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Welcome to October.
As we enter Autumn we are reminded of how much we appreciate all of your participation each month. We created this newsletter to provide a bit of fun and five minutes of escape each month.
Your responses to the quizzes and the materials in the newsletter really inspire us to make it better and more fun - and readable. We'd be happy to entertain any suggestions and again - thank you for being loyal Daniels Energy customers.
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In case you missed these equations, or have (and we can’t imagine that you did) forgotten them, here are all the really important ones. Enjoy? | |
The Answer to the, "Why?" | |
You know that you'll be asked this about why the leaves change color. Here's your crib sheet. | |
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You decide.
19 Old-Timey Slang Terms to Bolster Your Vocabulary
In the ketchup: Operating at a deficit
John Hollowlegs: A hungry man [hobo use]
Lobbygow: One who loafs around an opium den in hopes of being offered a free pipe
Happy cabbage: A sizable amount of money to be spent on self-satisfying things
Zib: A nondescript nincompoop
Give someone the wind: To jilt a suitor with great suddenness
The zings: A hangover
Butter and egg man: A wealthy, unsophisticated, small-town businessman who tries to become a playboy, especially when visiting a large city
Cluck and grunt: Eggs and ham
Off the cob: Corny
Dog robber: A baseball umpire
Happies: Arch supporters [shoe salesman use]
High-wine: A mixture of grain alcohol and Coca-Cola [hobo use]
Flub the dub: To evade one’s duty
Donkey’s breakfast: A straw mattress
George Eddy: A customer who does not tip
Wet sock: A limp, flaccid handshake
Gazoozle: To cheat
On a toot: On a drunken spree
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There’s a $25 Amazon gift card burning a hole in our pocket. We’ll send it for the best caption of this photo. You can suggest something from the woman or from that fabulous leopard. Send it here and we’ll run it next month!
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Still have a Betamax?
How about an 8-track player, floppy disks, or a Commodore 64 computer?
You’ve probably upgraded all of those things – but have you upgraded your home?
Have you upgraded your insulation, added a propane-powered generator or thought about using propane for the pool, fire-pit or a sparkling new fireplace?
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If your family’s growing, kids have moved back in, you’ve invited the in-laws to live in the new space over the garage and you need to supplement your heating with new propane system – now’s the time to call Daniels.
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The Carolingian dynasty was a Frankish noble family named after Charlemagne, grandson of Charles Martel and descendant of the Arnulfing and Pippinid clans of the 7th century AD.
The dynasty consolidated its power in the 8th century, reaching its peak in 800 with the crowning of Charlemagne, as the first Emperor of Romans in the West in over three centuries.
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Above is a Carolingian-era diagram showing the division of the week into seven days and days into hours, quarter-hours, tenths of an hour, and fortieths of an hour.
The Carolingian Renaissance quickly faded because of Viking attacks and the division of Charlemagne’s empire.
Typical Vikings; ruin everything.
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By 1914, Albert Einstein's marriage to his wife of 11 years, Mileva Marić, was fast deteriorating.
Realizing there was no hope for their relationship on a romantic level, Einstein proposed that they remain together for the sake of their children, but only if she agree to the following list of conditions.
Mileva accepted them, but to no avail. A few months later, she left her husband in Berlin and moved, with their sons, to Zurich.
They eventually divorced in 1919, having lived apart for five years. (Source: Einstein: His Life and Universe; Image: Mileva Marić & Albert Einstein)
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CONDITIONS
A. You will make sure:
- that my clothes and laundry are kept in good order;
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that I will receive my three meals regularly in my room;
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that my bedroom and study are kept neat, especially that my desk is left for my use only.
B. You will renounce all personal relations with me insofar as they are not completely necessary for social reasons. Specifically, you will forego:
- my sitting alone with you;
- my going out or travelling with you.
C. You will obey the following points in your relations with me:
- you will not expect any intimacy from me, not will you reproach me in any way;
- you still stop talking to me if I request it;
- you will leave my bedroom, or study immediately without protest if I request it.
D. You will undertake not to belittle me in front of our children, either through words or behavior.
Whoa.
I wonder if I suggested to my spouse that….wait. No.
Bad idea.
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Cost For Fuel Oil for 10 Years | |
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Assume 800 gallons to heat a 2200 sq. ft. home
Assume average heating oil cost at $2.99 per gallon.*
Assume 40% reduction in heating oil usage = 320 gallons saved each year.
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Equates to a reduction of oil cost of
$956.80 each year
$79.73 on average per mo.
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*Avg, home heating retail prices over 11 years 3/09-3/20 was $2.999 per U.S. Energy Information. See below. Savings shown up to 40%. 0.99% for 120 months through EnergizeCT. Limitations apply. For illustration only, example does not include any additional installation costs such as chimney liner, if needed. Choice of system, availability of financing and down payment will affect final monthly cost. See Daniels representative for complete details. CT License S1-385517
HOD#19 / Daniels Propane. LLC: CT License S1-302857
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Where are we? No, "we’re lost" is not an answer. We need a location and we will happily provide a $25 Amazon gift card for the correct answer. Tell us here.
Last month Helen S. and 44 others correctly identified Inigo Montoya’s line, “My name is…prepare to die,” while Maureen M. and Russ H. and a record 87 of you identified the late, lamented astronomer Carl Sagan. Thank you all for playing - every month.
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I don’t do crossword puzzles.
Not good at them.
She Who Must Be Obeyed – loves them and told me about this NY Times puzzle from Election Day – Nov. 5,1996 5,1996. Here it is below:
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The special clue is the one cutting across the center of the grid - 39 (+43): It asked: Lead story in tomorrow's newspaper (!)
The answer to the central clue corresponds with two 7-letter spaces. Naturally, the lead story in the next day's newspaper would be about the result of the election. The checking letters for 39 worked out as:
39 Black Halloween animal CAT
40 French 101 word LUI
41 Provider of support, for short IRA
23 Sewing shop purchase YARN
27 Short writings BITS
35 Trumpet BOAST
42 Much-debated political inits. NRA
The solution stood like this, then:
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Lead story in tomorrow's newspaper (!):
CLINTON ELECTED
BUT at the time the crossword was published, the election result had not been declared. There were loud protests from solvers – was NYT being so presumptuous as to predict the result?
What they did not realize was that another group of solvers were sniggering over NYT's massive faux pas, for they had answered the same clue as BOB DOLE ELECTED.
The beauty of this puzzle is that there are two possible solutions. The clues for the crossing words are deliberately ambiguous and allow a completely different set of valid answers. So, if you answered the crossing clues like this:
39 Black Halloween animal BAT
40 French 101 word OUI
41 Provider of support, for short BRA
23 Sewing shop purchase YARD
27 Short writings BIOS
35 Trumpet BLAST
42 Much-debated political inits. ERA
You would get this solution:
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Lead story in tomorrow's newspaper (!):
BOB DOLE ELECTED
Very few solvers at the time realized that a solution different from theirs was possible. Of course…SWMBO – knew. Typical!
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Some of us are follically-challenged. Finally there is something on the horizon in Kansas that can really be of use. Huzzah for corn silk. | |
To read the description of any of the books shown above more easily click on any book's thumbnail image. | |
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Reflection The Leaf – 1897 by Elizabeth Adela Forbes
“Come, little leaves," said the Wind one day,
"Come to the meadows with me and play.
Put on your dresses of red and gold;
For Summer is past, and the days grow cold.”
George Cooper
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Trying to figure out how many gallons of fuel oil you will use this season can be tricky. There Many different factors contribute to that number. So we thought we’d try to give you some guidelines.
Home Size
The average home in the Northeast is approximately 2300 square feet. Yours may be 500-600 smaller or larger. For the sake of this discussion let’s use 2000 sq. ft.
Temperature
Based on an average temperature of 35 degrees outside we can calculate approx. 4.5 gallons needed to warm a house to 70 degrees.
Furnace
For this example we assume your furnace is in good working order and has been serviced at least once in the last 18 months.
Hot Water
If you are using oil to heat your home’s hot water that can add .5 to 1.0 gallon more depending on number of showers, baths, washes etc. We’ll use half-gallon more.
Calculations
So you normally would need approximately 4.5 gallons per day to provide heat to provide the heat needed. Add the homes hot water and you get to approx. 5 gallons per day.
That’s 150 gallons in a month or – with an average tank size of 275 – 50+/- days of fuel in a full tank. Your home size, inside temperature, number of people living in the house and the efficiency of your system will all influence the final number. We hope this helps you plan.
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Just who might this be? If you think you know, tell us here and you may be receiving a shiny new $25 Amazon gift card. And that's the bottom line. | |
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You’ve got 31 days to read one or three of these nerve-shattering, terrifying, bogeyman-inducing classic (short) horror stories.
Or watch Mary Poppins. Talk about terrifying.
The Whole Town’s Sleeping by Ray Bradbury
The Veldt by Ray Bradbury
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A female crimson sunbird bathes in a banana flower petal in West Bengal. Photo taken by Mousan Ray and is the 2021 Bird Photographer of the Year.
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Kiss of Death in Barcelona’s Poblenou Cemetery
Commissioned by the Llaudet family after their son died at 22, the epitaph bears famous verses by one of Catalan’s greatest poets, Jacint Verdaguer:
“And his young heart can not help;
in his veins the blood stops and freezes
and encouragement lost faith embraces
fall feeling the kiss of death”
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