# NYC ties 1933 record temp. Rush bitches about too much A/C. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 2, 2006, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-ties-1933-record-temp-rush-bitches-about-too-much-a-c/366972 "2006-08-02T04:02:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-ties-1933-record-temp-rush-bitches-about-too-much-a-c/366972/1 "2006-08-02T04:02:46Z")
Of all the overstuffed blowhards hauling ass around super-heated Midtown Manhattan tomorrow in their usual dark power suits and boring neckties, I really hope that Rush Limbaugh is the only one who keels over clammy and glassy-eyed from heat exhaustion. See, New York tied the record high of 100°for this day, set in 1933. This prompted Limbaugh to [blogrant](http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_080106/content/cutting_edge.guest.html) not only about how the sensible people of the '30s didn’t believe in all this eyewash about global warming, but that _too many people today have access to air conditioning,_ and it has made the nation namby-pamby and weak. Obviously, the kwityerbitchin conservative crowd is totally deaf to irony if they can bellyache about too many people “expecting comfort” in the air-cooled 21st century. Up yours with a rectal thermometer, Rush. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-ties-1933-record-temp-rush-bitches-about-too-much-a-c/366972/2 "2006-08-02T04:04:27Z")
Jeez. That guy needs to take a pill or something. What? ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-ties-1933-record-temp-rush-bitches-about-too-much-a-c/366972/3 "2006-08-02T04:09:23Z")
It’s just a lame attack on the idea of global warming. If it got this hot in 1933 then high temps are nothing new. If they are nothing new, then there is no global warming. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-ties-1933-record-temp-rush-bitches-about-too-much-a-c/366972/4 "2006-08-02T04:13:28Z")
I presume Rush was blogging from his non-air conditioned lower east side tenement? ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-ties-1933-record-temp-rush-bitches-about-too-much-a-c/366972/5 "2006-08-02T07:07:02Z")
Oh but he made _damned_ sure he was comfortable avoiding the heat … decades ago by avoiding going to Vietnam - or even the military for that matter. Heck, that pilinoidal cyst prevented him from showing what a true patriot he might have been. :rolleyes: He is cordially invited to go fuck himself. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-ties-1933-record-temp-rush-bitches-about-too-much-a-c/366972/6 "2006-08-02T12:35:58Z")
Hey, I work in West Palm Beach now, maybe I should stop by his home after work and disconnect his A/C. ---
**Author:** ![FisherQueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@FisherQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FisherQueen)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-ties-1933-record-temp-rush-bitches-about-too-much-a-c/366972/7 "2006-08-02T13:44:44Z")
I’m sure the people who have died in this heat wave would appreciate the validity of his argument, if they weren’t, you know, DEAD. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-ties-1933-record-temp-rush-bitches-about-too-much-a-c/366972/8 "2006-08-02T14:25:36Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > Hey, I work in West Palm Beach now, maybe I should stop by his home after work and disconnect his A/C. No, just send him back to 1933. He’ll feel far more comfortable there, without all this modern air-conditioning. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-ties-1933-record-temp-rush-bitches-about-too-much-a-c/366972/9 "2006-08-02T14:34:00Z")
Is anybody else reminded of the story of the frog in the pot of water? You know, it’s sitting in cool water with the burner set very, very low and doesn’t realize it’s being boiled to death because the rise in temperature is so gradual? Yeah, I’m picturing Rush sitting in a frog-squat in his air conditioned studio denying the stove is on. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-ties-1933-record-temp-rush-bitches-about-too-much-a-c/366972/10 "2006-08-02T14:57:23Z")
> [@wolf\_meister](#): > > Oh but he made _damned_ sure he was comfortable avoiding the heat … decades ago by avoiding going to Vietnam - or even the military for that matter. Heck, that pilinoidal cyst prevented him from showing what a true patriot he might have been. :rolleyes: > He is cordially invited to go fuck himself. :mad: my pilonidal cyst objects to this usage. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-ties-1933-record-temp-rush-bitches-about-too-much-a-c/366972/11 "2006-08-02T15:12:13Z")
Rush is probably so high on oxycontin that he wouldn’t notice if he was being roasted on a spit, unless you tried to put an apple in his mouth, which of course would keep him from hearing the one thing he loves above all else – the sound of his own voice. ---
**Author:** ![Stringer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Stringer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stringer)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-ties-1933-record-temp-rush-bitches-about-too-much-a-c/366972/12 "2006-08-02T15:15:44Z")
> [@Evil Captor](#): > > Rush is probably so high on oxycontin that he wouldn’t notice if he was being roasted on a spit, unless you tried to put an apple in his mouth, which of course would keep him from hearing the one thing he loves above all else – the sound of his own voice. Isn’t he almost deaf now? ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-ties-1933-record-temp-rush-bitches-about-too-much-a-c/366972/13 "2006-08-02T15:22:26Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > No, just send him back to 1933. He’ll feel far more comfortable there, without all this modern air-conditioning. He’d have trouble matching [Father Coughlin](http://info.detnews.com/history/story/index.cfm?id=43&category=people)’s action, though. ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-ties-1933-record-temp-rush-bitches-about-too-much-a-c/366972/14 "2006-08-02T18:45:52Z")
As a matter of fact there was a period in the early to mid 1930/2 when it was hot as hell, and dusty too from a severe and prolonged drought. And, if Rush would check further, people died because of it. When I first heard Limbaugh I was convinced that he was a satirist. Then I realized-he means it. ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-ties-1933-record-temp-rush-bitches-about-too-much-a-c/366972/15 "2006-08-02T18:48:21Z")
> [@David Simmons](#): > > As a matter of fact there was a period in the early to mid 1930/2 when it was hot as hell, and dusty too from a severe and prolonged drought. And, if Rush would check further, people died because of it. > > When I first heard Limbaugh I was convinced that he was a satirist. Then I realized-he means it. No need to preview a post this short, right? Change the underlined to 1930’s ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-ties-1933-record-temp-rush-bitches-about-too-much-a-c/366972/16 "2006-08-02T20:23:18Z")
Ah, so they’re _1930’s_ Style Death Droughts? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![athelas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@athelas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/athelas)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-ties-1933-record-temp-rush-bitches-about-too-much-a-c/366972/17 "2006-08-02T20:24:25Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Is anybody else reminded of the story of the frog in the pot of water? You know, it’s sitting in cool water with the burner set very, very low and doesn’t realize it’s being boiled to death because the rise in temperature is so gradual? You do realize that that’s untrue, right? Just because they’re cold blooded doesn’t mean they have no temperature sensors. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-ties-1933-record-temp-rush-bitches-about-too-much-a-c/366972/18 "2006-08-02T20:31:11Z")
> [@micahjn](#): > > Isn’t he almost deaf now? Makes him the perfect symbol of his party. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-ties-1933-record-temp-rush-bitches-about-too-much-a-c/366972/19 "2006-08-02T21:16:28Z")
Read about the worst of those Thirties heat waves [here](http://info.detnews.com/history/story/index.cfm?id=134&category=life). If you look up all-time record highs for your locality, chances are very good they’ll date to one month: July, 1936. Detroit was the hardest hit in human terms, with 364 people dead in _one week._ Across North America the total was _6,000._ Think about it a moment. A/C nonexistent except in places you had to spend money in - theaters and a few big stores. A simple table fan a luxury for many. The old icebox still the rule for most. Dressy clothing (by today’s standards) almost everywhere you went. Work days longer, manual work harder, bosses harder, and little understanding for heat exhaustion. Sleep - impossible. Imagine farming in North Dakota. 16 hours a day or better of backbreaking work with no electricity for fans or fridges, only a pump for water, and hardly a tree for shade. North Dakota set the record among records that July: 121°. In the sunshine, where you worked, it might have been 150° or hotter. In this country only Death Valley has ever bested that kind of heat. Conditions like these are what Rush would like us to return to. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-ties-1933-record-temp-rush-bitches-about-too-much-a-c/366972/20 "2006-08-02T23:17:39Z")
> [@athelas](#): > > You do realize that that’s untrue, right? Just because they’re cold blooded doesn’t mean they have no temperature sensors. Yes, which is why I called it a ‘story’. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-ties-1933-record-temp-rush-bitches-about-too-much-a-c/366972.md?page=2)