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To: Ilaine who wrote (55536)	9/6/2000 12:26:09 PM
From: Crocodile	Respond to of 71178

No offense, there is probably a word that I would know if I was Canadian, but that's the word I would use for someone who lives in New England, and in my mind's eye you are not so very far from there. I mean to say, you guys and gals in the frozen north are so much tougher than us southern gals and guys. Rock-ribbed, I think they call it. Made of sterner stuff. That is funny... I don't know why it is striking me that way, but it just is... Actually, I had cause to consider that exact topic a couple of days ago and found it quite amusing. When I was in SF a couple of years ago, the weather was hot and humid... 80+... in October, which seemed sort of freakish to the people I was staying with. I didn't mind at all because we get wild temperature swings here.... It was in the 90s all last week, and here it is around 50 today. Anyhow, while I was in SF, the temperature dropped to around... hmmm... 60 F... but I was still wearing shorts and a t-shirt everywhere...even one night when we were out and it was about 50 F. People everywhere were just staring...almost GLARING...at me... like I had some kind of nerve to go around like that when they were wearing parkas... Then we went down and wandered around at Stanford and...this is no bull... I just saw ONE other person on the whole campus wearing shorts...even though it was a seasonable day (IMHO, that is). Everyone I spoke to said, "Aren't you COLD??!!!". I was thinking of what they would say if they saw the students up at Carleton U., out in the "square" between the buildings, in the middle of January, working on their tans... lying on top of their parkas on the benches with the snow piled up 3 feet around them... hee hee... But yes, it is a matter of some form of personal tolerance... because I often wear my shorts into December, even after we get a bit of snow here, but that's not considered quite "normal" even to people up here. BTW, must tell you. When my parents used to go down to Islamorada in January, they would always be the only ones swimming around like ducks in the pool. Everyone who lived down there year round would be sitting around in jackets watching them and laughing. Up here, the Ottawa River where we used to swim would just about turn you to ice in May when we would swim there from about the 20th onwards. It is a fast river which has thick ice on it into early April, so you can imagine that it is none to warm, but you get used to it... have to or there would be nowhere for you to swim... ... yep...they don't call us "Crazy Canucks" for nothing... ;-}>