Pio,

Okay, you said you would be my memory.

Which scene does nams refer to?

Sorry guy. I am at a total loss on this one. Hopefully nams will be stricken with insomnia so we won't have to wait too long for the answer?

Oh, I get it. I didn't see the movie "Ghost" but I did see "Police Squad" where Priscilla Presley is using the potter's wheel and Leslie Neilson is behind her. I guess the scene in Ghost was similar?

Think I'll go watch Police Squad again.

Oh, she said "Ghost". I thought "Ghost Busters".

Patrick Swazey. Punk.

Anyway, interesting little tidbit about OM. He got some weird infection last year, went into the hospital and almost died. Instead of seeing the "white light" like so many purport to do, he saw black demons come up from the floor and drag him down. The scene from Ghost of course.

Oh! THAT scene. I get it now. Why couldn't nams just say that?

This is just off the wall but OM had near death experience. Maybe he wants to get the most out of his life now. Maybe he now has some "special" link to WW who guided him back from the grave? If so, grave mistake.

BTW, don't say too many bad things about Patrick. I think he is from Texas and we don't want to give Melodylane any excuse to post here. So I am going to say Patrick is a national treasure and I know you agree..hint hint.

With all due respect to Mel, sorry, Patrick Swazey is a sissy. And a brat. Did I mention sissy?

Oh, wait a minute. I just had a GE moment. When nams said "potter", she wasn't referring to drugs, but to Patrick Swazey, right?

Now we are on the same page. Actually I like Patrick Swazey from what I know about him. Swazey isn't French is it?

No, it's sissy.

Hello,

Todd I'm so happy to see that you're ok.

Have you heard of bioxide of carbone* and the danger of cooking in closed spaces? Crikey, men !

Pio,

I'm so surprised your little girls bowling balls were not considered a threat to Middle East Peace.
I hope Skype worked well for you with the phone calls.

Kiwi,
I feel completely empowered by distributing 5 golden stars, would you mind to start a thread, so I can put 5 stars and then take them away one by one? Muaaaaah.

I have my heart in my throat or something is squeezing it. Maybe it's that my BF is coming to visit for 8 days from Walker Valley, NY.
I have the gut feeling that he's soon going to be XBF to upgrade to a soon to be marital status. Talk about fears, at and age when I could be taking care of teens, I feel like one my self.

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Good to see you all.

That might explain it. I am in a very small space and I cooked last night. You are not saying.... OMG, that's why my memory went! bioxide of carbone? Pio, help me out. You are my memory once again.

Oh Tood if I were you I would be very careful at the moment of choosing a memory by proxy, who knows what's stored in [color:"green"]Pio's upper floor ?[/color] <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

Upper floor?

I am just happy to be mentioned in the same sentence with a man of such intellect.

Methane, natural gas, LPG, Propane, gasoline and any by-product of fossil fuels is a combination of carbon and hydrogen with maybe a few other trace things thrown in. The primary difference being molecular weight. Methane is the smallest and simplest hydrocarbon made up of CH4.

Regardless if the fuel being used, ideally the by-product of combustion (i.e. oxidation) would be CO2 (bioxido de cabron - I mean - carbon) and H20 (water). Now combustion is not always efficient so you may get some CO (carbon monoxide) as well but both CO and CO2 are toxic.

So if you are cooking with gas, wood (cellulose), charcoal, etc. and do not have proper ventilation, the levels of CO2 and CO build up until you are dead from hypoxia.

If you cook with electricity (including microwave), there is no problem because there is no combustion. Interestingly back in the 1970's during that energy crisis, builders went to great effort to make energy efficient homes. I am no expert but one of the factors in house building is air exchange. This, I think, is something like the number of times that the entire volume of air in a house will be replaced by outside air in a 24 hour period or something like that. In the "old" days, houses were not well sealed and had 4 or 5 air exchanges typically. So no matter how much toxin built up in the house, it was replaced with "fresh" air. In the effort to reduce energy costs, air exchange was brought way down. If you don't replace the air, you don't have to heat or cool it so your energy bill is less. This was all well and good except for retired people. Many retired people stayed home. Locked inside all day. Never opened any windows for fear or robbery or worse. They stayed sealed in their very efficient houses - to the point that some started dying from their own breath.

The human body also produces CO2 so if your breath is not replaced with fresh air, you will suffocate yourself. The result was that builders actually had to set a limit and make homes less energy efficient in order to make them safer.

Natural gas, methane, propane, ethane, don't have any oder. So gas companies have to add a sulphur compound (mercaptain) to the gas so you can notice the leak.

Oh, and if you buy a propane grill and decide to convert it to natural gas, it is extremely important that you buy a jet kit for the burner so that you get the correct gas/air ratio. Propane and NG or LPG have different heating values and require different amounts of oxygen for "proper" combustion and the company who makes the grill has jets for each type of gas for any given grill.

I bought a propane grill in Dubai basically because that is all that is sold (imported from USA) but propans is almost impossible to get in Dubai. All they have available is LPG. So I used LPG on my propane gas grill because there was no way to get a replacement jet kit because it odes not occur to them to sell them in Dubai. Result was that I melted the top of my grill. I might as well have used an acetylene torch to cook with. Result would have been about the same.

So if you are in an enclosed space and assuming you are cooking with electricity, the only risk you have is your own exhalation so, in order to be completely safe, just hold your breath indefinitely and you won't expell any CO2.

I think my wireless keyboard needs new batteries.

Todd, Upper floor is not a man. (I hope)

OMG, that was very informative and understable Pio.

Nevertheless, I would be very careful os using that man's memory Todd. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

You are absoltely correct my good buddy. Residential builders should take cues from their commercial counterparts. Even in my backward state, HVAC systems are required to provide a minimim of 20 CFM per person. Obviously, this entails the use of outside air makeup. Then discharge it with treated air through the plenum, and keep it at the required minimum and people are breathing relatively healthy air.

Residential builders OTOH, regard outside air makeup as costly. These are the same builders who construct $600,000 homes with three sides brick. The rear is typically concrete siding, of or similar to the type manufacturered by James Hardie, an Aussie company. For a few thousand more, they could build four sides brick but no, in the wisdom of cutting $600,000 corners, you get three sides brick.

Meanwhile, I cook with electric but I can almost issue a guarantee that the HVAC that treats my room includes meaningless amounts of outside air. Ergo, I am choking on my own CO2.

That explains it.

Might as well clear up one other misconception. My college roommate worked in a steam generation plant. The curious thing was that everywhere you went in this plant, there was a broom. What was odd is that the plant was not that clean. Most people think you can see steam but it is impossible to see steam. If you can see it, it isn't steam - it is water vapor. So if there is a steam leak in the plant, you grab a broom wherever you are and hold the broom out in front of you and start walking toward the nearest exit. If the broom in front of you is suddenly cut in two, you stop, grab another broom and try another direction. So, if you can see it, it is water vapor. If you can't see it, it is steam. So a steam bath isn't really a steam bath.

Also, fog is a colloidal suspension. It is a strange physical state.

"Oh. THAT scene. I get it now. Why couldn't nams just say that?
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Just a way to get you to stretch your minds beyond the French bashing business onto something with true cultural merit.

Patrick Swazey? EW!

Good morning! BTW

Hello larousse! (nams waves & smiles)

The last sentence of your post is very interesting.

Why do you think your BF may soon become an XBF? The upgarding to marital status has me a bit confussed. Are you saying he may be upgrading to marital status with someone else?

I have to agree with you on that one Todd, Patrick Swazey is borderline she-male.

Though, in Rhodehouse he did seem a bit less girly.

Charles Bronson. Now there's a manly man!