1 You're the bestest, Diamond Dave (and no, I didn't mind).

2 Well its muh bady!

3 Awww... thank you!

4 Oh, I got one.. its one of those emails but I always laugh... This happened about a month ago just outside of Willmar, a little town in the back country of Minnesota, and while it sounds like an Alfred Hitchcock tale, it's real. This out-of-state traveler was on the side of the road, hitchhiking on a real dark night in the middle of a thunderstorm. Time passed slowly and no cars went by. It was raining so hard he could hardly see his hand in front of his face. Suddenly he saw a car moving slowly, approaching and appearing ghostlike in the rain. It slowly and silently crept toward him and stopped. Wanting a ride real bad the guy jumped in the car and closed the door; only then did he realize that there was nobody behind the wheel, and no sound of an engine to be heard over the rain. Again the car crept slowly forward and the guy was terrified, too scared to think of jumping out and running. The guy saw that the car was approaching a sharp curve and, still too scared to jump out, he started to pray and began begging for his life; he was sure the ghost car would go off the road and into a nearby lake and he would drown! But just before the curve, a shadowy figure appeared at the driver's window and a hand reached in and turned the steering wheel, guiding the car safely around the bend. Then, just as silently, the hand disappeared through the window and the hitchhiker was alone again! Paralyzed with fear, the guy watched the hand reappear every time they reached a curve. Finally the guy, scared to near death, had all he could take and jumped out of the car and ran and ran, into town, into Willmar. Wet and in shock, he went into a bar and voice quavering, ordered two shots of whiskey, then told everybody about his supernatural experience A silence enveloped and everybody got goose bumps when they realized the guy was telling the truth (and was not just some drunk). About half an hour later two guys walked into the bar and one says to the other, "Look Ole, ders dat idiot that rode in our car when we wuz pushin it in the rain."

5 You know, I was cleaning out the old Yahoo! mailbox today and ran across an email dated last April. It looked funny, it just had an address in the body and that's it. Then I remembered, I snatched that address from a document Jim inadvertantly posted w/o checking it first. Which means, Jim, that I will be following up on my promise. Shank out.

1 I was thinking "Wet Cement". It has a more classic feel, even if it isn't quite as precise. But I sort of like kmsqrd's verbose version...

2 Two posts from Jim in one day! Hell has frozen over!

3 Now that you mention it, it is getting a bit chilly in here.

4 Victor, I was thinking the same thing. I had to check my pulse to make sure I hadn't died and gone to heaven.

5 Yeah, sometimes that summer spent studying cement (I kid you not) comes back to haunt me.

6 Is that roof high enough...or does it need to be raised.

7 DON'T TOUCH