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    How To Keep Cool Without Going Broke This Summer
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    07/14/09

    In reply to How To Keep Cool Without Going Broke This Summer
    Sean,



    What is that picture supposed to be? Because from where I sit, it looks like an incredibly obscure sidescrolling video game for the SEGA Genesis based on Fantasy Island.
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    Image of something_unique_and_descriptive something_unique_and_descriptive
    06/23/09

    In reply to How To Keep Cool Without Going Broke This Summer
    For the incredibly broke living in areas where ambient temperature tops 100 degrees there's always the ghetto air conditioner.


    Take a big metal bowl, like a mixing bowl, fill it with ice, some water and then shake some salt over it. Set that in front of a fan... enjoy.


    Also works with coolers.

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    Image of N@tedog N@tedog
    06/23/09

    In reply to How To Keep Cool Without Going Broke This Summer
    Option F)


    Live in an apartment complex where electricity is lumped into rent.


    Bring on the waste!

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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    06/23/09

    In reply to How To Keep Cool Without Going Broke This Summer
    I've found that cooling the house at night, and buttoning the bitch up tight during the day usually keeps it the coolest as the cold air is trapped inside the house rather than incoming warm air doing the same.


    Of course, this doesn't work in all climates...

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    06/23/09

    In reply to How To Keep Cool Without Going Broke This Summer
    One thing to note about installing ceiling fans is that you need to make sure the junction box is attached to a support. This may not be the case if you are using junction boxes for lights. If your house is already pre-wired for ceiling fans then it should be taken care of.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    06/23/09

    @secretoftheeast: There's nothing funnier than a big crystal chandelier falling on the dining table during thanksgiving.
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    Image of Sora57 is OK Sora57 is OK
    06/23/09

    In reply to How To Keep Cool Without Going Broke This Summer
    Yes, nothing says "cool" like fantasy island's diminutive mascot.
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    Image of Ron-Mexico Ron-Mexico
    06/23/09

    @Sora57: Vive la Herve Villechaize!!
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    06/24/09

    @Ron-Mexico: Everytime I hear a stewardess talk about landing and "deplaning" I think of Herve. De plane! De plane!
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    06/23/09

    In reply to How To Keep Cool Without Going Broke This Summer
    I for one welcome the intense summer heat. You hear that FSM? Do your worst!
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    06/23/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Lieutenant Dan! You has magic cooling legs!
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    06/23/09

    In reply to How To Keep Cool Without Going Broke This Summer
    How about getting lawn chairs and spending your vacation in a super market?


    On a serious note wasn't it on Gizmodo where I saw some invention that sprays a fine mist of water over the inlet port of an air conditioning unit, it is supposed to lower the temperature of the air which makes the A/C unit work less.

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    06/23/09

    @My Asian Grandma: Work less as hard to cool the incoming air.
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    06/23/09

    @My Asian Grandma: Isn't that what the Cool-N-Save is in the last paragraph of the Central Air section?
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    06/23/09

    @My Asian Grandma: Nice Married with children refrence!
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    06/23/09

    @BeerManMike: Glad someone got it. That's my favorite episode, especially when they have that shopping spree battle.
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    06/23/09

    @BullLifter: I guess thats a reading FAIL for me.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    06/23/09

    In reply to How To Keep Cool Without Going Broke This Summer
    you said nothing about running around in my birfday suit. it's the bee's knees.
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    06/23/09

    @Nick: hey, look at the shiny thing next to my name.
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    06/23/09

    @Nick -- Look what i got ->: Badass. Except in your reply to yourself, your picture is on the other side, meaning it's pointing at your head. Is your head shiny?
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    Image of Con Seannery Con Seannery
    06/23/09

    @Nick: Damn! I have been denied a shiny thing again. It must be that bastard Trebek!
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    Image of Nick Nick
    06/23/09

    @Chroma3000 is a Californian again: yes, like most geeks i have poor skin.


    /hangs head

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    06/23/09

    @Con Seannery's G1: i don't know where it came from. it's not my birthday, i didn't lose a toof, i didn't notice any religious holidays. it must be magic.
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