02-11-2022, 08:57 PM
(02-11-2022, 05:27 AM)Rboe_imp Wrote: That is an advantage to living in a very cold climate. Gas does not go south on you like it does in the hot south.
If you remember high school chemistry; chemical reactions are accelerated with heat. You want to put a stop to chemical reactions; freeze things up.
But perhaps I shoulda led with "how many of you remember high school?"
You shoulda. My answer would be 'not very well'.
One of the things I do remember involves Chemistry, at which I was not very good, although I did manage to pass what was said to have been one of the hardest final exams set to that time.
Some years later I was talking to to a young fellow doing his final year of school. He told me he was studying chemistry under the same bloke who had taught me.
Then he said, "You must be the Cormanus the teacher mentioned to us."
"What on earth for?" I asked.
"He told us about the Cormanus Theory of Multiple Choice."
"Did he? What's that?" I asked, bemused. I'd never heard of it.
"Apparently if you're in a multiple choice exam and don't know any of the answers, you draw a pattern with your answers and you should pass."