It's so cold, and the furnace is running so much, that I put the tea kettle on the store to boil some water. I have no tea (sorry Ben), but oddly enough I do have a tea kettle.A little later, I heard a smoke alarm go off -- a continuous wailing. I checked all the smoke alarms in the house and garage and found them all silent.
It was that stupid tea kettle. It has a whistle built into its snout. Dogs in Clevelnad probably heard it. That annoyance aside, the boiling water did raise the humidity in here to a tolerable level.
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Being a Brit if i don't drink at least 8 cups of tea a day i go deranged like a crackhead without a rock. I once had a kettle with no whistle then forgot it was on the stove. The next thing i know i smell smoke (I live dangerously with no smoke alarm , what a risk thrill!) Anyway , the plastic handle melted all down the side of the kettle and onto the stove. It was like hot tar and wouldn't budge. When it had cooled down it took me hours hacking away with a chisel to get the damn stuff off the cooker. The kettle was history , i now brew my tea-bag in the cup.
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Note to fellow Americans: British tea has about the same amount of caffeine as a can of Coca-Cola.
Graham -- You're talking at a guy who set fire to his underwear in a microwave, so I understand how these things can happen.
I have really bad teeth
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That's because the dentist spends all his time working on Ben
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