Over, Oveur. Roger, Roger.
"I am serious. And stop calling me Shirley."

Curioser and curioser...

I just got word that Carl spent three hours last night talking to your... not namesake... sororial... hmmm... Yeah. Her. And anyway, there's not much that can be said that hasn't already been... well, said, really.

Too little, too late, really.

"Too little?! You said it was a good size!"

"The effort, you retard. The effort was too little. But now that you mention it, when a girl says it's a 'good size,' that's a nice way of saying that it's small."

Go ahead if you want, IG. He's got a soft heart and kind of a sucker.

"He's got a soft heart and kind of a sucker."
Um, I'm sure Mike would appreciate different phraseology. Especially in light of the previous topic of your post.
Um, distraction!
*grin*

Apple, that is sooo not what I meant and you know it.

Thppppbbppph!

Is that near the state of Confusion? That's where I usually hang my shingle.

ok, that was not only mean, but spooky.

...good one. only, next time, leave out the "o".

It is currently -35C, windchill corrected to -46C. Classes have been cancelled across most of the province.

Not that this is a world record or anything; just wanted to let y'all know that I walked to work this morning. As usual.

We now return you to your regular thread topic.

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heh, i like how they describe the weather as "bitterly cold".. ya think?

-35 * 9/5 + 32 = -31F... Although according to that, you're up to a wonderful -30F now :) (And no, I'm not even going to bother with the windchill.) And why oh why did you WALK to work, daen?

-There's someone in my head, but it's not me.-

It's easier for me to get bundled into the requisite 3-5 layers and hike - it's only 20 minutes or so - than it is to remember to bundle into two layers every two hours to run out to start my car so I can reasonably expect to drive home at the end of the day.

Besides, I get some exercise that way.
(The bragging rights are purely incidental.)

It's just that...I mean...windchill of 46F?

I've been trying to be good, but...I can't help it.

A windchill of 46 is 160 degrees warmer than the lowest windchill we had at my alma mater while I was attending school there. No, that is not a typo...it was, with windchill, -126F.

So, yeah, I think that 46 degrees well exceeds the minimum temperature for mockery. If it's not even freezing out, then it's not freezing.

-Jn-
Efreeti Sophist

Thank you, Joe - that was precisely my point earlier, although you well topped me with that windchill where was that?

I've been told a few times about my dad and grandparents calling my great-grandmother, who still lived in Minnesota, from St. Louis the first New Year's Day after they moved down to St. Louis, and my great-grandmother not believing that St. Louis was having a record high of like 72. But the best part, when asked about the whether up there, she mentioned how the snow looked pretty, she'd shoveled the walk earlier, and how "it got up to 28 below today". (And that was a normal thing, too....) :D

-There's someone in my head, but it's not me.-

I remember being in Las Vegas when it was 113 degrees outside and several people were planning to rent cars and go to Death Valley where it was 130 degrees. (It was a conference). The 'locals' at the meeting talked them out of it by explaining that the air conditioning wouldn't work and they stood a good chance of dying if their car overheated. You Easteners have no idea how to handle EXTREME heat. (Trust me, 113 feels like you're in an oven and it only cooled down to about 99 at night).
It's Amino world without Chemists

Yeah, "Easterners" is a little too broad. I have no desire to go to the desert, though I do wonder why dry heat is like. My summers are miserable enough, and the air is like soup it's so flippin muggy.

I like not having extremes with my weather.

Ummm, ParU, I am not now, nor have I ever been an "Easterner" :) Granted, the hottest I've ever experienced would be somewhere between 100-110 (not sure exactly how much, but I know it's been between those).

And is that "dry heat" line true in any way? 'Cuz in St. Louis, it's almost always muggy and/or humid (is that redundant?) when it gets that hot.

-There's someone in my head, but it's not me.-

You're forgetting El Niño. I've been in Upstate NY with a heat index of 115 degrees...it's not the heat, it's the humidity. *Grin*

(Also, the City of Brass is - you know - pretty @#$%ing hot...it floating in a molten sea of fire, and all.)

-Jn-
City of Brass Expatriate

Rochester in the summertime is miserable, as is Utica. Syracuse was not much better.

The worst was when I was working for a surveyor and had to cut brush on a day of over 90% humidity with the temperature around 98 degrees, and bright sun. I was pretty well cooked by the end of the day.

Isn't that their tourism slogan?

"Syracuse - Not Much Better"

I'm pretty sure that's it...

-Jn-
EFVF

Reminds me of Cornell's slogan:

"Cornell University: Not as many suicides as you think!"

I thought it was, "Syracuse: At least our university has a decent lacrosse team."

It certainly should be. Ever been past Solvay where the old chemical plant used to be? Even now it smells like one big unwashed sweaty armpit as you drive along 690. And Onondaga Lake was so polluted when I lived there ten years ago that the oxygenated layer was only about a foot deep.

But scariest of all is the Genesee River as it goes past the University of Rochester. Not really so much because it's gross and polluted, but because the Genesee Brewery proudly claims that Genesee Beer is brewed with the waters of the Genesee River... no wonder it tastes the way it does...

I'm not sure it's scarier than U Rochester, but while I was in college in Poughkeepsie (please, no French Connection quote, I've heard it), I heard that the Hudson was something like in the top 3rd in the US for highest carcinogen concentration in riverwater.
I had a water filter for the tap water, but still felt like I was drinking liquid death. :\

A few years ago (like...nine or ten), the Hudson was ranked 2nd most polluted river in the country. The lovely GE plant dumped an awful lot of PCBs into the water and then wriggled out of cleaning them up when I was in high school. However...I highly doubt your tap water was coming out of the Hudson. I don't think anyone gets their tap water out of the Hudson, or they'd be dead.

If you get tired of the cancer water, you can just move to Norman, OK and go to grad school or something at OU. The water there is among the highest in the nation for arsenic. Not so much on the lace, though.

One theatrical point to KtG!

But I'd bet that it's not an 'unsafe' amount of arsenic (else they couldn't use it for municipal water - US Water regs are the toughest in the world).
It's Amino world without Chemists

That may be true, but how sternly are they enforced?

I know that here, in the town where Mycroft lives, the Water Authority just pays the fines each year, as it's easier than upgrading their archaic treatment plant.

-Jn-
Efreeti Sophist

They're enforced pretty rigorously in Calif. Under Prop 65, if you (knowlingly or unknowlingly, doesn't matter) expose someone to a cancer risk of greater than 1 in 100,000 (by air or water) without warning them, then the fine is $25,000 per day, per person. And if you're a 'bounty hunter' and discover these exposures you can get half of the fine for yourself. (So if you're talking about a few thousand people, for a few years... you do the math).
But, Joe, if you email me the name of the town and/or the actual numbers of the pollutant levels, I'll tell you how bad it really is.
It's Amino world without Chemists

But, Joe, if you email me the name of the town and/or the actual numbers of the pollutant levels, I'll tell you how bad it really is.

The name of the town I'm in, right now? Nice try, old man! You'll have to get up pretty early in the morning to catch me, if that's the best you've got!

Ha HA!

*leaps dramatically for the window - missing. After bouncing off the wall, he rolls back to his feet, weaves around for a moment, then heaves himself heavily through the glass*

-Jn-
City of Brass Expatriate

Hey it rhymes! I meant where Mycroft lives that the pollution levels are so 'high'.
*shakes his head in wonderment at the silly Efreet*
It's Amino world without Chemists

*wanders back in, brushing broken glass off is jacket*

Okay, looks like we're going to need a little help.

*sets up and easle and props a white board on it, then begins drawing rapidly - sqeeeeeak squeakity squeak squee!*

Okay, this is Mycroft's house. These? These are duckies and bunnies...they're not really important, but they might help you stay focused. Fooocuuuus. Okay. This *taps a rather striking stick figure* is me, at Mycroft's house. With me so far?

So, if I tell you what town Mycroft lives in (not Mentor, thank Dog), that would be the same town that I am in, right now. For the moment. Of course, I'll be long gone before you can triangulate the coordinates (*squeakilty draws in some brightly colored SDI orbital weapons platforms*) for satillite targeting, just in case.

-Jn-
EFVF

actually, the duckies and bunnies tend to utterly distract me. *shiiiiiiny! cuuuuuute! magneeeeetic!* i didn't, for instance, notice the stick figure at all... now, by "striking", you mean "beating the daylights out of some fool who clearly deserves it", right? right.

i'd link to a picture of a duck, but it would only get me in trouble - although it would prove my "distraction" point quite nicely.

OK...the duckies and the bunnies thing? Totally got me in the funny bone. You are amusing. I needed a good laugh today, too. Now when I go to work, I can pretend this is what my boss is saying to me.

Thank you...thank you. You truly are a sophisticated audience.

-Jn-
Efreeti Sophist

I don't know if giggling and sophistication can happily coexist in one person.
*g*

"I think I was trying to suggest something about the duality of man, sir."

"The what?"

"The duality of man. The Jungian thing, sir."

-Jn-
EFVF

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Beware of the Cleavage Mobile (with Cebu driving!) coming to track you down! MUaaaahaaaa
It's Amino world without Chemists

Riiiight.

Witness my state of total panic.

*kicks back in his chair, pulls his hatbrim down over his eyes, and laces his fingers behind his head*

-Jn-
City of Brass Expatriate

What if you named a town where someone else who a friend of a friend knows, that lives in a geographically distant location from you? ;)

Then your going to see some stern enforcement.

Punitive damages are painful (though I guess since they are punitive they should be) and class action lawsuits are fun!

I hear that liquid death is great on stains.

-Jn-
Efreeti Sophist

only organic ones. if you've got ink on your pocket, forget it.

That's why I always use organic ink.

"Hey, give me your hand..."

"Why?"

"Just give me your hand!"

-Jn-
Efreeti Sophist

Wait a minute umrguy. You're in MO, right? Well that's East of I5, the Sierras and the Rockies. You're an Easterner from out here. And the dry heat sucks the moisture right out of your body. I was not exagerating (well a little bit) when I said it was like being in an oven.
It's Amino world without Chemists

i've had humid heat. i've had dry heat. for sheer, killing power, humidity wins hands down. 'slike walking around in a bleeping heated swimming pool.

no, really. trust me on this one. there's a reason they base the heat index on humidity.

reeeeeeeeeeeeeeally. blech.