Comments on: Silver Candle Snuffer

By: Marketman

Marketman — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:14:18 +0000

Candygirl, sounds like a good deal to me! Mila and Dodi, isn’t it amazing how an entire nation readily uses the term brownout and we are not entirely sure what it means??? Heehee.

By: Candygirl

Candygirl — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:24:23 +0000

Was browsing through an old Real Living Magazine (Feb 2005 or 2006) and saw that Regalong Pambahay sold (stainless steel?) snuffers for php200. Inexpensive no?

By: Mila

Mila — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 05:16:31 +0000

I had the idea as a child that brownouts were for isolated electrical problems, like when Meralco has to fix a line and a few blocks were affected. Blackouts always come to mind when the government’s gotten itself into a fix and decides to impose martial law; blackouts to keep the insurgents and the rest of us quivering in the darkness, wondering what the heck the palace is up to now. Blackouts are wider in scope, usually the city if not the entire country. “A news blackout” (don’t think they ever have a news brownout!)

By: Dodi

Dodi — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 01:17:57 +0000

Hi MM!
And I always thought “brown-outs” are a shorter version of “black-outs”. Very nice candle snuffer! And yes, that makes me remember my sacristan days too!

By: Marketman

Marketman — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 05:31:19 +0000

lizechev, haha! I got a good laugh out of that description. Actually, we save the tapered candles from dinners in a box and we re-use them during brownouts and blackouts, so you can have elegant no electricity nights as well! Btw, do you think we are the only country in the world that refers to them as brown outs? I always thought brown outs were during daylight and blackouts at night… :)