Pluggers by Rick McKee for February 14, 2014

Bet you can hardly wait to be 105

I’m 53 – I like the humidity to match my age. You can imagine my opinion of Texas summers…

That was my father-in-law. He also kept the drapes closed during the day, forcing you to turn the lights on all the time.I told him once, “Coal isn’t free, but sunlight is.” To which he replied, “Baahhh!”I’m his age now, but my thermostat is still on 68°.

Ever since we had Celsius forced upon us, I don’t know what the temperature is.

I say put a sweater on … hate paying the bill!

and the rpm of the phonograph records we all played as teens….

If your retired I doubt you are keeping your temp at 78 unless you are in Florida. In the Northeast right now you would be at 65 to afford 4.50 a gallon oil

Golf score!

He can raise orchids!

Can’t hardly stand above 70F. Love low humidity.

pcolli: How did you learn Fahrenheit? At least Celsius is based on something: freezing and boiling point of water.

Since he has a sweater already on, I cannot argue with the temp setting.

The older I get the smaller my comfort zone becomes. Below 40°F is too cold, above 80°F is too hot.

I used to say that my mother froze below 80 degrees and I start to melt over 70. I may have to bump that up to 72 now.

Tin Can Twidget: You mean like the meter is based on one millionth the distance from equator to pole? It missed too. That was the first I heard about body temperature. I heard it as the coldest he could maintain steady with snow and acetone and the degrees were just equal arbitrary marks upward. But then I went to school in Texas before science was declared satanic..pcolli: Metrication is easy; don’t try to convert, no matter how good at math you are, just learn to think in metric. It takes less that a year for the brain to be trained. I learned it all in Canada during their metrication in the late 1970s.

I heard of a guy that installed a fake thermostat in the living room for his wife, while he had the real one hidden in a closet.