On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:17:15 -0500, cavelamb
wrote:

People lived her for hundreds of years before Mr. Collins figured out his
apparatus for treating the air...

Well this is the 21st Century - or so I'm told. :)

Speaking of which, when I was in the service, we were on manuvers near
Gila Bend, AZ and I ran into a grizzled old Master Sergeant who
claimed that two cups of hot coffee and a table spoon (not a tea spoon
- a table spoon) of powdered cayenne pepper on his breakfast food kept
him cool all day.

The odd thing is, I never saw him sweat once. :)