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Subject: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: Shanghaiceltic Date: 22 Jun 05 - 08:19 PM Just off down the shop to find some cabbage leaves, great idea but you need to make sure there are no slugs on them. South Korea bans baseball players from wearing cabbage leaves Tue Jun 21,11:52 PM ET SEOUL (AFP) - South Korean baseball authorities have banned players from using frozen cabbage leaves under their caps to cool down in the summer heat. The Korean Baseball Association (KBO) said cabbage leaves could not be considered part of the normal baseball uniform. "The KBO rules and regulations committee on Tuesday reached a decision that cabbage leaves should be considered as odd materials," a KBO spokesman told AFP. The committee took up the matter after the cap of pitcher Park Myung-Hwan of the Doosan Bears fell to the ground during game against Hanhwa Eagles on Sunday, revealing a frozen cabbage leaf. Park said he began using cabbage leaves last year after hearing from a local TV station that US basbeall legend Babe Ruth had used them to cool off. "Park might have risked being ordered out of the ground if the other team, Hanhwa Eagles, had made an issue of the cabbage leaf," a KBO official said. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: Peace Date: 22 Jun 05 - 08:21 PM "Ways to be cool in the heat...." Wear neat sunglasses, walk with a strut and snap yer fingers to a tune in yer head. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: Charmion Date: 22 Jun 05 - 08:27 PM I prefer the Spanish fan solution, myself; especially the technique where you fan your face gently while batting your eyelashes at the classy guy reading the New Yorker at the end of the bar. Do it right and he'll buy you a cocktail with a parasol in it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: Peace Date: 22 Jun 05 - 08:30 PM Doesn't get any better'n that. But I'd have to go to a gay bar, right? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: LilyFestre Date: 22 Jun 05 - 09:00 PM Hey Now....gay bars can be lots of fun! :) Michelle |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: Peace Date: 22 Jun 05 - 09:04 PM That's true. I have a few funny stories about that. (And, I meant no offense to gays.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: GUEST,G-Spot Date: 22 Jun 05 - 09:05 PM Smoke a little dope, put on Pink Floyd, smile sardonically, visit a gay bar... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: Firecat Date: 23 Jun 05 - 07:30 PM Have a cool bath with mint shower gel. The bath cools you down while you're in it and the mint cools you're skin when you're out of it. I tried this last night and it works wonders! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: ranger1 Date: 23 Jun 05 - 10:51 PM Wear a spiffy ranger uniform and stand by the ocean with a spotting scope watching newly hatched osprey chicks, and get paid to do it!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: frogprince Date: 23 Jun 05 - 10:56 PM Ranger 1 is really my buddy Carl! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: ranger1 Date: 23 Jun 05 - 10:59 PM Nope, wrong gender! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: GUEST Date: 23 Jun 05 - 11:04 PM Take lots of lukewarm showers, stand naked in front of a fan to dry off, while drinking either ice cold bottles of Sam Adams, an icy gin and tonic, or a thick, lip smackingly tart marguerita. Soon, you won't give a shit that you are sweating again. In fact, after a few of the liquid remedies mentioned above, you won't even realize you are sweating for several hours at least. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: LilyFestre Date: 23 Jun 05 - 11:08 PM Awwww heck Guest....you stole my answer! ;) Michelle |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: GUEST,Fullerton Date: 24 Jun 05 - 02:32 AM Put lots of ice in a sink Fill sink with cold water. Put your forearms in the iced water....... Ahhhhhhhhhhh...... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: Liz the Squeak Date: 24 Jun 05 - 06:11 PM Just be careful where you put the mint and never use full strength mint oil...... It may be cooling in some areas, but others it makes really really warm!! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 24 Jun 05 - 07:33 PM Siesta |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: LadyJean Date: 25 Jun 05 - 12:43 AM Leukwarm showers work just great. I've been doing that for years. I also recomend Seabreeze, a combination of alcohol and camphor that is sold as an astringent. It's nice and cool on your skin, and it clears away the gunk. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: GUEST Date: 25 Jun 05 - 01:10 AM Save the (USA) "Preperation H" hemeroid-suppository foil-wrappers...pour in olive-oil....place in freezer and remove/deposit for "cooling effect." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: ranger1 Date: 25 Jun 05 - 09:39 AM TMI! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 25 Jun 05 - 10:43 AM Maybe somebody already said this. Soak a bandana in water. Fold it up diagonally. Drape it around your neck. Very helpful. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: Diva Date: 26 Jun 05 - 08:20 AM Sit at a pavement cafe in the shade, sip an iced tea and eat ice cream and watch the world go by...oh well that what we did in Corfu |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: freda underhill Date: 26 Jun 05 - 08:24 AM soak in the ocean, close to the beach, tossed around by the cool waves, listening to the sound of the ocean and feeling the cool breeze in your hair and the sea spray on your face.. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: George Papavgeris Date: 26 Jun 05 - 08:24 AM Wear a hoodie and drive a Smart car while talking to a thumbnail-sized mobile phone, preferably saying "whatever...". If that's not cool, I don't know what is. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: George Papavgeris Date: 26 Jun 05 - 08:28 AM Eat a quarter of a chilled watermelon harmonica-style, while submerged in the sea. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: GUEST,smiler Date: 26 Jun 05 - 03:16 PM Have sex. You might not keep cool, but it'll pass the time pending cooler weather. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: gnu Date: 26 Jun 05 - 03:52 PM Place as many cans of beer as you can in a cloth bag and tie it to the arm of you lawn chair. Tune your Walkman to a cool station (or bring your CD player, or MP3... Ipod... whatever the hell they are?). Put on your fly fishin vest, an old pair of sneakers, sunglasses, and a cool looking hat. Tuck your pants into your socks. Sit in your lawn chair in the shallow part of the pool in the river in the shade of the big pine right in front of my camp so that the water is just above your, ah, knees, yeah, knees. Fly rod? Why? Trout fishin won't be good for at least three hours... did I not say "as many cans of beer as possible"? Geeze, get in the game. CANOE!!! Damn, I miss gettin up to the camp... next weekend, I am there. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: ranger1 Date: 26 Jun 05 - 08:15 PM Gnu, why would I need to tuck my trousers into my socks if I'm sitting in a chair in the river? And you forgot to add "wear plenty of insect repellent." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: Stilly River Sage Date: 26 Jun 05 - 08:24 PM Work in the yard in the morning hours if possible, but if you have to work in the yard in the heat, plan to have nice cotton sheets on the bed and a gently wafting fan on the ceiling so that after you take your shower and have a dinner and couple of beers, you can at least be comfortable at night while you contemplate getting up even earlier the next morning to finish the job out in the yard before it again gets too hot. Repeat for the next 90 days. . . SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: ranger1 Date: 26 Jun 05 - 08:27 PM SRS, I'm having visions of hell after that post. The real question is: is it dry heat? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: SINSULL Date: 26 Jun 05 - 09:49 PM I am hot, sticky and thoroughly bitchy! I move to Maine for cold and here it is hot and steamy. I hate this...even though I swore in March that I would not complain about the heat if it would just arrive. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: Charmion Date: 27 Jun 05 - 09:49 AM Today the forecast high in Ottawa, Ontario -- supposedly the Great White North -- is 33 degrees Celsius (91.4 Fahrenheit), and tomorrow we're promised 34 C (93.2 F). God only knows what the Humidex is; I don't want to know. If you walk up and down our stairs twice in a row (for example, when doing the wash), the sweat will pour down your face like water from a shower head. We don't have air conditioning (though it seems more and more like a good idea), so the windows and doors have to be open all night and closed all day to keep the inside of the house barely tolerable. Even with the completely unnecessary annual crisis of the Departmental Performance Report, the office is a refuge in these conditions. I would mind the heat less if it didn't come with smog alerts and that ol' bull-clamp around the trachea feeling all asthmatics eventually experience. I've been wheezing, coughing and choking for three weeks now, and started a course of Prednisone on Friday. {{{Whine}}} |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: Metchosin Date: 27 Jun 05 - 11:15 AM I wish we could blow a little cold air you way, but I don't think it would be a good idea. We did that a of week or so ago and flooded Alberta and Saskatchewan and spread a few tornadaos around too. This morning it is just over 50 F and raining and the house is so chilly, I thought about putting a fire on. This sort of reminds me of summers here when I was a kid. I can't ever recall anyone wanting to go swimming until at least the very end of June and I sure remember a few damned cold summer holidays on the beach in July. Maybe this isn't the beginning of climate change but just a return of a 50 year cycle. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: gnu Date: 27 Jun 05 - 11:21 AM ranger1... so you don't get any sand in your sneakers, of course. Ever walk around in wet sneakers with sand in 'em? If not, DON'T!!! Insect repellant is not necessary while in (>6m from shore) the river if it's that hot (>27C) and sunny. BTW, that's about 20ft and 80F. I don't know the conversion factor for 'sunny'... wait, yeah, I remember... it's 1.000001, but I round it off to 1. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: bobad Date: 27 Jun 05 - 11:35 AM Hey metchosin Do you ever go swimming at Weir's Beach ? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: *daylia* Date: 27 Jun 05 - 11:41 AM Really really REALLY hot? How bout taking THIS out for a cyber-ride! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: Metchosin Date: 27 Jun 05 - 11:43 AM Nope, if the tide isn't right, seaweed collects in there and it stinks and it is really f**king cold. LOL But my kids did when they were small. Most of the best places here for swimming in the chuck are on the Saanich Inlet where the water gets warmer. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: GUEST Date: 27 Jun 05 - 10:27 PM Go skinnydippin. In the freezer.:) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: Stilly River Sage Date: 27 Jun 05 - 11:38 PM ranger1, no, I'm sorry to say that it is a muggy heat. We are a walking definition of "dog days" most of July and August. September isn't real good at cooling off, so it isn't until early October that it's comfortable around here. My daughter and I will be visiting a friend in New York City in late July/early August. He remarked recently that "at least you two won't be here complaining about the heat." It'll be about the same, we'll be used to it. Weather Channel for Fort Worth, TX. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: GUEST,Joe_F Date: 28 Jun 05 - 10:25 AM Indoors, go barefoot whenever it is safe to do so. The coolest air in a room is on the floor; it is silly to insulate yourself from it. Outdoors, in damp heat, wear as little as the law allows (think of the Pygmies). In dry heat, wear loose, light-colored clothing all over (think of the Arabs). If you don't have airconditioning, keep the windows closed in the daytime. In the evening, when the outdoor temperature drops below the indoor temperature, open two windows & put a fan in one of them. --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: Drinking is what straight men do with each other instead. :|| |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: GUEST,MMario Date: 28 Jun 05 - 10:40 AM Nobody suggest "dress head to toe in velvet and walk around in the sun all day" I don't know why not, It's how I spent my weekend. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: GUEST,crazy little woman Date: 28 Jun 05 - 02:41 PM I live where it can get seriously hot (90 - 105) and stay there. When that happens, sensible people stay indoors, if they can. If not, then conduct this mental exercise: think about the interior of your body. It is 98 degrees in there, and the humidity is 100%. Now think about the air. It is also 98 degrees, and the humidity is high. You are one with nature. Don't worry about it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: gnu Date: 28 Jun 05 - 03:01 PM But, what if I stick to nature? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: *daylia* Date: 28 Jun 05 - 03:09 PM Well, if you stick it to nature, nature will someday stick it to you. ;~) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: frogprince Date: 28 Jun 05 - 03:22 PM Southern Michigan has been a backyard barbeque of peopleburgers the last few days. Lookin' forward to some skinnydippin' this coming weekend. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: Mooh Date: 28 Jun 05 - 07:27 PM Sleeping in the tent trailer tonight since the house never totally cools down from the midday heat. Peace, Mooh. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: GUEST,Skivee Date: 28 Jun 05 - 07:55 PM MMario Not many wackos would do that more than once. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: Blissfully Ignorant Date: 29 Jun 05 - 03:04 PM Strip naked and eat a watermelon. Keep the watermelon in the fridge, and don't be too particular about where the juice ends up. Have your friends join in. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: GUEST,MMario Date: 29 Jun 05 - 03:07 PM Mr. skivee, sir! I didn't say it was a *SMART* thing to do! |
