Date:         Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:07:05 -0800
Reply-To:     Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: At least it ain't a bad smell
Comments: To: Mike South <msouth@GMAIL.COM>
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You may want to cut the Nigerians in on this.

Stephen

--- On Sat, 12/12/09, Mike South <msouth@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

From: Mike South <msouth@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: At least it ain't a bad smell
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Date: Saturday, December 12, 2009, 2:02 PM

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Rocket J Squirrel <
camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:

> Now that things are above freezing here in our neck of the woods, I opened
> up my Westy after it had been sitting for a couple weeks in the below-zero
> (F) weather we've been having. I thought I had winterized it by draining
> the sink and removing any bottles of stuff that might freeze and break.
> But I overlooked the nearly-full bottle of Liquid Smoke in the "spice
> rack," and found that it had shattered.
>
> Everything that was in the rack with the bottle is rinseable, except for
> this box of #2 coffee filters -- those won't be very useful for anything,
> certainly not coffee!
>

Wait!  Don't throw those away--THIS could be the seminal moment in history
where Rocket J Squirrel's Smoked Coffee was invented!  Critical juncture in
the space-time continuum--the millions you will make with this will let you
buy the rights to revive production of the vanagon, and make further
millions.  DO NOT LET THIS OPPORTUNITY SLIP AWAY!

:)

mike



>
> The odor permeates the vehicle, I don't know whether I can clean all the
> residue out because much of the fluid formerly in the bottle has done
> missing, dribbled away somewhere hidden. So the van will probably smell
> that way forever.
>
> But it's not a bad smell.
>
> --
> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> 74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
> Bend, OR
> KG6RCR
>