[lace-chat] Fw: Fw: stress management

2006-06-14 Thread Dee Palin
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[lace-chat] Kittens

2006-06-14 Thread Jean Nathan
Tamara wrote: Probably too hermetical for members who don't follow US politics. But hillarious to some of us here. And, new (at least to me) -- always a plus... One of my favourite TV programmes is the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. We get it on digital TV the day after it's broadcast in the US.

Fw: [lace-chat] Fw: Fw: stress management

2006-06-14 Thread Melinda Weasenforth
H..just not quite as satisfactory as the real stuff. vbg Lynn - Original Message - From: Dee Palinmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lace-Chat Arachnemailto:lace-chat@arachne.com Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 3:17 AM Subject: [lace-chat] Fw: Fw: stress management - Subject: Fwd:

[lace-chat] Queenslander

2006-06-14 Thread Jenny Barron
I'm going to be brave and send this on to chat - if it offends I'm sorry but the heat is frying for what passes for my brains at the moment and it did make me lol jenny barron scorching NE Scotland A Queenslander is drinking in a West Aussie bar when he gets a call on his mobile

[lace-chat] Upside-down pictures: Was: Re: [lace] lace express

2006-06-14 Thread Joy Beeson
Moved to Chat because I have nothing lacy to say. Discussion was of a picture in Lace Express in which the relief was reversed, so that lace looked like quilting. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But it does beg the question... why does it work that way? I don't have an answer - First, it

Re: [lace-chat] World Cup

2006-06-14 Thread Joy Beeson
Jean Nathan wrote: . . . and it got me wondering how the [U.S.A} team came about. We don't hear about it being played in schools, only American football and baseball. Football makes money for American Colleges. Basketball makes money for American high schools. Baseball makes money for

[lace-chat] Team names

2006-06-14 Thread Jean Nathan
Joy wrote: I get the impression that other countries don't give cutesy names to school sports teams. School teams, whether it been for rounders, netball, field hockey, football (soccer), rugby or cricket are usually just named after the school, eg the school I last taught were all just called

Re: [lace-chat] World Cup

2006-06-14 Thread Lynn Carpenter
Jean Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just watching USA playing football against the Czech Republic in the FIFA World Cup (soccer to those in the US, and incidentally USA is currently losing 2-0), and it got me wondering how the team came about. We don't hear about it being played in schools,

[lace-chat] Drat, forgot to email this!

2006-06-14 Thread Lynn Carpenter
*sigh* Just found this half-written email in my Out box, not sent. I was listening to the BBC World Service on the radio last week, and was surprised to hear the announcers talking to someone in Hell, Michigan. (This was Monday night, just before 6/6/06.) I think we talked about the place back

[lace-chat] Re: Drat, forgot to email this!

2006-06-14 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On Jun 14, 2006, at 22:44, Lynn Carpenter wrote: I was listening to the BBC World Service on the radio last week, and was surprised to hear the announcers talking to someone in Hell, Michigan. (This was Monday night, just before 6/6/06.) I think we talked about the place back when we were

Re: [lace-chat] Kittens

2006-06-14 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On Jun 14, 2006, at 3:35, Jean Nathan wrote: One of my favourite TV programmes is the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. We get it on digital TV the day after it's broadcast in the US. I like any satirical political show. We have some really good ones in the UK. I don't watch the Daily Show --

[lace-chat] :) Fwd: the back pew

2006-06-14 Thread Tamara P Duvall
Old, but good... From: R.P. There was a preacher whose wife was expecting a baby so he went before the congregation and asked for a raise. After much discussion, they passed a rule that whenever the preacher's family expanded, so would his paycheck. After 6 children, this started to get