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WCDT strips 3841-3845 (1-5 October 2018)
Storel:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 14 Oct 2018, 18:58 ---Joseph Conrad said there are no synonyms in English, and Mark Twain said the difference between the right word and the almost right word was the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
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Nicely said, by both of them.
--- Quote from: cybersmurf on 15 Oct 2018, 02:35 ---Also, Mark Twain seems to have been quite the southerner. He's attributed with the quote "My coldest winter was a summer in San Francisco". Now, San Fran doesn't get particularly warm in summer, but doesn't get too cold in winter either.
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The thing that gets people about summer in San Francisco is that they come expecting, well, summer weather -- it's in "sunny California", right?!? -- and they get maybe two or three days of that at a time before the cold, cold fog comes rolling in and blankets the city for several more days. If I had a dollar for every time I've seen tourists standing on downtown street corners in shorts and t-shirts, gradually turning blue from the cold...
I'm always tempted to open the car window and holler "Welcome to sunny California!" at them as I go by, but I manage to restrain myself.... most of the time. :evil:
Zebediah:
First time I was in San Francisco the high was 53F and a full gale was blowing. It was July. I was there for five days and never saw the sun.
Then at the end of my trip I took a shuttle to SFO airport, where it was 75F with bright sun.
pallanox:
Long hair looks excellent.
hedgie:
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 15 Oct 2018, 17:43 ---First time I was in San Francisco the high was 53F and a full gale was blowing. It was July. I was there for five days and never saw the sun.
Then at the end of my trip I took a shuttle to SFO airport, where it was 75F with bright sun.
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Microclimates. One summer when I was living there, I didn't see the sun for two months over my place (Sunset District), but all I had to do was head down to Dolores Park and there'd be people sunbathing.
Thrudd:
I lucked out when work sent me down for some factory training back in the day.
I froze by butt off the night I arrived since the [cheap] motel had no heat - just AC.
That day I took a stroll around the industrial park during the extended lunch break - it felt warm but pleasant to this Torontoian. I am used to heat and humidity in the summers after all. All was well until I walked into the shade of a tree and the temperature difference was like walking into a freezer. I didn't believe in micro-climates up till then.
Froze my ass again the next night but the following day was absolutely balmy but not as dry hot as the day before.
The next morning was bone chilling fog to send me off on my flight back home.
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