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Dody, 2 peas in a pod, we are! spend the whole day in a tepid bath with a pair of frozen underpants on my head.  By the way, if you ever answered Helen's question of long ago, I never saw it: are you kin to dody, or, if you are a dody skin, what's a dody, please?
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just saw a report that nearly 3000 people have died in France from heat related causes in the last two weeks. hope that there's a break in tbe weather soon for them...
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Three thousand?? Oh, I hope not!
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formerly known as etaoin...
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are you kin to dody, or, if you are a dody skin, what's a dody, please?Dear Jackie, it's no great mystery; a dody is a dummy ( I think you call them pacifiers), and I've a skinhead ( no hair, or I used to till I lost my clippers and now I've got girly doll hair again grrr). I am a bit thick and was a bit bald so it's a description of me. 
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Howye fokes
I'm sweaten in me fur.
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I remember reading this review last year (almost a year to date) about a heat wave in chicago, in 1995-- 800 or so were killed...(do you remember it? i remembered some of the story) here is a link to a book review (i still haven't read the book) http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2002/08/20/heat/a quick google search points out, in 1998, Chicago lost another 30 or so people to a shorter heat wave. Point is, Heat kills. Its 90º or so now, and while i have a/c (lower case, power, upper case (A/C) air condisioning)--many in NYC, and other areas don't. NancyK and Sparteye may or maynot have running water (mine was only a short 14 story hike away, and i was only with out for 12 hours)-- and i suspect its as hot in MI as it is here. most of us don't have houses or lives that are built around dealing with heat (accept with A/C). this is not the first heat wave in europe, nor will it be the last...
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sweaten in me fur
Hey, GT:
When it gets too hot for comfort
and you can't eat ice cream cones
tain't no sin, take off your skin and dance around in your bones.
(Words by Edgar Leslie, Music by Walter Donaldson)
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In Michigan, it's not the heat, it's the humidity. We are currently experiencing very high humidity with not much in the way of breeze. It is a stifling heat. The brownout damaged the A/C where I work, so yesterday was not a pleasant day in the store. It was actually cooler outside than it was inside. As I write this post, it is 5:30am and the temperature is 71° (22°C) and the humidity is 90%. The expected high is 83° (28°C). That's not as bad as it could be, however, the high humidity prevents the body from cooling properly. It's a good day for going to Lake Michigan. I know just the place to hang my hammock 
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I was reminded the other day by a friend that the best place to go if you are out and about when it's hot is a shoe shop. Here in the UK, outside of the big shopping centres, few shops, except shoe shops (for obvious reasons) are guaranteed to have air conditioning. I think that I'll save up all my shoe shopping for hot days in future.
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