<<Midwest Coffee Talk: The Tens>> - Page 73

Centropolis · #**1441** Posted **Jul 18, 2011, 5:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by rockyi

One good thing about the heat is the demand for more power causing scattered blackouts.....Went to work this morning, no power. "Sorry guys, it looks like you all have to go home." Awwww, DAMN!!

The last heat wave we had I saw a transformer station on fire, with flames leaping 5-10 feet into the air and a putrid black smoke column. There were no emergency vehicles around...

5 days (probably more) of 100 degrees + is not going to be pretty, especially the way office buildings cool down around here, I have to wear a sweatshirt in my office.

CGII · #**1442** Posted **Jul 18, 2011, 5:52 PM**

The heat wave in the Midwest is headed out to the East Coast this week and I'll be in Washington DC for it.

Centropolis · #**1443** Posted **Jul 18, 2011, 6:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by CGII

The heat wave in the Midwest is headed out to the East Coast this week and I'll be in Washington DC for it.

DC/Bmore definitely can bring the heat southern midwestern style. Get yoself a wet towel 'round your neck, and a seperate dry wiping kerchief.

Actually, I really do that, the A/C in my car is broken and i dont feel like dropping 1000 bucks to fix it....................I drove to New Orleans last month and went through 10 gallons of water (for dunking the towel and drinking)...........I couldnt take any photos there because I was sweating so much that everything was soaked...

rockyi · #**1444** Posted **Jul 18, 2011, 6:16 PM**

Right now I'm watching the Weather Channel and they're saying this heat wave will last pretty much until the end of time.....or maybe next week, who cares, I might not make it that long. I think it's hovering around one trillion degree mark at the moment.

.....I'm going to dump some ice down my pants.

Centropolis · #**1445** Posted **Jul 18, 2011, 6:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by rockyi

Right now I'm watching the Weather Channel and they're saying this heat wave will last pretty much until the end of time.....or maybe next week, who cares, I might not make it that long. I think it's hovering around one trillion degree mark at the moment.

.....I'm going to dump some ice down my pants.

Now is the time to practice southern "it's hotter than" sayings...

i'll begin...

it's hotter than a snakes ass in a wagon rut.

rockyi · #**1446** Posted **Jul 18, 2011, 6:42 PM**

Man, it's hotter than Gabourey Sidibe's bicycle seat.

....OK, that was rude. I'm going to hell....Yep.

mobyhead · #**1447** Posted **Jul 18, 2011, 8:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by rockyi

Man, it's hotter than Gabourey Sidibe's bicycle seat.

....OK, that was rude. I'm going to hell....Yep.

You said it was a Trillion degrees outside. Perhaps you ARE in hell.

Buckeye Native 001 · #**1448** Posted **Jul 18, 2011, 9:06 PM**

Meanwhile, we're getting pounded with rain in the 'Staff.

It doesn't rain in Arizona.

Ex-Ithacan · #**1449** Posted **Jul 18, 2011, 10:00 PM**

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Originally Posted by rockyi

.....I'm going to dump some ice down my pants.

I did that once about twenty years ago, and I'm convinced that's why my daughter is an only child.

touraccuracy · #**1450** Posted **Jul 19, 2011, 12:36 AM**

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=192610
finally some entertainment in the skybar!

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abnormal forum absences can be explained by working 7 days/week and minecraft.

Lipani · #**1451** Posted **Jul 19, 2011, 12:52 AM**

78 in San Diego. Suckers.

rockyi · #**1452** Posted **Jul 19, 2011, 2:00 AM**

^Hey, maybe some of us LIKE to be constantly sticky and gross.

CGII · #**1453** Posted **Jul 19, 2011, 2:15 AM**

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Originally Posted by Centropolis

DC/Bmore definitely can bring the heat southern midwestern style. Get yoself a wet towel 'round your neck, and a seperate dry wiping kerchief.

That's the problem. The place is a friggin' swamp, and if it's 100 degrees with 100% humidity in Milwaukee, God save us from what it'll be in DC.

CGII · #**1454** Posted **Jul 19, 2011, 2:30 AM**

Also, in unrelated news, I saw my first murdered corpse after living in NY for four years.

I was biking to Coney Island beach yesterday with a friend to escape the heat, and we were biking along the Bay Parkway bike trail that winds along the South Brooklyn shore and we were about a mile south of the Verrazano Narrows. There were about four police cruisers, two ambulances and a fire marshall truck blocking the path for about a hundred feet, and, thinking a car from the Belt Parkway had jumped a median and gone into the drink, I searched for a hole in the fence. Not finding one, I waited about a minute before two harbor police boats showed up and started poking at something. One boat pulled it out; it was one of those collapsible shopping carts that grannies use shoved full with rocks and it had feet sticking out of it.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_c...shop_cart.html

A couple years ago I happened to be in Sunset Park during a gang shootout that ended in two deaths but really can't remember seeing dead bodies that weren't covered on a stretcher or prepared for a funeral before.

Lipani · #**1455** Posted **Jul 19, 2011, 3:34 AM**

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Originally Posted by rockyi

^Hey, maybe some of us LIKE to be constantly sticky and gross.

Dude, I've been trying to win the lotto to get you a beachfront house in La Jolla for three years now. It's not as easy as it looks.

LMich · #**1456** Posted **Jul 19, 2011, 3:52 AM**

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Originally Posted by Buckeye Native 001

Meanwhile, we're getting pounded with rain in the 'Staff.

The 'Staff, you say? Like the infection? Please don't tell me the college kids joke about having 'Staff infections. lol

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Originally Posted by rockyi

^Hey, maybe some of us LIKE to be constantly sticky and gross.

That's what she said.

Okay, you sorry about the lame-assed jokes.

Buckeye Native 001 · #**1457** Posted **Jul 19, 2011, 5:38 AM**

The 'staff is my own idiotic little nickname for this dump. Nobody else in town knows what the fuck I'm talking about when I call it that.

Strange Meat · #**1458** Posted **Jul 19, 2011, 5:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by Lipani

78 in San Diego. Suckers.

A pleasant 102 yesterday in Denver (according to the thermometer in my Jeep...as I was driving with the windows down and AC off) and about 72 in the high country. Haters.

90s today. I'm going hiking, because, you know, it's a dry heat.

mthq · #**1459** Posted **Jul 19, 2011, 10:12 PM**

man I feel so left out from the rest of you guys and your crazy weather

rockyi · #**1460** Posted **Jul 19, 2011, 10:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by Lipani

Dude, I've been trying to win the lotto to get you a beachfront house in La Jolla for three years now. It's not as easy as it looks.

If I lived on the beach in La Jolla I'd be sporting a Speedo™ EVERY waking moment of my day.....are you SURE you want to share those lotto winnings?