[lace-chat] Scotland names
There's been a recent (over about the last 30-40 years) for the broadcasters and newspapers to each carry one April fool story on 1st April and wait to see if it was spotted. I understand that this year the BBC banned any such broadcast, which is a shame because some were so implausible that people did believe them - probably the most famous being the story about harvesting spaghetti from spaghetti trees in Italy broadcast on one of the BBCs most serious programmes in the days before spaghetti was common in the UK. Shortly before the Channel Tunnel was opened one newspaper had a story about the discovery of a couple of miles of an abandoned Victorian attempt at at an under channel tunnel. That fooled so many because it was possible, that a retraction had to be printed the following day. Name changes by the EU (in theory) would be something they'd think about because they do come up with some really daft ideas, but other European countries speak a different language and wouldn't necessarily realise the gender inference in place names, just as English speakers wouldn't recognise gender-related words in, say, German place names. So I'd immediately recognise this as an April fool. Jean in Poole To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace-chat] scotland names (short)
Well I thought I'd read the text for it's amusement value and immediately spotted the following within one of the paragraphs L.I.L Proof A Rearrange the letters in quotation marks and you get = April Fool I guess that answers it! Jill at London Heathrow To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] scotland names (short)
The German commissioner is called Arlo Pilof - another clue Sue - Original Message - From: Jill T [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well I thought I'd read the text for it's amusement value and immediately spotted the following within one of the paragraphs L.I.L Proof A Rearrange the letters in quotation marks and you get = April Fool I guess that answers it! Jill at London Heathrow To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Joan Whitfield - please contact me
Sorry to post this to the list; Will Joan Whitfield please contact me off list Brenda Paternoster in Kent England Arachne Secret pal administrator www.argonet.co.uk/users/paternoster/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] RE: Scotland names
I thought something seemed odd about the LIL PRoof A business, but I'm not necessarily that alert at the hour of the morning I first read the article. But now that it's been pointed out, it's so obvious it's embarrassing. However, if anyone is interested, I have an article I wrote several years ago (I update the date annually) about the Annual Spaghetti Snail Festival in Italy. It even talks about the indigenous Semolina Flowers that grow up in the mountains near beds of fossilised snails. It'll probably have to be an attachment, and it's long, so I hesitate to cut and paste to the list. Thurlow Lancaster OH [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Log books, demo time etc
On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 10:30:20 -0800, Alice wrote: I'm not the expert, but I'll tell what I know. One tax-exempt status is Nonprofit. I think the organization has to declare a catagory, and the catagory that groups like IOLI and my sewing group qualify for has an education element and/or a public service element to it. In order to show that we do volunteer time towards these goals, we have to keep track of how many hours we spend each year doing it. Each member has to report these hours so the collective amount for each local group can be reported to the head officers. The total for the organization goes on some report yearly to the tax office. This is a USA Federal Tax Status situation. I don't know if there is a similar situation in other countries. The UK situation has both similarities and differences. The tax-exempt status for charities, for certain types of income, has categories of which educational is one. Education has to be aimed at the public at large, not just members of the organisation. So far, fairly similar. The details of the way the exemption is achieved and maintained are different. The UK Inland Revenue evaluates the status of an organisation once when the organisation applies for the charitable status from The Charities Commission, a separate government body. The evaluation is of what the rules of the organisation set out as its aims and whether the aims are considered charitable. The evaluation is of what the organisation intends to do in the future, without any regard to the past activities. Once the charitable status has been achieved, the Inland Revenue do very low key monitoring of what the charity does. Provided accounts are filed on time, the financial details appear consistent with the stated aims and there isn't an unrelated business being carried on (selling books about lace is charitable, selling second-hand books in general would not be) then the Inland Revenue will not enquire further into activities and certainly don't expect any report of what was actually done, never mind volunteer hours. Instead the part of the Inland Revenue that deals with charities concentrates its efforts on looking at border line cases; they spend a lot of time on a very small number of organisations and leave the straightforward ones in peace. Steph (Accountant and qualified tax professional, who did this stuff for a living for 15 years) Scanned by WinProxy http://www.Ositis.com/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
