Re: [lace-chat] Re: new year
T said, ' What is your resolution? So I reverted to making New Year's wishes instead, and it worked for a while...' Did anyone ever make a New Year's resolution that they kept? Cheers, Yvonne. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Dear all, found this in my church mag this month thought it might give you al l a giggle, it did me. Happy lacing Sue M Harvey Norfolk UK [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/jpeg which had a name of Scan10003.JPG] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] RE: New Year
Hello all, Yes, I have kept a Resolution and so far from the beginning of last year I have lost 50 pounds. I am not through yet and feel so much better. I have also kept up with learning and making lace (my favorite) Hurray. I am continuing with those two resolutions for this year too. Love, Lynn 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: New Year
Yes, I have kept a Resolution and so far from the beginning of last year I have lost 50 pounds. Yes - last year I resolved to lose weight, and I've lost 53 lbs so far. Resolution continuing into this year. Congratulations girls, Yvonne. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] :)?
T, It's quite possible that the person who sent the joke wasn't even thinking about political paranoia. Maybe the joke just didn't fit their general comfort level for public exposure? I've been politically concerned about writing certain things to people abroad, if I planned to visit those countries (assuming that the mail might be read over there), but I doubt I'd be concerned that the electro-snoops are looking for risqué jokes... At 11:56 PM -0500 1/3/06, Tamara P Duvall wrote: Ever since we (US) bombed the s... out of Baghdad deleting all my childhood fancy romances (1001 of them), I had a gut feeling that the World I Used to Know (commie) and the World I Transplanted to (US, supposedly democratic) lost their demarcation lines and became one... The last six months -- spying scandal piled on spying scandal -- had me sneering; high time Americans faced reality, and realised they were as minutely scrutinised by the powers that be, as anyone else, anyplace else... :) But I never had a firm confirmation of my gut feelling... Today, I got a joke; it's funny... Also, it comes from a US source... Also, it comes with the same caveat that jokes in commie Poland used to have: I don't want even my initials tied to this one, which makes it heart-breaking, rather than funny... In my 33 yrs in US, I have *never before*, *not once* heard anyone worried about having an off-colour (politically or otherwise) joke attributed to them... I was told --when I debated my citizenship -- that one could express oneself freely in US, without repercussions, unlike in Poland of the same period. Never believe what you're told... :) Fear had been commonplace in Poland of my childhood and teens, but my US environment always pooh-poohed such fears as being baseless; US has much higher ethical standards than your commie terrorist monolithical rulers I was told... You are free to express yourself I was told... My French is non-existant, but I know there's a timeless phrase: the more things change, the more they stay the same; the commie Poland and the democratic US have reached a common ground. *So* common in fact, there's no dividing line anymore... From: Source Zero First, some of the items on this link are not polite, but if you can skip those, then take a look at some of the captions added to these airline safety signs. Some are pretty funny. http://www.airtoons.com/ -- 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] -- -- Martha Krieg [EMAIL PROTECTED] in Michigan To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] :)?
On Jan 4, 2006, at 23:23, Martha Krieg wrote: It's quite possible that the person who sent the joke wasn't even thinking about political paranoia. Maybe the joke just didn't fit their general comfort level for public exposure? Even if reduced to initials, as I always forward my jokes? I have several -different - sources which share the same initials. I *try* to remember to add I, II or III in those cases but don't always... I've been politically concerned about writing certain things to people abroad, if I planned to visit those countries (assuming that the mail might be read over there), but I doubt I'd be concerned that the electro-snoops are looking for risqué jokes... According to the news, the pattern of the snooping went thus: they observed the international e-correspondence and phone conversations of suspects (and no one knows who's a suspect, or on what basis). At first. But the list of suspects kept growing; everyone who was contacted by a suspect, became a suspect to be watched. So it was simpler to view all transimissions at the source (providers), then trying to hunt and peck (or peek). And the collected info -- even if collected by mistake, even if the original suspect has been proven to be a dead end -- is never erased. How else would Greenpeace or Catholic relief workers end up on the spied-upon lists? Sure, they're not looking for risque jokes (but I send political ones, too g)... But they are looking for locations from which/to which such transmissions are made; some locations are more suspicious than others. Since one has totally no control over the location of the transmitter, at least in e-mail (a lot of spam comes from suspect areas), one can be netted in the suspect web very easily. Personally, I don't give a d... about surveillance; I grew up in a totalitarian regime and I have my fingerprints registered here same as I had there. But, for Americans, it may be a rude awakening... When I was 6 or 7, Warsaw hosted a Youth Festival; only political friends were invited as delegates, naturally :) I made friends (as much as a small child can make friends with a 20yr old, and that through an interpreter) with a young man from India and, for a year or so, we corresponded -- my Mother's friend translated my letters into English and his into Polish. All his letters came opened. All my letters were delivered to the PO open -- the clerk read them, then licked the envelope's edge to close it... But, at least, we *knew* it was being done. I think it's easier to tolerate totalitarian-type surveillance when one expects it. -- 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]
