24 yrs ago?....
 

Looking out my office window, I can see Camron looking out his window at the mountain without a top.

At the time, I was a HS freshman (for only a few more days) in Wyoming. My parents had bought a car for me that I couldn't drive until I turned 16, in December. Silly parents, do they really think I didn't drive it until my birthday? ;)

:lol:

BTW, you probably could have done just as well as *I* did on my DiffEQ final. I am sure glad THAT is over with... ;)

Hey, icallfouls, you better turn off that web cam because right now I can see you looking out your window watching Camron looking out his window staring at a mountain without a top.

Not a pretty picture... :eek:

I was a junior in high school here in Washington State, but I'm in the greater Seattle area so the plume wasn't visible to us. The teachers let us watch the coverage on TV all day. Of course, there was no such thing as CNN so we just watched our local news coverage.

Z

Re: 24 yrs ago?....
 

Geez Skank, MORE Wyoming stories...you were too wild back in the day, pal...

At the time, I was working at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) in Portland. Within just a few days, people were coming in trying to sell our gift shop stuff made from ash, stuff stuffed with ash and just ash.

We actually did sell surgical masks and they were a big hit.

The museum eventually put together an exhibit on the eruption including footage shot from helicopters that flew over the crater. Many of the comments compared the landscape on the mountain to that of the moon.

My son Josh was born a few weeks after the eruption and when we brought him home from the hospital there were still pockets of ash along side the roadways.

So before the big ash collection what did you exhibit at OMSI back then?

An umbrella, a few sheets of paper and a buzz saw?

:) <------Note smiley face

Actually, we had some really cool exhibits: Juulie's first pair of fishnets, Bill Walton's brain spur (he has since grown another one) and a huge collection of stuffed baby harp seals and spotted owls.

In our gift shop, we sold a lot of bumper stickers, including:

"Save the whales - collect the whole set"

"Earth First! We'll clearcut the other planets later"

"Don't Californicate Oregon"

and my personal favorite

"Honk if your horn's broken"

Wasn't there a bumper sticker that said "Welcome to Oregon. Now go home."

Speaking of bumper stickers, some I have actually seen on bumpers:

"Imagine world peace"
"Imagine whirled peas"
"Imagine I care"
"Nuke the whales"
"F@ck the whales"
"My German Shepard is smarter than your honor student"
"I break for no apparent reason"
"Never let your mom brush your hair when she's mad at your dad"
"I will not tolerate intolerance"

OK that's enough...

At the risk of being editted for being off-topic, I want to state publicly that this is one of my personal favorite bumper stickers of all time. The other Golden Oldie I wish I had a copy of came out when Oregon was first enacting 55 mph speed limits all over the place. The government had a huge ad campaign that said, "55 miles per hour. It's not just a good idea; it's the law." The bumper sticker I saw a short time after that ad campaign started was, "386,000 miles per second. It's not just a good idea; it's the law." Not only was it clever and metaphysical, it helped when I took physics in college.

"Ambivalent? Well, yes and no...."

"If we are not supposed to eat animals, why are they made out of meat?"

"I wouldn't be caught dead with a necrophiliac."

If you are pyschic, think 'honk'.


For Rainmaker:
-"All men are animals. Some just make better pets".
-"All men are idiots, and I married their king".
-"Who are these kids, and why are they calling me Mom?"

For Slappy:
-"Jack Kervorkian for White House physician".

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"Yes - I do own the whole damn road"

"My son sold the answers to your honor student"

"Don't honk while I'm reloading"

"If you can read this - gee, you can read - big whoop"

My favorite anti-Bush one:

"Redefeat the President in '04"

And there's the classic T-shirt for bikers that says on the back:

"If you can read this, my old lady fell off"

For Juulie:
"Men are like dogs - dumb but trainable"
My wife has that one on her key chain.

Until about six months ago, my friend had one that said, "Re-elect Gore in 2004."


When I bought my car about two years ago, I had one made special that said, "Stop Serial Substitutions!!" but I got tired of explaining it.

I was 18, living in an apartment, having lots of special "friends" over for visits (only HS senior with his own pad!) - life was good. Can't remember much, and certainly not one single explosive event. There were many such events at that point in my life. Some were memorable, some we won't talk about - actually I deny I was ever there.

First time I saw this one I laughed so hard I had to pull over. But the T shirt I saw was a little less subtle:

"If you can read this the b1tch fell off"

For Juulie:

"Dyslexics Untie!"
"Jesus is coming. Look busy"

For JR:

"Age brings wisdom...or it shows up alone. You never know."

Something we all know:

"Never underestimate the power of a lot of stupid people."

Uhmmmm......huh?