Remember halogen floor lamps? You know, the kind that pointed at the ceiling (because of course it's the ceiling that needs to be well-lit). Remember how they'd get so hot they'd scorch your drywall? And sometimes they had a fancy French name, I think it was torchiere. I shudder to think how much electricity they ate up. For a while there (i.e. the 1990s) it seemed like every time I helped a friend move, we had to wrestle with one of those horrible torchieres. They were awkward to fit around all the other crap in the pickup. And usually someone had left it on, so it was really hot, and we'd have to wait until the very end to load it in. I actually, at one point in my life, owned two of those preposterous things.
Anyway, when was the last time you saw a torchiere? That's what I'm talking about.
You know what I mean.
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