[lace-chat] returned mail

2005-11-09 Thread Micki
I have been trying to reach Dora Northern but your email account is down - according to the email reports I get when I try and email you. could you email me please? thanks Micki Cameron Scotland To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PR

[lace-chat] Re: Willy Nilly

2005-11-09 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On Nov 9, 2005, at 23:43, Joy Beeson wrote: At 06:17 PM 11/9/05 -0500, Tamara P Duvall wrote: Going through the dictionary I just spotted another word pronounced the same way, but which she never mentioned: wether... Probably didn't want to have to explain how the wether got that way . . .

[lace-chat] Re: Willy Nilly

2005-11-09 Thread Joy Beeson
At 06:17 PM 11/9/05 -0500, Tamara P Duvall wrote: > Going through the dictionary I just spotted another word pronounced the > same way, but which she never mentioned: wether... Probably didn't want to have to explain how the wether got that way . . . -- Joy Beeson http://home.earthlink.net/~j

[lace-chat] :) Fwd: How Do You Get To Heaven?

2005-11-09 Thread Tamara P Duvall
With the omission of a single - unprintable and rather teenage - word, this is acceptable for chat, and funny. For the sticklers, I'll replace the omitted word with [...] :) From: D.C. I was testing the children in my Sunday school class to see if they understood the concept of getting to

[lace-chat] Secret pal thanks

2005-11-09 Thread Win Lambert
I'm just back from our post box with TWO parcels full of all sorts of goodies from my secret pal - divider pins, notelets, Christmas decorations, bobbins (the glass one was sadly broken) candles, bead box and reading light and The Little Lace Book. Well worth waiting for the October parcel to h

[lace-chat] :) Fwd: Parents and sex

2005-11-09 Thread Tamara P Duvall
I remember some childhood traumas of my own, on the subject... :) From: R.P. By Anderson Cooper Editor's note: Anderson Cooper anchors CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360°," which airs weeknights at 10 p.m. ET. He also is a regular contributor for Details . I used to think there was nothing worse tha

[lace-chat] Re: wether

2005-11-09 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On Nov 9, 2005, at 21:05, BrambleLane (Margaret in PA) wrote: Some years back, out kid raised a wether as a 4-H project. We named it 'Lunch', and although he understood the whole process/purpose (we ate it ourselves), he still cried when it was auctioned off at the fair. Well, there's a pre

RE: [lace-chat] Re: wether

2005-11-09 Thread BrambleLane
Some years back, out kid raised a wether as a 4-H project. We named it 'Lunch', and although he understood the whole process/purpose (we ate it ourselves), he still cried when it was auctioned off at the fair. (I think it was because the other kids were crying over theirs, too.) The idea is that

[lace-chat] Re: Willy Nilly

2005-11-09 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On Nov 9, 2005, at 9:07, Helen wrote: If you want to know any more, have a look here http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-wil2.htm Thanks for the site, Helen. Reading that explanation made me realise that one reason I took to "willy-nilly" like duck to water is that, in Polish, we us

Re: [lace-chat] Willy Nilly

2005-11-09 Thread Helen
If you want to know any more, have a look here http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-wil2.htm Helen At 17:03 08/11/2005, David Collyer wrote: Dear Tamara & other interested Friends, and make the best of the situation, willy nilly... Now there's a phrase with a history! Did you kno

[lace-chat] Willy Nilly

2005-11-09 Thread David Collyer
Dear Tamara & other interested Friends, and make the best of the situation, willy nilly... Now there's a phrase with a history! Did you know that the original version of "willy nilly" was "Will I? Nill I."? Came across it just this afternoon in a medieval novel I'm reading. David in Balla