Everyday items come to rescue if Jan.1 leaves us in the dark. http://www.denverpost.com/life/makeshift1207.htm

-- a lurker (someone@somewhere.com), December 08, 1999

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http://www.denverpost.com/life/makeshift1207.htm

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Mike

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-- Michael Taylor (mtdesign3@aol.com), December 08, 1999.

Wow, thanks, that was really thought provoking. But BURNING toilet paper? How desparate would you have to be...? :)

-- Servant (public_service@yahoo.com), December 08, 1999.

Article says, "If food supplies run low and the stores are closed, she recommends scouting one's yard for edible plants - such as the leaves of common mullein, which can...be used to make tea."

Wow. That suggestion entails one heck of a polly-paradigm shift.

-- silver ion (eatingtheb@ckyard.eh), December 08, 1999.

Servant -- You burn the toilet paper AFTER use! :-)

-- A (A@AisA.com), December 08, 1999.

From: Y2K, ` la Carte by Dancr (pic), near Monterey, California

And because the bottom of the can stays cool, it can be placed on a car's transmission hump or any other level surface where the flame won't set anything else afire.

That seems to me as though it would be especially prone to being accidentally kicked over.

-- Dancr (addy.available@my.webpage), December 08, 1999.