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Urbane Guerrilla · 09-13-2006, 02:32 PM

Any time now, somebody's going to inject the missing blonde into the wet suit of the diver found dead of internal trauma in the middle of a burn area when the forest fire is out story.

[OT, I know, I know] As a forester's son, I rather object to the current fashion for calling forest fires "wildfires" -- that should be reserved for prairie fires being driven by forty-mph winds through dry country, crowned-out blazes, and other extreme fire conditions mean enough to chase you away from the fire line. Calling them wild fires just because they aren't neatly domesticated in fireplaces is stretching.

09-13-2006, 02:32 PM	#64
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Any time now, somebody's going to inject the missing blonde into the wet suit of the diver found dead of internal trauma in the middle of a burn area when the forest fire is out story. [OT, I know, I know] As a forester's son, I rather object to the current fashion for calling forest fires "wildfires" -- that should be reserved for prairie fires being driven by forty-mph winds through dry country, crowned-out blazes, and other extreme fire conditions mean enough to chase you away from the fire line. Calling them wild fires just because they aren't neatly domesticated in fireplaces is stretching. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course. Last edited by Urbane Guerrilla; 09-13-2006 at 02:41 PM.