Samovar

Sasha already posted a web site with instructions, vocabulary, and personal editorial related to the samovar. My additional suggestion: brew tea in it and ask your health dept. to test it for lead.

Another suggestion: this is a heater, not a calibrated electrical instrument. You might get an electrician or repair shop to put a U.S. plug on it if they determine it's safe.

Nostrovya!

Rick.

Not to mention wiring it for 110 instead of 220.

1. Be very careful - let someone who actually knows the difference between volts and amperes try it first.
2. Inspect its insides - it may have lead instead of tin.
3. 220 is actually Ok - it will just do its job 4 times slower. the opposite (using 110 v with 220) will burn your applience.
4. Put some water in it without connecting it to the outlet and let it sit for a while - see if there any likage. OR Befriend a Russian guy who knows what he is doing. If you are a sexy woman with a sense of adventure you may actually never even get to the samovar business :)

Sasha.

Volts are small rodents. Or is that "voles"?

Amperes are what you get after attending a loud concert with tinnitus. Or is that "amp ears"?

You know, I wouldn't have thought of that.

True. But there are places which will replaced the heating element with a

Oh, come on. Live dangerously. The only think a leak might do is get everything wet...and conduct electricity. Sometimes a good shock makes for a fun evening!

Doesn't that work better with a bottle of Zolotoe Xoltso? (Sorry. Bad transliteration, I know.)

Derek -

Where is your celtic soul? To give a woman the wine of your thoughts, lust and passion, to make her drunk with your voice and have her nostrils long for the scent of your breath - and you are willing to give ot all up and just get her s*it-faced with vodka? And then have her lump, poisoned, falling apart tissue-wrapped skeleton answer your lust with... What?

Sasha.

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 22:09:12 +0000, Rick Chappell scribed:

How do I find this post? I have searched for it and can't find it. Would someone be kind and repost that web site?

Thanks!

Catrin

It was not posted by me, but by Lew, to whom the proper credit should go:

I had commented on this, but these are minor point. If you need any help - anytime.

Sasha.

My celtic soul is right next to my celtic ankle....oh, wait. That's "sole."

Actually, I wooed my wife with tea seasoned with the tiny mirabelle plum from France. It worked much better than any booze ever could have.

As for longing for the sent of my breath - that depends on what I last ate. ;)

Believe me - nothing works like well-arranged oolong gongfu with wenxianbei. Nothing.

Sasha.

Derek -

Your messages always have some kind of a philosophical lines below. Since you are not putting an author's name next to them I assume they are yours. I enjoy them very much, especially about the one below about raindrops. They especially sadly resonate today, while we listening to so much propaganda and so little reason...

Sasha.

Sasha,

The comments were actually stolen from a collection of posters available from

Derek