"Duke of URL" <macbenahATkdsiDOTnet> wrote in message
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> In news:buspvu$m39s2$1@ID-101276.news.uni-berlin.de,
> Ryan Ginstrom <ginstrom@hotmail.com> radiated into the WorldWideWait:
> > "Madra Dubh" <ccaine@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
> > news:OUaQb.93734$6y6.1881071@bgtnsc05-
>
> >> Thank God you guys are wise enough to avoid charcoal braziers.
> >> They worked well enough when homes were more than a bit drafty but
> >> with modern construction............
> >> I still remember sitting around a table placed over a pit in which
> >> charcoal was burning, the table having a quilt over it.
> >> We stuck our legs into the pit and covered our legs with the edges
> >> of the quilt. It was warm,
> >
> > Yes, the kotatsu with the charcoal braziers (hibachi) have
> > thankfully gone the way of the dodo. They still have kotatsu, but
> > now they have electric heaters bolted to the underside of the
> > tabletop.
> > They are quite warm and cozy. The problem is when you have to go to
> > the bathroom -- the rest of the house is an icebox.
>
> Well, if you'd quit building houses with those silly paper walls...
>
Those walls come in handy when the earth quakes begin.