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Q:
whadda you get when you send hotshots down to the basement?
A:
A whine cellar ...
Actually, most of the shots I've run into have been great folks.
Still Out There As An AD
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I received a hump-day message from an old friend yesterday and enjoyed the
humor to it's full extent. Here it is! Lighten up the day for others was
my thought. If you too like it post it for all our other brothers and
sisters. No offense to the vollies, the oldtimers or the Norwegians.
Pathfinder
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One dark night outside a small town in Minnesota, a fire started
inside the local chemical plant and in a blink of an eye it
exploded into massive flames. The alarm went out to all the fire
departments for miles around.
When the volunteer fire fighters appeared on the scene, the chemical
company president rushed to the fire chief and said,
"All our secret formulas are in the vault in the center of the plant. They
must be saved. I will give $50,000 to the fire department that brings them
out intact." But the roaring flames held the firefighters off. Soon more
fire departments had to be called in as the situation became desperate.
As the firemen arrived, the president shouted out that the offer was
now $100,000 to the fire department who could bring out the company's
secret files.
From the distance, a lone siren was heard as another fire truck came
into sight. It was the nearby Norwegian rural township volunteer fire
company, composed mainly of Norwegians over the age of 65. To everyone's
amazement, that little run-down fire engine roared right past all the newer
sleek engines that were parked outside the plant. Without even slowing down
it drove straight into the middle of the inferno. Outside, the other firemen
watched as the Norwegian old timers jumped off right in the middle of the
fire fought it back on all sides. It was a performance and effort never
seen before. Within a short time, the Norse old timers had extinguished the
fire and had saved the secret formulas.
The grateful chemical company president announced that for such a
superhuman feat he was upping the reward to $200,000, and walked over to
personally thank each of the brave fire fighters. The local TV news
reporter rushed in to capture the event on film, asking their chief, "What
are you going to do with all that money?" "Vell," said Ole Oleson, the
70-year-old fire chief, "Da first ting ve gonna do is fix da brakes on dat
focking truck!"
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Q:
Whats the difference between a shot handline and a deer trail?
A:
The deer trail will hold.
ex shot
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Q: How can you tell smokejumper handline?
A:
It's burnt on both sides.
Redwings741
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Followup from an ex-jumper: Any jumper line found by other firefighters would
always be black on both sides...why else would the others be there, if we hadn't
lost it? Sunil
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The burglar quietly jimmied the back door and entered the house
he’d been watching for some time. He snickered to himself at how easy it was.
The owner seemed to be absent a lot in the summer, sometimes 14 days or more. He
crept through the kitchen and into the living room with an eye out for anything
he could grab and sell easily. Suddenly, from across the room he heard a
scratchy voice say, “Spotfires behind you”. He jerked his flashlight across the
room searching for the person who spoke. The voice came again, a little louder
in front of him, “Spotfires behind you”. This time his flashlight reflected off
a bird cage, in which sat a parrot, calmly watching him.
He was very relieved to see it was just a dumb old bird. In jest he whispered
back, “Well, hello parrot, what’s your name”? To his surprise, the parrot
answered and said, “Sparky”. The burglar chuckled aloud, “That’s a silly name
for a bird”, he said, “who’d name their parrot Sparky”? The bird cocked its
head, then replied, “The same guy who named his rottweiler Spotfire”.
SteveM
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jumpers, But have you heard this one?
Q: What do you call a jumper wearing a necktie?
A: A defendant !
KRF
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Re KRF's accurate observation: When I see the bros and they ask me what
kind of law I'm practicing, I always say 'DUIs and divorces - Jumper law.'
I made this comment at a National Smokejumper Association dinner in
Grangeville a couple of years ago; looking around the room, Jerry Zumwalt
suggested Elder Law might be the way to go instead. Sunil
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See also other entertainments, information pages and firefighter levities from days gone
by... Add to any of these lists if you want to...
Just One More Time
SCRATCHlines
Wildland Fire Terms (not PC) and Irreverent Names
I Remember
IMWTK (Inquiring Minds Want to Know)
Quotes to Live By
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