{"id":1382,"date":"2020-01-20T04:59:37","date_gmt":"2020-01-19T17:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=1382"},"modified":"2020-01-20T05:33:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T18:33:45","slug":"hot-08-jan-1933-90-years-ago-a-heatwave-would-only-cause-a-newspaper-to-stoop-so-low-as-to-produce-bad-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=1382","title":{"rendered":"HOT. 08 Jan 1933. Once upon a time a hot day would only cause the news to stoop so low as to publish bad poetry."},"content":{"rendered":"
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HOT. (1933, January 8). Sunday Times (Perth, WA : 1902 – 1954)<\/i>, p. 6 (First Section). Retrieved January 19, 2020, from https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/58672040?searchTerm=hot%20summers%20and%20cold%20winters&searchLimits=#<\/a><\/div>\n
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“Hot, very hot!” says the man in the street to you,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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“Warm, very warm,” your neighbor remarks;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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“Quite a summery day,” is the general greet to you.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Voiced in the streets and the parks.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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“Ninety-nine in the shade,” said the pink perspirationer,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Selling you sausages, singlets and sox,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Ditto the constable and his probationer<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Pacing the sweltering blocks.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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But whether we lump it or whether<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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we’re liking it.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Whether we fly to the pekoe or Pot,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Whether we’re riding or whether we’re<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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hiking it,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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We are all striking it,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Hot!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Heat to the front of us, heat all behind us,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Heat where we labor and heat where we love;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Heat to embarrass us, heat to remind us<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Sheol’s below and above.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Heat in the East when the red sun is rising,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Heat in the west when it’s golden and red;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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And a damoiselle’s duds are scant and surprising<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Fabric and filament fled.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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And whether it’s temperature rising or risen,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Whether it climbs to the century spot;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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On beach or in bungalow, park or in prison,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Whispers grow weazen<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It’s Hot!”<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Sultry the sigh of the easterly breeze to-day.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Stifling the evening when skeeters are near.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Nature’s all groggy and gone-at-the knees away,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Life’s in the sallow and sere.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Squash shops and fruit shops, their clients cajoling<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In from the sweltering streets for a spell,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The succulent ice round the trachea rolling.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Brought by a buxom young belle.<\/div>\n
Summer-time signs are the lad and his Lula<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In habiliments thin as a film story plot;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A cave couple loving from far Whack-a-doola,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Where the shade’s cooler<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Than Hot!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Hot was the Christmas and Hot the New Year of it.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Hot may be Easter and later on, too,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Full-blooded fat men go frantic for fear of it.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Everything wrong and askew.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Did someone say. “Lows are approaching at last,”<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Down where Curlewis keeps cold-storage ice?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Did you notice upon his Observatory mast<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The wet weather signal device?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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But till autumn comes with it’s gradual graying,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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And winter gives ice-men a very bad trot;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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And the cold hand of frost the land-scape is spraying.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Will people be saying<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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“It’s Hot!”<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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-DRYBLOWER.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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