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Originally Posted by nostatic
No, that would be white smoke. Fire means we have a new satan. Dick Cheney finally gets to retire. BO will keep up the bad work though 
I keed, I keed... 
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PARF, PARF! I'm gonna tell a poopy head moderator!
I know a guy who was really dumb on two counts:
the first dumb thing he did: he had a very large fireplace. He decided a good way to get rid of his dried out Christmas tree was to shove it all up the fireplace and light it. it didn't all fit in the fireplace even though he pushed really hard. The bottom foot or so was still sticking out but he figured he could push that part in when the top part was burned away.
You know what was next, it went up like a fire bomb shooting fire and sparks and flame out of the fireplace. By that time he realized it wasn't a good idea and he tried to pull the burning tree out of the fireplace to drag it outside.
Brilliant!
That caught the mantle on fire and part of the wall as well as the carpet. They got the fire out and saved the house but that end of the house was pretty much toast.
the second dumb thing he did: he told me about it. I manage to work that incredibly dumb move into the conversation almost every time I see him. He's a nice guy but he really is not very sharp. Hopefully the teasing will make him think a little bit and keep him out of the running for the Darwin awards.
How many people are there running around that are dumb enough not to realize what would happen when a dried out 7 foot tall Christmas tree is lighted on fire, especially when it is nearly in the vertical? Scary.
BTW, he's a member of the operating engineer's union and makes around $40 an hour (and over $100k a year or so he says) operating heavy machinery like bulldozers and graders. But hey, he's entitled.
