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That might be a winter-time concern, but for summertime it is hogwash. The air conditioners need to run when the sun is out.
That might be a winter-time concern, but for summertime it is hogwash. The air conditioners need to run when the sun is out.
Sorry – it is a reference to Monty Python, where a father is trying to get his son to marry.
Edit: as one of your honorary fathers, I advise you to go watch the movie, “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.”
NaoPb! You must marry this girl! She has huge … tracts of land!
And no singing!
I wonder how much money it takes to rebuild a blown engine in a new BMW 3-Series nowadays?
Edit: so I went and had a brief look in Google. It looks like they run between $6000 and $12000 depending on how powerful the engine is. So for a base model it would indeed be somewhat cheaper.
That seems to illustrate the point that LadyLikesSpiders was making – quite nicely.
Google for “Intuit lobbying.”
It’s not literally bribery; it’s corporate America at work. Effectively bribery, IMHO.
… and chips (Frito-Lay).
From reading the text, I speculate that Franklin was alluding to the preexisting saying as well – alluding to the cat in the dark as an accepted axiom.