DCML digest, Vol 1 #822 - 15 msgs

[Kriton Kyrimis]

DON:

> My head hurts.

Don't you mean your brain?

> You are celebrating that Emperor Julian screwed up big time.

Um, it's actually Julius Caesar, and it wasn't he the one who screwed
up, but Sosigenes, the astronomer whom he consulted, and who suggested
a calendar identical to that devised by Aristarchus. (Who, to make
this relevant to the list, was mentioned in "Guardians of the Lost
Library".) Of course, Aristarchus' coming up with such a calendar in
239 BC wasn't exactly a screw-up, but more of an impressive feat.

> All that frozen food in $crooge's icebox (and did you note it was a 1910
> style ice box?) was a clue to tell astute readers that $crooge eats nothing
> but frozen TV dinners,

Did they have electric refrigerators in 1910, so that Scrooge could store
more than a day's worth of food in his ice box, or did they literally have
ice boxes, i.e. boxes in which the low temperature would be provided by
a column of ice, which had to be replaced daily? I know that, in Greece,
the latter kind was still in use until the early 1960s.

Come to think of it, how could there be TV dinners in 1910, when there
was no TV?

	Kriton	(e-mail: kyrimis at cti.gr)
	      	(WWW:    http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis)
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"I've looked deeply into the hearts of my fellow men, and to be honest
 with you, I'd rather look into a cesspool."
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