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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 00:19:21 EST
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- From: Tony Harminc <EL406045@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
- Subject: Re: English peas
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- Posted on 2 Jan 1993 at 19:03:02 by Dan Lester
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- >>Do you remember having to be inside during the hottest part of the
- >>afternoon because the extreme heat might make you more susceptable to polio?
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- >>that we had what was called a "water cooler," a window-mounted fan with a
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- > we had one....usually called a swamp cooler....actually, an evaporative
- >cooler....which wouldn't work well in MS at all...but ok in parts of TX
- >and NM and AZ, etc.....ours was on top of the house....
- > one of the treats on a hot day was to be able to get ona stepladder...
- >and climb to the top in the doorway and have the cool air blow directly
- >on you....since the ductwork was in the hall ceiling....only gtot to do that
- >a couple times a summer.....
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- Hmmm... sounds like a prime reservoir for legionaires' disease.
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- Tony H.
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