Re: SPOILERS _ Christmas/New Year

martin wrote:

> On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 22:25:13 +0100, The Hoopeses
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > martin wrote:
> I have got into a similar state at the Oktoberfest.
How many religious fanatics do you find there?  Ja, ja, ja, ja...
> > That's scary in more ways than one.  The folks in New 
> > England had an advantage over the colonists farther south:  they were 
> > healthier because it actually froze in winter up where they were. 
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> and the beer acted as an antifreeze in their veins?

Maybe.  I know how it works in the frozen North, eh?
> > The 
> > incidence of malaria was lower than in places like Virginia.
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> There was malaria in villages around the IJsselmeer until the mid
> 1950s when spraying with DDT got rid of the malaria carrying
> mosquitos.

A good freeze is what they needed before we discovered that stuff.  Bti 
can work nowadays, but, alas, that's for another group.
> > This book 
> > is great, filled with all sorts of wonderful stuff.  It's one of the few 
> > (okay, not *few* by some people's standards) of history books I've 
> > actually purchased.
>
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> like everybody else you usually borrow them?

Libraries are wonderful things, methinks.

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Al