# How Hot Was It? **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 4, 2020, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-was-it/917223 "2020-08-04T06:11:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Grestarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grestarian/32/3227_2.png) [@Grestarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grestarian)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2020, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-was-it/917223/1 "2020-08-04T06:11:05Z")
Okay so I know I’ve already got a thread game in flight (and doing surprisingly well, I must admit) right now, but two things occurred the other day that I don’t want to let slide by. 1. While on a teleconference call the other night, one of the attendees remarked that the day had been a record-breaker, beating the highest temperature recorded for that particular day, a record that had stood for thirty-four years. 2. Because tons of ancient conversations have been resurrected subsequent to our move to the Discourse platform, I stumbled on a thread game that was a couple years old, titled “How cold was it?” Well, this is the natural counterpart, for which I’ll start: - The billows of steam coming off the surface of my pool made the nearby rose bush wilt. - While trying to cool off, the cat was diving into the pool – pretty good twists and somersaults, too! - Not only was it so hot that I was frying eggs on the sidewalk\* in the afternoon, but Mr. Jones from next door was making blackened rib-eye steaks on the asphalt! Your turn! –G! \*Well, not directly. We laid out a strip of aluminum foil and weighted the ends down with blocks of wood. Then I waited ten minutes and dropped a pat of butter on the foil. A minute later I cracked and fried an egg on the buttered surface! Well now, they call me the breeze I keep blowin’ down the road …–Ronnie Van Zant (Lynrd Skynrd) …_Call Me the Breeze_ …[written by J.J. Cale] …Second Helping ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2020, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-was-it/917223/2 "2020-08-04T07:47:38Z")
I heard this today: “It’s so hot when you walk outside your hair catches on fire” I thought it was funny. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2020, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-was-it/917223/3 "2020-08-04T10:46:14Z")
> **[Australian man roasts 4lbs of pork in old car in near 40 degree weather](https://metro.co.uk/video/australian-man-roasts-4lbs-pork-old-car-near-40-degree-weather-2071828/?ito=vjs-link)** > > The heatwave inspired the Perth resident to see if it's possible to cook a pork roast inside his Datsun on a 39-degree day. It was. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2020, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-was-it/917223/4 "2020-08-04T12:11:05Z")
It’s so hot I saw a funeral procession pull through a Dairy Queen. ---
**Author:** ![Grestarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grestarian/32/3227_2.png) [@Grestarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grestarian)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2020, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-was-it/917223/5 "2020-08-24T06:36:41Z")
Ice cubes were melting so fast that they just skipped the water phase and billowed away as steam – and it was midnight! –G! ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2020, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-was-it/917223/6 "2020-08-24T11:30:40Z")
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