The most recommendations {524} on DU for any OP:

[Ptah]

524 members have recommended this thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=thread&address=1018551379&info=1#recs

[Tobin S.]

1. I miss him too, Ptah.

My last speech for my speech class was supposed to be a commemoration. Jim was in my thoughts when I was thinking about the topic of the speech. I ended up doing something totally different, the reason being is that I did not want to end my college career on a sad note. Jim was something special at DU. I doubt we'll see anyone like him here again.

[Ptah]

5. You don't remember posting your first draft?

[Tobin S.]

6. The Spirit of MFM has possessed Ptah!

Good play, man.

[CurtEastPoint]

2. I so miss his humor. Very much. I'm sure he's rocking the showroom w/laughter up there.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. I think it says something good about DU. Thanks for the memories. Rest in Peace, Jim.

Thanks, Ptah. I hope you are enjoying a Happy Holiday Season

and, of course, Kali =

[Tobin S.]

4. This was one of Jim's favorite stories from my Stories from the Road series.

The company I drive for now mainly has Mack trucks. I usually drive one that's fairly new and pretty nice, but it went down earlier this week and had to go into the shop. It lost a bolt out of the manifold and the damn thing started sounding like a fighter jet with that turbo not adequately muffled. It was pretty cool to pull along-side someone and mash the pedal, but I figured it should have been fixed so I turned it in to the shop.

With my truck out of commission I had my choice of three old workhorses to drive, all of which are at least thirty years old- the spare trucks. Candidate number one had the least horsepower of the three, but it had an automatic tarper and the heat worked the best. Candidate number two had more power and a tarper, but the heat didn't work so well and it rode like a hay wagon. Candidate number three had the most power and if it were warmer I would have chosen it, but the heat didn't work so well and it also didn't have a tarper. Being in the thirties here this week and having to spend a lot of time in the truck I chose candidate number one.

I didn't have any extremely heavy loads this week, but my poor loaner truck acted like it was hauling overweight. I was on mostly level roads, thank God, because every time I'd hit a little grade that damn truck would just start backing down. But I was warm and I didn't have to work too hard to tarp my loads so I figured it was a good trade-off considering what could have been.

I was at a customer's today and decided to take my break. I turned the truck off for a few minutes just to have a break from the rumbling. It was sunny and that kept the interior of the cab warm. I rolled down the window a bit and listened to the wind blow. I was out in the middle of the Indiana plains and there wasn't much other noise to compete with the wind. I sat there, cleared my mind, and just listened and looked around. I looked at the odometer. It read 990712. Was it about to flip one million miles or two? Either way, that's a boat load of miles. How many drivers had driven this truck before me? Were they all still alive? What could they tell me about this truck and where they had been in it? What would this truck tell me if it could speak?

Maybe, "I'm old and slow, but I still like to run. Have a little more patience with me on the hills."

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. and 23602 views....wow.

I too still think of MFM.
I hope he is laughing, hearing this, because towards the end, when his mood was down, he was feeling bad that no one would comment on his many Lounge posts.
I made it a point to rec each one after that, eve if I could not think of something pithy to say.
As if anyone could over look him

or forget him.

[Bertha Venation]

8. I had no idea.

I've been away too long.

RIP, MFM. You always made me smile.

Thanks, Lou. 💜

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. The MOST recommendations.....wow.

Thank you, my dear Ptah, for this memorial.

Every now and then, the realization that he's gone stabs me and I feel a wave of sorrow. But I remember him and his laughter at my silly conversations and then I feel better.

Until the next time...

I strongly feel that he is still here.

[Kali]

10. I drove past Picacho twice this week.

Will probably stop by in January and see how things are.

[panader0]

11. .....