04-03-05  12:30, George Pope told James Bradley about hello?

 Well, how do, George?

 GP> On (02 Apr 05) James Bradley wrote to Rob Mccart...
 JB> LOL! Struck you funny too, eh? -10^C is yard-work weather!

 GP> That's what they all say, until they(easterners/northerners)
 GP> experience OUR -10! :P (a wet windy cold that sinks straight into your
 GP> marrow and doesn't leave!)

Ah... It's called wool. Know it. Be in it. It can be your best friend. <-;

I'll give it to you, the humidity and wind does up the nano-Webers. (...Or
however it's measured. Our weather casters got it in their heads that we
need a "wind chill" equivalent.) And with your drivers
incomprehention of things like antifreeze, and all season tires...


Right now, we are thawed out, and the desire to get behind the gardening
spade is beckoning. Maybe one day I'll be able to silence that call, but
it's damned *loud*.

 GP> I just keep thinking of those nutters who used to work up north-north
 GP> (oil rigs, etc.) where a WARM day might be -50(one or the other
 GP> thermometers, I don't suppose it matters much once -40 gets left
 GP> behind(above)!)

Catch this. The year after I graduated, I was piled onto a band bus, and
headed to Fort Mac when it was -62^C! F and C are equal at only somewhere
near -40, and anything up or down from that, they diverge. You know, of all
the metric I learned in school, temperature is the only one I really relate
to.

 GP> Now they're even nuttiers, because they're not so high-paying as they
 GP> once were relative to comparable jobs in warmer climes!

You're missing the machismo factor, and the fact that every rig-pig
(Please, it's what they call themselves.) is not cut out to be the CEO of
Shell. And now that the price of oil is up, I suspect their wages are too.



... A fool and his money is my kind of customer!

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