[lace-chat] Re: [lace] Re Susan of Tennessee
Moving to Chat, since it's OT on Lace. On Mar 17, 2013, at 4:19 AM, Shirley Meier wrote: I wonder what did become of Susan, I had forgotten all about her, is it that long ago David? Shirley in Corio Oz. sme...@iinet.net Wasn't, really; David misremembers :) The last we heard from darling Susan (the Scourge of Lace and Lace Chat) was that she was -- finally! despite all the evil scheming! -- accepted to the military. Since my very first thought was: I hope they ship you to Iraq, pronto. And that you'll have no 'puter access, it had to have been *at least* 2003... -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace-chat] Re: [lace] Re Susan of Tennessee
On Mar 18, 2013, at 12:49 AM, Tregellas Family wrote: Nice to hear from you Tamara - don't believe you've posted for such a long time. I used to enjoy your 'play on words' - made me stop and do some research, other than lace. :-) Lorraine Hatcher was asking after you the other day. Cheers, Shirley T. - Adelaide, 27C today climbing to 34C by Wednesday. I guess summer hasn't finished with us yet!! Thanks for missing me :) My husband (of nearly 40 yrs) got sick around Christmas of '11, died in March of 12, and I lost my... not cotton-pickin'... but lacemaking mind. I'm beginning to climb out, but it's still a very slow process and not reliable. I only read what I think I *have to*, or stuff that doesn't require any mental acuity, because everything takes forever (I still cannot concentrate for any length of time, though I'm way past the 30 seconds, max stage). It's good to see a lot of the familiar names still posting, though. Even the ones who are as self-righteous as ever :) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace-chat] :-) Colonoscopy Journal (Long)
On May 17, 2011, at 11:43 AM, jeanette wrote: For those who have been unfortunate enough to have had a colonoscopy. This is sure to put a smile on your face. Too bad I didn't know about this article 2yrs ago, when I had my colonoscopy; I'd have sent it to my doc. Still... When I woke up, I had enough wit to ask him to write down his e-mail address for me, which he did. As soon as I got home, I sent him this : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N0w2rORwSc The next day, I got a phone call from his wife. She was somewhat suspicious of my motives at first but, when I explained that it was just my little revenge for the day-before procedure, she allowed that both of them found the song hysterically funny. Andt the doctor doesn't want to see me for a decade ! -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace-chat] Re: Concentrated OJ
On May 12, 2011, at 6:02 AM, Margery Allcock wrote: There's a lovely bit in today's Daily Telegraph (UK paper), about the TV show The Apprentice. The competitors have such huge opinions of themselves that it's very funny to watch. The Telegraph reports: After the boys' team had elected to sell orange juice, the entrepreneurial elite paid a visit to a fruit market. 'Is that an orange?' asked one Alpha Male. 'I dunno,' replied his team leader. And yet, they're but lowly apprentices in the high self-esteem stakes. The host of the show (US version) is now talking about, possibly, running for the office of the US President. The mind boggles. More about the show and its various offspring: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apprentice_%28U.S._TV_series%29 -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace-chat] Re: Admin: Andrea's message
On Apr 15, 2011, at 10:31 AM, Avital wrote: And you would probably contact a lace-making buddy privately, not send an SOS to the whole list! I got it both ways -- in private and on the list -- and read it first on my personal mail. Since I don't know Andrea personally, I was startled to see the apology for not letting me know of her trip. Once that first alarm bell sounded, I read the rest of the message (in poor English, not really excused by the trauma described) with some amusement, looking for other oddities and inconsistencies. Then trashed it, moved on to reading Arachne and, by golly, there it was again :) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace-chat] Fwd: Lace mailing list - LaDearl (Dearl) Kniskern
Gentle Spiders, Apologies for forwarding to both lists, but I know that not everyone who knew (or knew, electronically) Dearl reads the Lace-chat. Dearl was a fellow Virginian and we have met -- though only once -- in real life, years ago, through Arachne. She didn't post all that often but some of you may remember her tag-line: My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance. I'm including Roy's e-mail address in my forward, in case anyone would like to send him a message. Begin forwarded message: From: Roy Kniskern r...@rbnet.com Date: March 31, 2011 9:43:18 AM EDT To: t...@rockbridge.net Subject: Lace mailing list - LaDearl (Dearl) Kniskern Hello Tamara. I'm Roy Kniskern, Dearl's husband in Christiansburg. She has spoken often of you. I know that up to a couple of years ago before she had a small stroke that greatly diminished her vision Dearl was quite active in both the Lace and Lace Chat mailing lists. Dearl died very suddenly Saturday evening, March 26. As we were saying our goodbyes to my son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter and giving hugs and kisses and laughing Dearl just dropped to the floor and was gone. Our son is an EMT but couldn't save her in spite of his best efforts. Doctors say it was likely that a clot developed and went to the heart (she'd had an angiogram the preceeding Thursday) and was gone probably before she hit the floor. So typical of her to go down laughing. I know she would like the on-line groups to be aware of her passing. She had many friends and acquaintances there. I'd appreciate it if you would pass the information on to them. Best regards and thank you, Roy Kniskern -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace-chat] Re: Lamb recipe
On Oct 17, 2010, at 12:12 PM, jeanette wrote: If lamb is so difficult to obtain in the USA, what meat do you eat if any?? We (in my household) eat beef, veal, pork (fresh and smoked), chicken and lamb (but not mutton, though it's, sometimes, available), as I don't like turkey. Unfortunately, unless you buy your meat from a local farmer (@ about 2.5 times the price of a grocery store), they all taste pretty much the same :) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com.
Re: [lace-chat] just think abut this
On Sep 23, 2010, at 3:07 AM, Jean Nathan wrote: And yes, from what Tamara says, our jails probably are better than those in the US then, although I haven't had personal experience of one. I don't either, I hasten to say :) But I do read the papers and various bits and pieces emerge, painting a rather horrid picture for everyone who's not a VIP or a VR(ich)P. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com.
[lace-chat] Re: Good day lasses and lads
On Sep 23, 2010, at 4:16 AM, martina.dewi...@web.de wrote: Hello Tamara, nice to hear from you again. What are into at the moment? I am very busy, but that has become normal here. Knocking on wood, nothing has changed much here, either :) I'm looking forward to retirement as the Bobbin Lace Editor of the IOLI Bulletin (IOLI is US equivalent of a national lace guild) and some more free time. And I've been volunteering quite a bit at the local Free Clinic; with the economy in the toilet, more and more people need care and can't afford it. I have no medical skills to offer, so I sterilise the instruments, develop the x-rays etc. That allows the people who *do* have the medical skills to use them, instead of wasting their time on something any monkey can do. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com.
Re: [lace-chat] just think about this ..
On Sep 21, 2010, at 4:54 AM, Agnes Boddington wrote: Let's put the seniors in jail and the criminals in a nursing home. This way the seniors would have access to showers, hobbies and walks. They'd receive unlimited free prescriptions, dental and medical treatment, wheel chairs etc and they'd receive money instead of paying it out. They would have constant video monitoring, so they could be helped instantly, if they fell, or needed assistance. Bedding would be washed twice a week, and all clothing would be ironed and returned to them. A guard would check on them every 20 minutes and bring their meals and snacks to their cell. They would have family visits in a suite built for that purpose. They would have access to a library, weight room, spiritual counseling, pool and education. Simple clothing, shoes, slippers, PJ's and legal aid would be free, on request. Private, secure rooms for all, with an exercise outdoor yard, with gardens. Each senior could have a PC a TV radio and daily phone calls. There would be a board of directors to hear complaints, and the guards would have a code of conduct that would be strictly adhered to. The criminals would get cold food, be left all alone and unsupervised. Lights off at 8pm, and showers once a week. Live in a tiny room and pay £900.00 per month and have no hope of ever getting out. Justice for all we say. Must be that UK jails are one heck of a lot better than ours (in US). Here, it's free market all the way. The upper crust -- those who stole millions -- get all the amenities you mention. One ex-Congresscritter even moaned about being deprived of his Blackberry. The remaining 98% get AIDS from being raped by the guards or fellow inmates and their access to healthcare is on a par with the rest of the uninsured -- they'd better not get sick. And the same's true about the nursing homes; mine isn't likely to be the same as the ones that the current Wall Street CEOs are likely to spend their sunset days in. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com.
Re: [lace-chat] Good day lasses and lads
On Sep 20, 2010, at 6:44 AM, Gareth Peach wrote: Good Day, lasses and lads; anyone left that remembers me? Sure, but I used to know you as Gary g -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com.
[lace-chat] :) Fwd: Engineers' Conversion Table
I like #27; so true :) From: M. D. Engineers' Conversion Table This is pretty heavy scientific stuff.converting units: 1. Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi 2.. 2000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won ton 3. 1 millionth of a mouthwash = 1 microscope 4. Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = 1 bananosecond 5. Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram 6. Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = Knotfurlong 7. 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling 8. Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon 9. 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz 10. Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower 11. Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight line 12. 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake 13. 1 million-million microphones = 1 megaphone 14. 2 million bicycles = 2 megacycles 15. 365.25 days = 1 unicycle 16. 2000 mockingbirds = 2 kilomockingbirds 17. 52 cards = 1 decacards 18. 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 FigNewton 19. 1000 milliliters of wet socks = 1 literhosen 20. 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche 21. 1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin 22. 10 rations = 1 decoration 23. 100 rations = 1 C-ration 24. 2 monograms = 1 diagram 25. 4 nickels = 2 paradigms 26. 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 IV League 27. 100 Senators = Not 1 decision -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Re: :-) Irish password
On Mar 14, 2010, at 14:35, jeanette wrote: Oi was told me password had to be at least 8 characters long and include one capital'' It's a keeper; I'm still moping tears off my face and wine off my keyboard... :) Just the other day, for some unfathomable cyber reason, my husband lost the connection to one of his password-protected accounts. Not a bank or investment account, but something truly silly, where you can't imagine why on earth a password is required in the first place. He went through all the rigamarole of 8 characters, one capital, two numbers. Confirm by retyping , which took him about 45 minutes, because, first you have to think of something that (you hope) you will remember in the future, then you have to hunt-and-peck it into the 'puter without being able to make sure that what you've typed is what you *meant* to type (no letters show up, only asterisks. Security !) and, THEN, you have to go through the process again, to confirm. He was reporting his tale of woe -- with which I could sympathise entirely, having gone through the same wringer many times -- when I asked: doesn't your 'puter ask you if you want it to remember your password? Mine does. Thank God, mine does too, he answered. Of course, if you let your 'puter remember your password for you, it nullifies the whole idea of security and password protection, since *anyone* can now sit at your keyboard and simply click on the string of asterisks (aka password) to access the site. Without going through the trauma of keying the d...d thing in. But, hey! That's the beauty of the majic of the cyber-era -- the machines have no sense of the absurd :) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] :) Fwd: Tech-challenged seniors
Been there, done that... at least for part of the way :) From: R.P. I thought about the 30 year business I ran with 1,800 employees, all without a Blackberry that played music, took videos, pictures and communicated with Facebook and Twitter. I signed up under duress for Twitter and Facebook, so my seven kids, their spouses, 13 grandkids and 2 great grand kids could communicate with me in the modern way. I figured I could handle something as simple as Twitter with only 140 characters of space. That was before one of my grandkids hooked me up for Tweeter, Tweetree, Twhirl, Twitterfon, Tweetie and Twittererific Tweetdeck, Twitpix and something that sends every message to my cell phone and every other program within the texting world. My phone was beeping every three minutes with the details of everything except the bowel movements of the entire next generation. I am not ready to live like this. I keep my cell phone in the garage in my golf bag. The kids bought me a GPS for my last birthday because they say I get lost every now and then going over to the grocery store or library. I keep that in a box under my tool bench with the Blue tooth [Blue tooth but it's red] phone I am supposed to use when I drive. I wore it once and was standing in line at Barnes and Noble talking to my wife as everyone in the nearest 50 yards was glaring at me. Seems I have to take my hearing aid out to use it and I got a little loud. I mean the GPS looked pretty smart on my dash board, but the lady inside was the most annoying, rudest person I had run into in a long time. Every 10 minutes, she would sarcastically say, Re-cal-cu-lating. You would think that she could be nicer. It was like she could barely tolerate me. She would let go with a deep sigh and then tell me to make a U-turn at the next light. Then when I would make a right turn instead, it was not good. When I get really lost now, I call my wife and tell her the name of the cross streets and while she is starting to develop the same tone as Gypsy, the GPS lady, at least she loves me (after 50+ years I certainly hope so). To be perfectly frank, I am still trying to learn how to use the cordless phones in our house. We have had them for 4 years, but I still haven't figured out how I can lose three phones all at once and have to run around digging under chair cushions and checking bathrooms and the dirty laundry baskets when the phone rings. It was a lot easier when it was connected to a cord (for the kids out there reading this, yes, there used to be a cord attached to the phone - and we only had one phone in the house! I won't even go into party lines but older folks know what I'm talking about). The world is just getting too complex for me. They even mess me up every time I go to the grocery store. You would think they could settle on something themselves but this sudden Paper or Plastic? every time I check out just knocks me for a loop. I bought some of those cloth reusable bags to avoid looking confused but I never remember to take them in with me. Now, I toss it back to them. When they ask me, Paper or Plastic? I just say, Doesn't matter to me. I am bi-sacksual. Then it's their turn to stare at me with a blank look. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] April weather in Detroit
Not that we're seeing normal weather anywhere this year, but... Does anyone know what it's likely to be, in Detroit, in very early April? My son is supposed to be changing planes there (Wayne County Airport) and none of us know anything about either the airport or the weather in that part of the country. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Re: :) Fwd: Listen... do you want to know a secret?
On Feb 5, 2010, at 10:01, Brenda Paternoster wrote: Tamara, do you really want to know a secret? That song was a hit for Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas! (though it was written by Lennon McCartney). 's as maybe. I know it from the Please, please me Beatles album... :) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] :) Fwd: KATHERINE HEPBURN
. You know what you want and how to get it. You have more friends than you know what to do with. Your word is your bond.. Everyone knows when you say something it is money in the bank. You attract the opposite sex. Your intelligence overwhelms most. Your memory is the next thing to photographic. Everyone admires you because you are so considerate and lovable. You know how to enjoy life and treat people right. Now put your Movie Star in the subject line, then forward and share with your friends, including the person who sent it to you -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] :) Fwd: Listen... do you want to know a secret?
This one has been a two-fer for me, since I came of age to the tune of the Beatles and love every song of theirs. That the remake strikes a personal chord as well is but an icing on the torte (or something like that) From: R.P. http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=7lSliucgygc -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] :) Fwd: Dinner Plans
From: M.D. A group of 40-year-old buddies discuss and discuss where they should meet for dinner. Finally it is agreed upon that they should meet at Gasthaus Gutenberger restaurant because the waitresses there have low cut blouses and nice breasts. 10 years later, at 50 years of age, the group meets again and once again they discuss and discuss where they should meet. Finally it is agreed upon that they should meet at the Gasthaus Gutenberger because the food there is very good and the wine selection is good also. 10 years later at 60 years of age, the group meets again and once again they discuss and discuss where they should meet. Finally it is agreed upon that they should meet at the Gasthaus Gutenberger because they can eat there in peace and quiet and the restaurant is smoke free. 10 years later, at 70 years of age, the group meets again and once again they discuss and discuss where they should meet. Finally it is agreed upon that they should meet at the Gasthaus Gutenberger because the restaurant is wheel chair accessible and they even have an elevator. 10 years later, at 80 years of age, the group meets again and once again they discuss and discuss where they should meet. Finally it is agreed upon that they should meet at the Gasthaus Gutenberger because that would be a great idea because they have never been there before. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Re: Amazing prizes
On Jan 19, 2010, at 13:29, jeanette wrote: Suddenly I am being inundated with e-mails informing that I have won millions in lotteries I never even heard of - Windows lottery, Yahoo lottery, the National lottery, the Canadian lottery and some more. All the senders have g-mail addresses and one asked for valuable proof of identity!!! I would surely be valuable if I had realy won all that money! If the set-up looked more professional, somebody might take them serious. Reading your message, I kept thinking: Nigeria? Or China? But, if your notifications didn't look professional, then I guess it had to be Nigeria :) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Hot... what?
Live and learn :) I just learnt that what we, in the US of A, call hot flashes, in Australia, NZ and the UK it has always been Hot Flushes. Not sure about Sth Africa So... Paging Jeanette Fischer (for South Africa). And Malvary Cole (for Canada). Do you girls flash, or flush? -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Re: Fw: 2010 Census Cautions from the Better Business Bureau
On Jan 6, 2010, at 15:42, Janice Blair wrote: BBB offers the following advice: If a U.S. Census worker knocks on your door, they will have 1-a badge, 2-a handheld device, 3-a Census Bureau canvas bag, and 4-a confidentiality notice. Ask to see their identification and their badge before answering their questions. But then, this: Eventually, Census workers may contact you by telephone, mail, or in person at home. Yeah, checking their credentials when they get in touch by telephone is gonna be really easy... If *Better* Business Bureau is that scatter-brained, I wonder what the ordinary business bureau is like :) No wonder our economy is down the tubes... -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Re: Fwd: When all the artists are women
On Dec 11, 2009, at 12:00, Cherry Knobloch wrote: From a newsletter for artists, mostly painters, that I receive: Are men going to be stay-at-home-daddies while the women go out into the world and slay dragons? Would you trust them to, the incurious dimwits? It'll be like it has always been: women will have to do both... -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Fwd: DOG HOUSE
A tad schmaltzy, but cute :) http://www.riversongs.com/Flas/today.swf -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Re: True or false
On Dec 9, 2009, at 14:50, dmt11h...@aol.com wrote: I was totally taken off guard by the end of the modern ant and grasshopper story. I thought the grasshopper was going to lose all the ant's money, [...] Boy was I wrong! What a relief. I much prefer your version. So do I. Strange. Shall we cooperate on a new edition of Brothers Grimm Feel-Good Fairytales? -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] :) Fwd: boys puff up
From: R.P. One November afternoon when my daughter was in kindergarten, I picked her up after school. She bobbed out to the car and crawled into the back seat. What did you do today? I asked. She couldn't wait to tell me. We learned that boys are different from girls she chirped. My teacher told us that boys have a thing the girls don't, she added. Well, yes they do... I said cautiously. Then she piped up again. That's how girls know that boys are boys, she said. They see that thing hanging down and they know that he's a boy... I mentally calculated the distance home. Our five-minute commute already felt like an hour. Did you know that when the boys see a girl they puff up? My palms were beginning to sweat. Um...well... I was still searching for something to say, to change the subject, when she asked, Why do the girls like boys to have those things? Well, I didn't know what to say. I mean, what woman hasn't asked herself that very same question at least once? Oh, well...um... I stammered. She didn't wait for my answer. She had her own. It's cause it moves when they walk and when girls see that they know they're boys and that's when they like them. Then the boy sees the girl and he puffs up, then the girl really knows he likes her too. And then they get married. And then they get cooked. That last part confused me a bit, but on the whole I thought she had a pretty good grasp on things. As soon as we got home she hopped out of the car, fishing something out of her school bag. I drew a picture, she said. ...you want to see? I wasn't all that sure I did, but I looked anyway. I had to sit down. There, all puffed up so to speak, looking mighty attractive for the ladies, was a crayon drawing of a great big Tom Turkey. His snood, the thing that hangs down over his beak, the thing that female turkeys find so irresistible, was magnificent. His tail feathers were standing tall and proud. She was a little offended that I laughed so hard at her drawing. I laughed until I cried. But I told her I loved it - and I did - and she got over her pique. That was the end of that, for her anyway. But I'm not so lucky. Every year I remember that conversation, and to be honest I haven't looked at a turkey or a man the same way since. HAVE A HAPPY THANKSGIVING! -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Re: French Onion Soup
On Oct 29, 2009, at 16:40, dmt11h...@aol.com wrote: Hmm. Water, not stock. From an actual French person. And no wine, either; nothing fussy, she said. And butter instead of olive oil; how funny to put olive oil in an onion soup . she said. Dom, did you know that Italians -- who cook everything in olive oil -- have fewer heart attacks than the French -- who cook everything in butter? And no, we shall *not* talk about the Poles -- who cook everything in bacon grease. *Or* about the other 50% of my genetic makeup; I *hate* chicken fat, rendered or not. Where is the outrage? Out in the snowy street? Devon shivering in the snow, eating bouillon Eating bouillon *cubes*; you never mentioned real bouillon. Now, you can just melt some of that snow... :) Yours, slurping a nice and filling homemade (put a couple of bones removed from a smoked ham... etc) *bean* soup. Polish; the onions were fried in bacon grease. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Re: Love and marriage
On Oct 29, 2009, at 18:19, Janice Blair wrote: Did you have a memorable proposal and are you still together? Me: I'm not going through the rigamarole or getting my visa extended for the second time. Him: You wouldn't have to, if we got married, but I didn't think you liked living in a small town. And I'm not moving to Warsaw. That was in '73; we both forgot our 36th anniversary this year (September 8) and celebrated on the 12th (we both cooked supper) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Re: dom in paris/french onion soup
On Oct 27, 2009, at 7:27, Clay Blackwell wrote: Well, Devon... I may be out on the street with you... I have used the same recipe for years, and one of the reasons I love it is that it can be made in less than 15 minutes I make a big pot of stock, about once every 3-4 months, and freeze it in one cup portions (reuse sour cream and/or yogurt cups). They don't take a whole lot of time to defrost and the bouillon isn't 9 parts salt. Also, the canned consomme *is* closer to the real thing than bouillon cubes, so you're not totally dependent on the cubes. Mind you... Bouillon cubes do have their place and I always have a supply on hand. Whenever I feel a cold/fever coming on, I fix myself a mug of bouillon from a cube. That's to make me thirsty enough to drink a lot (more than usual) of lemon tea :) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Re: dom in paris/french onion soup
On Oct 26, 2009, at 12:32, dmt11h...@aol.com (Devon) wrote: using a beef soup made from a bouillon cube works just fine, in fact, I doubt it could be much better if you used the homemade stock. As tolerant as I am... and as much as I love you, Devon... This kind of heresy is more than even I can tolerate; consider yourself disinherited and thrown out into the street, like an errant Victorian maiden. And, if you have to eat your bouillon cube soup out in the snow, too bad, so sad, but there *are* limits, y'know... Sheesh. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Re: Chestnut adventure
On Oct 22, 2009, at 19:20, Vicki Bradford wrote: I agree about the good smells and the questionable texture To each her own questions... g I've loved roasted chestnuts, their mealy mild sweetness an'all, ever since I had my first taste of them -- off a street brazier, near the Tower of London, some 20yrs ago. This past New Year's Eve, the host of the neighbourhood party, a Brit, had a huge bowl of them and I was the only taker. But, *what* a taker! I stood there and ate, and ate, and ate - he had to come by, periodcally, and refill my drink, because I was so busy eating -- till you could have rolled me home like a stuffed pig... The only other time I so totally lost myself to food was the night I discovered oysters, at the Christmas party given by the President of the Washington and Lee University (where my husband was chairman of the English Dept). As we were leaving, I saw a few people, half frozen and blue in the face, standing on the porch. Oysters? one asked. I didn't know what it was all about but my husband explained that they were shuckers, who opened (fresh, raw) oysters. And that they were doing it outside, because of the smell. Try one, he suggested. It took all my courage to try one (slimy, raw, *things*) and it took all his manly strength to drag me away after I did :) Took three shuckers to keep me hpppy, at the pace I was slurping the treat, and one person to keep the supply of lemon wedges going. Since I was *huge* with child (my son was born 6 weeks later), the jokes were as ripe as the smell, though they, too, had to be explained to me; I had no idea that raw oysters were supposed to be love food. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] :) Fwd: Bees
Never could resist a good word play...:) From: R.P. Two bees met in a field. One said to the other, How are things going? Really bad, said the second bee. The weather has been cold, wet and damp, and there aren't any flowers, so I can't make honey. No problem, said the first bee, Just fly down five blocks and turn left. Keep going until you see all the cars. There's a Bar Mitzvah going on and there are all kinds of fresh flowers and fresh fruit. Thanks for the tip, said the second bee, and flew away. A few hours later the two bees ran into each other again. The first bee asked, How'd it go? Great! said the second bee. 'It was everything you said it would be. There was plenty of fruit and, oh, such huge floral arrangements on every table. Uh, what's that thing on your head? asked the first bee. That's my yarmulke, said the second bee. I didn't want them to think I was a wasp. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Re: gasoline smell part 2
On Aug 7, 2009, at 18:04, Alice Howell wrote: In the USA, 'gas' is what we call petrol. It was clear...left no marks... but the smell drives me nuts. All the cleaning suggestions for fabrics end with saying NOT to dry it in a dryer because any residue could combust. Drying in air is recommended until any trace of odor is gone. I may have to wash, rinse, re-soak my lace for several days before it's clear of the stuff. Yup. Though hanging out in the breeze works better than washing :) How I know... The first (*and last*, let me tell you g) time I tried to gas up my car by myself, I messed up so badly, I could have served as a wick -- I was *drenched* in the smelly stuff. I used the gas station's restroom to wash some of the stuff off of me -- since I smoke, I was seriously worried about setting myself on fire -- and emerged *almost* as smelly as before though, presumably, the evil stuff was somewhat diluted. I also discovered that I'm alergic to gasoline; wherever it landed on the skin (face and hands), the skin went red and puffy. When I got home -- some 6 hrs later -- the smell was somewhat less. The entire outfit -- from the outer jacket (it was winter) to the underpants and bra -- went into the washing machine. Three times. And emerged smelling of soap and gasoline. I almost decided to throw everything away but the jacket was the only one warm enough, so I kept wearing it, smell or no. And, after about a week, the smell was almost gone. So I hung the rest of the ensemble out on the deck and left it to the elements for a week. With the smell all gone, I then ran all the pieces through the washer again... I know which jacket it was -- it's still my favourite -- but can't remember what else I wore that day and can't tell any more. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Re: Lace gift Ideas for a male friend
On Jul 29, 2009, at 17:22, waningmoth (Lora) wrote: I'm visiting an old friend (who's a bit of a computer whiz) I haven't seen in years and am planning on making a lace gift to take with me. however I'm finding it near imposible to think of what to make him! There's a very nice maze in Caire Burkhard's 50 New Bobbin Lace Patterns, which my own 'puter geek (son) likes, because it reminds him of the old electronic boards. I've promised him I'll make him one for his coffee table (to go under glass), though haven't yet; don't ever seem to have the time (shoemaker's children go barefoot, as the saying goes). The original is in white and grey but could be made in different colours and with more of them. It's a meandering tape kind of lace (lots of sewings), made with just 12 pairs (the tape goes in two directions, each tape uses 6 pairs) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Re: Men Women
On Jul 9, 2009, at 11:44, David C COLLYER wrote: When the bill arrives, Mike, Dave and John will each throw in $20, even though it's only for $32.50. None of them will have anything smaller and none will actually admit they want change back. When the girls get their bill, out come the pocket calculators. Thus is the global fall of economy explained... All the Wall Street CEOs are men. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Re: :-) Just a Mum
Reminds me of my Mother, who dropped out of a (late in life) post-highschool program, to have me. A few years later, she ran into a classmate and the two compared their careers. The woman was just a few months off her doctorate. My mother pointed to me (apparently stooping and tasting dirt off the street) and said this is *my* degree. And the woman said how I envy you... Yours, still stuck at the Research Associate level (wish my own higher degree would get his ducks in a row, married and multiplied) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
Re: [lace-chat] Need a Name Please
On Jun 14, 2009, at 10:30, David C COLLYER wrote: My niece has asked me to ask you (the oracle) to help her come up with a title for a new music course she is offering schools. It's aimed at children from 0 to 7 years. So will cover child-minding facilities, kindergarten and Infant school. Melody 'n' Motion? Notes a-quiver? In scale, in tune, in concert? What does one put into a music course offered to infants under 12mo? -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Re: Risque Humour
On Jun 10, 2009, at 14:49, David C COLLYER wrote: [...] her husband says, Are you wearing crutchless knickers? Yes,she answers, smiling coyly. He replies,Thank the Lord for that, I thought the stuffing was coming out of the settee. Doubtless, after this bit of brilliant wit (not!), he spent the next two weeks on crutches, to learn the difference between crutch and crotch. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Re: quiet list?
On Jun 8, 2009, at 22:15, Thurlow Weed wrote: Just wondering if it's my 'puter has done something inconsiderate, but I haven't had anything from chat since 6/2. Is the list really that quiet? Chat quieter than tech but both very quiet; not your ''puter's fault. [...] with a heavily bandaged left ring finger... Sounds like one of you took a rather drastic way of breaking up a relationship... g -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] :) Looming layoffs
I applaud the fact that my son -- who might, possibly, be facing a layoff himself, now that his firm had been sold to another one -- can still laugh... From: D.D. http://unemploymentality.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/ contstructionworkers_web.jpg or, shorter version of the URL: http://tinyurl.com/ou5ng6 -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
Re: [lace-chat] You got in Lesley!
On May 15, 2009, at 15:26, Sue Duckles wrote: Well done! Sue On 15 May 2009, at 20:20, Lesley Blackshaw wrote: Subscribe. Um. I'm not so sure. Anyone who's suscribed to Arachne (lace, the tech version) can *post* to both it and lace-chat. But you have to subscribe to lace-chat to be able to read it. And sending your subscribe request to chat doesn't do it. OTOH, I'm pretty sure that once the weekend is over Avital will sort Leslie out, and get her subscribed here too; she usually catches those mis-sent subscribe requests pretty smartly. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Re: Cantu? lace on eBay - lovely
On May 13, 2009, at 2:43, Alice Howell wrote: There's a lovely eye-candy cloth on eBay. Number 290315744166. Very nice indeed. Wonder what the reserve price is. The pictures are smaller so the lace doesn't show as well. It's only the picture at the top of the page, and click on very tiny pictures underneath it but no enlargements, at least as far as I've found. When I clicked on the picture itself, it took me to what I think the old page used to look like (I can't swear to it, since I only visit E-bay when you recommend a piece of eye candy to view g). With view the larger picture, seller's details, etc. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] :) Fwd: Economy - The Musical
The details (names) are US-oriented, but the situation is, as I understand it, global. The bit about the retirement accounts is particularly relevant in our household. From: N.N. http://www.newsday.com/media/flash/2009-04/46217527.swf -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Re: poodle skirts - moved from Lace
On May 2, 2009, at 13:25, Alice Howell wrote: Poodle Skirt -- made of a full circle of felt and decorated with a large felt poodle. Good grief! Why would anyone want a skirt made of felt? And why a poodle? Why not some other dog? Yours, A bemused foreign student of freaky native customs -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Re: poodle skirts - moved from Lace
On May 2, 2009, at 14:08, dmt11h...@aol.com (Devon) wrote: Good grief! Why would anyone want a skirt made of felt? And why a poodle? Why not some other dog? Because it was cool! Funny... I sold my parents on Cossack boots -- leather foot with leather back and front stripes and upper band and felt body -- because they were *warm* g But yeah, they were all the rage, because the felt wasn't *grey* (as in the boots of the Soviet Union army); it was *coloured*. Mine had black leather and black-and-red plaid felt. And even a wee bit of a -- slightly tapered -- heel. Way cool, though I had enough sense not to mention that aspect, because... Gawd! You sound like my parents! I never had any cool stuff. Everyone else had cool stuff. ...when I tried to get a matching jockey hat with my winter coat on the basis of everyone else has one, I got the standard parental response and if everyone else jumped off a cliff, would you? Are you a monkey, a parrot, or a thinking human being? My objection to felt skirts is that they had to have been terribly impractical. Skirts -- like most clothes -- are prone to getting stained and felt doesn't wash well; after washing, it would have, in all likelihood, looked like a poodle had chewed it. I had a full circle, *cotton* skirt, which I wore, both: with the gathered, stiffened, and boned tule underskirt -- very girlish/stylish -- and without (very sexy, with all the swish). I'm still partial to circle skirts -- cotton, wool, heavy silk -- because they drape beautifully. But felt doesn't. And then, there's the puzzling issue of the poodle, of all the many dogs available. Why *poodle*? Was it because a poodle is, basically, a very clever dog (ecept for the Royal Poodle, which is as dim-witted as I've ever come accross. Well.. There's also the Dalmatian...), but which is made to *look* silly, to satisfy some perverse tradition? Like the girls of that era, who had to hide their light under a bushel and pretend to be stupid, so that they'd look ladylike? And, Clay... I never thought that wearing a fancy bra instead of a blouse was cool, (or sensible), either, so don't ask *me* why someone would want to do it :) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] :) Fwd: Confused
Got this one from an Arachnean, who, apparently, has more delicate sensibilities than I do and didn't post it to the list... From: S.M. I became confused when I heard these terms with reference to the word 'service'. Canada Revenue 'Service' Postal 'Service' Telephone 'Service' Cable TV 'Service' Civil 'Service' Federal, City, County Public 'Service' Customer 'Service' This is not what I thought 'service' meant. I was really confused. But today, I overheard two farmers talking, and one of them said he had hired a bull to 'service' a few cows. BAM!!! It all came into focus. Now I understand what all those 'service' agencies are doing to us. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Click against breast cancer
I know some of you click daily but I thought I'd remind you. And/or get some new clickers to help them get to their goal. http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=2 Oh, and once you're there... Look at the top of the screen. There are 5 other good causes (hunger, child health, literacy, rainforest and animal rescue) that you can click on too. So, why don't you. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] :) Tequilla!
And, speaking of advertisements... Here's another good one: From: M.D. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7nbmjkImHQ Some weeks are like that; nothing but ads on my 'puter screen... -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Re: perspective
On Apr 16, 2009, at 10:15, Clay Blackwell wrote: Be sure to go to the end... Yeah, the end does make it funny. But, as to the front... Michael Jordan having retired, with $40 million in endorsements, makes $178,100 a day, working or not. *Only*, if he didn't invest it, with either institutional (AIG, Citi, etc) or individual (Madoff, Sir Stanford) scammers... :) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Fwd: Frolicking with the Fishes
Oh, wow! Move the mouse, slowly, to lead the fish by the nose; especially nice if you run the mouse around the fish, in circles. You can change the fish (left-hand side), or the background (right-hand side) for more variety. From: M.D. http://www.sharkbreak.com/ -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Re: Short video of my son playing the guitar
On Apr 14, 2009, at 6:56, Avital wrote: Because so many of you have heard about my son since he was very young, I feel like he has several hundred lace-making aunties. ;-) This is a one-minute video of my son playing the guitar (acoustic -- he usually leaves his electric guitar at school because the amplifier is too bulky to drag home by bus on weekends): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFVsJwUO6oQ How very, very nice... Guitar (accoustic; I never had much use for the electric) has long been my favourite instrument. I even gave it a try (when I was 12) but was too lazy to practice properly and gave it up after a year. Piano -- the instrument my son played for 10yrs (6-16) -- is *almost* as nice, but not quite. Still... It was lovely to push my bobbins around while he practiced. I love strings, but only if they're struck or plucked; can't stand violin... -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Re: Tofu, anyone?
On Apr 10, 2009, at 13:09, Kim Davis wrote: Didn't know there was anyone in the world who actually felt passionate about tofu.hard to imagine. Well... I'm a dedicated carnivorous animal but, like the lady of the story, I too love tofu (as in: bean curd, not the other meaning); loved it from the moment I first tasted it. Not enough to parade the sentiment on my licence plate (my licence plate says T N LACE), but enough to have it once a week or so... -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Fwd: Tofu, anyone?
Poor vegetarian lady... I'm afraid that her idea of the license plate would have been turned down in Virginia as well (our DMV is *very* vigilant regarding vanity plates obscenities) but, what a hoot! http://coloradoindependent.com/26088/colorado-dmv-nixes-tofu-vanity- plate-citing-obscenity-concern -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Re: Dangerous chocolate cake recipe
On Apr 2, 2009, at 10:24, Sue (Harvey) wrote: p.s. re the eating of too much chocolate a friend of mine remarked the other day have you noticed how most lacemakers have a large rear end? You need a goodly amount of padding to spend the hours and hours needed to sit and enjoy making lace :) But, vis the lacemakers' figures, my husband -- the chocolate eater in the family; I prefer sauerkraut myself g -- observed the same thing. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Punctuate!
A friend sent me a blurb from a blog about this T-shirt, which I found totally irresistible. Got one for myself and one for my son but every reader (and/or teacher) should, at least, get a chuckle out of it http://www.sackwear.com/product_info.php?products_id=34 -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Customs (was: Crocodiles etc....)
On Mar 10, 2009, at 18:31, Thurlow Weed wrote: The Customs agent, however, was quite prepared to confiscate the rum and write up some official-looking paperwork, and probably have us all detained for attempting the smuggled contraband rum into the U.S. Ah, customs officers... dumber than the Polack cops :) Coming back with my mother to Poland from Hungary one year, we had a suitcase full of plain white ceramic tiles. The purpose was to enclose the huge, free-standing bathub in our apartment. Both countries were democratic, like Sue's Cuba (translates into poor), but each had different things that were lacking and/or available (from what I've heard, USSR was the exception -- it was lacking *everythng*). In Poland, ceramic tiles were in short supply; in Hungary, they were easily available, so we availed ourselves of some (especially since Hungary had plenty of suitcases, too) and were lugging them home. The train hits the Czech/Polish border, the (Polish) customs officer comes on board, is eyes bug-out at the suitcase (which we dutifully declared) and he starts searching through his book -- as thick as a large city phone book -- to find out what we owe in customs duty... Half an hour later *no ceramic tiles!*, no matter how dilligently he searches. So, he writes: stove; disassembled and finds out there's no duty on such... I was only 13 at the time, but was already working hard at developing my twisted sense of humour and my appreciation of the absurd. Had to leave the compartment and hide in the bathroom to have my laugh in peace and quiet, without drawing the wrath of the very red-faced and irate official. Good days, good days... -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] :) Fwd: signs of the times
I'm told this is a global problem, so I thought I'd send it to an international audience... From: D.D. http://laughingsquid.com/street-signs-of-the-times/ -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Re: Deer: was: A Little Canadian Humor
On Mar 1, 2009, at 16:12, dmt11h...@aol.com (Devon) wrote: I would think it would be hard enough to kill a deer with a bow at all, Hey, that's how all deer was hunted in the days of interest (when lace was still a novelty). And, like everything else, practice makes perfect :) Bow hunting is quite a popular sport, according to my stepdaughter's husband. He and his father get a deer, each, with a shotgun and then one, each, with a bow (slightly different season for each weapon -- longer for the bow). They keep the meat of one deer for the two families and donate the rest. But, they don't hunt in any urban zones. That, I've never heard of. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] :) The mystery of Ireland's worst driver
Back when I still lived in Poland, we had a lot of jokes about dumb cops. When I came here, I found that every one of them had been translated and retold as dumb Polack jokes. And here's one -- actually a true story, apparently -- which is also about Polacks and about dumb cops, but... From: J.S D.D. (simultaneously) ** The mystery of Ireland's worst driver ** Details of how police in Ireland finally caught up with the country's most reckless driver emerge. http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/1/hi/northern_ireland/7899171.stm -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] low tech fixes for high tech problems
We've seen articles on how to clean various things -- mostly textiles -- before. I found this one particularly interesting because it's different. Apologies to those who read New York Times on a regular basis and have seen it already. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/technology/personaltech/ 19basics.html?pagewanted=1em -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] :) Fwd: Lost in Translation
One of the very few jokes which I have never seen before and priceless... Sorry, J; you should have sent it to the chat yourself :) From: J.F. Mafia Godfather finds out that his bookkeeper has cheated him out of ten million bucks. His bookkeeper is deaf. That was the reason he got the job in the first place. It was assumed that a deaf bookkeeper would not hear anything that he might have to testify about in court. When the Godfather goes to confront the bookkeeper about his missing $10 million, he brings along his attorney, who knows sign language. The Godfather tells the lawyer 'Ask him where the 10 million bucks he embezzled from me is?' The attorney, using sign language, asks the bookkeeper. The bookkeeper signs back: 'I don't know what you are talking about.' The attorney tells the Godfather: 'He says he doesn't know what you're talking about.' The Godfather pulls out a pistol, puts it to the bookkeeper's temple and says, 'Ask him again!' The attorney signs to the bookkeeper: 'He'll kill you if you don´t tell him!' The bookkeeper signs back: 'OK! You win! The money is in a brown briefcase, buried behind the shed in my cousin Enzo's backyard in Queens !' The Godfather asks the attorney: 'Well, what'd he say?' The attorney replies: 'He says you don't have the balls to pull the trigger.' -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Re: Fw: Political Spin.
On Jan 30, 2009, at 12:17, Alice Howell wrote: I rarely send a laugh to Chat, but this one really made me laughand I wanted to share it. The original message had a picture of the guy but I knew it wouldn't go on the list so I left it out. NOW THAT is how it's done folks! That's real Political SPIN. Harry Reid is a spineless wuss :) When I dug up a less-than-reputable relative of my husband's (Claude Duval, gentleman highwayman, hanged at the crossroads), Severn simply said: we don't talk about him, dear. When, more recently, I mentioned his relationship to Dick Cheney, the answer was pretty much the same: we don't talk about *him*, either. Subject closed. You keep your black sheep in the attic closet and never open it :) PS. Alice, sorry I didn't answer your -- long-ago -- message. Things get out of hand periodically and, since you won't need a ride from and to the airport, it seemed less urgent than some other stuff. I'll see you at Sweet Briar, on the first day; I'll be helping Clay at the registration desk and will stay for supper. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] :) Fwd: Up in the air
From: R.P. His request approved, the news photographer quickly used a cell phone to call the local airport to charter a flight. He was told a twin engine plane would be waiting for him at the airport. Arriving at the airfield, he spotted a plane warming up outside a hangar. He jumped in with his bag, slammed the door shut, and shouted, 'Let's go'. The pilot taxied out, swung the plane into the wind and took off. Once in the air, the photographer instructed the pilot, 'Fly over the valley and make low passes so I can take pictures of the fires on the hillsides.' 'Why?' asked the pilot. 'Because I'm a photographer for Fox Cable News,' he responded. 'And I need to get some close up shots.' The pilot was strangely silent for a moment, finally he stammered, 'So, what you're telling me, is ... you're NOT my flight instructor?' -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Re: Need Help Identifying Pulled Thread Embroidery Design
On Jan 27, 2009, at 10:39, Lois Mackin wrote: I would like to know if anyone can identify the design. Is it American? Is it Polish? Is it Lithuanian? Can anyone suggest a date? Probably not Polish. I don't know much about Polish embroidery but, according to the book I have (Polski haft ludowy -- Polish Folk Embroidery), what little of pulled-thread embroidery there was, seemed to have been done in the western and central parts of Poland, not in the eastern part. And it was mostly floral, rather than geometric, the way your piece is. But I can't say for certain-sure; negative evidence is always less illuminating than positive evidence. It's not in the book, but does it mean it wasn't made, or that none srvived (the book deals with costumes, rather than home furnishings), or that the author didn't come accross any examples? -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Re: Agnes and the world of measures
On Jan 22, 2009, at 9:29, Malvary J Cole wrote: Tamara wrote: denaro (d.) = 1/24of an ounce (used for precious metals, etc) carato (ct.) = 1.24 of an ounce (used for larger gemstones, pearls, etc.) What gets me are the last two. Same weight. Both, basically, used to measure precious items (though in two different kinds of businesses). But two names... Go figure :) I respectfully disagree with Tamara's interpretation. That's 'cause Tamara's two remaining brain cells shortcircuited temporarily and she messed up when typing the numbers in :) In the book, both denaro and carato are shown as being 1/24 of an ounce. So, the puzzle persists though, had the numbers been as I'd typed them, you'd have been correct (denaro being a tiny fraction of an ounce and carato almost an ounce and a quarter). And Jean Nathan wrote: libbra for a pound explains why we use the abbreviation lb. for it. I've always wondered about that. It explains more than the abbreviation for pound, I think. In the summer of 1968, my first trip to England, y'all still had the old money system too (and a major pain in the butt it was, too, to learn how to manipulate numbers in it). I had no problem figuring out that sh stood for shilling and why. But, try as I might I could never figure out the abbreviations for *either* the pound *or* the pence. And now I know... L for pound -- from libbra (the scales) and d for denaro -- 1/24th of a pound (1pound= 20shillings. 1shilling =12pence) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Re: Agnes and the world of measures
On Jan 21, 2009, at 18:06, Thurlow Weed wrote: One that has intrigued me, as there seem to be several values, is the stone. Different values for different commodities. One of the books I've been paging through slowly in the past few weeks has an appendix with Currency and Measures in Rennaisance Florence. The following weights are listed: libbra (l.) = pound (ca 300g) oncia (on.) = ounce (1/12 of a pound) denaro (d.) = 1/24of an ounce (used for precious metals, small pearls bought in bulk for embroidery, silver and gold buttons, and other gilded and silvered dress ornaments, and for silve wire) carato (ct.) = 1.24 of an ounce (used for larger gemstones, pearls, etc.) What gets me are the last two. Same weight. Both, basically, used to measure precious items (though in two different kinds of businesses). But two names... Go figure :) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Re: Thanks Janice
On Jan 20, 2009, at 10:28, Agnes Boddington wrote: I am very bad at yards! You and me both :) I've been here for 35yr and I still think in metric... Brought with me from Poland scales which weigh in grams and kilos, every thermometer in the house has both Celsius and Farenheit, and every measuring cup, tailor's tape and ruler has markings for both the metric and the weird. How many meters is that? 1yard=3feet=36inches=90cm It's easiest to remember that a foot is 30cm and that there are three of them in every yard. So, Sue's 5yds is 30x3x5. That is, 450cm or 4.5meters -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
Re: [lace-chat] New baby
On Jan 18, 2009, at 8:56, Clay Blackwell wrote: (Am I the only one who got four copies of this message?) No, I got 4 copies also; Jane must be super happy with the baby and no wonder :) Congratulations, Jane! -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Re: big birthdays
On Jan 10, 2009, at 7:09, Agnes Boddington wrote: We have a few of big birthdays coming up this year: So are we :) Severn (my husband) will be 85 in March, my stepdaughter will be 50 in July, my step-daughter-in-law will be 60 in August, my cousin in Poland (closest I have to a sister) will be 75 later in the same month, my sister-in-law will be 80 in September, and I'll be 60 in October. The only ones out of tune with this march of fives are the small fry (the younger generation)... :) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Re: Where are you all
On Jan 7, 2009, at 20:30, Dora Northern wrote: It is very lonely without any E-mail, so please Lacers think about the Loners and write something. Always happy to oblige... Something. Happy New Year, Dora! -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Re: Easter!!!!!!
On Jan 5, 2009, at 4:18, Patty Dowden wrote: The absolute end will come when greeting cards are available with the motto Happy Everything! Actually... A friend once sent me (electronically, so I doubt the card is available in stores) something along those lines. The picture shows a figure, with a rabbit-y face and Santa-ish beard and mustache, dressed in a Santa-ish red coat trimmed with white fur but seems to have a trail behind, which is shaped like an opn turkey tail. The -- black, with orange ribbon -- hat is shaped like witch's hat, but the long tip ends in Santa-ish pom-pom. Additionally, a pair of raindeer horns sprouts from the ribbon as does a pair o rabbity ears. The centre i decorated with a four-leaf clover. The text says: It would save me a lot of trouble, if you'd put this on your fridge and leave it up all year... So I did. It's been up there now 4 or 5 yrs and is a tad dingy, but still going strong :) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Re: Christmas food shopping - just how much can people eat?
On Dec 23, 2008, at 17:45, Agnes Boddington wrote: [...] like you I cannot believe how much food people are buying: do they really expect to eat all that in one day? It's all those Polack immigrants y'all now have in UK :) Our Christmas tradition is to: pig out on Christmas Eve (beginning with the first star and ending at midnight), follow it up with another pig-out (or two) on Christmas Day (no longer meatless, hurrah!) and spend Dec 26th in the hospital, having your stomach pumped. Even though I'm a dedicated atheist, I don't mind people wishing me a Merry Christmas; I figure I can use whatever goodwill is going around, for whatever reason. I answer them and the same to you and everybody's happy. So, I guess, I won't be joining Sue and Jean on the soapbox :) Vis gifts... This year, due to the dreadful economy, we decided that only the children get gifts; it doesn't bother me, because that's how it was in Poland anyway. Adults... We're donating money -- in one another's name -- to charities. Food Bank, Free Clinic, library, Doctors Without Borders, CARE... So many causes, so little money... charities are suffering more than ever, while being needed more than ever too. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
Re: [lace-chat] Polish imigrants
On Dec 24, 2008, at 13:52, Jean Nathan wrote: Most of them have gone home to Poland. But left their bad habits behind, as a little Chrismas gift, maybe? :) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] :) Fwd: Putting your affairs in order
From: R.P. A woman went to her doctor. The doctor, after an examination, sighed and said, 'I've some bad news. You have cancer, and you'd best put your affairs in order.' The woman was shocked, but managed to compose herself and walk into the waiting room where her daughter had been waiting. 'Well daughter, we women celebrate when things are good, and we celebrate when things don't go so well. In this case, things aren't well. I have cancer. Let's head to the club and have a martini.' After 3 or 4 martinis, the two were feeling a little less somber. There were some laughs and more martinis. They were eventually approached by some of the woman's old friends, who were curious as to what the two were celebrating. The woman told her friends they were drinking to her impending end. 'I've been diagnosed with AIDS.' The friends were aghast and gave the woman their condolences. After the friends left, the daughter leaned over and whispered, 'Momma, I thought you said you were dying of cancer, and you just told your friends you were dying of AIDS.' The woman said, 'I don't want any of them sleeping with your father after I'm gone.' Now, that's 'Putting Your Affairs In Order'! -- 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] :) Fwd: Windows
I may have seen this one before. It's still as funny as ever, though, so I'm forwarding. Wish my husband thought of that one, years ago, when we equipped the house with storm windows. But then... he had never been a blonde and that path of thought is not something that comes naturally to him, alas :) From: M.D. Last year I replaced all the windows in my house with an expensive double-pane energy efficient kind. Today, I got a call from the contractor who installed them. He was complaining that the work had been completed a whole year ago, and I still hadn't paid for them. Well, helll,... just because I'm blonde doesn't mean that I am automatically stupid. So, I told him exactly what his fast talking sales guy had told me last year, that in ONE YEAR these windows would pay for themselves! Helllo? It's been a year! I told him. There was only silence at the other end of the line, so I finally just hung up. He never called back. Guess I won that stupid argument. I bet he felt like an idiot. -- 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: Something slightly different-recession strategy
Late to the table... :) On Nov 20, 2008, at 12:35, Avital wrote: If I wanted to sell my work, however, I wouldn't sell greeting cards because they're simply not very popular in Israel. There are fewer card-oriented holidays and so many people have Internet, so it's much easier to send e-cards. Still... The best-ever Christmas card I got (admittedly, some 25 yrs ago, before the e-cards became popular) came from Israel: Golden sand at the bottom, relentlessly-blue sky on top, broken by a single star pointing to a falling down, isolated (no other buildings in sight, unlike in the story), stable... The three kings approach on their camels... Joseph stands in front of of the stable and yells to them: It's a goy! Can't remember when I laughed harder than that. -- 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: store closings- check Snopes
On Nov 25, 2008, at 19:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Who else carries Women's Petite sizes suitable for the short fat woman? Any store in Poland; that's our standard silhouette :) It' short and skinny (like me) that have always been in trouble... As for the difficulties of redeeming gift cards, due to stores going belly up There was an article in NYT (over the weekend, I think) which talked about it. Even if a store in a chain hasn't closed, it may still refuse to redeem the cards (many have term limits). My general take away was don't give gift cards for Christmas this year. Not that I did all that often, even before this mess. A gift card limits the recipient to a particular place, which may or may not be to his/her taste. If you don't know what to get a person, best send a check; greenbacks can be spent *anywhere*. -- 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: store closings- check Snopes
On Nov 26, 2008, at 11:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A gift card is a gift to a specific store, not so much the recipient. I believe they also gave the statistic that 27% of gift cards are not redeemed. Which is one way the store hopes to profit. But, even if you do redeem the card, it's very hard to buy something for the exact amount the card gives you. As the store isn't likely to return the rest in cash, you invariably end up shelling out of your own pocket to cover up the difference between the value of the card and the price of the item/items you want. The only time I enjoyed getting a gift card to a particular place was when it was to a store which had very few actual outlets (none in our area) and operated mostly through a catalogue. Both my husband and I sat down together and made our -- general -- picks. I then adjusted the list this way and that for days, until, including shipping, I was only 3 cents under the card's value and called it in (toll-free). The order-receiving clerk at the other end of the line was dumb-struck at how perfectly I managed to fit things in. -- 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: Another paper cutting
On Nov 17, 2008, at 17:25, Clay Blackwell wrote: Gosh, you two... I hope you don't get arrested for shipping hazardous sharp objects!!! You can't take them with you on a plane (but that's true about every country now) but, a craft knife with spare blades, safely packed and declared on a mailing slip? What's dangerous about that? It's not a hand grenade or a loaded gun. -- 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: Spanish Lace Areas
Just asking are there any areas in the north of Spain (Barcelona to the border) which are worth visiting for lace? Post your question on lace, not on lace-chat. I know there's at least one lacemaker in the Barcelona catchment area (Carolina de la Guardia), who'll be able to answer your question but she doesn't read lace-chat. -- 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] :) Fwd: Japanese banks
Don't know why it hadn't gone straight to the chat; perfectly innocent, while funny... From: M.C. JAPAN 'S BANKING INSTITUTIONS IN TROUBLE Following the problems in the financial sector in the US , uncertainty has now hit Japan . In the last 7 days the Origami Bank has folded, the Sumo Bank has gone belly up and the Bonsai Bank announced plans to cut some of its branches. Yesterday, it was announced that the Karaoke Bank is up for sale and will likely go for a song, while today's shares in the Kamikaze Bank were suspended after they nose-dived. While Samurai Bank is soldiering on following sharp cuts, the Ninja Bank is reported to have taken a hit, but they remain in the black. Furthermore, 500 staff at Karate Bank got the chop and analysts report that there is something fishy going on at the Sushi Bank where it is feared that staff may get a raw deal. -- 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] :) Fwd: At last - a candidate we can trust!
Got this from a friend and kept it as is but, since it's interactive, you may find someone more suitable as a replacement to send to *your* friends... :) From: C. B. *New Presidential Candidate... It's someone we know!* Hi, T! There's an effort to elect an unknown random person as President... and it's someone we know! Watch this online video about the surprising new nominee: http://www.tsgnet.com/pres.php?id=46832altf=Ubnbsbaltl=Evwbmm -- 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: Tatting Stool
On Oct 12, 2008, at 9:33, Joy Beeson wrote: This URL was posted on TechTat: http://www.lvrj.com/furniture_and_design/30835964.html Have you ever seen anything so magnificently garbled? Sounded like a piece of... erm... stool, to me. -- 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: Your own playful Arachnid!
On Oct 5, 2008, at 12:34, Clay Blackwell wrote: http://www.onemotion.com/flash/spider/ She won't stay in Poland. Off to France. Off to Belgium and Holland. Off to Italy. Even off to Russia once and to Denmark once. And she'll go there even if there are no bugs for her to feed on. No wonder there's so little lace in Poland! -- 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: Is this your bank??
On Oct 2, 2008, at 12:10, Agnes Boddington wrote: BBC News has broadcast the following conversation from a banker: So, you want to withdraw the money you deposited with us? Yes, well, I'm afraid we can't give you back your money because we don't have it. Unfortunately, this is true. There was an article today (somewhere; I read so much stuff, I no longer remember the sources. Might have been New York Times), which said that colleges/universities which have money deposited with banks (ie most if not all of them), can now draw out only 10% of their own, deposited, funds... -- 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]
Re: [lace-chat] microwave popcorn
On Sep 30, 2008, at 12:22, Bev Walker wrote: I don't know if anyone outside North America is into popcorn. The first time I ever saw and tasted popcorn was in Bulgaria, when I was 13. It took me another decade and a trip here, before I tasted it again... -- 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] :) Just checkin' on you...
From: M.D. http://pages.suddenlink.net/baraboo57/checkingonu.html -- 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] :) Fwd: be fruitful multiply
From: R.P. Whatever you give a woman, she's going to multiply. If you give her sperm, she'll give you a baby. If you give her a house, she'll give you a home. If you give her groceries, she'll give you a meal. If you give her a smile, she'll give you her heart. She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her. So - if you give her any crap, you will receive a ton of s**t. -- 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]
Re: [lace-chat] Messages going to the wrong file
On Sep 1, 2008, at 21:13, Linda Bill Mitchell wrote: At least now I have been alerted I shall check regularly. Patricia in Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) So just how is that done in Internet Explorer? I about as compuliterate as Tamara! That's why I'm not on Internet Explorer; anything Windows exceeds my 2-cell-gray-matter capacity :) -- 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: Messages going to the wrong file
On Sep 1, 2008, at 21:52, Martha Krieg wrote: At 9:15 PM +0100 9/1/08, Brenda Paternoster wrote: Those emails are not from legitimate banks - they are spam. No real bank would ever send you an unsolicited email asking you to verify your details. Just hit the delete button, and DONT reply. Worse than just spam - they are phishing, hoping to entice you into entering your information, so they can rip you off. Even if it is your very own bank where you have accounts, NEVER fill in that sort of detail when requested by an e-mail. Watch out for phone calls, too. The first time I got a we're calling about your credit card account call, I nearly had a heart attack. It was only with the second sentence -- there's nothing wrong with it, at this time -- that I relaxed enough to slam the receiver down. And it took another few finutes *afterwards* to realize that a) they never said whose account they were talking about (my DH and I have separate cards, from two different banks) or, b) which bank they were supposed to be representing. I've had 2 more calls like it since and, both times, I put the receiver down after the first sentence. Maybe, next time around, I'll have enough fortitude to listen to the entire pitch... -- 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] :) Fwd: A word to the wiseguy
OK. I must admit I don't believe this; it has to be a clever case of Photoshop or something. Even so... it's funny. From: B.B. http://www.laughandlift.com/cartoonhumor/128.jpg -- 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] :) Fwd: Signs of humor
I remember seeing something *similar* before, but not this particular set... From: B. B. Sign over a Gynecologist's Office: 'Dr. Jones, at your cervix.' ** In a Podiatrist's office: Time Wounds All Heels. ** On a Septic Tank Truck: Yesterday's Meals--on Wheels ** At a Proctologist's door: To expedite your visit, please back in. ** On a Plumber's truck: We Repair What Your Husband Fixed ** On another Plumber's truck: Don't sleep with a drip; Call your plumber! ** On a Church's Billboard: 7 days without God makes one weak. ** At a Tire Shop in Milwaukee: Invite us to your next blowout. ** At a Towing company: We don't charge an arm and a leg: We want tows. ** On an Electrician's truck: Let Us Remove Your Shorts ** In a Nonsmoking Area: If we see smoke, we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action. ** On a Maternity Room door: Push. Push. Push! ** At an Optometrist's Office: If you don't see what you're looking for, you've come to the right place. ** On a Taxidermist's window: We really know our stuff. ** On a Fence: Salesmen Welcome! Dog Food Is Expensive! ** At a Car Dealership: The best way to get back on your feet: miss a car payment. ** Outside a Muffler Shop: No appointment necessary; We hear you coming. ** In a Veterinarian's waiting room: Be back in 5 minutes. Sit! Stay! ** At the Electric Company We will be de-lighted if you send in your payment. However, if you don't, you will be. ** In a Restaurant window: Don't stand there and be hungry; come on in and get fed up. ** In the front yard of a Funeral Home: Drive carefully! We'll wait... ** At a Propane Filling Station: Thank heaven for little grills. ** Sign at a CHICAGO RADIATOR SHOP: Best place in town to take a leak ** Sign on the back of another Septic Tank Truck: CAUTION - This Truck is Full of Political Promises -- 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:Dutch Book Question
On Aug 15, 2008, at 21:51, Helen Clarke wrote: Hi, I am hoping that you wonderful people can help with identifying a book for me. A relative of mine (by marriage) grew up in Holland having been born there in 1946. She remembers reading a book as a child and can't remember the title/author/whatever. She thinks it was about a boy in a lift and the lift didn't stop when it reached the top floor so the boy had adventures as a result. Can anyone help at all? Cannot help with the title or the author but... As a child (I was born in '49) I saw a *film* where this very thing -- elevator cabin going past the building's roof and straight into the sky, resulting in all kinds of fascinating adventures -- happened. Perhaps *that* will jog someone's memory? I'm pretty sure it was a bit later than such children's classics of my time as The Red Balloon (Ballon rouge, France 1956) or, in Poland anyway, The Little Donkey of Magdana (USSR, 1956) and some Italian ones of the same period. I think I must have been around 10 when I saw 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]
[lace-chat] Re: Guess What?
On Jul 13, 2008, at 7:41, Sue Duckles wrote: So a day of coffee, good music, sun and making lace! Happy birthday and happy lacemaking, Sue! Sounds like even Mother Nature is participating in the celebrations :) -- 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]
Re: [lace-chat] Dictionary with Word
On Jul 10, 2008, at 3:24, Jean Nathan wrote: I used to find the results of spell checking people's names hilarious, I used to find the results gratifying :) Years ago, one of the Arachnes told me that, when she tried to write Duvall, the suggested alternative came as ducal. And so, I became a Duchess, for a season... Sue Duckles wrote: My childrens favourites whith ridicilus acsesible Rediculous seems to have become the alternative spelling of ridiculous all over Virginia. Must be something in the water... -- 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] :) Fwd: Authority of the Federal Government
OK. *Even I* remember (though vaguely) that this is not a new one. But, it's still funny... From: M.D. A Texas Department of Water representative stopped at a ranch and talked with an old rancher. He told the rancher, I need to inspect your ranch to verify that you are following your water allocation rules. The old rancher said, Okay, but don't go in that field over there. The Water representative said, Mister, I have the authority of the Federal Government with me. See this card? This card means I am allowed to go WHEREVER I WISH on any agricultural land. No questions asked or answered. Have I made myself clear? Do you understand? The old rancher nodded politely and went about his chores. Later, the old rancher heard loud screams and saw the Water Rep running for the fence and close behind was the rancher's bull. The bull was gaining on the Water Rep with every step. The Water Rep was clearly terrified, so the old rancher immediately threw down his tools, ran to the fence and shouted out... Your card! Show him your card! -- 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] HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY
Click on this and launch your own fireworks: http://www.julyparade.org/fireworks.html -- 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: quoting selected text in emails
On Jun 30, 2008, at 4:59, Louise Bailey wrote: Sadly programs such as Outlook are rather stupid when it comes to replying, and includes the whole message by default. So, what you do... Use Reply, which, as you say, includes the entire message. Then, highlight the text you *don't* want, and hit delete. You're left with only the desired portion of the text. You may need to do it more than once, if your desired text is in the middle of bigger block (ie you want to delete both aove and below the selected quote) but it's stll a lot simpler than all this copy, paste, etc... Yours, about to highlight and delete the rest of you message, -- 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] :) Fwd: Shampoo
Begin forwarded message: From: R.P. While shopping in a food store, two nuns happened to pass by the beer, wine, and liquor section. One asked the other if she would like a beer. The second nun answered that, indeed, it would be very nice to have one, but that she would feel uncomfortable about purchasing it. The first nun replied that she would handle that without a problem. She picked up a six-pack and took it to the cashier. The cashier had a surprised look, so the nun said, 'This is for washing our hair.' Without blinking an eye, the cashier reached under the counter and put a package of pretzel sticks in the bag with the beer. 'The curlers are on me.' -- 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: origin of a word
On Jun 12, 2008, at 11:47, David in Ballarat wrote: The ive ending is usually reserved for adjectives. Know any other similar examples of nouns? Prerogative. Palliative. Motive. All function as both nouns and adjectives, as does detective. I think all of them are, probably, of French origin and ended, originally, in -if. One of these days, who knows, we may be having an aperitive in the afternoon :) -- 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]
