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@vonny,

I was forced to listen to some Grateful Dead. They're okay on the instruments but their singing is dire. They sound like Levon Helm singing The Night They Drove 'Ol Dixie Down all the time.

They seemed alright guys though from what the biog I read of them said. A canister of laughing gas in the car boot (trunk) was a nifty one.

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@vonny,

With a marguerite, I assume you mean the drink, not the pizza, chimichangas.

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@vonny,

It's hella hot here today (and tomorrow and tomorrow).
Going up to 95 today, 100 tomorrow, two days of 99s, and then Thursday, 102.
102F= 38.9C.
I made myself some faux sangria - red wine, guava nectar, lots of ice cubes.

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@vonny,

I'd suggest some maize chips with salsa verde.

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@firefly,

Have you heard the Sootie story ff?

A little dog called Sootie or Sooty, it's black of course, was up Mt Snowden, these Snowdens eh? you can't keep 'em off the front page, and it's owner lost his footing and fell down a long way and was helpless until Sooty raised the alarm and the Mountain Rescue helicopter got called out (£50,000) and plucked the silly twat from the mountain and took him to hospital where he is being treated. (£50,000---£500,000 range).

The clattering of the rotor blades and the draught frightened Sooty and he ran off and has been 10 days on a desolate ledge whimpering.

The little pug was found after a search (costs not known) and is now reunited with the family of the intrepid climber who is still in traction and they have all been on TV patting the little thing and getting a shot at fame which they gave no evidence of deserving.

There's nothing like a good shaggy dog story.

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@spendius,

so when you become entangled in your barstool after passing out, and they have to send out EMS to use the "jaws of Life" to extract you,shall we remind you of the costs that the local taxpayers have incurred saving your life?

If they were just gona keep the damn helicopter all polished up and in the garage and avoid all missions of mercy for which was the reason they bought it in the first place.

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@ossobuco,

ossobuco wrote:

It's hella hot here today (and tomorrow and tomorrow).
Going up to 95 today, 100 tomorrow, two days of 99s, and then Thursday, 102.
102F= 38.9C.

It's 108F right now in Arizona. But I have managed to escape for the week to Colorado, where it's a beautiful 78F!

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@spendius,

spendius wrote:

I was forced to listen to some Grateful Dead. They're okay on the instruments but their singing is dire. They sound like Levon Helm singing The Night They Drove 'Ol Dixie Down all the time.

No argument, but it's funny to hear a fan of Bob Dylan complaining of someone else's singing! Laughing

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@spendius,

Hadn't heard that story before, spendi.

It was worth whatever the search cost to find the dog. Why did that owner even take a little dog to that sort of area?

The dog is the one who deserves his 10 minutes of fame.

It sounds like the plot of a Lassie movie--the old original Lassie movies. I think it was watching Lassie and Rin Tin Tin movies when I was a very young kid that made me love dogs so --I was constantly begging my parents to let me have a dog--those films were great canine PR.

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@Ticomaya,

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It's 108F right now in Arizona.

How can you take entire summers of that kind of heat?

Getting into a car parked in the sun must be like walking into an oven. You could cook things on the dashboard. Or if you have leather seats, and you're wearing short shorts, you could start grilling the back of your exposed thighs on the car seat.

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@firefly,

firefly wrote:

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It's 108F right now in Arizona.

How can you take entire summers of that kind of heat?

Back in the early 1990s one year I spent five weeks in Tuscon (don'task!). They happened to be the entire month of July and the first week of August. There was not one single day that the temp. went to below 100F. Anything less than 108 0r 109 was considered a cooling -off period. I think it might have dropped to 99 or even 98 degrees late at night.

How do you take it? You drink lots and lots and lots of liquids and try to stay in an a/c location as much as possible. Do outdoor stuff after sunset, if possible.

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@Lustig Andrei,

Cut wheat two summers in the '70s in Blythe California. We put a thermometer in the wheat field and it went up to 127 degrees, American ingenuity - farm the desert.....

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I learned in that kind of weather not to leave anything that can melt in your car.

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@Lustig Andrei,

Lustig Andrei wrote:

Back in the early 1990s one year I spent five weeks in Tuscon (don'task!). They happened to be the entire month of July and the first week of August. There was not one single day that the temp. went to below 100F. Anything less than 108 0r 109 was considered a cooling -off period. I think it might have dropped to 99 or even 98 degrees late at night.

My first summer in Phoenix set a record as the high temp every single day in July was over 110F.

Ever since then, the summers have seemed mild! Laughing

You learn early on to crack the windows, and always, and I mean always, put the sun screen in the windshield.

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@Ticomaya,

It seems that much of America is not fit for human habitation, needing supercooling in the summer, and extensive heating in the winters.
I'm talking carbon footprint here.
And the typhoons and tornadoes are getting bigger and more intense.
Global warming, caused by burning of fossil fuels.
Am I right?

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Just reading all that talk about the desert is making me thirsty.

Wassau, please bring me a lemonade, a glass of water, and an iced tea - sweetened.

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@McTag,

A lot of us in Albuquerque and environs don't have air conditioners. Less expensive and less effective and I think less of a carbon print, we use swamp coolers. They take water to run, but not much - my water bill barely moves up a notch. I only run it when it gets to about 86 in the house, a fairly luxurious choice. I run mine about two hours a day.

When I was a kid, nobody but nobody had air conditioning. That was in New York City and Chicago in the forties and early fifties. To get cool, you went to the movies or shopping at a department store. (One neighbor in New York had some kind of window device - it might have been just a fan.) I never had air conditioning in 40 something years in California, though I never lived in the Mojave or Palm Springs or similar.

However, I couldn't tolerate Phoenix (a place I've liked on visiting) without a.c. in the summer. Kerplop!

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All this talk about high temperatures is making me thirsty - I'd love something cool, preferably with a lot of ice please, Wassau! Gosh, here in England we think we are in the middle of a heatwave if we see the temperature in the 70's!

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@vonny,

vonny wrote:

Gosh, here in England we think we are in the middle of a heatwave if we see the temperature in the 70's!

If the temperature drops all the way down to 70 here in Hawaii, I'm looking for a sweater or light jacket to put on. Just not used to it being that cool.

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