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Re: refrigerator

At 23:34 5/13/98 -0400, Bob Sciamanda wrote:
An apropos tease question:

What is "a ton of air conditioning (or refrigeration)" and why is it so
called?


It is entirely possible that a liberal arts student might account himself
well with a review of the tragedy by Eugene O'Neill; a play called,
"The Iceman Cometh".
It is not so long ago that grand houses had a cellar set aside for the
frazil harvest and the eponymous vendor plied his trade round the American
urban streets.

Brian Whatcott