> *picks himself up off the floor after recovering from a laughing fit*
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> You sure are a character, howard!
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> Plat*so did you ever eat chunks of fog?*pi007

I forgot to tell about my great uncle William Alfonzo Murrill who was exploring a rain forest somewhere when he became lost in a thick fog. He climbed a tree that was over a hundred feet tall to try to get his bearings. His foot slipped on a wet branch at the 90 foot level and he fell. Fortunately, Uncle Will was a very lucky guy. The fog broke his fall and he wasn't injured.

There are those who scoff at my "Uncle Will" stories, but when they look him up, they find that he was a well know researcher in the field of botany in the first half of the 20th century. He was in "Who's Who" as the world's foremost authority on mushrooms, and was the researcher who isolated the virus that caused the chestnut blight that almost wiped out the American chestnut trees. He worked at the New York Botanical Garden and taught at the University of Florida. He traveled all over the world at a time when few people did that, and is said to have worn out a hundred bicycles and the seat of many pairs of pants. He also wrote books for children, but they flopped because children didn't understand what he was talking about.

On another rain forest trip, he was in an area that was known to have snakes as big as trees. He had walked for hours in the 100 degree heat and 100% relative humidity when he became very tired. So he sat down on what he thought was a log so he could rest for a few minutes. And do you know what it was?
It was a log.
Have I ever lied to you?
Howard