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Just to clarify, Faldage is right, it's only at those two points where they are mirror images but as I said, I find them in particular easy to remember. My Mom taught me those which she used during (and I guess after) the Metrification of Canada.
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Yeah, its snowing a blizzard outside, temperature about at freezing, and I've got an hour and a half drive home in the dark.. Commuting is great.[looking pathetic-e]
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You have blizzards in London? (Did you know, FWIW, that the word blizzard was coined by a USn? Just keep that in mind as you drive home - you'd have had no word for it if they hadn't had so many of them on this continent!)
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I think generally blizzards in London and your blizzards are two different animals. Like a Siamese and a panther. We'll see what its like when I get out into the sticks. Trouble is in the south-east we get it so seldom, maybe once or twice a year, and the snow usually only comes down for a few days, so its not worth investing in stuff to cope with it. Consequently the train service folds up, the roads seize up and the pipes freeze up. The tabloids make a big issue of how we're never prepared, but barring a real change in the climate (heaven forbid) we never will be prepared. It ain't worth the dough.
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Just to emphasise what I said about lack of preparation for a little snow and ice, it seems that to the east of London car commuters yesterday evening took up to 12 hours to complete what would normally have been a one hour drive. Allowing for journalistic licence I daresay only one of them actually took *that long. Also, once out of urban London, the Underground system is mostly above ground and many of those stretches were out of action trapping trains and causing hours of delay.
It was minus 3 degree C when I left home at 06.15 today with wind chill taking it down to about minus six apparently. Not too bad, but cold for this country. London is about the same latitude as Newfoundland if I remember (must check again!) people forget that. The only thing that saves us is the Gulf Stream. Oh well, it should thaw out today. The sun is out shining on the snow – it all looks very pretty.
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My commiserations, dxb. Seriously.
Meanwhile, what do we call you for short? "One more David" is kinda long....
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from the 2003 Farmer's Almanac:
>Yeah, But Can A CRICKET Convert to Celsius?
You've probably heard this one, but it's worth repeating: How can you determine the local air temperature listening to a cricket? Count the number of cricket chirps in 14 seconds and then add 40. The number will give you the air temperature in degrees Fahrenheit. On the other hand, we know that at 60 degrees Fahrenheit, a cricket will chirp 72 times per minute. So, for every four chirps less than 72, subtract a degree from 60°F, and for every four additional chirps, add a degree to 60°F. Got it?
--from The Handy Weather Answer Book, by Walter A. Lyons, PH.D.<
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Meanwhile, what do we call you for short? "One more David" is kinda long....
My Grandfather used to say "I don't mind what you call me so long as you don't call me early".
I bounce up, panting happily, in response to either Dave or David...so if Dave suits, that's fine with me! Just don't put an 'I' in it - no diphthongs, a pure vowel sound please!
I just got back from a few days in Spalding in Lincolnshire. There's nothing to break the east wind between you and the Urals up there...very bracing.
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David! I had always thought of you as a gentleman, and here you go talking about breaking wind!>evil grin<
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