thethuthinnang on Nostr: The heat must be getting to me. I thought about that song by the band Foreigner ...
The heat must be getting to me. I thought about that song by the band Foreigner called "Hot Blooded" and realized that they used Fahrenheit instead of Celsius:
"I'm hot blooded.
Check it and see.
I got a fever of a hundred and three."
I did some math and wondered why they didn't try to rhyme 39.44 Celsius instead. (snort)
According to Internet sources: "The UK Meteorological Office officially switched from Fahrenheit to Celsius (then known as Centigrade) on 15 October 1962. While Celsius became the primary unit for weather forecasting at that time, Fahrenheit was retained as a secondary measure for several years, with the BBC eventually dropping it in the 1970s and 80s."
The song came out in 1978. So, perhaps the British and USAmerican band mates were all agreed that the rhyme scheme was better with 103 than 39.44. I imagine it was a close call and that there were many heated arguments about it with the British band members intent on fully switching to Celsius but the American band members remaining inflexible and reliant on Fahrenheit. So glad I figured that out. 😂
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2026-07-04 20:09:07 UTCEvent JSON
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