In a message dated 1/5/03 11:30:20 AM Pacific Standard Time,
mwmiller@CWNET.COM writes:

<< BenT showed up 4 or 5 hours late so he was lots earlier than usual. >>

Yeah, but by the time I left there were a dozen young ladies with a pair of
male escorts who joined us. My buddy Jero and his four girls stayed until
almost 9pm. 'Twas him who asked the 12 or so Christmas Tree burners to come
over. They were shivering in the cold after they used up their 3 discarded
trees.

Jero's daughters (even the teeny tiny one) had piled Mike Miller's woodpile
onto the burning mesh. They replaced fireboi Eldon Miller (yes, son to that
other Miller -- poor Eldon). Anyway, by the time the rest of the wood really
caught on, the flames had risen to just over 7-8 feet high. Welcome sight to
the shivering neighbors.

As a symbolic gesture to the missing engine case that the comedy team of Mike
& Al intended to burn, I placed a Diet Pepsi can in the flames. It lasted a
good 2-3 minutes before it was vaporized to nothingness. The heat was so
intense that I wondered it there would be molten glass at the bottom on the
fire pit by morning.

More cold neighbors came. Perfect time to turn over the fire to the shivering
bunch. Bye-bye.

BenT
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