[lace-chat] why females should not go out after they are married ....

2012-05-08 Thread Agnes Boddington
Why females should avoid a girls night out after they are married If this does not make you laugh out loud, you have lost your sense of humour. The other night I was invited out for a night with the 'girls.' I told my husband that I would be home by midnight, 'I promise!' Well, the hours

[lace-chat] Why Spiders Don't Get Stuck in their Webs

2012-03-30 Thread Vicki Bradford
Dear Spiders, Unlike those of us addicted to weaving our webs with threads for hours on end (isn't that being stuck? vbg), our 8-legged namesake doesn't. This video explains why: http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/201203302 Enjoy! Vicki in Marylandwho really likes spider

[lace-chat] Why?

2010-04-06 Thread Agnes Boddington
Why, Why, Why Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are getting weak? Why do banks charge a fee due to insufficient funds when they already know you're broke? Why is it that when someone tells you that there are one billion stars in the universe, you

Re: [lace-chat] Why Me

2008-08-30 Thread Scotlace
David's message came through with all the other Arachne mail. So, using the 'This is not spam' button would seem to make a permanent change. Patricia in Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

[lace-chat] Why me

2008-08-30 Thread Jean Nathan
David wrote: perhaps someone can explain to ME why I am being regarded as Spam. All my lace and lace-chat receipts were marked spam until I marked them otherwise because I was getting so many of them. DH often got his emails marked as spam when he tried to send them to friends because he'd

Re: [lace-chat] Why Me

2008-08-30 Thread Dora Smith
AM Subject: Re: [lace-chat] Why Me At 01:53 AM 31/08/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David's message came through with all the other Arachne mail. So, using the 'This is not spam' button would seem to make a permanent change. Great - now I can go to bed and rest easy. Tomorrow is the first

Re: [lace-chat] Why do I?.....

2008-03-18 Thread Joy Beeson
On 3/8/08 12:56 PM, Sue Duckles wrote: . . . last week I 'volunteered' to take over the production and editing of our quarterly magazine!! Shades of 'I can do that'!! I was hoping that someone else would volunteer too but, as usual in these situations, everyone else took a step

Re: [lace-chat] Why do I?.....

2008-03-18 Thread Sue Duckles
Hi Joyce I'm not sure if it's just me being thick. but I can't open any of the 'files' on the site maybe they don't work with an apple mac? The newsletter's not coming on too badly... I've only got half of it to fill!!! Sue I edited a monthly for twelve years. In 1989, I wrote

Re: [lace-chat] Why do I?.....

2008-03-18 Thread Brenda Paternoster
Sue These are Unix Manual files - with the extension .MAN They opened for me in Text Edit and in Word, but both versions show bits of odd formatting code. I'm using MAC OSX 10.3. Click on the link and a small window pops up with the option to save to disc or open with, choose. Select Word

Re: [lace-chat] Why do I?.....

2008-03-18 Thread Sue Duckles
Thanks for that Brenda. I forced it to open in text edit and it worked!! (agreed, there was the odd bits of code, but at least I can read it!!) BTW I'm using OSX 10.5.2 (Leopard...) Thanks Joy. Will now download all of it!! Sue On 18 Mar 2008, at 17:55, Brenda Paternoster wrote: Sue

Re: [lace-chat] Why do I?.....

2008-03-18 Thread Joy Beeson
On 3/18/08 12:55 PM, Brenda Paternoster wrote: These are Unix Manual files - with the extension .MAN They opened for me in Text Edit and in Word, but both versions show bits of odd formatting code. I'm sure glad you answered before I did -- I'd forgotten that the extensions were MAN. These

[lace-chat] Why do I?.....

2008-03-08 Thread Sue Duckles
Hello fellow Spiders Why do I open my mouth and volunteer for extra work. We've just had our Lace Group AGM, and last week I 'volunteered' to take over the production and editing of our quarterly magazine!! Shades of 'I can do that'!! I was hoping that someone else would

[lace-chat] why we forward jokes

2007-03-02 Thread Agnes Boddington
**_Why we forward jokes_** A man and his dog were walking along a road. The man was enjoying the scenery, when it suddenly occurred to him that he was dead. He remembered dying, and that the dog walking beside him had been dead for years. He wondered where the road was leading them. After a

Re: [lace-chat] Why is it .....?

2007-02-10 Thread Joy Beeson
On 2/9/07 6:25 AM, Carol Adkinson wrote: I was told to take it easy, which I translate as *not* doing things like the washing, ironing and vacuuming, and *doing* things which I enjoy - lacemaking, reading, crosswords, etc Better to translate it as do what you feel like doing -- whether

Re: [lace-chat] Why is it .....?

2007-02-09 Thread Sue Babbs
But why is it, when I have the time to do all those latter things, I don't seem to have the energy. Can one sort of 'postpone' the recuperation until one feels slightly more the ticket, and can cope with yards of lace-making? Carol It would be nice to be able to postpone the recuperation

[lace-chat] Why Men Are Happier

2006-12-15 Thread David in Ballarat
WHY MEN ARE JUST HAPPIER PEOPLE Men Are Just Happier People-- What do you expect from such simple creatures? Your last name stays put. The garage is all yours. Wedding plans take care of themselves. Chocolate is just another snack. You can be Prime Minister. You can never be pregnant. You

[lace-chat] :-) Why men are happier

2006-06-22 Thread Jean Nathan
Your last name stays put The garage is all yours Wedding plans take care of themselves Chocolate is just another snack You can be president You can wear a white t-shirt to a water park You can wear NO t-shirt to a water park Car mechanics tell you the truth The world is your urinal You never have

Re: [lace-chat] Why?

2006-04-01 Thread romdom
what about using the delete key instead of flaming ? that's what i'll do from now ... dominique from spring in Paris, france .. it's so good to have a little warmth and sun at last To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lace-chat] Why?

2006-04-01 Thread Martha Krieg
I'm not at all shy about expressing political opinions myself - BUT I feel that when they involve such sensitive issues, it is more courteous not to put them on lists dedicated to other purposes. I know I can simply hit delete, but I'd prefer to keep everyone on the list as a friend, and when

Re: [lace-chat] Why?

2006-04-01 Thread CLIVE Rice
Since I mistook the understanding that Lace-chat was open for any discussion, and having read many of Tamara's dissertations with which I did not agree, I posted something that may cause my being sanctioned. Thus, I am unsubscribing from Lace-chat. just as soon as this message is posted.

Re: [lace-chat] Why?

2006-03-31 Thread CLIVE Rice
This has nothing to do with Disillusioned-with-Bush It is about the support of our troops and the real fear that Saddam was developing nuclear power, even though weapons of mass destruction were not found. Obviously, most of the peaceniks are too young to know of the atrocities vested by

Re: [lace-chat] Why?

2006-03-31 Thread Scotlace
I'm going to stick my head above the parapet and ask the moderator to rule on patriotic outbursts on an international forum. I imagine we all love our respective countries but don't feel it neccessary to voice it in the context of this list. It is, after all, a form of political statement.

Re: [lace-chat] Why?

2006-03-31 Thread Carol Melton
Dear Patricia, I have not seen a ruling on this thread so I am going to go ahead and make my statement. We may have come kicking and screaming into the WWII but come we did and at what a price. Think Flanders Fieldsand a lot of other places Americans are buried because they died

Re: [lace-chat] Why?

2006-03-31 Thread David in Ballarat
Dear Friends, We may have come kicking and screaming into the WWII but come we did and at what a price. Think Flanders Fields I'm not going to write another thing about wars after this, being a veteran myself. However, Flanders Fields was in fact World War 1, when Australia lost an entire

Re: [lace-chat] Why?

2006-03-31 Thread Carol Melton
Dear David, You are correct that Flanders Field is WWI vintage. I should have said Normandy instead of Flanders. In whatever country, England, France, Belgium, and from what ever war they are still dead American Soldiers, buried overseas because they were fighting for someone else's

Re: [lace-chat] Why?

2006-03-31 Thread Scotlace
Thank you Carol for reinforcing my plea to the moderator, who I'd forgotten wouldn't be available immediately. We are an international community all with a totally different slant on the same thing. Therefore this list isn't the right place to be displaying individual patrotism. I had no

[lace-chat] Why?

2006-03-30 Thread CLIVE Rice
The Answer to Why.. We are all peace lovers, and deplore the deaths and injuries of our sons and daughters. However, that is the cost of freedom. Betty Ann Rice, Roanoke, Virginia USA - Proud Wife of a US Navy sailor who served for 23 years+ in Viet Nam and around the world, and who would

[lace-chat] Why Condoms Come in Packs of 3, 6, or 12

2005-10-21 Thread Malvary J Cole
A man walks into a drug store with his 8-year old son. They happen to walk by the condom display, and the boy asks, What are these, Dad? To which the man matter-of-factly replies, Those are called condoms son. Men use them to have safe sex. Oh I see, replied the boy pensively. Yes, I've

[lace-chat] Why Men are Happier

2005-04-09 Thread David Collyer
Why Men Are Just Happier People-- What do you expect from such simple creatures? Your last name stays put. The garage is all yours. Wedding plans take care of themselves. Chocolate is just another snack. You can be President. You can never be pregnant. You can wear a white T-shirt to a water park.

[lace-chat] Why Women Live Longer

2005-01-10 Thread David Collyer
Mum and Dad were watching TV when Mum said, I'm tired, and it's getting late. I think I'll go to bed. She went to the kitchen to make sandwiches for the next day's lunches. Rinsed out the popcorn bowls, took meat out of the freezer for supper the following evening, checked the cereal box levels,

[lace-chat] Why we do our family history

2004-09-11 Thread David Collyer
Dear Friends, Thought many of you would like this poem Love David in Ballarat My Link in Time By Ann Glasgow From lands and seas that I shall never know, complex roads have merged their path to me. Translucent threads of ancient lives before interwove this web which is my pedigree. Cultures of

[lace-chat] :-) Why did the chicken cross the road?

2004-05-15 Thread Jean Nathan
Subject: Why did the chicken cross the road? GEORGE W BUSH We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road or not. The chicken is either against us or for us. There is no middle ground here. COLIN POWELL

[lace-chat] Why God Invented menopause

2004-04-07 Thread lynn
Just once in awhile I get a good joke, given the current state of my body, I really appreciate this one. Lynn Scott, Wollongong, Australia With all the new technology regarding fertility, a 65 year-old woman was able to give birth to a baby recently. When she was discharged from the

[lace-chat] Why you don't have to work your backside off

2004-03-17 Thread Jane Bawn
Received this in my mail today and thought it would be a good one to share. Hope it's appropriate from here. From a strictly mathematical viewpoint it goes like this: What makes 100%? What does it mean to give more than a 100%? Ever wonder about those people who say they are giving more than