stoked by the Homecoming Swing Band and organic Black Isle Brewery lager.
But there is also no doubt, as illustrated in the 2013 documentary God Loves Uganda, that they have relentlessly stoked a loathing and disgust of sexual minorities.
Rather than killing off the rebellion by ordering MPs to comply with his will, he has merely stoked it, his critics say, by denying them the right to speak out and reflect their constituents' concerns.
Alabama could become the 37th state to allow it, pending the outcome of a legal fight stoked by resistance by the state government to a judge's repeated rulings.
