[lace] Lace bombing

2011-10-21 Thread Catherine Barley
I don't know if any UK members have ever seen the programme 'Loose Women'
which is on from 12.30pm - 1.30pm Mon - Frid on ITV?  I sometimes have it on
in the kitchen whilst doing my ironing and have noticed that since the new
series started last month, that the back drop  behind them has some lovely
lace designs, quite large and drawn in white, I think against a pale blue
background.  Worth a look if you happen to be at home at that time of the day.
It is a bit 'saucy' at times but mainly it's women discussing current affairs
and they have a different guest each day.

Catherine Barley
UK

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[lace] demonstrating lace

2011-10-21 Thread Jane Partridge
Don't give up - enquire as to next year, or the year after - museums 
often book schedules 18 months to three years in advance, so that they 
can get their publicity material printed and distributed in time. Write 
to them with your proposal, and suggest that you could arrange to call 
in if they wished to discuss things further.


Some years ago I spent some very nice Friday afternoons demonstrating 
lacemaking at our local castle (which is also the town's museum) - in 
the courtyard, but retreating to the Great Hall on wet days. It has 
meant that I have had invites back when they have had craft events, and 
also led to photos in the local paper. (I have a photograph of one of 
our (male) newspaper photographers having a go, too!). I was working on 
my Hearts  Flowers Snowflake at the time, and got quite a bit done on 
those Friday afternoons, the challenge was to get past the slightly 
complex bits before being besieged by visitors! On one occasion, due to 
the speaking model in one of the displays, one young lad was too 
frightened to go into the castle at all - so he stayed making lace with 
me whilst the rest of the family went round the castle - I was in the 
courtyard, and they could see and wave to him from the battlements!


In message 20111021013244.I6W50.106231.root@cdptpa-web28-z02, 
hottl...@neo.rr.com writes
Hello All!  Looks like everyone was thinking about how to promote 
lace/lacemaking today--Bravo!  Well I took the plunge  contacted 
Flagler Museum.  There is a lovely place to make lace on the south 
porch in the shade of the bougainvillea.  Their schedule is already 
booked for the season.  Oh well, I tried.  Sincerely, Susan Hottle, 
Erie, PA USA


--
Jane Partridge

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[lace] Re: demonstrating lace

2011-10-21 Thread hottleco
Hello Again!  Thank you for your encouragement Jane!  I thought maybe I would 
follow up with some photos--but that would mean that I actually need to finish 
some pieces or at least make them into something more than an unrecognizable 
blob stuck with pins.  LOL  The thought of the bougainvillea will surely help!  
Sincerely, Susan Hottle, Erie, PA USA

 Jane Partridge jpartri...@pebble.demon.co.uk wrote: 
 Don't give up - enquire as to next year, or the year after - museums 
 often book schedules 18 months to three years in advance, so that they 
 can get their publicity material printed and distributed in time. Write 
 to them with your proposal, and suggest that you could arrange to call 
 in if they wished to discuss things further.

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Re: [lace] demonstrating lace

2011-10-21 Thread Lyn Bailey

Oh well, I tried.  Sincerely, Susan Hottle, Erie, PA USA 

Dear Susan, et al,

Don't give up yet.  The other question is whether there is a place in public 
where you can make lace.  Is there a place at the Flagler that has benches? 
I can virtually guarantee there are no signs saying, NO LACE MAKING 
ALLOWED.   Anything stopping you from making lace at the local mall where 
people can sit?  Preferably close to the craft or yarn shop.  Can you bring 
your lace to the local knitting store that has knitting in the evening.  At 
the local crafts fair, are you allowed to sit and make lace without paying 
for a booth if you're not selling anything?  You do have a sheet of paper to 
give out listing places where interested people can get more information, 
but nothing for sale, certainly no financial benefit to you.  If you list 
suppliers, would that change anything?  Is there an art school nearby where 
they have textiles as a subject, so to speak, and may you make lace in the 
lobby around lunchtime?   Is the local library open to you sitting and 
making lace?


We like to take cruises.  You get spoiled rotten for really a reasonable 
amount of money if you do your research properly.  When I was working, the 
days at sea was when I did a lot of my lacemaking.  Doing that in a public 
place gets all sorts of people to stop and ask questions.  That's really all 
you want.  In the Carribean, there's a lot to be said for lacemaking by the 
pool, in your chaise.  I never go into the pool.


I have a picture of someone taking a picture of me making lace on the 
Commons in Bar Harbor, Maine, USA, which is a tourist town.  Now that 
cruises stop at Bar Harbor, it is even more busy.


Demonstrating at events is an excellent idea, but generally they come around 
only once a year.  With some thought, there are plenty of other places, 
especially when the weather is nice, where you can simply sit down and start 
making lace.  Bring your own chair, if necessary.  When it gets cold, go 
indoors to public places.  Not the tired old mall, but the new vibrant one. 
Our local mall is large, with spokes going out from a central hub, where 
sometimes there are seats.  Perhaps your local quilting shop is amenable, if 
you don't take up too much space.


There are two approaches to indoor events, or even outdoor ones where you're 
not sitting at a park bench or some other seating area.  Just go, plunk 
yourself down so as to be very visible, but out of the way of foot traffic 
paths, and see what happens.  Or go to the municipal office, or the safety 
office, and ask permission.  I suspect either would work.  This is for the 
US, where, as far as I know, there is virtually no insurance considerations 
to be met.  There may be zoning ordinances and the like on the books, but 
the real question is whether they will be enforced against a respectable 
looking woman sitting down and doing what is clearly akin to her knitting. 
At the very worst, someone official will tell you that you may not sit here. 
Remember, the US is also the place where, to my knowledge at least, there is 
no law forbidding one to give out others' email addresses.  It might not be 
a good or considerate idea, but there is no law against it.  Our copyright 
infringement laws also seem to be a bit more lax, and I know of no library 
that pays a fee for the copying of book pages, although I may be wrong 
there, but I don't think so.


It might get a trifle more tricky if you've got a have-a-go pillow, because 
that would carve out a larger space than just you and your lace table, but 
with thought it should still be possible in many places.  That's how I got 
hooked at the Newnan, Georgia, US, craft show in 1979.  The head lady was 
Betty, and she was English, but lived in Atlanta.  I'd still like to be able 
to thank her.  Does anyone know the lady, and what has happened to her?


Some places for the summer include, but certainly are not limited to: the 
outdoor concerts on the lawn in the park, where people gather before the 
concert to get a good place.  In Central Park, in New York City, near  the 
south east entrance, where there are people going to and fro all day.  Ditto 
for Union Park near 14th street, where there is a farmer's market on 
Saturdays..  Or outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art, especially on a 
weekend.  There are vendors out there, and I don't know if a permit is 
required, nor do I recall if there are benches, but it's worth a thought. 
Outside Central Market in my own Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where the tourists 
come in the summer, and you can sit outside for as long as you want, making 
lace.


Lyn in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, US, where the weathermen got it wrong again, 
and we are in for a bright, sunny, beautiful fall day.


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Re: [lace] demonstrating lace/NY

2011-10-21 Thread Dmt11home
In a message dated 10/21/2011 9:16:33 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
lynrbai...@desupernet.net writes:

Or  outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art, especially on a 
weekend.   There are vendors out there, and I don't know if a permit is 
required, nor  do I recall if there are benches, but it's worth a thought.  




Interesting question. What is the definition of loitering and  is it still 
illegal?
 
I recently read an article about the food vendors. It appears  that the hot 
dog vendor pays $250,000 a year to have his spot in front of the  
Metropolitan Museum of Art.  It is paid to the city because they own the  side 
walk. 
It is one of the most valuable places to sell hot dogs in New York.  
However, there is an old law that veterans can sell on public sidewalks for  
free. 
So a rival hot dog vendor has gone into partnership with a veteran whose  
role is to nap on a chair by the hot dog stand and handle the paperwork. 
This  is causing a lot of discord because those people who have paid for the 
spot feel  that the value of their spot has been decreased. Do we have any 
veterans on the  list? 
I am not sure that the issue of whether one may legally  demonstrate lace 
on a bench outside the Metropolitan Museum is likely to  come up, though, 
because a very interesting event involving young people in  the fashion 
industry called Culture Push was looking for a lace  demonstration, and I 
couldn't 
find anyone who would take a lace pillow into New  York for it. It was 
billed as collaborative skill sharing which meant unpaid,  but still...  It 
would have been a good event, but we couldn't figure out  how to make it work. 
I even implored people at the regional meeting of my region  at the 
convention to go, but there was not much enthusiasm. In fact, almost  
immediately 
the conversation shifted to the idea of teaching elementary age  children in 
scouts, and hoping that they would come back to it as adults. I  realize that 
many of us, myself included, are not up for exciting city driving,  
expensive parking, and hauling a ton of goods to a demo in the city. I really  
can 
only do it if my husband drives and hauls the equipment. Perhaps we need a  
lace swat team, ready to drop in, like the fire jumpers, to difficult 
locations  in need of a lace demo. 
The Church of Craft , is dedicated to the idea that craft is  good for the 
soul. I went to one of the monthly events in Brooklyn in which  young people 
just gather and do crafts together and there was some interest  among the 
young people who were there in it. I met a young man who knits  platypuses, 
who was quite interested. There is another entity, Etsy, which has  evenings 
in which people get together to do crafts. In fact, at one time they  were 
looking for people to lead others in a craft activity that might even be  
videotaped and beamed to all the other Etsys. This would be good if someone 
were  interested in doing it. It has to be short and it has to be something 
that  people arriving at different times can do. The fish would be an obvious  
choice.
Why don't you look up these places if you want to do a demo  that would be 
seen by young people. Of course these events tend to be  in cities, and we 
tend to be in suburbs, at least in my particular metro  area. But then, the 
other problem is what do we do if they want to learn?  Because there is no 
lace instruction in New York, and most of the young people  do not have cars, 
and are unable to travel to New Jersey for lace instruction,  which, while 
it exists, is not that easy to access. There are several  textile/craft 
schools in New York that would probably be happy to add lace to a  curriculum 
that already has felting and shibori on it, but there is no one to  teach at 
these places. (Anyone who has ever tried to learn anything from me will  
confirm that I am a lousy teacher.) Also, a curriculum that includes design and 
 
non-traditional fibers would be more interesting than a more traditional 
one.  But designing such a curriculum would take time and skill.
Devon

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Re: [lace] demonstrating lace/NY

2011-10-21 Thread Lyn Bailey
Without going to my handy dandy crimes code, the crime of loitering is
something like being in one place in public too long, without a legitimate
purpose.  It is used when they want you to go away, and whatever you are doing
doesn’t qualify as another offense.  So respectable people who stand on a
corner and just stand there are not approached by the cops, but if you’re
standing on a corner, in a nice part of town, but you are unkempt, unwashed,
and don’t blend into the neighborhood, AND refuse to leave after being told
forcibly to leave, they might arrest you arrest you for loitering.  Regulation
of vendors is not my area of expertise, but I suspect the cops, who are the
doorkeepers of the loitering law, would not take an adverse position to
someone sitting out of the major foot traffic, merely sitting making lace, who
clearly is not selling anything, nor creating a disturbance, does not look
unsavory.

You bring up another issue for demonstrating.  Lugging equipment.  Since I am
used to lacemaking whilst traveling, my cookie pillows are polystyrene, and I
have pared my equipment down to exactly what I will need.  Everything else
stays home.  I have a stool that folds and weighs 2 pounds (1 kilo) and yet
holds my Queenly weight.  If my weight were at goal I’d use the one that
weighs a bit more than a pound.  My lace table folds down and down.  It is an
InStand, which is the gizmo used by court reporters to hold their machines,
(instand.com and amazon.com, usual disclaimers.)  If I were 10 years younger,
I could carry all that from my home in Lancaster, on the train, on the subway,
to the Museum, no problem.  As it is, with issues of walking and carrying
things, I’d probably put it all in a wheeled carryon, and do it that way.
Still not heavy.   Devon, if there’s a nice sunny day left this year, call
me and if I’m available, I’ll take the train (3 hours each way) and meet
you at the entrance to the Met.  Bring a chair.  We can test this out and
report to the list.  But you provide lunch.

Lyn in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, US, where the sun has gone away, and maybe the
weatherman was right after all.
From: dmt11h...@aol.com
Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 10:09 AM
To: lynrbai...@desupernet.net
Cc: lace@arachne.com
Subject: Re: [lace] demonstrating lace/NY

In a message dated 10/21/2011 9:16:33 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
lynrbai...@desupernet.net writes:
  Or outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art, especially on a
  weekend.  There are vendors out there, and I don't know if a permit is
  required, nor do I recall if there are benches, but it's worth a thought.


Interesting question. What is the definition of loitering and is it still
illegal?

I recently read an article about the food vendors. It appears that the hot dog
vendor pays $250,000 a year to have his spot in front of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art.  It is paid to the city because they own the side walk. It is
one of the most valuable places to sell hot dogs in New York. However, there
is an old law that veterans can sell on public sidewalks for free. So a rival
hot dog vendor has gone into partnership with a veteran whose role is to nap
on a chair by the hot dog stand and handle the paperwork. This is causing a
lot of discord because those people who have paid for the spot feel that the
value of their spot has been decreased. Do we have any veterans on the list?
I am not sure that the issue of whether one may legally demonstrate lace on a
bench outside the Metropolitan Museum is likely to come up, though, because a
very interesting event involving young people in the fashion industry called
Culture Push was looking for a lace demonstration, and I couldn't find anyone
who would take a lace pillow into New York for it. It was billed as
collaborative skill sharing which meant unpaid, but still...  It would have
been a good event, but we couldn't figure out how to make it work. I even
implored people at the regional meeting of my region at the convention to go,
but there was not much enthusiasm. In fact, almost immediately the
conversation shifted to the idea of teaching elementary age children in
scouts, and hoping that they would come back to it as adults. I realize that
many of us, myself included, are not up for exciting city driving, expensive
parking, and hauling a ton of goods to a demo in the city. I really can only
do it if my husband drives and hauls the equipment. Perhaps we need a lace
swat team, ready to drop in, like the fire jumpers, to difficult locations in
need of a lace demo.
The Church of Craft , is dedicated to the idea that craft is good for the
soul. I went to one of the monthly events in Brooklyn in which young people
just gather and do crafts together and there was some interest among the young
people who were there in it. I met a young man who knits platypuses, who was
quite interested. There is another entity, Etsy, which has evenings in which
people get together to do crafts. In fact, at one time they were 

[lace] demonstrating lace

2011-10-21 Thread L.Snyder

Another place without quite as much traffic... the car dealership! LOL
My car needed some work so I brought my tatting and sat in the waiting 
room, in the sun, and tatted!

Time passes a lot quicker that way, as well :_)
Lauren in WA

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[lace] Re Carrying equipment

2011-10-21 Thread lacelady
Transporting bobbin lace equipment can be a challenge.  In my early days, I 
used to pack up a pillow, bag of stuff, folding pillow stand, folding lawn 
chair, a cardtable for displaying lace, my cardboard display board, and maybe 
my lunchand pack it on a large wheeled luggage carrier.  We put on demos 
outdoors at festivals with no equipment provided. 

Through the years, I've refined some of my equipment.  I, also, now use the 
InStand tables (a bit expensive but takes very little room in a bag or suitcase 
== usual disclaimers) and have some projects started on smaller roller pillows. 
 I also added a fold to the display board (the 4x4 foamcore or cardboard ones 
from the stationery store) by cutting through the inside surface in the middle 
of the whole thing and folding it back.  It's now 1x4 when folded.  I lay out 
things on a table only when a table is provided. A small wheeled luggage cart 
is sufficient.  The various venues provide chairs, and the adjustable stand can 
adapt to any chair height.

Speaking of demosMy local church has a Fair Trade booth somewhere in town 
during the Christmas season.  When I take my turn minding it, I take my lace.  
I take it to meetings, in the ticket booth at the community theater, or 
anywhere that I will have to sit and spend time waiting or listening.  My small 
roller pillow and the smaller InStand table both fit in a 12x15 totebag and are 
ready to go at any time. For these impromtu times, I don't take display items, 
but a few lace guild business cards are handy to have.

Seeing someone make lace is the best way to attract attention... and our group 
has recently gained 4-5 new people from demos. 

Alice in Oregon ... with clouds and showers back again.


- Original Message -
You bring up another issue for demonstrating.  Lugging equipment.  Since I am
used to lacemaking whilst traveling, my cookie pillows are polystyrene, and I
have pared my equipment down to exactly what I will need.  Everything else
stays home.  I have a stool that folds and weighs 2 pounds (1 kilo) and yet
holds my Queenly weight.  If my weight were at goal I���d use the one that
weighs a bit more than a pound.  My lace table folds down and down.  It is an
InStand, which is the gizmo used by court reporters to hold their machines,
(instand.com and amazon.com, usual disclaimers.)  If I were 10 years younger,
I could carry all that from my home in Lancaster, on the train, on the subway,
to the Museum, no problem.  As it is, with issues of walking and carrying
things, I���d probably put it all in a wheeled carryon, and do it that way.

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[lace] Re: Re Carrying equipment

2011-10-21 Thread lynrbailey
Exactly so.  While you can go whole hog and have a table with examples and a 
backdrop and a have-a-go pillow, it is also possible to make an impact just 
with your lace pillow, making lace, along with something in writing so you can 
point the way to further inquiry.  I forget who mentioned the lady in Britain 
who had seen several prior demonstrations, but on that last occasion decided to 
have a go, and began lacemaking.  We need to provide those prior times for 
people to see what we do. You can go fancy, or you can go simply, depending on 
your resources. Just do it in public.  

Lyn in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, US, where the blue and gray skies have been 
alternating all day. 


-Original Message-
From: lacel...@frontier.com
Sent: Oct 21, 2011 11:34 AM
To: Lyn Bailey lynrbai...@desupernet.net
Cc: lace@arachne.com, dmt11h...@aol.com
Subject: Re Carrying equipment

Transporting bobbin lace equipment can be a challenge.  In my early days, I 
used to pack up a pillow, bag of stuff, folding pillow stand, folding lawn 
chair, a cardtable for displaying lace, my cardboard display board, and maybe 
my lunchand pack it on a large wheeled luggage carrier.  We put on demos 
outdoors at festivals with no equipment provided. 

Through the years, I've refined some of my equipment.  I, also, now use the 
InStand tables (a bit expensive but takes very little room in a bag or 
suitcase == usual disclaimers) and have some projects started on smaller 
roller pillows.  I also added a fold to the display board (the 4x4 foamcore or 
cardboard ones from the stationery store) by cutting through the inside 
surface in the middle of the whole thing and folding it back.  It's now 1x4 
when folded.  I lay out things on a table only when a table is provided. A 
small wheeled luggage cart is sufficient.  The various venues provide chairs, 
and the adjustable stand can adapt to any chair height.

Speaking of demosMy local church has a Fair Trade booth somewhere in town 
during the Christmas season.  When I take my turn minding it, I take my lace.  
I take it to meetings, in the ticket booth at the community theater, or 
anywhere that I will have to sit and spend time waiting or listening.  My 
small roller pillow and the smaller InStand table both fit in a 12x15 totebag 
and are ready to go at any time. For these impromtu times, I don't take 
display items, but a few lace guild business cards are handy to have.

Seeing someone make lace is the best way to attract attention... and our group 
has recently gained 4-5 new people from demos. 

Alice in Oregon ... with clouds and showers back again.


- Original Message -
You bring up another issue for demonstrating.  Lugging equipment.  Since I am
used to lacemaking whilst traveling, my cookie pillows are polystyrene, and I
have pared my equipment down to exactly what I will need.  Everything else
stays home.  I have a stool that folds and weighs 2 pounds (1 kilo) and yet
holds my Queenly weight.  If my weight were at goal I���d use the one that
weighs a bit more than a pound.  My lace table folds down and down.  It is an
InStand, which is the gizmo used by court reporters to hold their machines,
(instand.com and amazon.com, usual disclaimers.)  If I were 10 years younger,
I could carry all that from my home in Lancaster, on the train, on the subway,
to the Museum, no problem.  As it is, with issues of walking and carrying
things, I���d probably put it all in a wheeled carryon, and do it that way.

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[lace] Re: demonstrating lace/NY

2011-10-21 Thread Tatman
On 10/21/11 9:09 AM, dmt11h...@aol.com dmt11h...@aol.com wrote:
 Perhaps we need a
 lace swat team, ready to drop in, like the fire jumpers, to difficult
 locations  in need of a lace demo.

This just brought an interesting image in my head that I couldn't let go.
So I drew up a LACE S.W.A.T. TEAM logo for your enjoyment:

http://www.tat-man.net/LaceSWATTeam.jpg

Good to put on t-shirts as an attention-getter as you repel/run/set yourself
on that spot ready to demo on a moment's notice. ;)
-- 
Mark, aka Tatman
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email: tat...@tat-man.net
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[lace] Re: demonstrating lace/NY

2011-10-21 Thread Dmt11home
I love it!
 
 
 
In a message dated 10/21/2011 4:09:07 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
tat...@tat-man.net writes:

http://www.tat-man.net/LaceSWATTeam.jpg

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RE: [lace] demonstrating lace

2011-10-21 Thread Noelene Lafferty
I've done tatting at the dentist
And the doctors, in the queue.
Now I'll add tatting in my pocket
When the car is serviced, too

...Noelene in Cooma
nlaffe...@ozemail.com.au

Another place without quite as much traffic... the car dealership! LOL
My car needed some work so I brought my tatting and sat in the waiting 
room, in the sun, and tatted!
Time passes a lot quicker that way, as well :_)
Lauren in WA

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[lace] lace swat team

2011-10-21 Thread Lorelei Halley
Mark
Very cute!
Lorelei

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RE: [lace] Re: demonstrating lace/NY

2011-10-21 Thread mary carey
I sat on the bottom of the stairs in a hotel one Friday afternoon while my
husband discussed the bill (booked from Airport, promised a discount).
I was tatting and gave a cross bookmark to a lady in red from Texas who had
been in New York for the US Open.  We went on a bus to Montreal that evening.

If we had gone on a bus to NY as originally planned (we flew from Chicargo),
we might have been there for the most famous Tuesday of recent times!

Mary Carey
Campbelltown, NSW, Australia

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[lace] Farmer John

2011-10-21 Thread Maxine Diffey
Farmer John lived on a quiet rural highway west of Lossiemouth.As time went
by, the traffic slowly built up at an alarming rate.The traffic got so heavy
and so fast that his free range chickens were being run over at a rate of
three to six a day.  


ATT0ATT0ATT0

So this particular day Farmer John called the local police station and to
complain, You've got to do something about all of these people driving so
fast and killing all of my chickens. 

ATT0ATT0ATT0ATT0


What do you want me to do? asked the policeman. 
I don't care, just do something about those crazy drivers! 
So the next day the policeman had the Main Road 's Workers 
Go out and erected a sign that said: 

  

   SLOW: 
SCHOOL CROSSING 


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Three days later Farmer John called the policeman and said, You've still
got to do something about these drivers. The 'school Crossing sign seems to
make them go even faster! 
So, again, the policeman sends out the Main Roads workers' And they put up a
new sign:


 

SLOW: 
CHILDREN AT PLAY 


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That really sped them up. So Farmer John called and called and called every
day for three weeks. Finally, he said to the policeman 

Your signs are doing no Good. Can I put up my own sign? 


The policeman said, 

Sure thing, put up your own sign.. 


He was going to let Farmer John do just about anything
In order to get him off his back. 


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The cop got no more calls from Farmer John.  


Three weeks later, curiosity got the better of the copper
And he decided to give Farmer John a call. 

 How's the 
Problem with those drivers. Did you put up your sign? 


Oh, I sure did, replied Farmer John, and not one chicken 
Has been killed since then. I've got to go. I'm very busy.. 


He hung up the phone. 


The policeman was really curious now and he thought to himself, 


I'd better go out there and take a look at that sign . it might
Be something that WE could use to slow down drivers... 

  


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  So he drove out to John's farm house, 

His jaw dropped the moment he saw the sign. 

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It was spray painted on a sheet of plywood 


  NUDIST COLONY Slowdown and watch  out for chicks! 

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