In <40395D38.8020800@xxxxxxxxxxx>, on 02/22/04
at 08:54 PM, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx> said:
>The English simply figured that by the time the temperature reached 30
>degrees C that everyone would be swooning and unable to read the scale
>anyway.
Upon my first visit to England -- *many* years ago -- I visited a
delightful pub with an outside garden.
I was amazed to see a middle-aged woman in lovely tweeds faint dead away
when the temperature reached seventy-five degrees F.
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