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NY local utility, Con Ed (Consolidated Edison Company) sell us NYs electrical services, gas (natural gas) and in Manhattan, it aslo sell steam. (for generators, and heating purposes.) the steam is a by product of its electrical generation..
Con Ed is pretty consistantly, year in year out, one of the most expensive utility providers. Last year, when all of California was complaining about the high cost of electricty, (as enron practiced price gouging), i notice that the average rate that drove our west coast denizens wild was $0.08 per kilowatt.. NYers regularly pay $0.12 to 0.14 -- i didn't have too much sympathy for them.
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How many of you juvenile city slickers ever went on a real old-time New England Hayride?
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Which one of you Northern sods stole our Summer?Prolly the same one who stole my winter!!
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Australian Winter Words
Footy
Footy
Footy
Beer
Meat Pies
Rain
Wind
Mud
I don't think there's any more.
We are but simple folk....
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How many of you juvenile city slickers ever went on a real old-time New England Hayride?
Dear Dr. Bill,
Not a New England Hayride (since I've never been there) but I've definitely been on hayrides. Horses, hay, sled, snow...I've experienced all those, so what makes it "real old-time"? Are you tempting us with a story?
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In most large cities, New York and Baltimore included, there are openings in the sidewalks to allow ventilation for the subway (or Metro, or whatever the local term). The openings are covered with gratings and, in cold weather, are extremely popular with the homeless and other wretches who resort to them to keep warm from the warm air that rises up from below.
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One winter word can bring misery: frostbite. It commonly nips kids' ears when sliding on a very cold night, if they fail to keep ears covered. The pain when they thaw out is quite disagreeable, but worse is the chance of developing auto-immune disease that has been alleged to be beginning of ankylosing spondylitis. Ask the man who owns one.
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