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Thread: The lamps you're not allowed to have. Exploring the Dubai lamps

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    The lamps you're not allowed to have. Exploring the Dubai lamps

    Sorry Sylvania, you did not make/sell Dubai Lamps


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    Re: The lamps you're not allowed to have. Exploring the Dubai lamps

    If it's Phillips, it's trash anyway. I believe nothing Phillips claims.

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    Re: The lamps you're not allowed to have. Exploring the Dubai lamps

    Sounds like a window of opportunity for illicit bulb runners, LOL!
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    Re: The lamps you're not allowed to have. Exploring the Dubai lamps

    Breed fireflies.

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    Re: The lamps you're not allowed to have. Exploring the Dubai lamps

    Banning light bulbs and legalizing drugs! What an **** !

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    Re: The lamps you're not allowed to have. Exploring the Dubai lamps

    Fireflies have more lumen output when drugged. But they don't live as long. In Sausalito, they have fireflies which put out different bright colors.

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    Re: The lamps you're not allowed to have. Exploring the Dubai lamps

    Psssst! My barber knows a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who can get you illicit normal flow flush toilets to go with your Dubai lamps,
    "I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority"---EB White

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    Re: The lamps you're not allowed to have. Exploring the Dubai lamps

    Yeah, low-flow toilets work great. Just flush em three times. Easy. Same with low-water washers; just wash your clothes twice. What ever happened to ole "high-boy" water closets, which did it via greater gravitational advantage? Too simple a concept, not stylish enough?

    The one which really bugged me was the premature phasing out of oil-based paints, before there were reasonable exterior acrylic replacements. Yeah, you got 70% less smog-forming ingredient, but needed three times more coats, and applied five times as often, so the cumulative air pollution was in fact considerably higher. Then there was the additional ironic fact that oil-based paints were largely vegetable derived (soy alkyds, linseed oil, tung oil), while acrylics are petrochemicals per se. Those performance discrepancies eventually began to iron out, but only at considerably higher cost for equivalent quality.

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