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To: Swordmaker
Bradbury named Fahrenheit 415 from the kindling temperature of paper, 415º F.

Nope, it's 451º F.

760 posted on 04/27/2018 3:09:22 PM PDT by pa_dweller (When we're truly living in 'Idiocracy' will we know it?)
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To: pa_dweller; smoky415
Nope, it's 451º F.

Damn! You’re right! Now that you point it out, my synapses clicked and readjusted. My phenomenal memory is losing its phenomenal! I did pull up Guy Montag though. ROTFLMAO!

The data’s in there but somebody who’s been using the card index for almost seventy years, I wonder who, has been mis-filing cards. . . Damn him. . . Whoever he is. . . Wish I could call up his name. . . Sword, something or other. . .

1,208 posted on 04/27/2018 9:04:40 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
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