He once told me that an August evening was "as hot as three toads in a Cuisinart, " a comparison that left me blinking two days later.

Dean Koontz
He once told me that an August evening was
He once told me that an August evening was
He once told me that an August evening was
He once told me that an August evening was
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"He once told me that an August evening was 'as hot as three toads in a Cuisinart'" is an often-repeated quote from John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939). It describes the heat in the summer of 1936 when the Joad family and their fellow migrants were forced to cross the Mojave Desert. Steinbeck's famous line refers to a scene that occurred early in the book. Joad, who had been driving a tractor that was packed full of dehydrated food, is listening to a radio broadcast of a baseball game. The announcer begins describing the play in progress, and after a few seconds, Joad says: "That's about as hot as three toads in a Cuisinart."

Source: Seize The Night

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