[lace-chat] True Definition of Globalization
Question: What is the truest definition of Globalization? Answer: Princess Diana's death. Question: How come? Answer: An English princess with an Egyptian boyfriend crashes in a French tunnel, driving a German car with a Dutch engine, driven by a Belgian who was drunk on Scottish whisky, (check the bottle before you change the spelling) followed closely by Italian Paparazzi, on Japanese motorcycles; treated by an American doctor using Brazilian medicines. This is sent to you by an Australian, using Bill Gates's technology, and you're probably reading this on one of the IBM clones, that use Taiwanese chips, and a Korean monitor, assembled by Bangladeshi workers in a Singapore plant, transported by Indian lorry-drivers, hijacked by Indonesians, unloaded by Sicilian longshoremen, and trucked to you by Mexican illegals. That, my friends, is Globalization. David in Ballarat To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Blonde Joke
Subject: Blonde joke > A blonde goes to the post office to buy stamps for her Christmas > >cards. > She says to the clerk, "May I have 50 Christmas stamps?" > The clerk says, "What denomination?" > he blonde says, "God help us. Has it come to this? > Give me 6 Catholic, 12 Presbyterian, 10 Lutheran and 22 Baptists." David in Ballarat To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Irish Robbery
ROBBERY This is just too funny not to share. Excerpted from an article which appeared in the Dublin Times about a bank robbery on March 2. Once inside the bank shortly after midnight, their efforts at disabling the security system got underway immediately. The robbers, who expected to find one or two large safes filled with cash & valuables, were surprised to see hundreds of smaller safes throughout the bank. The robbers cracked the first safe's combination, and inside they found only a small bowl of vanilla pudding. As recorded on the bank's audio tape system, one robber said, "At least we'll have a bit to eat." The robbers opened up a second safe, and it also contained nothing but vanilla pudding. The process continued until all safes were opened. They did not find one pound sterling, a diamond, or an ounce of gold. Instead, all the safes contained covered bowls of pudding. Disappointed, the robbers made a quiet exit, each leaving with nothing more than a queasy, uncomfortably full stomach. The newspaper headline read: IRELAND'S LARGEST SPERM BANK ROBBED EARLY THIS MORNING... To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] S.Pal thank you
Thank you very much to my New Zealand pal. Your lovely box came today. The pretty wind chimes are already up. There was also some neat novelettes and 2 gold candles. These were all in a fabric and wire bag, so pretty. Thank you !! Love Daphne To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] SP thanks
dear SP i love the bobbin holder !! i took it with me to my lace class and everybody agreed it was superb craftsmanship and very easy to use .. and such a nice colour ... so thank you very much and what a good way of having your SP think of you each time she starts something wink wink ... and yes, i like english bobbins even though i don't use them. they're one of my favorite eye candy i'll have to find a way of displaying my collection one day . dominique from paris. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Commerative bids and contact people
Hi All! Yep, it's that time again! We are going to start getting the 2005 Lace@arachne.com commeratives. If you are interested in putting a bid to make the bobbins, or are interested in being a contact person for your country, please give me a buzz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks! JoAnne Pruitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Newsletter giggle
Hi all! I had to share this goodie. My DH does our Christmas newsletter every year, and he really does a great job, with pictures and notes of what we do every year. He has us check our sections to make sure that what he writes is accurate, but he does the photos himself. So I did not see our newsletter until he had printed quite a few copies. Well, when I looked at the final newsletter, I notices that my Miss Channers Mat was included, but the thing was ROUND! I asked him what happened, and he said " I thought that's how it was supposed to be." He actually spent quite some time to "Make it come out right" So if you ever wonder, the mat does look quite lovely round. If I had the talent, I would try to redraft the thing round. Take care! JoAnne Pruitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: Blonde Joke
On Jan 11, 2005, at 10:44, David Collyer wrote: A blonde goes to the post office to buy stamps for her Christmas cards. She says to the clerk, "May I have 50 Christmas stamps?" The clerk says, "What denomination?" The blonde says, "God help us. Has it come to this? Give me 6 Catholic, 12 Presbyterian, 10 Lutheran and 22 Baptists." Didn't happen in Lextropolis... :) Here, the PO *clerk* - not a a blonde of either sex - recognizes the word "denomination" also in only that one context... Yours, having had a rousing discussion with the piano tuner on the matters of religion vis politics earlier today (and the matter of "denominations" - my God is better than your God, but all our Gods are better than your no-God - came into it too). At $80 for a 30minute visit, I don't think he'll drop us from his future list, though, doubtless, a 15 minute discussion at no pay at all did cut down into his earnings on earth... -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: bobbin display (was SP thanks)
On Jan 12, 2005, at 14:00, dominique wrote: and yes, i like english bobbins even though i don't use them. they're one of my favorite eye candy i'll have to find a way of displaying my collection one day . You know those many-tiered candy/pastry dishes? With a column down the middle and several round "trays" - widest at the bottom, narrowest at the top - attached ? Have a friendly woodturner make you one in wood. The first tier ought to be set about 5" above the base, the next tier 5" above that, etc. Then: Either: make slits in each "tray" - ca 6mm apart - and hang your bobbins (thread wound and hitched) in pairs Or: screw in teeny eye hooks into the underside of each "tray". Bobbins can be hung (again, wound with thread and hitched) from those either in pairs or singly. Margery Allcock has a beautiful display like that - gorgeous wood, and even a glass dome over the whole. Kleinhout, in Holland http://www.kleinhout.com/GB/welcome/ Has several ways to display your prettiest (and never used ) bobbins, though none are as pretty as what I remember from Margery's home And, during my October trip to Ithaca, I picked up an oversized (12.5" long, ca .5" in diameter) "boobbin" from an American woodcarver (Aebe). Highly ornate, Midlands style, it offers lots of "dips", to hold a thread joining a pair of bobbins securely. I've screwed in a pair of *really tiny* (from my miniaturist days) eyehooks into it - one at each end - and ran a piece of gold-coloured cord, with a knot at each end, through them. Now, all I have to do, is find a place to screw in two small cup hooks to hang the assembly from (before I get caught, by DH, making holes in what hadn't been broken before. He's allergic to new holes ). Once that's done, I'll hang my "trophy bobbins" off of it - the ones I got as "thanks" from Lace and the IOLI Bulletin for patterns -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Los Angelese
Please could I have some information about what is interesting, or where there is some lace to view, in Los Angeles. If we decide to have a couple of days stop-over in L.A. (on our way to Denver) we would like to have some ideas. I have found out about the Paul Getty Museum, that is all. We are not interested in driving around the homes of the famous, nor seeing Disneyland. We will Not have a car (You folks over there drive on the wrong side of the road! :)) ) Are there any lacemakers in L.A.? And what about Las Vegas? Are there any lacemakers or lace exhibitions there? from Liz in Melbourne, Oz, [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: Lace Christmas Card
Dear Lorri, Received your gorgeous Christmas card with surprise in perfect nick 2 days ago! Thank you so much for the 2 bobbins, they are great. Did you really turn them? Wow! They will be perfect for my collection! I usually use spangled bobbins, but I've also got quite a collection of continentals, and I use thm rom time to time, when I run out of bobbins...Can you tell me which wood they ae made of, please? The Christmas card was gorgeous too. I'm sorry I have no scanner, but you're welcome to send a photo to webshots (can't remember who's collecting shots of the cards) if you've kept a photo yourself. I love the red sock with the dainty lace around the cuff, and the fact that you put a colour copy ot it underneath on the card itself. Great idea, I must remember next year, and not only for lace!! I hope my own card arrived safely to Canada. I sent it at the beginning of December, and haven't heard. Maybe I missed a posting? Thank you again, Lorri, and don't worry about it being late, I've just started receiving greeting cards from France, they do it in January, not in December, so we keep our Christmas cards on display until mid-February!! By then, we've received most of them...:-) Yours in lace, Helene, the froggy from Melbourne Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
