[lace-chat] Secret Pal
Thank you, secret pal from . Oregon? I love the keyring - just got another car and this was just what I needed for the spare key. The house smells delicious with the candles,and DD has claimed the notepad but I reclaimed the feet. I recognise the lavender in the muslin bag, but what are the blue crystals in the other bag? Joan from Yorkshire To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] blonde on a plane
i can't remember whether i read it on chat or not so here goes dominique from paris, France cold and windy today The plane is on its way to Houston when a blonde in Economy Class gets up and moves to the First Class section and sits down. The flight attendant watches her do this and asks to see her ticket. She then tells the blonde that she paid for Economy and that she will have to sit in the back. The blonde replies: I'm blonde, I'm beautiful, I'm going to Houston, and I'm staying right here! The flight attendant goes to the cockpit and tells the Captain and Copilot that there is a blonde bimbo sitting in First Class that belongs in Economy and that she will not move back to her seat. The Copilot goes back to the blonde and tries to explain that because she only paid for Economy she will have to leave First Class and return to her seat. The blonde replies, I'm blonde, I'm beautiful, I'm going to Houston, and I am going to sit right here. The Copilot returns to the cockpit and tells the Captain that he should have the police waiting when they land to arrest the blonde woman as she won't listen to reason.The Captain says, You say she's blonde? I will handle this. I'm married to a blonde. I speak blonde. He goes back to the blonde, whispers in her ear, and she says, Oh, I'm sorry, and she gets up and moves back to her seat in the Economy section. The flight attendant and copilot are amazed and ask him what he said to make her move without any fuss. I told her, First Class isn't going to Houston Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. hemingway To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] The trials of public toilets
Jennifer wrote: My mother was a fanatic about public bathrooms. When I was a little girl, she'd take me into the stall, teach me to wad up toilet paper and wipe the seat. Then, she'd carefully lay strips of toilet paper to cover the seat. Finally, she'd instruct, Never, NEVER sit on a public toilet seat. My MIL actually took this to heart completely. Her mother told her to do this, and to always wear a vest - she's always done both. She has never sat on the seat of a toilet *anywhere*, not even in her own home because you don't know what you'll catch. She has always adopted the stance. She won't believe that advice was put about as a result of men away from home catching 'something' (too many to list) and then saying they caught it from a toilet seat. She closed her ears to sexually transmitted diseases - you catch them from toilet seats! Even now she's now a frail 83 and in a residential home, suffering from fairly advanced Alzheimer's, two carer's have to take her to the toilet and support her while she takes the stance. Sad. I admit to carrying a packet of wipes in my handbag and giving the seat in a public toilet a quick wipe before I use it, but I don't do it anywhere else. Jean in Poole To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Re: [lace] Guild newsletters.
Dianne wrote: Here in Canada one is no longer allowed to share personal information outside the group to which it is intended. So we would not be able to post a guild newsletter with names, addresses and phone numbers of the executive. Carol replied: I was somewhat surprised to see that in Canada one is not allowed to publish 'personal information' on a website such as a lace or craft group. Would the situation be different if the person(s) on the Committee waived their right to privacy, and agreed to having *either* their phone number, their eMail address, or their postal address (NOT all three!) published, so that prospective members could somehow contact the group? The Canadian law sounds somewhat similar to our (UK) Data Protection Act. Although much of it is concerned with what info is held (in electronic form) about individuals and their rights to access that info, you still can't (or shouldn't publish that sort of info without permission. Yes, the web is considered public and if individuals choose to publish their own telephone numbers or addresses etc on personal websites that's fine but it's not for others to do. My website has a whole page of links to lace related websites but very few links to email addresses, the couple that are there are with the express permission of the persons concerned. If anyone from outside wanted to contact a committee member of any organisation, in Canada or elsewhere, surely it could be done via the organisation's published address. Brenda http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/paternoster/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] S P Thanks
To my Secret Pal in the UK, Thank you so much for my parcel. The lace calendar is already in use and the chocolates died a VERY happy death! The box is wonderful. Did you make it? A friend of mine saw it and she wants to show it off to another of her friends, so it is very popular. Book marks are always welcome as I often have 3 or 4 books on the go at one time :). All my gifts are terrific. Thanks again Janette Humphrey (Who has just survived a huge hail storm that covered the back yard and made it look like it had been snowing) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Secret Pal - thanks
Dear Secret Pal, Thank you so much for the package that arrived yesterday. The magnetic note pad is already installed on the door of the fridge and the pen is to hand. The cloth pocket will be ideal for keeping scissors, thread, spare bobibins etc. to hand when I'm lacemaking or sewing - I'll be able to attach it to the side of my armchair. The bobbins are beautiful - so nice to have some made in your native wood. The pictures of your country may give me some inspiration for a painting. New Zealand is top of the list for a long vacation when my DH and I retire. Best wishes Andrea Cambridge, UK - where its dull and damp today. _ It's fast, it's easy and it's free. Get MSN Messenger today! http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger 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 Secret Pal in Australia. The koala has come home - the little one on the back is so cute. Many many thanks you made my day. We are go to a lace weekend together and make all the ladies going a oh. The tea towel I will use as cover cloth on my pillow. Many thanks and I do hope you are as happy over your SP parcel as I'm at the one you sent to me. thanks again /Sonja To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] remote controls (lace-chat)
At 05:45 PM 1/19/05 +1100, Ruth Budge wrote: Do I presume your DH never goes away? Or when he does, do you just listen to the radio?? I don't know about Helene, but the only button I need is the off button. I did watch three hourse of television last March, while staying up late to hand-finish a pair of slacks I needed to wear the following day. -- Joy Beeson To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] public toilets #2
At 02:26 PM 1/20/05 +1100, Jennifer Audsley wrote: I seem to have a toilet theme at the moment g - have a look at this newspaper web address to find out more on the Shee-pees. It's a female-only public urinal! http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/01/19/1106074829825.html?oneclick=true Like Tamara, I don't go to registration-only sites -- but mainly because they nearly always make it impossible to fill out the form by demanding that one check one of a selection of wrong answers, demanding that I provide information I don't have, or demanding information that is none of their business. Pity -- I would like to know whether the Shee-Pees resemble the urinals in the ladies' room at the harness track in Saratoga. Must be pushing thirty years since I saw them, and they were old then. Those were nothing but the usual toilet with the seat removed, and the bowl re-shaped to make it easier to assume the stance. I opened the stall door, backed out, and checked the sign on the room door again! But once over my shock, I found the urinal a *vast* improvement over trying to piss into a shit-stool. I find it mystifying that this one race track is the only place where I've ever seen such a thing. -- Joy Beeson http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~dbeeson594/ROUGHSEW/ROUGH.HTM http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where it snows every time DH shovels the patio. 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] lacemaking and motorcycle riding
Moved to chat because my response has nothing to do with lace: My mother complained once that she'd never been allowed to ride her brother's motorcycle. By the time she had the money to buy her own, she was too brittle to risk it. One of her grandsons got the motor-biking gene, but I settle for my pedal bike. Cranking down a quiet country lane is great for thinking things over. And I like to sing, but can't carry a tune in a basket. On the bike, nobody can catch me to complain! I majored in math in college, but can't call myself a mathemetician. And I don't make lace. Haven't even tatted in years. But my default knitting needles are 1.5 mm, and I do a lot of point de Venise on the heels of socks. (That's the name of a darning style; it may or may not be related to a lace of the same name.) Someone once posted a picture of an elegant tatted motorcycle on the Web; even if it's still there, I no longer remember enough to Google for it. -- Joy Beeson To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] shee pee
Hmmm, I didn't have to login to The Age website. Here's another approach - a link to the company that makes the disposable funnels that are vital for the entire process. Also has a link to the Shee Pee in use at Glastonbury. http://www.p-mate.com/eng/intro.html Jen in Melbourne To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Shee-pee
If these things are sterile, they'd be very useful to fill a specimen bottle. At present hospitals here give you a sterile foil tray of the type used for Chinese and Indian take-aways to collect a sample, which is then transferred to a sterile bottle. At home, you have to make sure you've got a *very* clean container for collecting. I've never managed to aim for the bottle on its own - another experience men don't have. I'm going to be a man in my next life. Jean in Poole To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Secret Pal Thanks
Dear Secret Pal What a wonderful lucky dip all the way from Australia - everytime I thought the box was empty, I found something else! The Tomato Spool Pin Cushion is really cute - I have never seen anything like it before. The counted cross stitch will come with me on my holiday later this year - it has been a while since I did any cross stitch ~ this will be a lovely reminder of my Secret Pal as I sit in the sun doing this! The box is so bright and cheerful. I am actually going to have this on my desk at work to keep my paperclips in! A slightly different use but it's just the pefect size ~ I hope you do not mind. The pencil and bookmark are already in use and as for the chocolates - my 6 year old daughter spotted them immediately so they will be shared. All the very best Pam Nottingham, UK (where it is cold, wet and very windy) PS My children are Matthew (9) and Bethany (6) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: The trials of public toilets
On Jan 20, 2005, at 3:39, Jean Nathan wrote: My MIL [...] has never sat on the seat of a toilet *anywhere*, not even in her own home because you don't know what you'll catch. She has always adopted the stance. She won't believe that advice was put about as a result of men away from home catching 'something' (too many to list) and then saying they caught it from a toilet seat. I was also taught to assume the stance in public toilets with the same rationalization - you never know what you'll catch. Believed it, too, until the day I heard a comedy program on the radio one Sunday. One of the questions was: Dear Mr Rumian, Can one catch a VD from a toilet seat? The answer was: Dear Mrs Kowalski, It might be possible, but if you contact me privately, I might be able to suggest more enjoyable ways of catching it. During the ensuing discussion with my Mother I was told that, indeed, the more enjoyable ways were more likely to be the culprit, but that the public toilets were so gross (which, they were) I should probably not only avoid sitting down there but touching anything more than I had to. And so I continued with the stance, but not at home and not in private houses, and not - perversely - in various hotel and motel rooms... -- 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: remote controls
On Jan 20, 2005, at 14:37, Joy Beeson wrote: At 05:45 PM 1/19/05 +1100, Ruth Budge wrote: Do I presume your DH never goes away? Or when he does, do you just listen to the radio?? I don't know about Helene, but the only button I need is the off button. I did watch three hourse of television last March, while staying up late to hand-finish a pair of slacks I needed to wear the following day. VBG A girl after my own heart... My TV-watching average is about 2-3 hrs a year and dwindling :) In '04, I watched more that usual - all 3 presidential debates and a half-hour political comedy program that someone recommended (funny, but 15 minutes of it was advertisements, and I don't store enough pee in 30 minutes to occupy me for 15, so I never watched other installments). But it still evens out, because in '03 I didn't watch any. I don't believe I watched any in '02, either... I can't concentrate on two things at once (like watch TV and knit). Never could. I can't even watch TV and *iron*, though the ironing board is in the same room. Maybe that's why the ironing pile just grows and grows... g Can't make lace and listen to the radio, even if it's just instrumental music; can't *drive* and listen to the radio (ditto listening to *passengers*, especially if they go on and on, like the radio)... I know where the ower button is on the remote, and I think I can find the volume control. So, the only time I'm sorry I never made the effort/took the time to learn how to operate the remote is when I can't set up a film(tape or DVD) to watch by myself, and need DH's help. OTOH, that happens only 3-4 times a year... Since we have power outages more frequently than that, and since I'm the person who goes around the house re-setting clocks afterwards... Since I'm the only person who knows how to reach the new message on the answerphone and who knows how to erase the old ones... I feel it's only fair enough trade :) -- 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: Shee-pee
On Jan 20, 2005, at 17:58, Jean Nathan wrote: If these things are sterile, they'd be very useful to fill a specimen bottle. At present hospitals here give you a sterile foil tray of the type used for Chinese and Indian take-aways to collect a sample, which is then transferred to a sterile bottle. It's been a while (10 yrs? 15?) since I last bothered to make an appointment or visited a doctor, so I can't be certain-sure, but ours used to be paper cups. And I've never been asked to bring a liquid specimen from home here (though it was common back in Poland); apparently, I'm expected to pee on demand. And, so far, I've always been able to oblige :) I was under-impressed with the shoe-pee/she-pee (once I was able to see it; thanks, Jennifer, for the aditional info). Since one (she-one, that is) still has to drop one's trousers down all the way (or, at least, most of the way) or lift one's skirt up, the gizmo is useless in the open spaces; you *still* can't just cozy up to a tree, and water it discreetly, the way men can. In which case, squatting in the bushes is preferable, since it reduces visibility. At home, who'd *want* to pee standing up, especially since you still can't spray your initials on the adjacent walls? So, the gizmo's true value is limited to public toilet situations... Great, but to counterbalance the greatness, you'd have to carry it with you (like our pocketbooks don't carry enough stuff already?) and it's none too small. On long trips, you might have to carry several; they're not reusable. And you might still end up with pee all over yourself, if you're not careful. Thanks, but no; I'll assume the stance :) -- 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: Shee-pee
On Jan 20, 2005, at 22:39, W N Lafferty (Noelene) wrote: As the little girl said to the little boy, That's a handy thing to take to a picnic. Ooooh... :) I love it! Never heard that one before; thanks! -- 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]
