Dr. Elsworth Huntington, whose knowledge of geography is reputed to have been significant, maintained that the mental optimum of Homo sapiens, which includes at least most Mudcat posters, is 68 deg. F, the physical optimum being 72 deg. F. Lemme see now, British cousins, if I can do the math that's a range of between 20 and 22 C.

But I know where Wesley is coming from; my wife grew up in Kansas, and will tell you that there is nothing between there and the North Pole but a barbed wire fence. I start quoting Elsworth Huntington (I had charts and a pointer, but she threw them in a dumpster), and she goes into this Scarlet O'Hara type deal, shaking her fist at the sky and muttering, "I'll never be cold again!"

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