Q. In one of your past columns, you told of jokes pilots would pull on flight attendants. Did it ever happen the other way around? A. Ah yes - it sure did! All in good taste of course. We wouldn't want the traveling public thinking we're having fun up there.
Jack London's 19th century tale, "To Build a Fire," portrays a character who commits a monumental mistake in his life. He kindles a camp flame in sub-zero weather directly beneath the snow-capped branches of a pine tree. As the flame grows larger, the heat rises higher and melts snow drops from the overhead branches and smothers his fire into a puff of smoke.
