Tamara wrote: You don't know the *half*... But you will; I told Debra to get *you* to tighten up my longwinded re-write of the rules ... :) I can see that the first rule of volunteer organizations is being applied here, "If you complain about something, you get the job of fixing it." I try never to complain about something unless it is very clear that I would be unable to fix it. The last thing I complained about was the lack of publicity for the New Jersey Convention. As you may recall, I was made Publicity Chairman. Tamara wrote: Before I could google-locate and mail-order the necessary tools (including the calipers - like everything else connected to *hand* manipulation, they're getting harder and harder to find), I was going to suggest starting with the scientific company that Ulrike has us get the teeny, tiny insect pins from. Perhaps they have teeny, tiny calipers. Tamara wrote: And I hope that my "negative comments" will have been productive enough, in the long run, to make the rules of the contest easier to understand for everyone, so that you can enter the competition without making life difficult for the organisers by flooding them with questions, or feel hurt when your entries are rejected for some - obscure - reason, because of a misunderstanding... One thing I learned in my brief stint as Publicity Chairman is there is no such thing as bad publicity. I think that the contest organizers owe you a debt of gratitude for creating a controversy out of their contest and thus drawing attention to it. I would almost suspect that Contest Chairman Debra Jenny put you up to it. Except that I know she didn't because she asked me to talk it up. Here was I, at a total loss, wondering how to draw attention to this contest. On the floor of my office lie crumpled pieces of paper with my rejected ideas for stirring up interest. One says, "Big Foot always uses a table ribbon when he entertains his relatives." Another says, "Underneath Roslyn Chapel, hidden by the Knights Templar, is the table ribbon used at the Last Supper..." But never did I have the breathtaking imagination to posit that there might be a shadowy figure north of the border, possibly with a German accent, who had defied the laws of physics, and the principles of lace, by contriving a perfectly flat table decoration and was now seeking to corrupt the 2006 contest of the International Old Lacers, seizing the coveted title of first place winner, in a sordid affair reminiscent of the 1918 World Series scandal. Not since my days at OSU when the beloved mascot, the Buckeye, was kidnapped and held for ransom and we all waited with baited breath to see if there would be enough signatures demanding his release to free him, have I been so caught up. :-) Devon totally focused on the minutiae of the Table Ribbon contest in New Jersey
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