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Re: What animals need oiling?

From Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid>
Newsgroups alt.usage.english
Subject Re: What animals need oiling?
Date 2015-12-29 11:49 +1100
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On 2015-Dec-29 07:00, snidely.too@gmail.com wrote:
> On Monday, December 28, 2015 at 4:04:04 AM UTC-8, Janet wrote:

>>   Christmas is the peak period for accidental housefires in UK.
> 
> Nothing to do with cold weather keeping people indoors, 
> consuming convivial spirits and lapses of judgement,
> with oodles of clutter?
> 
> Including candles on the table, 
> often for people who have no other experience with candles?
> 
> Or did housefires have a different peak period 150 years ago?

There's another factor that's changed within my lifetime. My present
house doesn't even have a fireplace. That would have been unthinkable
when I was a child, when a log fire was the primary source of winter
warmth. It was not unusual to see burn marks on the carpet in front of
the fireplace. And if someone should happen to put a tree within
spark-popping distance of the fireplace ...

-- 
Peter Moylan                           http://www.pmoylan.org
Newcastle, NSW, Australia

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What animals need oiling? Harrison Hill <harrisonhill2345@gmail.com> - 2015-12-25 05:48 -0800
  Re: What animals need oiling? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2015-12-26 11:52 +1100
    Re: What animals need oiling? Jack Campin <bogus@purr.demon.co.uk> - 2015-12-26 01:03 +0000
    Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2015-12-25 19:04 -0800
      Re: What animals need oiling? David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-12-25 20:15 -0800
        Re: What animals need oiling? Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2015-12-25 23:26 -0500
          Re: What animals need oiling? Ross <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> - 2015-12-25 23:14 -0800
            Re: What animals need oiling? Janet <nobody@home.org> - 2015-12-26 11:13 +0000
              Re: What animals need oiling? charles <charles@candehope.me.uk> - 2015-12-26 11:55 +0000
              Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2015-12-26 05:38 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? charles <charles@candehope.me.uk> - 2015-12-26 14:13 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2015-12-26 06:48 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? charles <charles@candehope.me.uk> - 2015-12-26 15:28 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Katy Jennison <katy@spamtrap.kjennison.com> - 2015-12-26 15:45 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? charles <charles@candehope.me.uk> - 2015-12-26 15:55 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Paul Wolff <bounceme@two.wolff.co.uk> - 2015-12-27 10:35 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2015-12-29 11:41 +1100
                Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter Duncanson [BrE]" <mail@peterduncanson.net> - 2015-12-29 12:28 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2016-01-02 14:29 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2016-01-03 10:15 +1100
                Re: What animals need oiling? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2016-01-04 11:04 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Harrison Hill <harrisonhill2345@gmail.com> - 2015-12-26 08:08 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? charles <charles@candehope.me.uk> - 2015-12-26 16:41 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> - 2015-12-28 00:36 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? Janet <nobody@home.org> - 2015-12-28 12:03 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? snidely.too@gmail.com - 2015-12-28 12:00 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2015-12-29 11:49 +1100
                Re: What animals need oiling? RH Draney <dadoctah@cox.net> - 2015-12-26 19:00 -0700
                Re: What animals need oiling? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2015-12-29 11:38 +1100
            Re: What animals need oiling? Athel Cornish-Bowden <acornish@imm.cnrs.fr> - 2015-12-26 12:19 +0100
          Re: What animals need oiling? Cheryl <cperkins@mun.ca> - 2015-12-26 07:07 -0330
            Re: What animals need oiling? msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) - 2015-12-26 16:52 -0600
              Re: What animals need oiling? Athel Cornish-Bowden <acornish@imm.cnrs.fr> - 2015-12-27 12:55 +0100
          Re: What animals need oiling? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2016-01-02 14:27 +0000
            Re: What animals need oiling? David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2016-01-02 09:49 -0800
              Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter Duncanson [BrE]" <mail@peterduncanson.net> - 2016-01-02 18:17 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2016-01-02 10:50 -0800
              Re: What animals need oiling? Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2016-01-02 14:17 -0500
                Re: What animals need oiling? Charles Bishop <ctbishop@earthlink.net> - 2016-01-02 15:41 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2016-01-04 11:03 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? RH Draney <dadoctah@cox.net> - 2016-01-04 04:58 -0700
                Re: What animals need oiling? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2016-01-04 13:18 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-04 08:46 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? Janet <nobody@home.org> - 2016-01-04 17:40 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> - 2016-01-04 23:30 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2016-01-05 10:44 +0000
            Re: What animals need oiling? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2016-01-03 10:17 +1100
              Re: What animals need oiling? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2016-01-04 11:04 +0000
        Re: What animals need oiling? pensive hamster <pensive_hamster@hotmail.co.uk> - 2015-12-27 06:47 -0800
          Re: What animals need oiling? Peter Young <pnyoung@ormail.co.uk> - 2015-12-27 16:16 +0000
            Re: What animals need oiling? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2015-12-29 11:58 +1100
              Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2015-12-28 20:18 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2015-12-29 20:16 +1100
                Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2015-12-29 06:57 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? Richard Bollard <richardb@spamt.edu.au> - 2016-01-05 08:43 +1100
                Re: What animals need oiling? richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2015-12-29 15:33 +0000
              Re: What animals need oiling? Charles Bishop <ctbishop@earthlink.net> - 2015-12-29 19:24 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? bill van <billvan@delete.shaw.ca> - 2015-12-29 20:57 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? Charles Bishop <ctbishop@earthlink.net> - 2015-12-30 10:29 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2015-12-31 12:08 +1100
                Re: What animals need oiling? Charles Bishop <ctbishop@earthlink.net> - 2015-12-30 18:18 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? CDB <bellemarecd@gmail.com> - 2015-12-31 08:32 -0500
                Re: What animals need oiling? Richard Bollard <richardb@spamt.edu.au> - 2016-01-05 09:21 +1100
                Re: What animals need oiling? CDB <bellemarecd@gmail.com> - 2016-01-04 20:44 -0500
                Re: What animals need oiling? ErrolC <Errolgc@hotmail.com> - 2016-01-06 00:52 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? CDB <bellemarecd@gmail.com> - 2016-01-06 16:30 -0500
      Re: What animals need oiling? bill van <billvan@delete.shaw.ca> - 2015-12-26 00:09 -0800
    Re: What animals need oiling? Katy Jennison <katy@spamtrap.kjennison.com> - 2015-12-26 09:54 +0000
    Re: What animals need oiling? "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2015-12-26 16:35 +0000
  Re: What animals need oiling? Dingbat <ranjit_mathews@yahoo.com> - 2015-12-26 00:10 -0800
    Re: What animals need oiling? Harrison Hill <harrisonhill2345@gmail.com> - 2015-12-26 01:11 -0800
      Re: What animals need oiling? Katy Jennison <katy@spamtrap.kjennison.com> - 2015-12-26 12:16 +0000
        Re: What animals need oiling? Harrison Hill <harrisonhill2345@gmail.com> - 2015-12-26 06:51 -0800
          Re: What animals need oiling? Katy Jennison <katy@spamtrap.kjennison.com> - 2015-12-26 15:27 +0000
            Re: What animals need oiling? charles <charles@candehope.me.uk> - 2015-12-26 15:31 +0000
              Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2015-12-26 12:03 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? Harrison Hill <harrisonhill2345@gmail.com> - 2015-12-26 14:14 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> - 2015-12-26 23:31 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Richard Bollard <richardb@spamt.edu.au> - 2016-01-05 09:23 +1100
                Re: What animals need oiling? Katy Jennison <katy@spamtrap.kjennison.com> - 2016-01-05 17:26 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 13:41 -0500
                Re: What animals need oiling? the Omrud <usenet.omrud@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 18:46 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Janet <nobody@home.org> - 2016-01-05 19:40 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter Duncanson [BrE]" <mail@peterduncanson.net> - 2016-01-05 22:35 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Katy Jennison <katy@spamtrap.kjennison.com> - 2016-01-05 21:47 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 23:44 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 23:47 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2016-01-06 13:48 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Katy Jennison <katy@spamtrap.kjennison.com> - 2016-01-06 16:19 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2016-01-07 09:12 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Katy Jennison <katy@spamtrap.kjennison.com> - 2015-12-26 22:20 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? GordonD <g.davie@btinternet.com> - 2015-12-27 10:51 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2016-01-04 10:53 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Richard Bollard <richardb@spamt.edu.au> - 2016-01-05 09:24 +1100
                Re: What animals need oiling? Robin Bignall <docrobin@ntlworld.com> - 2016-01-04 22:51 +0000
            Re: What animals need oiling? Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2015-12-26 10:43 -0500
              Re: What animals need oiling? Katy Jennison <katy@spamtrap.kjennison.com> - 2015-12-26 19:21 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2015-12-26 15:38 -0500
                Re: What animals need oiling? David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-12-26 13:19 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman@yahoo.com> - 2015-12-27 09:10 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2015-12-27 12:17 -0500
                Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter Duncanson [BrE]" <mail@peterduncanson.net> - 2015-12-27 18:12 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> - 2015-12-27 18:15 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? RH Draney <dadoctah@cox.net> - 2015-12-27 14:01 -0700
                Re: What animals need oiling? David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-12-27 13:14 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? pensive hamster <pensive_hamster@hotmail.co.uk> - 2015-12-27 17:42 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-12-28 02:24 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter Duncanson [BrE]" <mail@peterduncanson.net> - 2015-12-28 10:54 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Janet <nobody@home.org> - 2015-12-28 11:53 +0000
              Re: What animals need oiling? "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2015-12-27 00:28 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2015-12-29 12:04 +1100
                Re: What animals need oiling? Jack Campin <bogus@purr.demon.co.uk> - 2015-12-29 01:43 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? RH Draney <dadoctah@cox.net> - 2015-12-28 20:44 -0700
                Re: What animals need oiling? Bertel Lund Hansen <gadekryds@lundhansen.dk> - 2015-12-29 09:28 +0100
                Re: What animals need oiling? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2016-01-04 13:17 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? snidely.too@gmail.com - 2015-12-28 18:03 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2015-12-29 21:47 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? GordonD <g.davie@btinternet.com> - 2015-12-31 09:53 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-12-30 16:43 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2015-12-30 13:13 -0500
                Re: What animals need oiling? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2015-12-29 14:16 +0100
                Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2015-12-29 07:00 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? Cheryl <cperkins@mun.ca> - 2015-12-29 11:37 -0330
                Re: What animals need oiling? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2015-12-29 21:41 +0100
                Re: What animals need oiling? Charles Bishop <ctbishop@earthlink.net> - 2015-12-29 19:21 -0800
          Re: What animals need oiling? charles <charles@candehope.me.uk> - 2015-12-26 15:28 +0000
          Re: What animals need oiling? CDB <bellemarecd@gmail.com> - 2015-12-26 10:31 -0500
            Re: What animals need oiling? Harrison Hill <harrisonhill2345@gmail.com> - 2015-12-26 11:33 -0800
              Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2015-12-26 12:05 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-12-26 12:20 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2015-12-26 12:44 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? Dingbat <ranjit_mathews@yahoo.com> - 2015-12-27 23:54 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2015-12-28 14:22 +0100
                Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2015-12-28 06:20 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2015-12-28 18:49 +0100
                Re: What animals need oiling? David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-12-28 10:29 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman@yahoo.com> - 2015-12-29 10:42 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-12-29 11:03 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? Athel Cornish-Bowden <acornish@imm.cnrs.fr> - 2015-12-30 19:22 +0100
                Re: What animals need oiling? Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman@yahoo.com> - 2015-12-31 07:19 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter Duncanson [BrE]" <mail@peterduncanson.net> - 2015-12-29 20:00 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman@yahoo.com> - 2015-12-31 07:16 -0800
                Re: What animals need oiling? msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) - 2016-01-01 23:22 -0600
                Re: What animals need oiling? musika <mUs1Ka@NOSPAMexcite.com> - 2015-12-29 21:14 +0000
                Re: What animals need oiling? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2015-12-29 12:08 +1100
                Re: What animals need oiling? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2015-12-29 14:16 +0100
                Re: What animals need oiling? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2016-01-04 10:56 +0000
              Re: What animals need oiling? RH Draney <dadoctah@cox.net> - 2015-12-26 19:03 -0700
  Re: What animals need oiling? Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> - 2015-12-28 00:21 -0800
    Re: What animals need oiling? Harrison Hill <harrisonhill2345@gmail.com> - 2015-12-28 12:30 -0800
      Re: What animals need oiling? pensive hamster <pensive_hamster@hotmail.co.uk> - 2015-12-28 15:52 -0800
        Re: What animals need oiling? "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2015-12-28 20:13 -0800
          Re: What animals need oiling? pensive hamster <pensive_hamster@hotmail.co.uk> - 2015-12-30 11:31 -0800
        Re: What animals need oiling? Janet <nobody@home.org> - 2015-12-29 12:11 +0000
          Re: What animals need oiling? pensive hamster <pensive_hamster@hotmail.co.uk> - 2015-12-29 08:11 -0800
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