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A question of weather

A traveler entered the merchantile store where a 1/2 a dozen men were gathered around a potbelly stove. Trying to make conversation he inquired, "So, what do you think the weathers going to do?"
"Only a dumb fool or a newcomer would try to predict the weather", groused one man.
"Weather!" exclaimed another man, "I tell you it rained 18 inches at my place last evening. On this side of the mountains we measure rain a little different though, here we measure the number of inches between the drops."
A third man entered the conversation. "Round this neck of the woods it's generally so dry you have ta be primed before you can spit."
A fourth offered " One time the neighbor hand-dug himself a well. He hoarded that water like it was gold, he did. One day a twister came along and sucked out every bit of water out of that well. The air was so dry that it vaporized, all except one drop which fell and hit his daughter in the forehead. Surprised her so much she fainted and it took 2 buckets of sand to bring her around."
"Sounds 'bout right," said the fifth man. "Dry as a bone around these parts and the wind, boy does it the wind blow! One time I was coming past a soddbuster's house and he was fixing a weather copntraption, hanging a logging chain from a tall pole. When I asked how it worked he said that when the chain was hanging straight out it was a gental breeze. But when the links start snapping off the end, then it was classified as a real wind.
"Thats nothing," exclaimed the sixth man. "I remember the time was digging fence holes in Colorado and the wind came up, blew so hard that I had to travel all the way to Nevada before I found where they had landed."
With that the traveler, shaking his head, departed.

posted by Mike @ 9:47 PM