Did Jim cause that huge dust cloud?

On 6/6/6? Its more likely that one of his incantations went awry.

It kept me from using the bar-b that evening :-(

...Jim Thompson

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Oh, so it's not some sort of plasma fence to secure our borders? ;)

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Well, aren't those dust clouds a consequence of hot air? He's self proclaiming an old fart. This one maight have been a very old fart.

You've gotta be awfully old and dry to fart dust!

Thanks! Rich

Hello Jim,

Had that, too, when kids starting a bush fire. Embers were raining down. The scary thing was that we had a shake roof at that time and when embers hit the pool there was a hiss and a brief puff of smoke.

I had to chase an empty garbage can down the street. Then I had to brush my teeth to get the sand out :-(

...Jim Thompson

Hello Jim,

Can be worse. Once when my old Minolta SRT-100X got a dose of such fine sand it found its way inside. This is one of the old style cameras with lots of little pulleys and cogs. Took all day to fix but it still works.

I once drove a Ford Econoline-100 van through a dust storm at the OK-TX panhandle - well, partway through - the storm caught me on the highway just as I was crossing the state line, and I saw a cinder-block building with "COLD BEER" painted on its side in 8' high letters. I stopped. ;-)

The barkeep said, "Welcome tuh f*ck-kin' Oak-luhhoe-muh." But, the beer was cold, the people were all sociable, and stuck for the duration (I was used to being snowed in from growing up in Minnesota, so I didn't mind at all. ;-) ) - would the term "dusted in" be apropos? ;-) Finally, the storm was over, and the van had so much dust in so many nooks and crannies that I was still finding Texas/Oklahoma dust after living through two or three Minnesota winters. ;-)

Cheers! Rich

So what makes the skidmarks then?!

That's from thinking that you're so sweet, you s*it little candies. ;-P

Cheers! Rich