Jeff Rigby wrote:
Perhaps you are having a problem envisioning the conditions before WE
started a policy of putting out those natural fires.

No, I'm having a problem trying to connect your suggested etymology with
actual reality.


... IMAGINE perpetual
fires, occurring 9-10 months of the year with a smog like haze covering
everything.

What, it never rained before WE started a policy of putting out those
natural fires?

DSK