Re: Good laundry day so far
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 12:44 PM Tuesday 5/9/2006, Julia Thompson wrote: There are certain numbers that turn up over and over again in wildly varying situations in nature. And in the laundry room. # of items in the first load: 21 # of my shirts: 8 # of Dan's shirts: 13 # of Dan's shirts needing to go on hangers: 5 # of items in second load: 13 # of items in third load: 55 (No breakdown on whose stuff is whose in the second or third loads.) I'm having entirely too much fun today. Julia Well, if you're going to find famous eponymous numbers represented in the count of clothing items found in your laundry, it is probably better that they be Fibonacci's rather than Avogadro's or Skewe's . . Yup. Didn't hold. 4th load was 11 items. Thus endeth the fun. :) Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Good laundry day so far
There are certain numbers that turn up over and over again in wildly varying situations in nature. And in the laundry room. # of items in the first load: 21 # of my shirts: 8 # of Dan's shirts: 13 # of Dan's shirts needing to go on hangers: 5 # of items in second load: 13 # of items in third load: 55 (No breakdown on whose stuff is whose in the second or third loads.) I'm having entirely too much fun today. Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Good laundry day so far
At 12:44 PM Tuesday 5/9/2006, Julia Thompson wrote: There are certain numbers that turn up over and over again in wildly varying situations in nature. And in the laundry room. # of items in the first load: 21 # of my shirts: 8 # of Dan's shirts: 13 # of Dan's shirts needing to go on hangers: 5 # of items in second load: 13 # of items in third load: 55 (No breakdown on whose stuff is whose in the second or third loads.) I'm having entirely too much fun today. Sounds like someone may have been hitting the Ny-Quil . . . --Ronn! :) Since I was a small boy, two states have been added to our country and two words have been added to the pledge of Allegiance... UNDER GOD. Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer and that would be eliminated from schools too? -- Red Skelton (Someone asked me to change my .sig quote back, so I did.) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Good laundry day so far
At 12:44 PM Tuesday 5/9/2006, Julia Thompson wrote: There are certain numbers that turn up over and over again in wildly varying situations in nature. And in the laundry room. # of items in the first load: 21 # of my shirts: 8 # of Dan's shirts: 13 # of Dan's shirts needing to go on hangers: 5 # of items in second load: 13 # of items in third load: 55 (No breakdown on whose stuff is whose in the second or third loads.) I'm having entirely too much fun today. Julia Well, if you're going to find famous eponymous numbers represented in the count of clothing items found in your laundry, it is probably better that they be Fibonacci's rather than Avogadro's or Skewe's . . . --Ronn! :) Since I was a small boy, two states have been added to our country and two words have been added to the pledge of Allegiance... UNDER GOD. Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer and that would be eliminated from schools too? -- Red Skelton (Someone asked me to change my .sig quote back, so I did.) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: laundry
At 07:37 PM 4/18/2004 -0400 Kevin Tarr wrote: Tried this over on the subservient list, but got no response. Any help here? I'm a clueless bachelor. On a few TV shows, Seinfeld FEX, they drop off a mesh laundry bag at the laundry/dry cleaner. What exactly is going on? Is it just dry clean clothes, regular wash clothes or a mix? If one type, do they stay in the bag when they are washed and dried? My local laudromat offers a wash, dry, and fold service, paid by the pound.I suspect that is what is being depicted here. JDG - Who has never paid anyone to do his laundary. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: laundry
Kevin Tarr wrote: Tried this over on the subservient list, but got no response. Any help here? Try the other list again today then grin Sonja GCU: Slow responder ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
laundry
Tried this over on the subservient list, but got no response. Any help here? I'm a clueless bachelor. On a few TV shows, Seinfeld FEX, they drop off a mesh laundry bag at the laundry/dry cleaner. What exactly is going on? Is it just dry clean clothes, regular wash clothes or a mix? If one type, do they stay in the bag when they are washed and dried? I'm asking because a relative will be in a nursing home soon. They were there for six weeks two years ago and said some laundry garments were mixed up. I though of the mesh bag and wondered if this would be a solution. On the net I see another product called a laundry belt I can see the value of living in a big city and just letting a shop clean my clothes. You save time, probably get better results, and it would save energy. Downside would be having enough clothes to have xx% of your laundry being cleaned, cost and privacy. Kevin T. - VRWLC Domestic idiot ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Ireland's Dirty Laundry
William T Goodall wrote: Well, religion is evil after all. At least, religion with too much secular power. That's what I've said for a while: Seperation of Church and State is at least as important for the Church as it is for the State, if the Church wants to avoid becoming evil. __ Steve Sloan . Huntsville, Alabama = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brin-L list pages .. http://www.brin-l.org Chmeee's 3D Objects http://www.sloan3d.com/chmeee 3D and Drawing Galleries .. http://www.sloansteady.com Software Science Fiction, Science, and Computer Links Science fiction scans . http://www.sloan3d.com ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Ireland's Dirty Laundry
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/DailyNews/Ireland_abuse030126.html Ireland's Dirty Laundry Wounds Still Fresh For Thousands of Women Enslaved by the Catholic Church By Hilary Brown and Matt McGarry C O R K, Ireland, Jan. 26 A sudden spate of TV exposés, docudramas and a major motion picture have brought to light one of the most shocking episodes in the history of the Catholic Church in Ireland the existence of the now-notorious Magdalene laundries, a sanctified form of slavery. Operated by the Sisters of the Magdalene Order, the laundries were virtual slave labor camps for generations of young girls thought to be unfit to live in Irish society. Girls who had become pregnant, even from rape, girls who were illegitimate, or orphaned, or just plain simple-minded, girls who were too pretty and therefore in moral danger all ran the risk of being locked up and put to work, without pay, in profit-making, convent laundries, to wash away their sins. They were completely cut off from their families, and many lost touch with them forever. Stripped of their identities, the girls were given numbers instead of names. They were forbidden to speak, except to pray. If they broke any rule or tried to escape, the nuns beat them over the head with heavy iron keys, put them into solitary confinement or shipped them off to a mental hospital. Over a period of 150 years, an estimated 30,000 women were forced into this brutal penance, carried out in secret, behind high convent walls. Towards the end of the 20th century, the laundries began to close, as the power of the Church in Ireland diminished and as social attitudes became less puritanical. Incredibly, the last Magdalene laundry to shut down was in 1996. We Were the Living Dead' Mary Norris, 69, was committed to a convent laundry in Cork for two years. An articulate, intelligent woman, she was transferred from an orphanage at age 15 because she was disobedient. Her number was 30. On one occasion, she said, the nuns actually ordered the girls to pray for those held in Soviet prison camps, a bitter irony, as she considers the convent laundries an Irish gulag. Though it was clearly very painful for her, she took us around the convent now abandoned where she had suffered so much. In the winter, it was freezing cold, and in the summer, it was like the desert, it was so hot with the steam, she said. We were the living dead. We weren't treated as human beings, as individuals. We were just part of the workforce. Nothing more, nothing less. Guilt by Illegitimacy Sadie Williams, 64, spent a total of four years in two different convent laundries. She was 14 when she was virtually kidnapped by two women who had determined that she was in moral danger. Williams liked to take a walk in the evenings, after working all day at a bed and breakfast in Dublin. She said the women considered her much too attractive to stay out of trouble. She was only 14 when she ended up in a convent laundry outside town as Number 100, and locked into a cell each night. She says she almost never saw daylight. Oh, it was dreadful, she said. I cried and cried all the time, and kept asking why, why wasn't I getting out. And I would write begging letters to my mother. When I finally got out, she was already dead and buried three years. But I was never told, even though I was writing, still writing letters to her. She has since learned that the nuns stopped all her mail. Her mother wasn't married, so Sadie was considered to be guilty of the sin of illegitimacy. No Apology There have been no direct reparations from the Irish Catholic Church to the tens of thousands of women it used as slave labor. Nor has there been a formal apology. It's not even known how many victims of the Magdalene laundries are still alive: they are not organized, and many don't want to talk about this terrible part of their past. Very few Churchmen in Ireland will comment on the scandal. An exception is Willie Walsh, the Bishop of Killaloe. Over a cup of tea in his residence, he said that it is a source of pain and shame. These girls were rejected by society, and the Church in some way thought it was giving refuge to these girls, he says. I suppose the Magdalene laundries was in some instances a form of slavery. The Rev. Patrick O'Donovan is more outspoken. It's an appalling scandal, he says. You could compare them to concentration camps. The nuns thought they were doing good. They didn't realize the damage they were doing. Mary Norris has campaigned to have a simple memorial built in the convent where she was held. Thirty names are engraved on a simple headstone; dating from 1876 to 1973. Some women spent their entire lives in these institutions. Having been cut off from their families, they had nowhere to go. Norris says she no longer hates the nuns who oppressed her. If I hated them, she says, they'd still be winning. They'd still have control over me
