RE: Prisoners of Cold

2004-01-30 Thread Allen Esterson
Before anyone chides me for it, I misspelt “Celsius” when I typed it the second time in my pedantic “correction” of the use of the word Centigrade yesterday. I’m surprised that Stephen didn’t pick up on that in his response. But then he had more important things to say, warning people that if they

RE: Prisoners of Cold

2004-01-29 Thread Allen Esterson
Jim Clark wrote: On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Carol Stonecipher wrote: Two minutes until class, but...(taking an opportunity to brag)... Hot Springs is a fantastic place to work...beautiful mountains to hike, lakes to play on...and being a transplant from the north... the weather here is quite pleasant!

RE: Prisoners of Cold

2004-01-29 Thread Stephen Black
On 29 Jan 2004, Allen Esterson wrote: Anyway, spare a thought for us Londoners. As the newspapers have been warning us for days, “Arctic weather” has hit Britain. Temperatures in the capital have been down to 0 deg. C overnight (yes, zero deg. Celsius, 32 deg. F!), and when I looked out of my

RE: Prisoners of Cold

2004-01-28 Thread Stephen Black
On 28 Jan 2004, Jim Clark wrote in response to Carol Stonecipher's insensitive taunt of her frozen Northern neighbours: I would expect a little more sensitivity from psychologists ... you do realize don't you that some of us are facing -30 (Centigrade) and colder?! I would expect a little