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Posted by Jim Yanik on September 17, 2006, 1:42 pm
maradcliff@UNLISTED.com wrote in
> I really wish people would stop saying a light is burning.
>
> The light is TURNED ON.
> It's NOT BURNING....
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> I once heard that some guy called the fire department because someone
> told him his porch light was burning. Whether this is true or not, I
> donrt know, but I dont doubt its true considering how stupid some
> people are, but that term "light is burning" is really assenine. If
> it was burning there would be flames.
>
> Mark
>
Watch a charcoal grill in action;the coals -burn-,yet there is no flame.
Rust is slow-burning iron.VERY slow.
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Jim Yanik
jyanik
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kua.net
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