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I hab a cold ib by dose. I'mb dot likig it bery buch, and look forward to gettig homb and drinkig a dice hod glass ob rub or whisky with hondey and lebod (or limbe) juice.
De only probleb is dat whed I get homb, I wand to go to bed and not hab to get ub agaid. Howeber, mby hot toddy will get code
if I don't find a probber way ov keepig it warmb.
So, to solve the probleb, ibagid a cup of steabig hod toddy, ibto which is placed a sball, pill sized, sealed and water activated fuel cell.
The fuel cell will imbpart heat ibto the surroudig liquid, keepig it warmb, and allowig be to stay in bed, drinkig as buch as I wand.
By de way, de cadegory is the obbosite ov whad I bean.
My sympathies for your cold...
Self_20heating_20sake_20cup ...but I've been there before [normzone, Oct 13 2005]
Hot Toddy
http://www.webtender.com/db/drink/4031 The recipie suggests brandy, though whisky or rum would do just as well. [zen_tom, Oct 13 2005]
The Hot Toddys Made
Hottoddysmade Use one of these [zen_tom]? [jonthegeologist, Oct 14 2005]
Hod
http://www2.willard...images/r08_0782.jpg [calum, Oct 14 2005]
Doddy
http://www.bbc.co.u...dd_main_350x250.jpg I wish I had photoshop at work. [calum, Oct 14 2005]
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Is your cold making your keybord stuffy? It sounds like a good idea, but I don't think the notion of it would be worth wasting the energy to try to dechiper this text. Also, I would have liked to see you try to say "water activated fuel cell" with a cold but I see you saved yourself the trouble. |
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There are extant better ways to heat a teddy. |
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If the fuel cell is reacting to the water, wouldn't the fuel be seeping into the water? And I'm sorry if I was born on the wrong continent, but what is a toddy? |
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The fuel cell doesn't react to the water, it is activated *by* the water. Imaginge a sealed, short circuiting battery. |
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A toddy is a hot, alcoholic drink, like a grown-up lemsip, only with more feely-good warmth-inducement, and less actual medicine - see link. |
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Heh. Ive always called it a totty. I thought you were using ds to give it a stuffy sound. |
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Some very hot water
Some honey
Some lemon juice
A lot of brandy
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Mix all ingredients to taste
Continue to serve until several days after the affliction is cured |
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I've seen something like that here on the wrong continent but it was made from tea, not brandy. |
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I'm sure your version is more interesting. |
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Wouldn't a thermos flask do just as well? Puzzled. |
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I have also just recovered from a v. nasty cold and sympathise. |
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Oh, and it's whisky, all right? Not brandy. |
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That's what I ended up using last night - into my thermos, I put:
hot chinese tea
whole lime, squozen
3-5 cloves
a blob of honey
3-4 shots of Black Rum
And it went down a treat, staying warm in my thermos for as long as it took for me to remain concious. |
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Hot totty in a teddy would cheer me up. [zen_tob] I hobe you get bedder sood - you hab by symbady |
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[see link]... there, that any better? |
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Oooh, thanks John! Every home should have a HotToddysmaid. It's evidently a widespread problem that requires addressing. I think the Hottoddysmaid is more luxurious, than my 'lite' version, but mine could still be used by business travellers or those of no fixed abode. |
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