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Cathy, it's not pointless. This is part of the problem, people don't understand what is involved. Direct broadcast programs such as NFL football and other network sitcoms are on your TV which you can have for free if you install your own antenna then select your channel of choice. No box involved or other pay TV situation. This is what I am talking about. The other situation which YOU are referring to is PAY TV, which you pay a monthly fee for your cable or dish service, this also is regulated, but not so much as direct broadcast such as we've heard about with the "costume malfunction".

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I know what you're talking about. It's what I had when I first moved into this house. An antenna up on the roof & a TV. That was it. Could get only

The other situation which YOU are referring to is PAY TV, which

No, I wasn't referring to that - I knew what you were talking about.

Cathy

They have a partial exemption from rules about racy stuff (a few but not all of the "Seven Dirty Words") if the shows run in the "Safe Harbor" slots after 10 PM, when "all the good little children are in bed and fast asleep..." Total fiction, but a convenient excuse.

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Now you must go wash out your mouth for using language like that in public...!

You go, ToMh!!! I couldn't have said it better myself.

Hey, it was properly encrypted to protect sensitive little children. I didn't force you to use your Magic ROT-13 Decoder Ring... ;-)

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I can wear/tolerate turtlenecks again!!! Yea! :-) I used to virtually live in turtlenecks each winter, but then couldn't even stand the *thought* of wearing them for several years - during height-of-menopause baloney.

So you can

I couldn't (personally) deal w/ living in a hot, humid climate for the entire year. I've always tended to run warmer than those around me (I'm comfortable in one layer, while others have 2 layers on), to begin with - so the thought of a lot of heat round... arghhh. I think maybe VA is the farthest south I could begin to like, weather-wise.

Cathy

Maybe if one has always lived there. Or if one defines "adapt" only in the sense of able to live there. I hate very hot, sticky weather. Feel so physically uncomfortable, tend to get a bit grumpy, tend to get lethargic, etc., etc. Blech.

For my part of the world, this winter has been very

This weather is downright *weird*. It has hit the mid-50's two days this week, way upstate NY.

Cathy

This weather isn't that weird. I remember back in 1980, early Feb. it was in the 50's here, like shirt sleeve weather. There have been other times years ago I remember extremes. Such as in Aug. 1974, the first half of the month was HOT near 100 almost every day. Then about the middle of the month it was like someone flipped a switch and it never got above 70 the rest of the year.

Yes, it is - this weather is *weird* for upstate NY in January.

I remember back in 1980, early Feb. it

Ummm... it hit above 100º here in July '95, but that was *summer*. I'm talking about a winter (this one, so far) with distinctly non-winter weather, in the NE. People here are finding that their garden plants have started to grow months before they're supposed to.

Then about the

We've had 50º weather at Christmas a few times that I can ever remember, & it hit 60º a couple of times in the last 10 years or so in the first week of December (I remember those days because we had surprise fire drills at school on the 2 days it happened). But this many days above freezing, w/temps in the high 40's and mid-50's in January - I really can't remember this many days of warm weather this time of year.

Cathy

Solution: do what we did and get a house and car, BOTH with air conditioning.

That confirms your "hotness".

Do you remember back in the mid 1930's? I don't, but the wx extremes was about as extreme as it can get.

My house was built in 1920. Would cost a considerable amount for whole house a/c; involve whole new system. Have one room w/ window a/c in the summer. Car has a/c.

But... you're missing a big point: I want to go *outside* in the summer & enjoy the outdoors. Difficult to do that when sweating bullets.

And today, it was 61. St-r-ange.

Cathy

No, I wasn't born yet.

Cathy

I don't, but the wx extremes

Do you think you should buy Al Gore's book?

It was 40 here today. We have snow on the ground, but not much and 40 is warm for Jan. Above normal temps, however it is not the first time it's been like this in Jan. Weather story is all about cycles, perhaps the sunspots have something to do with it, it is at near minimum. We humans are pretty smart, but we don't know everything. For some reason I cannot get warmed up about global warming just because Gore is promoting it. I think we need a lot more time and data before drawing any firm conclusion. Maybe another 50 to 100 years just because of better data collection and improved science. Somewhere in 2200 we may start to understand if anything is really happening or if we're just within another cycle.

I already took it out from the library, but then ran out of time to read much of it before it was due back. Have no clue why this particular prolonged very warm spell. If it has to do w/global warming, el Niño, or what.

Cathy

Don't you think it was a boring read?

Of what I read, no, I didn't find it boring.

Cathy