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Quote: Vader @ December 8 2011, 8:26 PM GMTHow come they had radiators? I take it it's never cold in Texas or the new ones would have them.
I was speaking of the country in general and of the difference between forced air heating and radiant heating. With the exception of Hawaii, the entire country gets cold enough to need some sort of heater at least a few times each year and pretty much every building less than a hundred years old uses either a gas or electric furnace. Radiators are old timey stuff.
It was a few degrees below freezing here in the Alamo City last night.
Quote: DaButt @ December 8 2011, 6:38 PM GMTIt's sort of like the N-word. It began as a very derogatory term which has been claimed as their own but is still offensive when used by an outsider.
Hillbillies come from the mountains (West Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky and North Carolina) and there are none in the deep south.
I once read a book called 'Oral History' about Hillbillies which led me to believe they were descended from Scots (similar idiom). Is this so and does that mean I'm a basic Hillbilly?
Just threw together and consumed a hastily made turkey/Swiss/avocado/sourdough sandwich. I think I'll take a short nap before tackling the chest freezer which serves as my garage fermentation chamber. I need to figure out how to drill a hole in it to run 25 feet of reptile warming cord inside. It holds a steady temperature in the 60s (F) during the scorching summers but the last few cold nights have dropped the internal temperature to a less-than-optimal 61F. I'm going to control the heating and cooling with a thermostat to ensure maximum beer yumminess in the winter..
Quote: keewik @ December 8 2011, 10:28 PM GMTI once read a book called 'Oral History' about Hillbillies which led me to believe they were descended from Scots (similar idiom). Is this so and does that mean I'm a basic Hillbilly?
Wikipedia sez:
Origins of the term "hillbilly" are obscure. According to Anthony Harkins in Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon, the term first appeared in print in a 1900 New York Journal article, with the definition: "a Hill-Billie is a free and untrammeled white citizen of Alabama, who lives in the hills, has no means to speak of, dresses as he can, talks as he pleases, drinks whiskey when he gets it, and fires off his revolver as the fancy takes him."
The Appalachian region was largely settled in the 18th century by the Scotch-Irish, the majority of whom originated in the lowlands of Scotland. Harkins believes the most credible theory of the term's origin is that it derives from the linkage of two older Scottish expressions, "hill-folk" and "billie" which was a synonym for "fellow", similar to "guy" or "bloke".
Why do you want to warm reptiles?
Quote: zooo @ December 8 2011, 10:46 PM GMTWhy do you want to warm reptiles?
I want to warm my fermenting beer and it's an easy and safe way to do it. I only need a few watts to heat things up.
And it's easier than knitting tiny sweaters for all the lizards and geckos that inhabit my garage.
Quote: DaButt @ December 8 2011, 10:53 PM GMTI want to warm my fermenting beer..
You could market it.. I can see it now..
DaButtweiser..
What sort of beer is it?
Quote: DaButt @ December 8 2011, 10:53 PM GMTAnd it's easier than knitting tiny sweaters for all the lizards and geckos that inhabit my garage.
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
Well, it would be nicer than running them over with your lawnmower, like you usually do. 
Quote: Stylee TingTing @ December 8 2011, 11:01 PM GMTWhat sort of beer is it?
Right now there are 10 gallons of my own American IPA recipe and 10 gallons of my attempted clone of Breckinridge Christmas ale.
I have 4 taps in my dining room and I try to have the IPA, my ESB and a bitter (usually a clone of Tim Taylor's Landlord) on hand at all times. The 4th tap had a nice porter but now it's gone and I have replaced it with a kolsch.
Quote: zooo @ December 8 2011, 11:03 PM GMTAwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
Well, it would be nicer than running them over with your lawnmower, like you usually do.
I usually run over snakes because they're slower and more difficult to see.
So Hillbillies are my blood relatives (leaps away to practice square dancing).
Quote: Stylee TingTing @ December 8 2011, 11:51 PM GMTAmazed. How on earth do you get that in the US of A? You can't even get it here.
I brew all the beer myself.
Just swatted a fly with a rolled-up animal welfare newsletter. Feeling pangs of hypocrisy.
Quote: DaButt @ December 9 2011, 12:03 AM GMTI brew all the beer myself.
But I bet you don't serve it in Kolsch glasses !
Right now
Bleedin' Americanisms ruining the language !
Quote: Oldrocker @ December 9 2011, 12:12 AM GMTBut I bet you don't serve it in Kolsch glasses !
I think I have one somewhere but everything usually ends up in some sort of American microbrewery pint glass or, my favourite, a Ronald Reagan Pub glass.
Quote: DaButt @ December 9 2011, 12:13 AM GMT.. a Ronald Reagan Pub glass.
I gotta do this one before they lock me in for the night..
So.. seeing that Bonzo is no longer with us, does that beer have Bubbles in it?
.. and I won't make no "Bedtime for Gonzo" jokes neither.. like.. after you've finished drinking for the night and all that..
*hands across the water.. trying to steal your kölsch*
*emoticon*
*zopiclone*