[lace-chat] secret pal thanks
Hi Secret Pal, I am sorry to hear you had an accident an I do hope you are feeling better. I arrived home from a week's holiday in Tasmania to find your package. Thank you so much. You always send such a variety.The magazine is very interesting. I enjoy needlework as well as lace. The pens and paper are useful and of course the bobbins.Now I am not sure about the spider He is very realistic.vbg Thank you for the stamps which will be well received by the children when they visit next week. My granddaughter will have me making things from the angel leaflet. Thank you very much for everything even that spider Mar To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Bugs and Bags
Laceandbits wrote: And bags: I would say that the meaning is a bit stronger than choose, more I saw it first and it's mine. Not negotiable. Or at least, that was how my elder sister interpreted it! And that was how I learned it from our brother, so I'd had 9 years to learn to be first. I was glad when Jacquie came along because then I could win occasionally. It's all HIS fault (as usual lol). Malvary in Ottawa To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Bugs and Bags
Thank you, David! I always love picking up a new term I've never heard of. Bags I'd never heard in Ohio or Michigan - Dibs for sure; or sometimes (especially for a piece of food) I spit on this - especially if accompanied by actually spitting on the piece of food, it's pretty effective in preventing anyone else from wanting it. -- -- 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]
[lace-chat] SLP Thanks
Dear UK SLP, I received a package before Easter and it was wonderful! My new fairy friend sits by the computer, looking for a place to hang around. The compact brush is a great addition to the stitching bag...it's pretty windy around here. I'm looking forward to using the soap paper during pampering time this evening. The guys are all camping again, so it's a lace and me day. I have to admit, I'm hoarding the sweets for one of those days. The pin is on my pillow and the butterfly charm will be attached to a divider pin that needs a little brightening up. I've also seen a method to attach things to needlecases, so it may go on the wooden one (much needed) that you also sent. I love the little pouch. Did you stitch it? I think I'll use it for my little threads that I save for stitching. I hope you've gotten over your cold. It's not too much fun working in the garden when you don't feel well. I still haven't decided to put one out this year. The drought is so horrible and the gophers are getting pretty needy that it just may not work out. I may at least put a few things into large planters out back. I was successful with my bulbs this year. I snuck them into a new place so the gophers and moles avoided them. The hyacinths bloomed in time for Easter, and the tulips are now coming up. The bunnies nibbled the leaves a little, but for the most part they're whole. Well, off to lace. Hope your lacemaking is going well! You'll have to tell me what you're working on! Your SLP Laura Sandison USA - Yahoo! Mail goes everywhere you do. Get it on your phone. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] gammon
David in Ballarat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NOw I've just been talking with a cousin who wants me to ask all you knowledgeable folk whether anyone uses the word gammon. The only place I've ever seen gammon was in Beatrix Potter's The Pie and the Patty-Pan, where the magpie says Gammon and spinach! :) Lynn Carpenter in SW Michigan, USA alwen at i2k dot com http://lost-arts.blogspot.com/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Bugs and Bags
In Edinburgh in the 40s to the 60s we used bags and bagsy: I bags the front seat in the bus, or bagsy I the cake with the pink icing. Never dibs. As for gammon it sounds very dated to me - maybe Dickens or Lewis Carrol vintage - and in my mind it means, as David suggests, bullsh*t - someone's trying to make me believe something untrue. And Martha wrote: ... or sometimes (especially for a piece of food) I spit on this - - especially if accompanied by actually spitting on the piece of food, it's pretty effective in preventing anyone else from wanting it. which reminds me of a particularly revolting joke: A fellow in a bar, needing to go and relieve himself and not wishing anyone else to drink his beer while he was gone, left a note beside his glass saying I have spat in this. He returned to find a second note beside the glass, saying So have I. BFN, Margery. Still alive after 11 months of chemotherapy ... no surgery yet. Looking on the bright side, the sun's shining, and nothing much hurts 8-) [EMAIL PROTECTED] in North Herts, UK To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Gammon
Lynn wrote: The only place I've ever seen gammon was in Beatrix Potter's The Pie and the Patty-Pan, where the magpie says Gammon and spinach! There's also mention in David Copperfield by Charles Dickens about half way through chapter 22: Oh my goodness, how polite we are! exclaimed Miss Mowcher, making a preposterous attempt to cover her large face with her morsel of a hand. What a world of gammon and spinnage it is, though, ain't it? 'The Penguin Dictionary of Quotations' is very useful! Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Oil Change
Oil Changing Instructions Women: Pull up to Jiffy Lube when the mileage reaches 3000 since the last oil change. Drink a cup of coffee. 15 minutes later, write a check and leave with a properly maintained vehicle. Men: Go to O'Reilly auto parts and write a check for 50 dollars for oil, filter, oil lift (AKA kitty litter), hand cleaner and scented tree. Discover that the used oil container is full. Instead of taking back to O'Reilly to recycle, dump in hole in back yard. Open a beer and drink it. Jack car up. Spend 30 minutes looking for jack stands. Find jack stands under kid's pedal car. In frustration, open another beer and drink it. Place drain pan under engine. Look for 9/16 box end wrench. Give up and use crescent wrench. Unscrew drain plug. Drop drain plug in pan of hot oil; get hot oil on you in process. Clean up. Have another beer while oil is draining. Look for oil filter wrench. Give up; poke oil filter with Phillips screwdriver and twist it off. Beer. Buddy shows up; finish case with him. Finish oil change tomorrow. Next day, drag pan full of old oil out from underneath car. Throw oil lift (AKA kitty litter) on oil spilled during step 18. Beer. No, drank it all yesterday. Walk to 7-11; buy beer. Install new oil filter making sure to apply thin coat of clean oil to gasket first. Dump first quart of fresh oil into engine. Remember drain plug from step 11. Hurry to find drain plug in drain pan. Hurry to replace drain plug before the whole quart of fresh oil drains onto floor. Slip with wrench and bang knuckles on frame. Bang head on floor board in reaction. Begin cussing fit. Throw wrench. Cuss for additional 10 minutes because wrench hit Miss December (1992) in the left boob. Clean up; apply Band-Aid to knuckle. Beer. Dump in additional 4 quarts of oil. Beer. Lower car from jack stands Accidentally crush one of the jack stands Move car back to apply more oil lift (AKA kitty litter) to fresh oil spilled during step 23. Drive car 1 quart low for 7000 miles when it'll be time for another oil change. * * * Best to all, Ricki in sunny breezy springy Utah To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Gammon
My dictionary lists the word four times with completely different sources and meaning. The second one is listed as British Informal -- misleading or nonsensical talk. There's also a nautical term, a backgammon term, and a word for ham. I don't use the word in any of the forms, though I remember reading it in books, probably from British authors. The meaning is usually understandable from the context of the story. Alice in Oregon -- sun, breeze, flowers blooming Lynn wrote: The only place I've ever seen gammon was in Beatrix Potter's The Pie and the Patty-Pan, where the magpie says Gammon and spinach! To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re:Gammon
There is a line in the chorus of the song 'Frog he would a-wooing go' With a roly poly gammon and spinach Hey Ho says Anthony Roly. I'm not sure of the date of the song Edith North Nottinghamshire To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: Bugs and Bags
On Apr 22, 2006, at 11:10, Margery Allcock wrote: which reminds me of a particularly revolting joke: A fellow in a bar, needing to go and relieve himself and not wishing anyone else to drink his beer while he was gone, left a note beside his glass saying I have spat in this. He returned to find a second note beside the glass, saying So have I. That joke was so popular in Poland when I was a teenager, that, when we were in a cafee and one of us had to go, there was always someone who'd say I'll watch it, so no one else spits in 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]
