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- From: jeff@triryche.UU.NET (Jeff Snider)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.naked-guy
- Subject: Re: What about the Naked Guy?
- Date: 23 Nov 1992 23:43:32 GMT
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- In article <1epaasINNsp6@agate.berkeley.edu>, faustus@ygdrasil.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Wayne A. Christopher) writes:
-
- |> Well, two things come to mind... You would have to be very well
- |> endowed and/or easily excitable to be likely to, uh, injure yourself
- |> in a revolving door. Also, we don't have them out here (revolving
- |> doors, that is), because the climate doesn't make heavy-duty air
- |> conditioning necessary. (Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the
- |> reason for revolving doors is to keep the cool air in as much as
- |> possible?)
- |>
- |> Wayne
-
- Well, *I* heard that revolving doors were supposed to keep wind from
- whipping up the elevator shafts in tall buildings. The wind at the top
- of a skyscraper causes the pressure to be significantly less than at the
- bottom. So, a revolving door is never "open" to let tons of air flow
- into the building, and up to the top (which would make the stairways a
- *great* place for indoor kite flying (: ).
-
- I don't doubt that revolving doors are often installed to keep in the
- conditioned air. But this would be an afterthought, rather than the
- purpose of their design.
-
- I hear that some nudist skyscrapers have special "penis sweeps" which
- keep vital portions of one's anatomy from being caught in doors or
- drawers. 8-) How big is the tallest building at Berkeley?
-
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- Jeff Snider Am I being redundant?
- jeff@triryche.uu.net I`m trying to avoid
- jsnider@gravity.gmu.edu being redundant.
-