[lace-chat] onions
As a youngster my Saturday job involved preparing vegetables in the Uni Halls of residence kitchens. Good pay, hard work but I got fed as well! As we catered for 200+ students and covered two days of meals each Sat , onoins meant by the the sackful! I wore hard contact lenses at the time and could happily peel and chop a sackful of onions with no ill effects unless they were the big Spanish ones. Then I was teased unmercifully about boyfriend trouble as the tears streamed down my face!!! I still find the tear ratio depends on the variety! Lynne. Lynne Cumming Baldock, North Herts, Uk Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Day of disasters
Dominique wrote: because you have to relax every two hours or so if you don't want to end up looking like a crooked 100 years old !!! ... VBG ... and that's when we send our mails Exactly what I do. Half to one hour on the computer four times a day, an hour of chores and the rest crafts of some sort or other. I tend to do 'other crafts' in the mornings and lace from about 2.30 pm onwards. Jean in Poole To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Holidaymakers' complaints :-)
There is a piece in today's paper about bizarre complaints made by tourists. An airtours spokesman said genuine complaints are always taken seriously but some were 'slightly strange'. He said 'We provide hilodaymakers with as much information as possible about their trip, yet it seems that sometimes these details are taken far too literally by customers'. A company insider said ' People are much more aware of their rights nowadays and much more tempted to blame someone if something goes wrong. We have noticed a surge in wierd complaints over the last few years. Their instinct is to lash out and blame someone, and because it's such a litigious culture , people always think the travel company must be to blame.' The article goes on to say that a couple recently insisted on cancelling a two week holiday in Majorca,demanding a refund, because of the risk of contracting the SARS virus dsepite being told there was no risk. Tey were charged a cancellation fee and are now suing for compensation. The moans No one told us there would be fish in the sea. The children were startled. We had to queue outside with no air conditioning. It is your duty as a tour operator to advise us of noisy or unruly guests be fore we travel. I was bitten by a mosquito - no one told me they could bite. We booked an excursion to a water park but no one told us we had to bring our swimming costumes and towels. The brochure stated:' No hairdressers at the accommodation.' We're trainee hairdressers, will we be OK staying here? (Blondes, perhaps) It took us nine hours to fly to Jamaica from England - it only took the Americans three hours. We found the sand was not like the sand in the brochure. Your brochure shows the sand as yellow but it was white. I compared the size of our one-bedroome apartment to our friends' three bedroom apartment and ours was significantly smaller. My fiance and I booked a twin bedded room and we were placed in a double-bedded room. We now hold you responsible for the fact I find myself pregnant. This would not have happened if you had put us in the rooms we had booked. '...And finally, from a holidaymaker in Spain There were too many Spanish people. The receptoinist spoke Spanish. The food is spanish. Too many foreigners. Patricia in Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] book on ebay
there is an interesting book on ebay, my lace group has a complete copy and I used one of the edgings to trim my spider heart from Pauline. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2336613163category=193 19 jenny barron Scotland To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Weapons of mass destruction ban in the UK :-)
As from midnight last night certain weapons of mass destruction were banned in the UK (and, I think, other European countries). Whoa !! Then the it in our White House is no longer allowed entry to the UK or some of the other European countries ? ... The stupid thing is that the product.. will be repackaged (not necessarily with a modified recipe), and will be able to be sold again. Jean in Poole Yes. It is stupid. But unlike 'beauty', 'stupid' goes clear to the bone. So, many voters may fall for *that*, too . . . sigh . . . including people in the 'UK and some of the other European countries'. Toni in Seattle To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] RE: Onions
Reminds me of a story that's at least twenty years older than I am. (So don't ask for provenance!) After the Great War (WWI), when there was a lot of war surplus lying around, one little boy got his hands on a real, working gas mask -- and for miles around, no housewife had to grate her own horseradish. Joy Aha !! a *real* entrepreneur - and a real 'niche' market ! Toni in Seattle To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] RE: Mugwumps
Gidday Tamara and all, Recently, a new word appeared on my horizon: mugwump Within the lyrics of Creeque Alley by The Mamas The Papas, circa 19??, are the lines. When Denny met Cass he gave her love bumps Called John and Zol and that was the Mugwumps AND Mugwumps, high jumps, low slumps, big bumps Don't you work as hard as you play I never had any idea what it meant, but as soon as you mentioned the word, it popped into my head. Michelle an Aussie living in Richards Bay, South Africa Ian Chelle Long +27 35 788 0777 To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Re: Mugwump to Adam and Eve
(snip) It all Started with Adam and Eve (human history), Tamara P Duvall I pulled up the Seattle Library System screens on my PC, only to discover that *they* apparently do not *have* that title by Armour, Richard whatever-his- middle-initial was . . . sigh . . . so I'm waiting now to see how to get an Interlibrary Loan screen at home . . . Toni in Seattle To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] re: Mugwump and more
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/96feb/wordimp/wordimp.htm for an article that mentions mugwump etymology and a few other interesting words. Tamara The bottom line ? (for that article) The Man (usually capitalized) soon personified the System, especially as conceived in neo-Marxist doctrine. I'm not sure I *want* women to have 'equal rights' as to being equally to blame for *that* the System . . . g Toni in Seattle To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] For a laugh
Martha Stewart may soon have a new captive audience http://www.ucomics.com/nonsequitur/ Pene Piip [EMAIL PROTECTED] Formerly from Sydney, Australia. Now residing in Groton, MA, USA. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Onions
All right, I finally can't resist. alice howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone ever tried wearing goggles while chopping? I haven't, but I find I can chop onions tearlessly while wearing my (rigid, gas-permeable) contact lenses. They make me cry when I wear just glasses. Lynn Carpenter in SW Michigan, USA alwen at i2k dot com To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re Summer Reading
Laura Ingalls Wilder's books include occasional lace references, including knitting lace. These Happy Golden Years refers to a triangular fichu, of white silk lace, a pattern of lovely flowers and leaves, given to her as a wedding present by a friend. Her works include: The Little House books: Little House in the Big Woods Little House on the Prairie On the Banks of Plum Creek By the Shores of Silver Lake The Long Winter Little Town on the Prairie These Happy Golden Years The First Four Years, about her early married life. Farmer Boy, about her husband's childhood On the Way Home, The Diary or a Trip from South Dakota to Mansfield Missouri in 1894 West From Home, Letters written from San Francisco in 1915, when she went to visit her daughter. A Little House Reader, a collection of writings. A Little House Sampler, a collection of writings by Laura and her daughter Rose Wilder Lane. These later two include items written for newpapers There are also other books about her life and the cookbook, including A Little House Sampler, which has many photos of the family. Karen, in Coventry, England Where it continues to rain. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re Summer Reading
Apologies, the later reference to Little House Sample should have read Laura's Album - containing the history and photos of the Ingalls and Wilder Families. Karen, In Coventry To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] For a laugh
Martha Stewart may soon have a new captive audience http://www.ucomics.com/nonsequitur/ Pene Correction ? . . . soon *be* a captive - - - audience ? Thanks for the update, Pene, 'that girl' upset me so much after I've been cheering her on for being a 'real (business) role model' - - that I stopped reading about her. (on the advice of a Jewish doctor - you know the the one who says 'if it hurts, don't do it !'). Business is one thing, 'monkey business' is another whole thing with me. Toni in Seattle To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Blaine/Cleveland
Hi all For the record, Cleveland won in the 1884 reference to 'mugwumps.' -- bye for now Bev in summery Sooke, BC (west coast of Canada) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: Literary reference to tatting
At 10:58 AM 7/26/03 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Presumably/possible Mary Norton was a needle tatter. I'm pretty sure I read The Borrowers before the advent of needle tatting. More likely, she was vaguely aware that both netting and tatting involved knots. It seems curious for a Borrower-sized person to attempt to use a needle when netting horsehair; it's nearly as stiff as a needle by itself. I'll have to find _The Borrowers Afield_ and read the passage. I'm pretty sure I've read that one, because I recall Pod expressing satisfaction that it was a gentleman's boot, and therefore had been kept well oiled. -- Joy Beeson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where, according to a guy I overheard on the scanner, it's hot and muggy. (I've been inside sewing.) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] :) Fwd: Case of the pregnant lady
I have a *very vague* memory of seing this one before, but it must have been a while... From: L.C. COURT DOCKET 12659 - CASE OF THE PREGNANT LADY A lady about eight months pregnant got on a bus. She noticed the man opposite her was smiling at her. She immediately moved to another seat. This time the smile turned into a grin, so she moved again. The man seemed more amused. When on the fourth move the man burst out laughing, she complained to the driver and he had the man arrested. The case came up in court. The judge asked the man (about 20 yrs old) what he had to say for himself. The man replied, Well your Honor, it was like this: When the lady got on the bus, I couldn't help but notice her condition. She sat under a sign that said, The Double Mint Twins Are Coming and I grinned. Then she moved and sat under a sign that said, Sloan's Liniment will Reduce The Swelling and I had to smile. Then she placed herself under a sign that said, William's Big Stick Did the Trick and I could hardly contain myself. BUT your Honor, when she moved the fourth time and sat under a sign that said, Goodyear Rubber Could Have Prevented This Accident... I just lost it. CASE DISMISSED - Tamara P Duvall mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Lexington, Virginia, USA Formerly of Warsaw, Poland To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Re Summer Reading
And if you are ever in Springfield, Missouri, you can visit the house she and her husband built, in which she spent the last decades of her life. There's also a museum with many of the objects referred to in the books: Pa's fiddle, and the little carved wall shelf. I can't remember if the lace fichu was there, but I think I recall some of the beadwork Mary made at the school for the blind. Laura Ingalls Wilder's books include occasional lace references, including knitting lace. These Happy Golden Years refers to a triangular fichu, of white silk lace, a pattern of lovely flowers and leaves, given to her as a wedding present by a friend. Her works include: The Little House books: Little House in the Big Woods Little House on the Prairie On the Banks of Plum Creek By the Shores of Silver Lake The Long Winter Little Town on the Prairie These Happy Golden Years The First Four Years, about her early married life. Farmer Boy, about her husband's childhood On the Way Home, The Diary or a Trip from South Dakota to Mansfield Missouri in 1894 West From Home, Letters written from San Francisco in 1915, when she went to visit her daughter. A Little House Reader, a collection of writings. A Little House Sampler, a collection of writings by Laura and her daughter Rose Wilder Lane. These later two include items written for newpapers There are also other books about her life and the cookbook, including A Little House Sampler, which has many photos of the family. Karen, in Coventry, England Where it continues to rain. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- Martha Krieg [EMAIL PROTECTED] in Michigan To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Summer reading (v long)
Gentle Spiders, I'm getting quite good about this faith thing; *I* haven't seen a single message of my own posted to either list since previous Thursday (10th day today), but they all seem to reach y'all, so I'm less fashed about the fog now... :) My routine at the library is fairly rigid (I like *patterns* g), irrespective of the season: I drop off the books I had, and head for the new books, fiction shelves. I look for mysteries first. If I come accross one I had not read previously and it sounds interesting, and it says it's xyz'th in a series, I head for the main shelves. I used to head for the 'puter catalogue but, ever since they'd updated their puters -- some 6 months ago -- and changed everything around.. sigh... shelves are safer :), to see if the previous ones are available. Plan B is to check with the reference desk and get *them* to tackle the beast. Once I have a load of mysteries, I look in general fiction to see what else is new. Keep an eye open for historical romances, but there are fewer and fewer of those -- my favourite writers have either died off, or quit writing, or switched genres... So then I look for others... That's a real lottery; the spine has to catch my attention first, the blurb and the one-line reccommendations on back need to blow the spark of interest into a flame... And then, if I don't know the reccommenders (or didn't pay attention to who it was), I can still be fooled, and the book can still prove to be a bummer (IMPO). That's especially true with a first book (and, by that, I mean a first book *in the genre*; someone may have a Nobel for poetry, but it's no guarantee they'll be any good at fiction). Doubly true about ethnic books (the kind where the writers have non-Anglo names in short; makes no diff where they *live*, or which generation they are g); the PC-goodwill tends to overpraise some which don't deserve it (again, IMPO). Until fairly recently, I've been avoiding the ethnic ones like a plague, because most were awful. But, with some guidance, I read a few which were excellent, developed an appetite for more, and try to pick at least one at every library trip. It being summer and everyone bored enough to read, new mysteries are in short supply (thanks for references to older ones; some sounded right up my alley g), so the last trip netted 3 ethnics: 1) Monique Truong (Vietnamese American) -- The Book of Salt 2) Samrat Upadhyay (Nepalese American) -- The Guru of Love 3) Julie Otsuka (Japanese American) -- When the Emperor Was Divine Haven't yet read #3 (will report if it's good). Am about 7/8th through #2. Can't reccomend it. It's not bad enough to quit after the first 20-30 pages, but adult males who screw around on their wives, feel bad about it but continue to screw around, somehow fail to engage my sympathy, even if it all happens in Nepal... :) The can't help myself; I'm but a tossed leaf on the river of life excuse never cuts much ice with me, either... The only reason I'm still reading the book is that the details of life in Nepal are interesting, especially as I compare words and customs to those I gleaned from reading books about India. But #1... Oh, it's a *keeper*; a must-read book... Monique Truong; The Book of Salt I don't *like* poetry (either modern or old), but I've had to read a fair bit of it (at the U, because that's what DH loves best, because I've helped in translating some). And I do love language and anyone who uses it with skill and subtlety *in prose*... Which Monique Truong does, *most definitely*. In 1929, in Paris, Gertrude Stein and Alice B.Toklas placed an advertisement in a newspaper, looking for a cook... What they got, was a Vietnamese, male, gay -- a refugee from French Indochina. He is the narrator of the tale (the story starts in 1934, and backtracks, in *no chronological order*, through about 20 yrs). The entire book is like modern poetry of the best kind... The rhythm to the sentences is unbelievably precise -- it reads like music, with a slightly foreign lilt, to spice it up. One never knows, for certain-sure, what's true and what's not; you parse and you parse, and you *still* have doubts as to what did the author *mean*? Summarise in 200 words... The truths, semi-truths and outright lies are piled on top of one another, and shift their meaning depending on the angle you're asked to look at -- at the moment. It's like a cut diamond, with many facets -- the search for acceptance and the betrayals of love misplaced are the sharp edges of it, and the only things which do not change... Absolutely *brilliant* (pun intended g) - Tamara P Duvall mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Lexington, Virginia, USA Formerly of Warsaw, Poland To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: Mudwump
Tamara asked: 1) Are you familiar with the word (and how/from whom did you learn it)? 2) What does it mean to *you*? 3) Where are you in the US (or, where did your source come from)? Have been familiar with the term since High School (Over 55 yrs ago) Amer. History Course, with it's political meaning . Have always thought it held a connotation of indecision, but mainly the mudwumps disapproved of Blain's dishonest politics, and bolted the Republican party to vote for the Democratic candidate, Grover Cleveland. As always, when a party splits, the other party wins, although in 1884 the electorial votes were very close. I heard the fence definition (sitting on a fence; the mug (face) being on one side of it, and the wump (rump) on the other.) when I was very young, from my older brother who is a great punster. I do not think it is confined to the South Louise in Central Virginia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
