Good thing it was too far out in the sticks to be a flaming metrosexual.
Its organic cotton clothing would have melted the poptop.

Jim

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Ben T <syncro@gmail.com> wrote:

> Wow, that's one of those rare but infamous "kamothkaze".
>
> It's often referred to by locals as a  'flaming mothosexual' because they
> often have reproduction next to a flame.
>
> :-)
>
>
> Ben
>
> sent from my electronic leash
>
> On Oct 26, 2012, at 2:55 PM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> > I know there isn't much time left in the day to discuss this important
> > topic, but here goes:
> >
> > For years, I thought the worst thing that ever caught fire in my Westy
> was
> > a down sleeping bag. While it only burned for one or two seconds, the
> heat
> > from the fire made the down rise instantly through the air and festoon
> the
> > inside of the Westy in a snowy wonderland that took two rolls of packing
> > tape to remove.
> >
> > But this past weekend, I think the down bag episode was surpassed by a
> > gigantic moth, its body the size of a man's thumb and a wingspan of about
> > 3.5 to four inches. It flew in through the sliding door and careened
> toward
> > the fluorescent light over the stove before it hit the raised stove lid
> and
> > thudded to the stove deck next to the burner, where it instantly caught
> > fire. Whatever it was it could fly about 35 miles per hour pre-ignition,
> > twice than when aflame. I was busier than a pair of jumper cables at a
> > trailer park funeral trying to catch it and get it out of the camper
> before
> > it flew into a pile of clothes or a roll of toilet paper, or worse as I
> > knew, my down sleeping bag. It burned for an amazingly long time, flying
> > out of the stove flame again and again and threatening to set fire to
> > everything it collided with in its fire-stoked death troes, with me being
> > about two moves behind it during the perilous half-minute of its life. It
> > came to an ironic final rest near the burner that literally started it
> all.
> >
> >
> > Jim
>