Yes, they do hang on. Funny story, but kind of long.
My brother had gone on a class trip to Huntsville, Alabama and was staying at a barracks. A friend came up to him and asked him if he had any matches. My brother asked him why. The guy said he couldn't say. My brother said that if he didn't say, he wouldn't get the matches. He said he had a tick and was going to use a match to force the tick to back out. My brother asked him where the tick was and he would help. The guy said he couldn't tell him. My brother said that if he didn't see the tick, then the guy wouldn't get the matches. The guy finally relented and said it was on the tip of his penis. My brother was like wow... but you don't have to show me. The guy took the matches. My brother waited for about a minute and then threw the breaker for the lights in the whole barracks so everything went pitch black. The one thing that everyone could hear, though, was the scream of the guy who had "missed" when applying the match because of the sudden darkness.