Hey, hey. I'm off to the US of A....

[linman6868 at aol.com]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., Jen Faulkner <jfaulkne at e...> wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Milz wrote:
> 
> > Ooooo, right smack into the American Mid-West. It's August, so 
beware 
> > of the dreaded Heat Wave monster. 
> 
> Ah, heat waves.  The summer equivalent of the snowstorm.  The news
> people get so very excited, at least around here, since it doesn't
> happen all that often.  
> 
> The Philadelphia news programs were all gearing up to cover our heat
> wave (it's in the 90s here, for the third day in a row) yesterday --
 the
> reporters were out there 'braving the heat', the weatherpeople got 
to
> lead off.  

To those reporters: Hah.  You haven't lived until you've braved at 
least two solid months of triple digits without rain, which is what 
happens *here* almost every summer.  But of course it's all 
relative...and Arizonans laugh at us rather frequently.  People from 
Dallas laugh too, though they probably get laughed at in their turn 
by people further south.  And there's a Renaissance-era English poem 
that I'm too lazy to look up, about the fact that people complain 
about the winter when it's winter and complain about the summer when 
it's summer.  Sigh.

Still, Neil should get an interesting taste of American climate while 
he's here.  Neil, if you're nervous during your presentation, just 
imagine all your audience wearing Gilderoy Lockhart Underoos.

<g,d & r>

Lisa I., languishing in Oklahoma