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This? My train of thought on my drive into work this morning as I slowly go mad from the heat.

I was just...hot and drained going into work this morning, and so to tell myself it wasn't so bad, I thought about the fact that people in the Old West didn't have A/C in their cars. Or...A/C in general. How in the HELL did these people survive the heat? If I were in the Old West, I would quickly excuse myself to go crawl into a hole and die. Clearly, I am not of Old West stock, although I'm not sure *who* was this Old West stock...

Probably cowboys too drunk to be aware of the heat.

Women? Women are much too smart to stick around the Old West. Well...old movies are telling me that there were women. Like, prostitutes. These must have been the dim women of the species. So somewhere there's a group of people who have descended from drunken cowboys and dim women.

Which brought me back to myself. Since I'm in the Old West and apparently in a hole, I must also be one of these dim women, which means I should probably get out of the hole and find a drunken cowboy. Who I would most *definitely* make take a bath first because, EW. And since I have no desire to raise a brood of frankly quite odd children, I might try my hand at running a brothel.

Madame Michelle's Happy Fun Time Saloon.

Where baths would be mandatory. "Want to have sex? Interested in a dim woman? That'll be two bits and jump in the water please, because EW. Right now I wouldn't let you loose on a sheep."

And so the heat, which has MELTED MY BRAIN, has quite possibly turned me into an Old West pimp.

Was there a point to all this? No.

A moral? HEAT IS BAD. SEND ICE CUBES.

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*has no ice cube, so substitutes Carlisle with an ice cream cone*

So somewhere there's a group of people who have descended from drunken cowboys and dim women.

*bites tongue and refrains from making comment about Dubya supporters...or his daughters*

Seriously, I have no idea how they did it. In long sleeves and LAYERS. GAH. How miserable for them.

*has no ice cube, so substitutes Carlisle with an ice cream cone*

Ice cream is also good.

*bites tongue and refrains from making comment about Dubya supporters...or his daughters*

Mwah!

Seriously, I have no idea how they did it. In long sleeves and LAYERS. GAH. How miserable for them.

I didn't even think about the clothes! Gah!

I thought about the fact that people in the Old West didn't have A/C in their cars.

i'm thinking it'd be a little challenging to install A/C on the horse.

Madame Michelle's Happy Fun Time Saloon.

Where baths would be mandatory. "Want to have sex? Interested in a dim woman? That'll be two bits and jump in the water please, because EW. Right now I wouldn't let you loose on a sheep."

LMAO! i so needed that laugh!

thank you!

and... i do hope you manage to cool off somehow!

i'm thinking it'd be a little challenging to install A/C on the horse.

Challenging, yes. But necessary!

LMAO! i so needed that laugh!

thank you!

and... i do hope you manage to cool off somehow!

*snickers*

And I've now cranked the A/C at work down to 72. WOO!

They could have used you as a consultant on Deadwood. I heard about the horrid CA weather on the Today show this morning. You poor thing.

Funnily enough, I tried watching Deadwood, and my first thought was that I'd really like to hose these people down. :D

Looks like the heat might break tomorrow, thank goodness.

*sends a fan*

Constant heat drives mental as well, set-up a tent outside the open door of a big freezer in a supermarket?

Yeah, there have been visits to the grocery store, just to be in the A/C. :D

Well, actually, the hookers probably weren't that dim. 'Cause as hookers, they didn't have to wear a lot of clothes. Didn't have to deal with petticoats under skirts that went to the ground, long sleeves, cleavage totally covered up . . . yeah, the prostitutes were the smart ones.

And at least in the Old West, it's a dry heat. I feel sorry for the Southern women, all covered up like that and dealing with 100% humidity and temps in the nineties or low hundreds.

True. They could just run around in practically nothing. Which probably helped for the wanting to crawl into a hole and die thing.

And man, I just cannot imagine the South in period clothing. CANNOT.

Hell, the South in non-period clothing is bad enough. The thought of enduring this humidity in period clothing makes me cry.

Really, I don't know how anyone could survive here without A/C. But I did have a guy from England(who'd never, incidentally, been to the South) try to make the argument that I couldn't possibly need air conditioning in my house, and that a simple ceiling fan should do the job well enough. He's lucky I didn't throttle him. Instead, I just suggested that he spend winter with an extra blanket instead of a heater.

HA! No, you just could NOT survive in places without A/C. Just really couldn't. Thankfully it's only really bad for us a couple of weeks out of the year. (Although, last year it was miserable all summer long.)

Ok, I keep telling myself I should know the answer to this, but where in the world do you live?

I'm just glad it's overcast and rainy here.

I'm in San Diego. I work about a mile from the coast, so it's cooler here. But I live inland which means hotter than hell.

"Want to have sex? Interested in a dim woman? That'll be two bits and jump in the water please, because EW. Right now I wouldn't let you loose on a sheep."

I am firmly convinced that all my friends are far more clever than I am. And my coworkers are firmly convinced that my friends (AND I) are completely cracked.

AAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I HAVE CRACKED! I HAVE!!

You know, I've thought about this too! And I have decided that because of global warming and our distance from the Ice Age, it's a lot worse now than it was then.

Or people were just really, really sweaty. It could go either way.

Oh, yeah! It probably was the mid-70s back then! Or the sweaty thing. EW.

As someone who grew up in the Deep, Deep South, boy howdy do I feel your pain. And think about this--lots of those nutty Old West people wore wool. WOOL! And they had long sleeves all the time, and high necks on their clothes, and I might have considered being a prostitute just for the opportunity to wear more breezy clothing.

:::sending one of those giant misting fans like they use in the NFL:::

WOOL? That's completely MAD. Being a prostitute is starting to look better and better.

Oooooh. A misting fan!

Yeah, except for the part where I don't want to be rubbing any part of my anatomy against any part of anyone else's anatomy when it's a hojillion degrees out.

And yes, I would kill for a misting fan. That or snow. Snow would be good right about now. We can't even go to the pool, because they're closed since all the lifeguards had to go back to school.

On the one hand, one sort of assumes that the prostitutes would get to get nekkid (or at least have on little in the way of clothing) for the drunk cowboys. On the other hand? Who the heck would want to have sex when it's this hot? There must have been *very* few people born in May.

Here is an ice cube for you, but I'm afraid it's already melting...

But don't you know? When you're hot and sweaty and it's 100 out, you're *supposed* to become insanely horny instead of saying, "Touch me and die. Seriously."

Huh. I guess I must be some kind of freak, then. Because I'm of the "Don't even look at me, I'm hot" school of things.

I was not meant for the old West, obviously.

:: dies laughing ::

Actually, the prostitutes did tend to be the first women to arrive at a lot of settlements, certainly on the west coast. They put up with the heat and assorted other shit because it was pretty much the only opportunity to make their own fortunes and be their own bosses.

And trust me, I'd rather wear a chemise, corset, petticoat(s), corset cover, and gown in SoCal in 100 degrees than in Chicago in 80. For serious.

I'm not sure how anyone survived anywhere! Between the heat and the frozen temps in most places...

Yeah, pretty sure I would have died.

*rolls about giggling madly*

*sends buckets of cubes*

*rolls in buckets of cubes*

I live in southern Virginia, which has a tradition of getting pretty damn hot (upper 90s/low 100s is not unusual) along with being extra specially humid. Like, step outside in 80 degree weather and become damp in under a minute humid. I like it here, but I cannot imagine living here without really good air conditioning. I can't imagine only having a window a/c. And people lived here without a/c in hoop skirts and corsets and everything covered up, including gloves???? *whimper* I'm glad I was born in the late 20th century.

~~*sends ice truck*~~ *sends a FLEET of ice trucks*

I live in southern Virginia, which has a tradition of getting pretty damn hot (upper 90s/low 100s is not unusual) along with being extra specially humid. Like, step outside in 80 degree weather and become damp in under a minute humid. I like it here, but I cannot imagine living here without really good air conditioning. I can't imagine only having a window a/c. And people lived here without a/c in hoop skirts and corsets and everything covered up, including gloves???? *whimper* I'm glad I was born in the late 20th century.

URRRG. No wonder there cliches about women fainting - it was the frickin heat! I'd faint too, hopefully not to wake up until October.

*sends a FLEET of ice trucks*

WOO!

There's a reason it was called the Oregon trail. *g*

*wafts cool breezes down from Oregon where it's 75 and overcast*

It worked!! It's much much cooler today. Hooray!

Or...A/C in general. How in the HELL did these people survive the heat?

Beats me! I can't survive without it... and the three fans going around me and the computer. *My computer fan gets really, really loud at times. I'm going to have to consider buying another computer fan and learn how to install it.*

HEAT IS BAD. SEND ICE CUBES.

YES and I would but I need some too AND they'd probably melt by the time they'd get there.

Though I must say that for some reason it *whispers*feels a bit cooler than yesterday*whispers* Now I don't want to jinx it, especially since I'm in the valley where the weather is just horrible but I honestly don't feel as brain dead as I did yesterday. ^_^"

My computer fan's been acting up lately too - not sure if it's the case fan or CPU fan though. If it's the CPU fan...I'd be half-tempted to get a new computer because those are a bitch to get on and off. :D

It IS cooler today! \o/

You have crazy logic brain.

That totally makes sense to me.

*sends you antartica*

It made sense to me too.

And hooray for ice mass!

Madame Michelle's Happy Fun Time Saloon.

This sounds like an awesome story title. :D *fans Michelle*

Awesome saloon title, you mean!

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