[lace-chat] Henry VII

2004-05-26 Thread Helene Gannac
Elizabeth Ligeti said: I, too, watched that programme, Helene. It was, as you said, Fascinating! though I think they said that it was Henry VII's father - Edward ?IV? who was illegitimate. He would have been an 11 month baby if he was legal! Sorry, David and Liz, you're right. What I meant to

[lace-chat] Re Eggshells

2004-05-26 Thread Shirley Meier
Thanks to all those who responded to my mail, it appears that several of us were told the same thing. I remember ours being in a book ( which we no longer have ) but I think it had a red cover.As I am Irish decent it seems it may have come from there. Thanks again. Shirley .( In Corio Oz) To

[lace-chat] where nothing exciting ever happens

2004-05-26 Thread Sylvie Nguyen
Avital, So glad to hear that the unexciting event turned out so well. I think that you deserve to have a few very quiet days. Sylvie in pleasant, though unexciting Cherry Valley, IL, USA __ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new

Re: [lace-chat] This is for Real - humour

2004-05-26 Thread dominique
Ruth Budge a décidé d' écrire à ÒRe: [lace-chat] This is for Real - humourÓ. [2004/05/26 00:48] I suppose France is warming up?? it's trying to ... :-( .. it's stifling one day, nearly cold the next and so on and so forth...some of my plants got badly burnt by the sun a few days

[lace-chat] Re: [lace] pica

2004-05-26 Thread Joy Beeson
Moved to Chat for severe thread-drift: At 02:15 AM 5/26/04 +1000, David Collyer wrote: From the time I used to be a varietyper composer operator at North Finchley, London, in 1971, I recall that there is also a relationship between picas, ems and ens, but can't for the life of me remember

Re: [lace-chat] Re: This is for Real - humour

2004-05-26 Thread Steph Peters
On Tue, 25 May 2004 22:48:58 -0400, Tamara wrote: I also have some doubts about the text having been written by a woman; sounds to me more like something concocted by a man in a wet dream. I don't know who wrote this particular text, but its style certainly does not rule out a female author.

[lace-chat] Re: ABCD...

2004-05-26 Thread Westland District Library
ABCD gol'fish? MNO gol'fish! SDR golfish! R, ICDR golfish! Erica McLeod Westland District Library Hokitika, New Zealand mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit our website at http://www.minidata.co.nz/westlib --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system

[lace-chat] Re: ABCD...

2004-05-26 Thread Tamara P. Duvall
On May 26, 2004, at 22:02, Westland District Library (Erica) wrote: ABCD gol'fish? MNO gol'fish! SDR golfish! R, ICDR golfish! All those alphabet soups about seeing/not seeing the goldfish remind me of a favourite of mine from some 14-15 yrs ago, when Danek was taking Latin in middle school, and

[lace-chat] Re: Temporarily evacuated

2004-05-26 Thread Tamara P. Duvall
On May 25, 2004, at 11:11, Avital wrote: [...] one of the workers, while digging the foundation, found an unexploded mortar in the fill under the building. Who, on earth, was the original contractor for the building??? Osama Bin Laden? Avital, in quiet Maale Adumim, Israel, where nothing

Re: [lace-chat] Re: Temporarily evacuated

2004-05-26 Thread Avital
Tamara wrote: [...] one of the workers, while digging the foundation, found an unexploded mortar in the fill under the building. Who, on earth, was the original contractor for the building??? Osama Bin Laden? Nope, just a lazy crook of a builder who dug up rubble from some hillside to use as