[lace-chat] After Katrina
The following is not remotely funny, but it's pertinent. Of course, with "Farenheit 9/11", one knows what to expect from Michael Moore, but that doesn't make his points any less valid... His letter (dated Sept 2) to the President can be seen at: http://www.michaelmoore.com/ I'd also recommend the site - posted here not long ago (by Lynn?) - to see how others view us/US and our efforts to combat the results of the disaster... http://www.watchingamerica.com/ And there was an article in today's Washington Post, "How Could This Occur In the Usnited States?"( can't send URL; it wanted me to register, and I won't), which said that *Cuba and Venezuela* (our long-standing non-friends) offered aid; even *Sri Lanka* spared some of its tsunami relief cash and sent it to the US Red Cross... Now *that is* "funny" - or almost... Overnight, we have become a thirld-world country, a colossus on clay feet... Very humiliating. Eva, what your Mr Trittin said (as reported in that article) is no more than many (about 50% of the US population) are saying here. Even some erst-while supporters of Georgie Duh are beginning to lose faith in his constant "we're on top of that situation, and we're winning the battle", with all the evidence to the contrary... -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Re: Woman Torches House Trying to Kill Spiders
In a message dated 9/4/2005 5:24:33 PM Mountain Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Obviously, not a lacemaker: doesn't appreciate Arachnids, dim-witted, and clumsy with it... :) True - she got what she deserved. :<)) The good news is the spiders got away. AND the asbestos-like webs remained intact. I'll be over there harvesting those webs, soon as I finish spinning with the ones around here. Ricki Utah To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: Woman Torches House Trying to Kill Spiders
On Sep 4, 2005, at 16:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From Reuters: BERLIN (Sept. 1) - A German woman laid waste to her family home by setting fire to it as she tried to kill spiders in a garage with a can of hairspray and a cigarette lighter. Obviously, not a lacemaker: doesn't appreciate Arachnids, dim-witted, and clumsy with it... :) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Man Finds 9-Inch Centipede Behind TV
>From the Associated Press: Man Finds 9-Inch Centipede Rustling Behind TV LONDON (Aug. 31) - Aaron Balick expected to find a tiny mouse rustling behind the TV in his apartment. Instead, he found a venomous giant centipede that somehow hitched a ride from South America to Britain. "Thinking it was a mouse, I went to investigate the sound. The sound was coming from under some papers which I lifted, expecting to see the mouse scamper away," the 32-year-old psychotherapist said Wednesday. "Instead, when I lifted the papers, I saw this prehistoric looking animal skitter away behind a stack of books." He trapped the 9-inch-long creature between a stack of books and put it in a plastic container. The next day he took it to Britain's Natural History Museum, which identified the insect as a Scolopendra gigantea - the world's biggest species of centipede. Stuart Hine, an entomologist at the museum, said it was likely the centipede hitched a ride aboard a freighter, likely with a shipment of fruit. "Dealing with over 4,000 public and commercial inquiries every year, we have come to expect the unexpected. However, when Aaron produced this beast from his bag I was staggered," Hine said. "Not even I expected to be presented with this." The Scolopendra gigantea has front claws that are adapted to deliver venom when it stings, which can lead to a blistering rash, nausea and fever. The sting is rarely life-threatening, but painful. 08/31/05 10:50 EDT To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Woman Torches House Trying to Kill Spiders
>From Reuters: BERLIN (Sept. 1) - A German woman laid waste to her family home by setting fire to it as she tried to kill spiders in a garage with a can of hairspray and a cigarette lighter. Police in the western town of Zuelpich said that when the aerosol failed to finish them off, the 34-year-old woman tried to burn them with the lighter. However, this set the area she had just sprayed on fire and the blaze spread to a hedge. "It was a series of unfortunate events which led to the damage," a police spokesman said on Thursday. "She tried to put the fire out with a garden hose, but couldn't. Instead her semi-detached house next to the hedge caught fire. It's now uninhabitable." Firefighters managed to extinguish the blaze and save the neighbouring house, which sustained broken windows and some charring. The spokesman estimated the total cost of the damage at well over the equivalent of $125,000. No one was hurt. "The family have had to look for somewhere else to stay," he said. "The spiders are gone though -- that problem was solved." 09/01/05 15:25 ET To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] secret pal thanks
Dear Secret Pal, So sorry for being late with my thanks but I have been on holiday !! We have just returned from very sunny Margarita where we had a great holiday but are still a bit jetlagged !! Thank you very much for the lovely goodies that you sent this month. The pen has already been put in my handbag and the scissors added to my lace bag. The scissor case is very pretty, did you make it? I have also put the thread holder in my lace bag and can't wait to try it out! Thanks also for the photos. The lace on the christening dress is beautiful !! Thanks once again, until next month, Anne Nicholas Hanworth Middx. England To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] aussie soldier (joke)
Dear Mum & Dad, I am well. Hope youse are too. Tell me big brothers Doug and Phil that the Army is better than workin' on the farm - tell them to get in bloody quick smart before the jobs are all gone! I wuz a bit slow in settling down at first, because ya don't hafta get outta bed until 6am. But I like sleeping in now, cuz all you gotta do before brekky is make ya bed and shine ya boots and clean ya uniform. No bloody cows to milk, no calves to feed, no feed to stack - nothin'!! Blokes haz gotta shave though, but its not so bad, coz there's lotsa hot water and even a light to see what ya doing! At brekky ya get cereal, fruit and eggs but there's no kangaroo steaks or possum stew like wot Mum makes. You don't get fed again until noon, and by that time all the city boys are buggered because we've been on a 'route march' - geez its only just like walking to the windmill in the back paddock!! This one will kill me brothers Doug and Phil with laughter. I keep getting medals for shootin' - dunno why. The bullseye is as big as a bloody possum's bum and it don't move and its not firing back at ya like the Johnsons did when our big scrubber bullgot into their prize cows before the Ekka [State Fair] last year! All ya gotta do is make yourself comfortable and hit the target - its a piece of cake!! You don't even load your own cartridges - they comes in little boxes and ya don't have to steady yourself against the rollbar of the roo shooting truck when you reload! Sometimes ya gotta wrestle with the city boys and I gotta be real careful coz they break easy - it's not like fighting with Doug and Phil and Jack and Boori and Steve and Muzza all at once like we do at home after the muster [roundup]. Turns out I'm not a bad boxer either and it looks like I'm the best the platoon's got, and I've only been beaten by this one bloke from the Engineers - he's 6 foot 5 and 15 stone and three pick handles across the shoulders and as ya know I'm only 5 foot 7 and eight stone wringin' wet, but I fought him till the other blokes carried me off to the boozer. I can't complain about the Army - tell the boys to get in quick before word gets around how bloody good it is. Your loving daughter, Jill Helen, normally in Somerset, UK but back in Poole, Dorset for the summer "Forget the formulae, let's make lace" -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.18/89 - Release Date: 02/09/2005 To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
