Re: [lace-chat] Fwd: It may save your life

[Malvary J Cole]

Before sending these messages - go to http://urbanlegends.about.com/ and 
check them out to see if they are real or not.  This is a hoax email rumour 
which has been circulating since February 2003.


That doesn't mean that you shouldn't be careful - its a big ugly world out 
there!


Echoing what Bev said - they are a nuisance and can be worse than a virus, 
clogging up the e-mail.


Malvary in Ottawa, Canada

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RE: [lace-chat] miniature spinning wheels/ attache' case charkha

[Martha Krieg]

What's the URL for the site? I don't see a matching message containing it!


I originally wanted the attaché charkha myself.  But the book charkha fits
my lifestyle better.  Nice tool!  ;-)

Margaret Holsinger
On The Wing
Mailing Services
Presorting & List Hygiene
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oh my gosh!!! you should see this.  one of the spinning wheels featured
on this page is a spinning wheel that folds into the size of a book and
gives a ratio of 70/1


--
--
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Re: [lace-chat] fwd: It may save...

[Weronika Patena]

I guess the moral was don't open your car to a stranger for any reason...
Which seems obvious, but I did find this particular story useful - I don't 
think I've ever thought of the possibility that the bad guy could act 
so nice and come up with such a smart trick.  

Weronika

On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 08:31:39PM -0700, Bev Walker wrote:
> > It was approximately 5:15 A.M. in Opelousas, La. I had stayed with a
> > friend there and was on my way to work. I stopped at the Exxon/Blimpie
> > Pie station to get gas. I got $10 gas and a Diet Coke. I took into the
> > store two $5 bills and one $1 bill (just enough to get my stuff).
> 
> so - what is the moral - be careful at 5:15 am, don't go to Opelousas LA,
> and if so avoid the Exxon/BP - buy Pepsi next time not Diet Coke...
> 
> of course you can't be too careful, these forward-to-everyone stories clog
> the inboxes though...
> :(
> 
> -- 
> bye for now
> Bev in Sooke, BC (on Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada)
> Cdn. floral bobbins
> www.woodhavenbobbins.com
> 
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-- 
Weronika Patena
Stanford, CA, USA
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re: [lace-chat] fwd: It may save...

[Bev Walker]

> It was approximately 5:15 A.M. in Opelousas, La. I had stayed with a
> friend there and was on my way to work. I stopped at the Exxon/Blimpie
> Pie station to get gas. I got $10 gas and a Diet Coke. I took into the
> store two $5 bills and one $1 bill (just enough to get my stuff).

so - what is the moral - be careful at 5:15 am, don't go to Opelousas LA,
and if so avoid the Exxon/BP - buy Pepsi next time not Diet Coke...

of course you can't be too careful, these forward-to-everyone stories clog
the inboxes though...
:(

-- 
bye for now
Bev in Sooke, BC (on Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada)
Cdn. floral bobbins
www.woodhavenbobbins.com

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[lace-chat] Religious differences

[RicTorr8]

Little boy was walking down a dirt road after church one Sunday afternoon
when he came to a crossroads where he met a little girl coming from the
other direction.

Hello," said the little boy.

"Hi," replied the little girl.

"Where are you going?" asked the little boy.

 "I've been to church this morning and I'm on my way home," answered the 
little girl.

"Me too," replied the little boy. "I'm on my way home from church, too."

"Which church do you go to?" asked the little boy.

 "I go to the Baptist church back down the road," replied the little girl. 
"What about you?"

"I go to the Catholic church at the top of the hill," replied the little boy.

   They discover that they are both going the same way so they > decided that 
> they'd  walk together.
> 
> They came to a low spot in the road where spring rains had partially flooded 
> the road so there was no way that they could get across to the other side 
> without getting wet.
> 
>  "If I get my new Sunday dress wet my Mom's going to skin me alive," said 
> the little girl.
> 
> "My Mom'll tan my hide too if I get my new Sunday suit wet," replied the
> little boy.
> 
> "I tell you what I think I'll do," said the little girl. "I'm gonna pull off 
> all my clothes and hold them over my head and wade across."

> "That's a good idea," replied the little boy. "I'm going to do the same 
> thing with my suit."
> 
> So they both undressed and waded across to the other side without getting 
> their clothes wet.
> 
>  They were standing there in the sun waiting to drip dry before putting 
> their clothes back on when the little boy finally remarked, "You know, I 
> never 
> did realize before just how much difference there really is between a Baptist 
> and a Catholic."
> 

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[lace-chat] :) Fwd: A blonde is a blonde, is a...

[Tamara P Duvall]

*Two* "blonde" jokes, both of them a novelty (to me, at any rate) - 
jokes which were devised with male dimwits in mind, not just what I 
think of as "transvestite jokes" (written about females, but changed to 
having males as focus for PC reasons).


Warning: both are only "marginally acceptable" for chat; one's somewhat 
smutty, and the other's definitely (and gruesomely) un-PC *as well* as 
being smutty. Needless to say, I *love* the second one... 



From: J.F.



The sheriff in a small Texas town walks out in the street and sees a 
blonde cowboy coming down the walk with nothing on but his cowboy hat, 
gun and his boots, so he arrests him for indecent exposure. As he is 
locking him up, he asks "Why in the world are you dressed like this ?" 

 
The cowboy says "Well it's like this, Sheriff. I was in the bar down 
the road and this pretty little red head asks me to go out to her motor 
home with her so I did. We go inside and she pulls off her top and asks 
me to pull off my shirt so I did. Then she pulls off her skirt and asks 
me to pull off my pants so I did. Then she pulls off her panties and 
asks me to pull off my shorts so I did. Then she gets on the bed, and 
looks at me kind of sexy, and says, 'Now go to town, cowboy...'  

 
And here I am. "

===

A white guy is walking along a  beach when he comes across a lamp 
partially

buried in the sand. He picks  up the lamp and gives it a rub. Two blonde
genies appear, and they tell him he has been granted three wishes. The
guy makes his three wishes and the blonde genies disappear.

The next thing the guy knows, he's in a bedroom, in a mansion, 
surrounded
by 50 beautiful women.  He makes love to all of them and begins to 
explore
the house. Suddenly he feels something soft under his feet; he looks 
down

and the floor is covered in $100 bills.

Then, there's a knock at the door. He  answers it and standing there 
are two

persons dressed in Ku Klux Klan outfits. They drag him outside to the
nearest tree, throw a rope over a limb and hang him by the neck until
he's dead.

As the Klansmen are walking away, they remove their hoods; it's the two
blonde genies. One blonde genie says to the other one, "I can understand
the first wish of having all these beautiful women in a big mansion to 
make

love to. I can also understand him wanting to be a millionaire. But why
he wanted to be hung like a black man is beyond  me."

--
Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)

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[lace-chat] Re: Family History

[Webwalker]

What lovely sentiments, David.  I had almost decided it was an effort 
that I would put aside till another time, but you've put a new light on 
the subject.



It goes beyond documenting facts. It goes to who I am and why I do the 
things I do. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to 
accomplish. How they contributed to what we are today. It goes to 
respecting their hardships and losses, ...


Susan Webster
Canton, Ohio

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RE: [lace-chat] spice question

[Carolyn Hastings]

Hi,

I believe that mace is also sometimes used in sweet dishes.  My Good
Housekeeping Cookery Book calls for mace in the Christmas cake that I have
made for twenty five years.  I don't know how common it is to find mace in
this sort of recipe, but it seems to work for me.

Regards,
Carolyn

Carolyn W. Hastings
Stow, MA USA



> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brenda Paternoster
> Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 4:05 PM
> To: rick &sharon
> Cc: lace-chat@arachne.com
> Subject: Re: [lace-chat] spice question
> 
> 
> My Book of ingredients says:
> 
> "Nutmeg is the dried seed of the fruit of an evergreen tree native to 
> south-east Asia (Myristica fragrans).  The seed has a lacy 
> husk that we 
> call 'mace'.  The two are similar in flavour and aroma, but nutmeg 
> grated is used for sweet dishes while mace is used for pickles and 
> savoury dishes.  It is a fine distinction but one of ancient usage.  
> Nutmeg is available whole or powdered; mace comes in flakes 
> 'blades' or 
> powdered."
> 
> A whole blade of mace is big enough to go around a nutmeg, so 
> about an 
> inch long.  Crumbled up it's probably only about 1/4 teaspoonful.
> 
> Sharon - I'll send you a scan of the pic of a blade of mace.
> 
> Brenda
> 
> On 23 Aug 2005, at 19:39, rick &sharon wrote:
> 
> > Can anyone tell me how much mace a blade of mace is measurementwise?
> > A recipe
> > I want to use calls for a blade of mace...I have never seen a whole 
> > blade of
> > mace.  I can get ground mace which is just a crumbled blade, but I 
> > can't find
> > an equivalent in tsp. TIA  Sharon on sunny Vancouver Island
> >
> Brenda
> http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/
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Re: [lace-chat] Fwd: It may save your life

[RicTorr8]

Thanks, Janice!

I must say, I have been watching quite a few forensic case files on Court TV 
of an evening, while working on my handsewing projects, and learned just last 
night that approximately 95% of murders are committed by menAnd, although 
they didn't give the statistics on the victims, a vast majority of the cases I 
have seen have been committed against women...In any case, it's horrific to 
see the violence and brutality that does exist in the world, and it is 
certainly good advice to remember to keep your guard up, use common sense and 
not take 
any chances with your safety!

Regards,

Ricki
Utah 

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[lace-chat] Fwd: It may save your life

[Janice Blair]

Something to read and be aware of...to think about...and it may save
> your life someday.
>
> This is a report from a woman who works with criminals on a daily basis
> and should be aware of things like this
>
> Criminals are coming up with craftier, less threatening methods of
> attack, so we have to be extra cautious. Here's her story:
>
> I live in Alexandria, VA, but I often work in Lafayette, LA, staying
> with friends when I'm there. As you may know from America's Most Wanted
> TV program, as well as the news media, there is a serial killer in the
> Lafayette area.
>
> I just want to let you know about an "incident" that happened to me a
> few weeks ago, and could have been deadly. At first I didn't go to the
> police or anyone with it because I didn't realize how serious this
> encounter was. But since I work in a jail and I told a few people about
> it, it wasn't long before I was escorted into Internal Affairs to tell
> them my story.
>
> It was approximately 5:15 A.M. in Opelousas, La. I had stayed with a
> friend there and was on my way to work. I stopped at the Exxon/Blimpie
> Pie station to get gas. I got $10 gas and a Diet Coke. I took into the
> store two $5 bills and one $1 bill (just enough to get my stuff).
>
> As I pulled away from the store, a man approached my truck from the
> back side of the store (an unlit area). He was an
> "approachable-looking" man (clean cut, clean shaven, dressed well,
> etc.). He walked up to my window and knocked. Since I'm very paranoid
> and "always looking for the rapist or killer," I didn't open the
> window. I just asked what he wanted. He raised a $5 bill to my window
> and said, "You dropped this." Since I knew I had gone into the store
> with a certain amount of money, I knew I didn't drop it. When I told
> him it wasn't mine, he began hitting the window and door, screaming at
> me to open my door, and insisting that I had dropped the money! At that
> point, I just drove away as fast as I could.
>
> After talking to the Internal Affairs Department and describing the man
> I saw, and the way he escalated from calm and polite to angry and
> volatileit was determined that I could have possibly encountered
> the serial killer myself.
>
> Up to this point, it had been unclear as to how he had gained access to
> his victims, since there has been no evidence of forced entry into
> victim's homes, cars, etc. And the fact that he has been attacking in
> the daytime, when women are less likely to have their guard up, means
> he is pretty BOLD. So think about it...what gesture is nicer than
> returning money to someone who dropped it?
>
> How many times would you have opened your window (or door) to get your
> money and say thank you because if the person is kind enough to
> return something to you, then he can't really be a threatcan he
> Please be cautious! This might not have been the serial killer...but
> anyone that gets that angry over someone not accepting money from them
> can't have honorable intentions. The most important thing to note is
> that his reaction was NOT WHAT I EXPECTED! A total surprise!
>
> But what might have happened if I had opened my door? I shudder to
> think! Forward this to everyone you know...maybe they can be as
> fortunate as I was!
>
> P.S. from the Sender: Ladies, really DO forward this to EVERYONE you
> know. Even if this man wasn't a serial killer, he looked nice, he
> seemed polite, he was apparently doing an act of kindness, but HE WAS
> NOT A NICE PERSON (AND, I'm sending it to the men in our lives as
> well!!!)
>
> P L E A S E PASS THIS ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW.
>
> This is especially important for ladies. It is good advice and
> something to think about...and it may save your life someday.




Janice Blair
Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA

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Re: [lace-chat] spice question

[Brenda Paternoster]

My Book of ingredients says:

"Nutmeg is the dried seed of the fruit of an evergreen tree native to 
south-east Asia (Myristica fragrans).  The seed has a lacy husk that we 
call 'mace'.  The two are similar in flavour and aroma, but nutmeg 
grated is used for sweet dishes while mace is used for pickles and 
savoury dishes.  It is a fine distinction but one of ancient usage.  
Nutmeg is available whole or powdered; mace comes in flakes 'blades' or 
powdered."


A whole blade of mace is big enough to go around a nutmeg, so about an 
inch long.  Crumbled up it's probably only about 1/4 teaspoonful.


Sharon - I'll send you a scan of the pic of a blade of mace.

Brenda

On 23 Aug 2005, at 19:39, rick &sharon wrote:

Can anyone tell me how much mace a blade of mace is measurementwise?  
A recipe
I want to use calls for a blade of mace...I have never seen a whole 
blade of
mace.  I can get ground mace which is just a crumbled blade, but I 
can't find

an equivalent in tsp. TIA  Sharon on sunny Vancouver Island


Brenda
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Re: [lace-chat] spice question

[Malvary J Cole]

I looked up this question in my "Mrs. Beeton's All About Cookery" book, but 
she only says that it is sold in either blade or ground form. So. I 
called my sister-in-law who does a lot of cooking.


She asked what was being made - usually blade of mace is used in soups where 
you cook with it in the soup, but don't serve it (like bouquet garni or bay 
leaves).  She suggested if you only have ground that you use a pinch (or two 
at the most).


Hope this helps.

Malvary in Ottawa 


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Re: [lace-chat] Irish Laces

[Brenda Paternoster]

On 23 Aug 2005, at 18:36, Jane Dickinson wrote:



Have just been checking what is on BBC Radio 4 tonight to keep me 
company
while I do the ironing and see that at 23.30 (GMT) there is the 
following;


No, not 23:30 GMT, it's 23:30 British Summer Time.   = Wed am 00:30 GMT
Brenda


Journalist Nell McCafferty uncovers tales of hardship, endurance, 
skill and
artistry as she charts the fortunes of Irish lace and the enterprising 
women

who have developed and nourished the craft since the 1800s.


Brenda
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Re: [lace-chat] suffolk lacemakers

[Brenda Paternoster]

Hello Nicky

What a horrible thing to happen!  However the damage is done now so 
you've got to work at minimising it.


Obviously you send out messages like this to anyone who you think may 
have the site bookmarked, but also contact the various search engines 
to get your new URL (or the underlying real one) recognised and the old 
one deleted.  With Google, from the home page click on About Google, 
then on Submitting your Site and follow instructions.  It's free unless 
you want paid adverts.


I did that when I changed ISP and it took a couple of weeks to get 
recognised, even the various directories that say I share the site with 
my "sister" Terry (must be the photo of him on the home page with long 
hair and dainty shoes; I'm the one with short hair and bovver boots!) 
now have the URL updated without any further input from me.


Some other search engines have a similar process, others just rely on 
their web-crawlers, so make sure you've got your meta-tags sorted out, 
use the words in the title at the beginning of the body text etc etc.



On 23 Aug 2005, at 17:04, sealacehaven wrote:


dear spiders
i have just had the most awful shock. i have just been advised that 
the web site name, that was until recently, used by suffolk lacemakers 
has now been purchased by another company and is being used to 
directly link unsuspecting people to porn sites!


we had used the web site for the past two years, but had begun having 
problems with access earlier this year, our isp host   " freeola"  
were extremely unhelpful. when "nominet" informed me that to continue 
use of thename was going to cost £94.00 for a further two years I 
declined as we were unable to access the site and upload and/or 
download new or amended pages.


i have contacted both the british police and "nominet" and have been 
informed that there is nothing i can do about this, it is legal!


please be warned that there are "companies" out there watching for 
groups such as ourselves, church groups etc etc just waiting to get 
the domain name if it is allowed to lapse so that they can use it for 
their thoroughly disgusting and underhand purposes.


please also know that this site is absolutely nothing to do with 
suffolk lacemakers or any member of suffolk lacemakers.


nicky hoewener-townsend
chairman suffolk lacemakers

please excuse typing but i have had an accident and am only able to 
use one arm.

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Brenda
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[lace-chat] spice question

Can anyone tell me how much mace a blade of mace is measurementwise?  A recipe
I want to use calls for a blade of mace...I have never seen a whole blade of
mace.  I can get ground mace which is just a crumbled blade, but I can't find
an equivalent in tsp. TIA  Sharon on sunny Vancouver Island
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[lace-chat] Secret Pal Thanks

[Pam Sharples]

Dear Secret Pal

Many thanks for your lovely parcel of wonderful gifts.

I will be totally honest and let you know that it arrived last Friday.  I have
however been busy entertaining my nephew visiting from Canada.  My children
were so excited to see him so I am sure you can imagine it has been a very
hectic time.  Now he is visiting other relatives and I have time to catch up!
I am so sorry for the delay in acknowledging your parcel.

I could smell the gorgeous aroma from the soap before I opened the parcel -
that one will be kept for special soaks in the bath when I need to relax!!
The beads are very special and will definitely come in useful.  The sewing
machine badge is fun and will go on my pin cushion.

The quilting patten looks great.  I have never attempted this sort of quilting
before - but my mum has!  Maybe she will do it for me

We had a lovely holiday - thank you for asking.  It was very relaxing and nice
and hot too.  Don't worry about getting my son's name wrong (it was very close
anyway) - he definitely enjoyed the lollipop!!  It lasted for ages!!

Once again, thank you for everything.

Best wishes

Your Secret Pal in England
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[lace-chat] Irish Laces

[Jane Dickinson]

Dear Spiders

 

Have just been checking what is on BBC Radio 4 tonight to keep me company
while I do the ironing and see that at 23.30 (GMT) there is the following;

 

Journalist Nell McCafferty uncovers tales of hardship, endurance, skill and
artistry as she charts the fortunes of Irish lace and the enterprising women
who have developed and nourished the craft since the 1800s.

 

Those of you who have computers with the necessary software can listen after
the event if that is more convenient if you visit the BBC website and click
on the appropriate links.

 

Happy listening!

 

Jane Dickinson

http://www.greatescapes-weekends.com 


Sunny East Sussex UK

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[lace-chat] suffolk lacemakers

[sealacehaven]

dear spiders
i have just had the most awful shock. i have just been advised that the web 
site name, that was until recently, used by suffolk lacemakers has now been 
purchased by another company and is being used to directly link unsuspecting 
people to porn sites!


we had used the web site for the past two years, but had begun having 
problems with access earlier this year, our isp host   " freeola"  were 
extremely unhelpful. when "nominet" informed me that to continue use of 
thename was going to cost £94.00 for a further two years I declined as we 
were unable to access the site and upload and/or download new or amended 
pages.


i have contacted both the british police and "nominet" and have been 
informed that there is nothing i can do about this, it is legal!


please be warned that there are "companies" out there watching for groups 
such as ourselves, church groups etc etc just waiting to get the domain name 
if it is allowed to lapse so that they can use it for their thoroughly 
disgusting and underhand purposes.


please also know that this site is absolutely nothing to do with suffolk 
lacemakers or any member of suffolk lacemakers.


nicky hoewener-townsend
chairman suffolk lacemakers

please excuse typing but i have had an accident and am only able to use one 
arm. 


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[lace-chat] Family History

[David Collyer]

"The Story TellersWe are the chosen ones."

(or why I am obsessed/fascinated with Genealogy.
My feelings are that in each family there is one who seems called to find 
the ancestors: to put flesh on their bones and make them live again..to 
tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve.


To me, doing Genealogy, is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, 
breathing life into all who have gone before us. We are the story tellers 
of the tribe. All tribes have one. We have been called, as it were, by our 
genes. Those who have gone before cry out to us - "tell our story" - and so 
we do.
In finding them, we somehow find ourselves. How many graves have I stood 
before now and cried.? I have lost count. How many times have I told the 
ancestors "you have a wonderful family. You would be proud of us all". How 
many times have I walked up to a grave and somehow felt there was love for 
me? I cannot say.


It goes beyond documenting facts. It goes to who I am and why I do the 
things I do. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to 
accomplish. How they contributed to what we are today. It goes to 
respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving up, 
their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their family. It goes to 
deep pride that they fought to make and keep us as a nation. It goes to a 
deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us that we might 
be born who we are: that we might remember them. And so we do, with love 
and caring and scribing each fact of their existence because we are them 
and they are us.
So, as a scribe called, to tell the story of my family, it is up to that 
one called in the next generation to answer the call and take their place 
in the long line of family story- tellers. That is why I do my family 
genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up and put 
flesh on the bones.


Love
David


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[Janette Humphrey]

Hello to my secret pal in the US,

I received this months parcel yesterday and it is lovely.  All those pretty 
things that you have given me.  The doll keychain is too nice to go on my keys 
as it may get damaged so I am going to put in on my basket for everyone to see. 
 The sachet smells lovely and I'm just about to run out of paper for my 
shopping lists, so the magnetic notepad is soon to be on my fridge ready for 
use.  My friend has tried to pinch the stick on sequins but she can't have 
them! The hair clip and necklace set are both very pretty too.  The skittles 
are delicious and I can see why you like them so much.  We don't have the mint 
ones here in Australia yet but I hope they come here soon so that I can get 
some more!!

Thanks again for my great parcel

Janette in Australia

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