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NJCher

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9. that was hilarious! Speaking of the arts and radiators....
Mon Dec 26, 2022, 12:04 AM
Dec 2022

I will have to keep track of this video to show my radiator buddy repairman if he ever comes back.

I loved how they built the "clang clang" of the pipes into the dance routine.

My radiator buddy repairman was someone I called when we first moved into this house decades ago and didn't know anything about radiator heat or how to handle it. So this guy comes over and raves about radiator systems and in particular my natural gas boiler and beautiful black, shiny radiators in every room. He went room to room, checking them and saying radiator heat was the best heating system, etc. He explained all the other heating systems and to hear him tell it, radiators were heaven on earth.

Anyway, he had to come back a few days later with a part, so in the meantime, I went on my literary databases and looked up poems about radiators. I was teaching poetry at the time. i found 11 poems about radiators!

I copied and pasted them into book-like form and gave it to him when he came back. He simply could not believe someone would do something like that for him. We read a few of the poems while he was here and I just knew he was going to treasure that homemade "book."

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