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JackintheGreen

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7. There's an episode of the BBC comedy, Black Books

Reply to cthulu2016 (Reply #4)

Fri Jan 20, 2012, 02:52 PM

Jan 2012

in which they're complaining about the incredible heat. The central plot of the ep is that if the temperature goes above 88 degrees* something terrible will happen to Manny. 88 degrees? That's a fall day where I'm from.

* I don't know why the temp is given in Fahrenheit

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