<font color='black' size='2' face='arial'> <div><font style="background-color: transparent;">I agree Butch, I hear that every year many, many times. I just remind them that they were shorter when they were a kid, so of course the geyser was taller.</font></div> <div> </div> <div>Jim Holstein</div> <div> </div> <div></div> <div></div> <div style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">-----Original Message-----<br> From: orville bach <orvillebach@yahoo.com><br> To: Geyser Observation Reports <geysers@lists.wallawalla.edu><br> Sent: Fri, Jan 24, 2014 12:12 am<br> Subject: Re: [Geysers] from a tour ad<br> <br> <div id="AOLMsgPart_2_bd30dc78-afa0-41bb-8432-50cc10de01bb"> <div class="aolReplacedBody"> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <div><span>Scott, this is almost a breath of fresh air.  I'm so used to just the opposite:   having folks come up</span></div> <div><span>to the  OFVEC desk and say, "You know, 30 years ago Old Faithful erupted 200 feet high </span></div> <div><span>and erupted every thirty minutes!"  And sometimes I can't convince them of the truth</span></div> <div><span>even when I tell them </span><span>I was around back then!  All part of the fun!</span></div> <div><span><br> </span></div> <div><span>  All I know is, Old Faithful is </span><span>still as awe-inspiring and gorgeous as ever!!  Thanks for the note!</span></div> <div><span><br> </span></div> <div><span>Butch</span></div> <div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Wednesday, January 22, 2014 7:55 PM, "<a href="mailto:TSBryan@aol.com">TSBryan@aol.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:TSBryan@aol.com">TSBryan@aol.com</a>> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"> <div id="yiv2511926520"> <div><font id="yiv2511926520role_document" color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2"> <div>A travel company called Collette is offering a tour of western national parks. This tour will include Yellowstone where (and I quote) "One of the many highlights is the world-famous Old Faithful geyser <i>[sic],</i> a fountain of steam that rises more than 60 feet in the air."</div> <div> </div> <div>Well, OK -- steam is involved, and I guess that "more than 60 feet" is technically correct. But I wonder if the tour people have actually seen the thing.</div> <div> </div> <div>Scott Bryan</div> </font></div> </div> <br> _______________________________________________<br> Geysers mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Geysers@lists.wallawalla.edu">Geysers@lists.wallawalla.edu</a><br> <a href="https://lists.wallawalla.edu/mailman/listinfo/geysers" target="_blank">https://lists.wallawalla.edu/mailman/listinfo/geysers</a><br> <br> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="AOLMsgPart_3_bd30dc78-afa0-41bb-8432-50cc10de01bb" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt>_______________________________________________ Geysers mailing list <a href="mailto:Geysers@lists.wallawalla.edu">Geysers@lists.wallawalla.edu</a> <a href="https://lists.wallawalla.edu/mailman/listinfo/geysers" target="_blank">https://lists.wallawalla.edu/mailman/listinfo/geysers</a> </tt></pre> </div>  </div> </font>