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Bill Gunshannon  
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 More options Nov 14 2012, 10:07 am
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From: billg...@cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon)
Date: 14 Nov 2012 15:07:11 GMT
Local: Wed, Nov 14 2012 10:07 am
Subject: Re: Dear Mother Hen and all you c.o.vers...
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In article <bhNnh$dMm...@eisner.encompasserve.org>,
        koeh...@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:

> In article <d8uos.267676$W63.263...@fx05.am4>, ChrisQ <m...@devnull.com> writes:

>> I was living in a house in the country during the bad winter of 1982'ish
>> and we had a 4 day power cut. Fortunately, the gas fire worked and a honda
>> generator drove the heating pump and lights. Cooker was electric, so we
>> warmed
>> up pans of tinned food by taking the firebricks out of the gas fire to
>> expose
>> the flame. Worked pretty good too. It was about that time that I bought my
>> first Land Rover to get around...

>    We had a major ice storm about 20 years ago.  Wore warm clothes.  Put
>    on extra blankets.  Told the kids to get in bed with each other if
>    they were really cold.

>    But opening the blinds and letting the snu in kept the house up to
>    the high 40s F for all three days.

The snu?  What snu?  (OK, you finish the pun!!)

>    You can die of hypothermia when exposed to 50 F.  But not often.

bill

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Bill Gunshannon          |  de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n.  Three wolves
billg...@cs.scranton.edu |  and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
University of Scranton   |
Scranton, Pennsylvania   |         #include <std.disclaimer.h>  


 
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