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22 Jun 05 - 08:19 PM (#1507521) Subject: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: Shanghaiceltic 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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22 Jun 05 - 08:21 PM (#1507524) Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: Peace "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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22 Jun 05 - 08:27 PM (#1507529) Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: Charmion 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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22 Jun 05 - 08:30 PM (#1507533) Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: Peace Doesn't get any better'n that. But I'd have to go to a gay bar, right? |
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22 Jun 05 - 09:00 PM (#1507561) Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: LilyFestre Hey Now....gay bars can be lots of fun! :) Michelle |
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22 Jun 05 - 09:04 PM (#1507566) Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: Peace That's true. I have a few funny stories about that. (And, I meant no offense to gays.) |
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22 Jun 05 - 09:05 PM (#1507567) Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: GUEST,G-Spot Smoke a little dope, put on Pink Floyd, smile sardonically, visit a gay bar... |
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23 Jun 05 - 07:30 PM (#1508401) Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: Firecat 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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23 Jun 05 - 10:51 PM (#1508563) Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: ranger1 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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23 Jun 05 - 10:56 PM (#1508570) Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: frogprince Ranger 1 is really my buddy Carl! |
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23 Jun 05 - 10:59 PM (#1508572) Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: ranger1 Nope, wrong gender! |
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23 Jun 05 - 11:04 PM (#1508575) Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: GUEST 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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23 Jun 05 - 11:08 PM (#1508580) Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: LilyFestre Awwww heck Guest....you stole my answer! ;) Michelle |
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24 Jun 05 - 02:32 AM (#1508638) Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: GUEST,Fullerton Put lots of ice in a sink Fill sink with cold water. Put your forearms in the iced water....... Ahhhhhhhhhhh...... |
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24 Jun 05 - 06:11 PM (#1509015) Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: Liz the Squeak 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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24 Jun 05 - 07:33 PM (#1509081) Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: McGrath of Harlow Siesta |
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25 Jun 05 - 12:43 AM (#1509241) Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: LadyJean 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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25 Jun 05 - 01:10 AM (#1509249) Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: GUEST 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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25 Jun 05 - 09:39 AM (#1509407) Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: ranger1 TMI! |
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25 Jun 05 - 10:43 AM (#1509467) Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: GUEST,leeneia 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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26 Jun 05 - 08:20 AM (#1510137) Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: Diva 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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26 Jun 05 - 08:24 AM (#1510141) Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: freda underhill 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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26 Jun 05 - 08:24 AM (#1510143) Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: George Papavgeris 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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26 Jun 05 - 08:28 AM (#1510145) Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: George Papavgeris Eat a quarter of a chilled watermelon harmonica-style, while submerged in the sea. |
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26 Jun 05 - 03:16 PM (#1510427) Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: GUEST,smiler Have sex. You might not keep cool, but it'll pass the time pending cooler weather. |
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26 Jun 05 - 03:52 PM (#1510450) Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: gnu 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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26 Jun 05 - 08:15 PM (#1510606) Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: ranger1 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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26 Jun 05 - 08:24 PM (#1510609) Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: Stilly River Sage 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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26 Jun 05 - 08:27 PM (#1510612) Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: ranger1 SRS, I'm having visions of hell after that post. The real question is: is it dry heat? |
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26 Jun 05 - 09:49 PM (#1510653) Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: SINSULL 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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27 Jun 05 - 09:49 AM (#1510938) Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: Charmion 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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27 Jun 05 - 11:15 AM (#1510962) Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: Metchosin 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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27 Jun 05 - 11:21 AM (#1510966) Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: gnu 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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27 Jun 05 - 11:35 AM (#1510977) Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: bobad Hey metchosin Do you ever go swimming at Weir's Beach ? |
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27 Jun 05 - 11:41 AM (#1510982) Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: *daylia* Really really REALLY hot? How bout taking THIS out for a cyber-ride! |
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27 Jun 05 - 11:43 AM (#1510987) Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: Metchosin 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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27 Jun 05 - 10:27 PM (#1511340) Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: GUEST Go skinnydippin. In the freezer.:) |
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27 Jun 05 - 11:38 PM (#1511380) Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: Stilly River Sage 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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28 Jun 05 - 10:25 AM (#1511640) Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: GUEST,Joe_F 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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28 Jun 05 - 10:40 AM (#1511649) Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: GUEST,MMario 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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28 Jun 05 - 02:41 PM (#1511819) Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: GUEST,crazy little woman 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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28 Jun 05 - 03:01 PM (#1511840) Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: gnu But, what if I stick to nature? |
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28 Jun 05 - 03:09 PM (#1511852) Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: *daylia* Well, if you stick it to nature, nature will someday stick it to you. ;~) |
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28 Jun 05 - 03:22 PM (#1511860) Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: frogprince 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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28 Jun 05 - 07:27 PM (#1512065) Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: Mooh Sleeping in the tent trailer tonight since the house never totally cools down from the midday heat. Peace, Mooh. |
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28 Jun 05 - 07:55 PM (#1512080) Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: GUEST,Skivee MMario Not many wackos would do that more than once. |
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29 Jun 05 - 03:04 PM (#1512670) Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: Blissfully Ignorant 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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29 Jun 05 - 03:07 PM (#1512673) Subject: RE: BS: Ways to be cool in the heat.... From: GUEST,MMario Mr. skivee, sir! I didn't say it was a *SMART* thing to do! |