Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Michael F. Stemper" Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: [ReacTor] "Bad Books", and the Readers That Love Them Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2024 07:40:40 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2024 14:40:41 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="8bb6f09da78f1c3535a4b216f8ebbfcf"; logging-data="2594127"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19yvp3+yo57fbeJZvYzo4KRZJ0iHxyMxjo=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.11.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:sNzJCg1SQDiF9l5hJY30iVvLrik= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2223 On 19/04/2024 16.13, Scott Dorsey wrote: > Robert Woodward wrote: >> In article , >> Christian Weisgerber wrote: >>> "Unusual", of course, is betraying your biased viewpoint. Everybody >>> knows that water is... a rock. >> >> Ahem, a gas - see _Ice World_. > > Water is a liquid except under very unusual circumstances. I know there are > places like "Buffalo" and "Michigan" where water can be seen in solid form > but this is not normal and not to be encountered under conditions capable of > supporting human life. Also it is ruins perfectly good whisky. Beware at > all times of solid water. You have it backwards. I lived in Minnesota for 37 years, and know that 0 C is defined as the temperature at which water temporarily goes into its liquid state. -- Michael F. Stemper Always use apostrophe's and "quotation marks" properly.