Re: [lace-chat] Christmas

2007-12-27 Thread Joy Beeson
. (Not to mention that noise and excitement would not be good for a sick baby.) -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [lace-chat] Chocolate Applesauce Fruitcake

2007-12-19 Thread Joy Beeson
of sliced almonds also loosens a cake, and the white middles and brown edges make a pretty pattern on the bottom of the cake, but the slices don't all stick to the cake, so you have to scrape them out of the pan and eat them. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http

Re: [lace-chat] Mince Pies

2007-12-13 Thread Joy Beeson
to be eaten. I suspect that somebody who was looking for a filler scraped together some loose information and jumped to a conclusion. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com

Re: [lace-chat] instant yeast

2007-12-10 Thread Joy Beeson
what sort of gimcrack shop I was in, but it's likely to be in a different gimcrack shop by the time my current bottle gives up. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig

Re: [lace-chat] instant yeast

2007-12-08 Thread Joy Beeson
soup. (That was because I started my morning bike ride late, so I started my afternoon nap late, so I started supper late.) But we had good bread with it. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http

Re: [lace-chat] instant yeast

2007-12-04 Thread Joy Beeson
on hot bread. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where our first proper covering of snow has fallen

Re: [lace-chat] what kind of mattress do you like?

2007-11-29 Thread Joy Beeson
of hard pillows made by stuffing two old, flat pillows into one case. I use them to elevate various body parts and take the weight off my hip. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http

[lace-chat] California fires OT and evacuation

2007-10-24 Thread Joy Beeson
think about it in the cold light of day, but not so obvious when a considerable element of stress is included in the equation. But the contents of that CD should *already* be in a remote location. Anything that easy to copy should have back-ups. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net

[lace-chat] Re: Buddy map

2007-10-05 Thread Joy Beeson
Moved from Lace: On 10/4/07 12:59 PM, Avital wrote: . . . . Also, the Google satellite photos are not nearly as detailed as for other parts of the world, . . . Perhaps that's *because* they have an office in Tel Aviv. -- Joy you can see my pickup truck Beeson

Re: [lace-chat] Dream interpretation

2007-09-23 Thread Joy Beeson
Sounds like a hand-held computer game I once saw. (I think it was really a pocket watch.) Two buttons shuffled a pair of firemen with a net back and forth while babies fell from a burning building. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ west

Re: [lace-chat] cookware for daughter

2007-09-04 Thread Joy Beeson
it all day. Never got around to making soup, but I've been baking most of my bread in the kettle all summer. Avoids heating up the kitchen, and uses up the driftwood and fallen limbs. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http

[lace-chat] oliebol

2007-08-27 Thread Joy Beeson
-- but cake doughnuts are strictly from hunger. Would you believe that this spelling checker doesn't have doughnut in its dictionary? It wants me to say dough nut! But it passes the barbarism donut. U R rite to put wurds thru, but . . . . At least it flags thru and throo -- Joy Beeson http

Re: [lace-chat] :) Fwd: Ode to Plurals

2007-08-19 Thread Joy Beeson
potential ambiguity with definitely saying things we don't mean. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where

Re: [lace-chat] MORE Childhood Rhymes Chants

2007-08-17 Thread Joy Beeson
climbs the more you can see of his stonishing powers! -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where it was a lovely day for a long bike

Re: [lace-chat] altoids

2007-07-20 Thread Joy Beeson
, the latest Flash to enter -- and for security reasons, I have no Flash at all. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A

Re: [lace-chat] Altoid tins

2007-07-19 Thread Joy Beeson
for my dark chocolate -- bye!) -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where we are pretty well fixed for rain

[lace-chat] And a cheese sandwich

2007-07-19 Thread Joy Beeson
. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where I'm savoring a square of dark chocolate. To unsubscribe send email

Re: [lace-chat] pc help for elder hands

2007-07-11 Thread Joy Beeson
On 7/10/07 4:34 PM, Sue wrote: Joy, please, please please take some of our rain I would be grateful to get rid of it (every day for what seems like weeks) We got .85 inches -- 22 mm -- during the night, and what I can see from the window looks much better. Thank you. -- Joy Beeson http

Re: [lace-chat] :) Fwd:) Word game

2007-07-11 Thread Joy Beeson
On 7/9/07 11:20 PM, Tamara P Duvall wrote: Shannon- balk (MLB playoffs are on) Heather - bank Marlie - tank Joy --- talk [This one won't transition with only one extra word; oh, well] Karen - talc (Again, TWO letters...! - Jeff) -- Joy Beeson http

Re: [lace-chat] pc help for elder hands

2007-07-10 Thread Joy Beeson
it. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where it looks as though we aren't going to be in the lucky forty percent

Re: [lace-chat] Re: the word up

2007-06-25 Thread Joy Beeson
, in some contexts, to be intermediate between hanging out and hanging in. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A

[lace-chat] Codespeak: was: The Word Up

2007-06-24 Thread Joy Beeson
thalfat? She could speak it amazingly fast, and it sounded very confusing to the uninitiated. My school never did anything but the common igpay atinlay, and not much of it. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers

[lace-chat] Re: user manual warnings

2007-06-15 Thread Joy Beeson
-eyed before finding anything relevant -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where it's seasonably hot and dry

Re: [lace-chat] talking about cake....

2007-05-20 Thread Joy Beeson
halves, bake at 350F maybe half an hour. Check every five minutes after ten or fifteen. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne

Re: [lace-chat] Not allowed sugar

2007-04-30 Thread Joy Beeson
On 4/27/07 9:33 AM, Joy Beeson wrote: I recently discovered that one square of dark chocolate when I get up from my nap takes off the urge to have a meal right then and then eat my supper an hour later. Unfortunately, I learned this on my last square of dark chocolate, and I don't know where

Re: [lace-chat] Re: Rhubarb cake

2007-04-27 Thread Joy Beeson
or four paper catalogs; all offer the same three varieties, no mention of heat-tolerant varieties. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west

Re: [lace-chat] Not allowed sugar

2007-04-27 Thread Joy Beeson
, so I hardly ever go to Marsh.) -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where the redbuds' red buds have opened

Re: [lace-chat] An article from Guardian Unlimited

2007-04-27 Thread Joy Beeson
it insurance. As soon as getting your medical care through your employer became normal, the system adjusted itself, without any extra trouble, to exclude the uninsured. And now we have insurance which *doesn't* cover unexpected events! -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ west of Fort

Re: [lace-chat] Rhubarb cake

2007-04-26 Thread Joy Beeson
survived our normal-on-the-average winter. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where To unsubscribe send email

Re: [lace-chat] call centres

2007-04-22 Thread Joy Beeson
wife! -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line

Re: [lace-chat] Copyright questions

2007-04-18 Thread Joy Beeson
an open-domain copy and do their own cleaning up, arranging, etc. In addition, anyone can make agreeing not to copy a thing a condition of sale. Such agreements usually require a signature, but one often sees by [opening this package/clicking on this link . . . ] you agree to . . . . -- Joy

Re: [lace-chat] Re: Ruddy and so forth...

2007-04-11 Thread Joy Beeson
. Ah, well, there's no way the yahoos can take the force out of wooden swearing. (I fear they will take that as a challenge.) -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam

Re: [lace-chat] music software

2007-04-11 Thread Joy Beeson
was sleeping in the next room!) -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [lace-chat] Re: Ruddy and so forth...

2007-04-11 Thread Joy Beeson
On 4/12/07 12:19 AM, Tamara P Duvall wrote: [snip] What's wooden swearing? [snip] (so, OK; a log or a rock will get a good kick once I'm outside cooling off g). Or slamming the door. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http

[lace-chat] Fabric: was: re: sewing with Martha

2007-04-10 Thread Joy Beeson
something really nice, you know that you'll never see it again anywhere, and that can lead to the stash overflowing into the laundry room. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com

[lace-chat] Sewing Thread: was Sewing with Martha

2007-04-09 Thread Joy Beeson
. If the web site doesn't *say* reeled silk, use it only for sewing that won't have to stand up to hard wear or heavy strain. I've seen posts expressing satisfaction with spun silk for making bobbin lace. Has anyone compared spun to reeled for this purpose? -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net

Re: [lace-chat] food for thought

2007-03-13 Thread Joy Beeson
On 3/12/07 1:06 PM, Janice Blair wrote: The sales assistant had never had curry, had no idea what it was and she is older than me! Umm . . . a spicy kind of stew, isn't it? I'm familiar with curry powder, though -- a tiny pinch of it improves chicken gravy quite a lot. -- Joy Beeson http

Shelves: was Re: [lace-chat] Anti-British

2007-03-01 Thread Joy Beeson
pocket mirror to read the tag. And then stand on the bottom shelf to reach them. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana

Re: [lace-chat] :) Fwd: horse race

2007-02-19 Thread Joy Beeson
whenever a new one was on. (Probably an old one newly available; I *think* drive-ins didn't get movies until the first-run theaters were done with them.) Don't recall ever seeing them in TV guide. I just told DH to look for them on NetFlix. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http

Re: [lace-chat] Why is it .....?

2007-02-10 Thread Joy Beeson
-good children's books comes in handy. And congratulations on feeling well enough to check your e-mail. Next week, you can read it. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig

Re: [lace-chat] :) Fwd: Flight self-defense

2007-02-10 Thread Joy Beeson
would that link have gone if my firewall had approved? -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send

[lace-chat] Kipling kloeppeling:

2007-02-08 Thread Joy Beeson
A paragraph from With The Night Mail: Still the clear dark holds up unblemished. The only warning is the electric skin-tension (I feel as though I were a lace-maker's pillow) and an irritability which the gibbering of the General Communicator increases almost to hysteria. -- Joy Beeson http

Re: [lace-chat] How to get rid of perennial cornflowers?

2007-02-06 Thread Joy Beeson
vinegar. In the U.S., malt vinegar is called fish and chips vinegar, and it comes in tiny bottles at a high price. I must remember to look at the vinegars at Aldi's today; they often have stuff you can't buy elsewhere. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http

Re: [lace-chat] Uses for Stockings: was: holding bobbins down for travelling

2007-01-31 Thread Joy Beeson
an on-line copy and their mama did not appear, and the two women who did appear didn't wear such a do -- but would have looked right at home with someone who did. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange

[lace-chat] Uses for Stockings: was: holding bobbins down for travelling

2007-01-27 Thread Joy Beeson
, and wore a crew cut the rest of his life. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where winter is finally here

[lace-chat] Hairdos: was: Uses for Stockings: was: holding bobbins down for travelling

2007-01-27 Thread Joy Beeson
, but Carl did Grandma and Unca Scrooge.) -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where it's winter, after a fashion

Re: [lace-chat] I know it is not lace

2007-01-26 Thread Joy Beeson
. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where it's finally winter. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

[lace-chat] Pox on Puters: was Re: Patterns' sending -- help?

2007-01-09 Thread Joy Beeson
very annoying to have to hand-delete a hard return at the end of every line *and* stick spaces between joinedtogether words every time I add or delete a word. But it's still less trouble than editing in another program and then pasting into a message. -- Joy Beeson http

[lace-chat] Potatoes

2007-01-07 Thread Joy Beeson
haunting La Surtidoria in hope of jicama, but it seems to be seasonal, and I don't know when the season is. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west

Re: [lace-chat] Re: Buttermilk

2007-01-06 Thread Joy Beeson
. Just checked the label. It's a blend of sweet churned buttermilk, sweet whey, and lactic acid. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email

[lace-chat] Pancakes: was Re: tourist question from me

2007-01-05 Thread Joy Beeson
Moved from Lace for topic drift: Tamara P Duvall wrote: On Jan 4, 2007, at 21:38, Joy Beeson wrote: I've forgotten what the merits of a pancake the size of a large coin were supposed to be. Um... So that the boys could eat more of them and then brag about it? That was the first time

Re: [lace-chat] Pancakes: was Re: tourist question from me

2007-01-05 Thread Joy Beeson
, if not anywhere near *enough*! (But it's fifteen minutes before pork chop now.) Followed by a brisk walk to Roy Street after my nap -- about a mile and a half round trip. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange

Re: [lace-chat] Medic Alert Products

2007-01-02 Thread Joy Beeson
This thread reminded me to check inside my helmet to make sure the information written there is up to date. (It wasn't; a sticker had peeled off revealing the WAY out-of- date information below.) I also try to remember to sew Cash nametags inside all my clothes. -- Joy Beeson http

[lace-chat] Re: Spot the .......

2007-01-02 Thread Joy Beeson
on Christmas fabric the last time I looked -- and some of it was red-and-green plaids that would do fine any time of the year. Not worth the shipping if you aren't in the U.S., though. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net

Re: [lace-chat] Medic Alert Products

2007-01-02 Thread Joy Beeson
though they are no longer available in the U.S. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line

Re: [lace-chat] Scorching

2006-12-16 Thread Joy Beeson
if the the pan of blazing grease hadn't landed in a sink filled with water. The grease spattered in all directions, starting fires in several places. I wasn't called until long after any ambulances would have come and gone, but I don't *think* that the spatters hit any people. -- Joy Beeson http

Re: [lace-chat] My DH asked a question of me yesterday

2006-12-15 Thread Joy Beeson
. (I designed my pockets to serve as a wallet when I don't want to carry my purse.) -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne

Re: [lace-chat] Re: Britishism?

2006-12-10 Thread Joy Beeson
at length at http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-get1.htm The earliest known reference is 1904, and it's definitely American. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A

Re: [lace-chat] Another American translation please

2006-12-09 Thread Joy Beeson
cheaters on . . . So it's *sun*glasses. (And no longer current slang.) -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A

Re: [lace-chat] 'Downtown'

2006-11-30 Thread Joy Beeson
; on the contrary, the word still retains echoes of the time when a lady put on a hat and gloves when she went there. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west

[lace-chat] Butter: was Welsh Dragon/cattern cakes on Lace

2006-11-28 Thread Joy Beeson
bevw wrote: have a creamed shortening base, instead of melted butter. Most recipes that call for melted butter -- and quite a lot of recipes that call for butter that isn't melted -- do just fine when I substitute walnut oil. I imagine that almond oil would work just as well. -- Joy Beeson

Re: [lace-chat] Shoelace trick

2006-11-28 Thread Joy Beeson
-stitch after it is also a purl, the shoelace trick itself should be a plain. (And the other way around.) -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send

[lace-chat] dyes: was Reddish Spanish prickings on Lace

2006-11-26 Thread Joy Beeson
goes to the guy who got them out of the shell. I think that whacking them with a hammer is still the only way. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe

Re: [lace-chat] Genealogy and Copyright

2006-11-04 Thread Joy Beeson
to sign a model release. American law makes a curious exception for people whose images are their stock in trade: if you manage to steal a copy, you can legally sell it. (Western culture pretends to abominate papparazi, yet eagerly slurps up their product and offers vast sums for more.) -- Joy

Re: [lace-chat] surnames titles

2006-08-30 Thread Joy Beeson
would be Mister Sorbonne. Miss Sorbonne. Mister is for males. I suppose that if you never have a sixteen party, then you never change from 'Miss' to 'Madam'. I never thought of it that way before. I guess you're right. 'Madam' is a stuffy way of saying 'mam' on Zenobia. -- Joy Beeson

Re: [lace-chat] a question about surname

2006-08-30 Thread Joy Beeson
she used her mother's maiden name and her uniforms were embroidered PLB. When she married Dad, she dropped her mother's name, kept her father's, and signed her letters PBL. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers

[lace-chat] names

2006-08-29 Thread Joy Beeson
It's always been given name in my dialect -- perhaps because most of the churches around were anabaptist. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather

Re: [lace-chat] Names Titles

2006-08-27 Thread Joy Beeson
Alice Howell wrote: He could pronouce DH's name of Chuck but not mine. He solved it by calling both of us 'Chuck'. He knew we always came together Our nickname for uncle Frank was Franken -- because we were always talking about Frank 'n Lena -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net

Re: [lace-chat] :) Fwd: By all Means... MARRY!

2006-08-16 Thread Joy Beeson
that the question was silly. Perhaps the posing of the question as an impossible task constituted such recognition. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local

[lace-chat] Re: Hot and bothered

2006-07-28 Thread Joy Beeson
, so I cleaned it out and moved it to the laundry room to dampen ironing. It also works fine for watering freshly-seeded cat-grass pots and dispelling static electricity, but I never thought of putting an ice cube in it. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http

[lace-chat] lace continent

2006-06-18 Thread Joy Beeson
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/AntarcticaRockSurface.jpg Close inspection shows, alas, that the laciest bits are artifacts of hard-to-gather data. I found this while reading More Words, Deeper Hole http://www.livejournal.com/users/james_nicoll/ -- Joy Beeson http

Re: [lace-chat] Hair dye

2006-06-18 Thread Joy Beeson
little old ladies. The sweetest -- and smallest -- old lady I ever knew dyed her hair gray. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where summer thunderstorms are predicted. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL

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

2006-06-14 Thread Joy Beeson
tricks to get a three-dimensional picture of the world out of it -- and sometimes the simplifying assumptions are wrong. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where

Re: [lace-chat] World Cup

2006-06-14 Thread Joy Beeson
? Purdue Pete would look cute in a skirt.) I also wonder how Dean Cramer would have reacted to a proposal to call the girls' teams Greyhound Bitches? -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange west of Fort

Re: [lace-chat] To those born in the 1940's, 50's, and 60's !!

2006-06-02 Thread Joy Beeson
stands, but Dad climbed up and threw the vanes down after one fell off.) By the fifties, we were rich enough that Mom bought an occasional bottle of Manichewitz, and I still enjoy a liqueur glass of blackberry wine once in a while. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http

Re: [lace-chat] What kinds of material suitable for making spring and summer dresses don't wrinkle?

2006-05-14 Thread Joy Beeson
the top tube -- I have chainwheel prints on my zip-front wool jersey. But the top tube is a good place to dry your washrag to keep it from turning sour in the heat. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers

Re: [lace-chat] the verb to bags a newie

2006-04-21 Thread Joy Beeson
that the clue-dropper had said the clue was gammon and spinach. Which the author translated as nonsense!. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where it's tulip

Re: [lace-chat] Paraffin and the cat

2006-04-19 Thread Joy Beeson
single rooms, but permanently affixed. Which is why there was a law against building house trailers with only one door. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where

Re: [lace-chat] Fabric stash

2006-04-05 Thread Joy Beeson
it overnight; you might try an oily solvent. (I'd cut one label off and cut it into snippets for experiments.) But it's most likely hot glue that won't dissolve in anything. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers

[lace-chat] WD-40: was Moderator ruling

2006-04-02 Thread Joy Beeson
and string. I tend to do everything with knitting needles. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where the crocus are fading, the daffodils are budding, and the tulips

Re: [lace-chat] :) Fwd: Doublespeak

2006-03-13 Thread Joy Beeson
At 01:53 AM 3/13/06 -0500, Tamara P Duvall wrote: HMOs and insurance companies have the best interests of the public at heart. They do, they really do -- *individuals* need health care, but for the best interests of a *group*, anything that goes beyond splinting a broken leg is a waste: the

Re: [lace-chat] Fwd: Rat-squirrel not extinct after all

2006-03-11 Thread Joy Beeson
At 03:41 PM 3/11/06 +0100, romdom wrote: i'm ready to bet it IS endangered now they have mentionned its existence . That depends on whether or not the powers that be decide to protect them by making it illegal to breed them. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http

[lace-chat] Mysteriously non-appearing messages

2006-02-27 Thread Joy Beeson
-minded spam. The plausible-name generating robots have gotten so good that one professional writer said that he saves his spams to use the names for his characters! -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers

Re: [lace-chat] ly

2006-02-24 Thread Joy Beeson
-- and you can feel good, but you can't write good. (You can, on the other hand, write good on a report.) Long live confusion! -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A

Re: [lace-chat] Tiger tape

2006-02-20 Thread Joy Beeson
-lines does for all. I usually mark a whole sheet of six labels, and put the spares away for later use.) -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather

[lace-chat] Re: Writing (was: Editing )

2006-02-15 Thread Joy Beeson
a quiet hour to work in. I was sick for two weeks afterward, and never taught again. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne

Re: [lace-chat] Re: favourite authors

2006-02-10 Thread Joy Beeson
. My theory is that they are the same people who make low-calorie foods taste bad so that you'll know they are good for you. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange west of Fort Wayne, Indiana

Re: [lace-chat] Re: Favorite Authors

2006-02-02 Thread Joy Beeson
at first was that no two books were in the same genre, let alone the same universe. Well, nobody can keep that up forever. And he's got a new Ethshar book due out Real Soon Now: href=http://www.ethshar.com/thesprigganexperiment0.html . -- Joy Beeson http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http

Re: [lace-chat] :) Deja vu (amended)

2006-01-07 Thread Joy Beeson
of Europe, England wins the Ashes and the Pope dies. Next time Prince Charles gets married, somebody better warn the Pope! And the more-accurate version is funnier. -- Joy Beeson http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~dbeeson594/ROUGHSEW/ROUGH.HTM http://home.earthlink.net

Re: [lace-chat] Expressions

2005-12-27 Thread Joy Beeson
or apprehensive. But that's specifically a lie: Don't believe what I just said; I was only yanking your chain. -- Joy Beeson http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~dbeeson594/ROUGHSEW/ROUGH.HTM http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com

[lace-chat] Re: Christmas at the Gas Station

2005-12-21 Thread Joy Beeson
If any of y'all forward this, be sure to correct the typo. It's pea shooter, not pee shooter. -- Joy Beeson To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace-chat] Frosty travel: was Re: Christmas Card Exchange

2005-12-08 Thread Joy Beeson
.html and http://jiltanith.thefifthimperium.com/Collections/HaraldChapters/Harald_Link.php . -- Joy Beeson http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~dbeeson594/ROUGHSEW/ROUGH.HTM http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather

Re: [lace-chat] Re: Peeling mushrooms (and other things)

2005-12-06 Thread Joy Beeson
snowfall of the year. Nobody *ever* remembers that that white stuff is slick! -- Joy Beeson http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~dbeeson594/ROUGHSEW/ROUGH.HTM http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne

[lace-chat] Another oldie:

2005-12-06 Thread Joy Beeson
17 October 1998 One of the thank-you notes with the calendar-drive contributions [volunteer fire company] said Please forgive our false alarms as we deal with an aging mother who loves to cook. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL

Re: [lace-chat] Re: Peeling mushrooms

2005-12-05 Thread Joy Beeson
with my bare hands. Then towel dry immediately. As for peeling them -- heavens to murgatroyd! The skins are the best part! -- Joy Beeson http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~dbeeson594/ROUGHSEW/ROUGH.HTM http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ http://www.timeswrsw.com

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2005-12-04 Thread Joy Beeson
A precisely-labeled oldie: 21 November 1997 According to SPELL/Binder, at Northern Illinois University, When it comes to drinking . . . in the residence halls, we give the students three shots. The spokesman appears to have meant that students are expelled after the

[lace-chat] Asterisks: Was: Re: [lace] Re: Danish translation, please?

2005-11-28 Thread Joy Beeson
not understand that remark; please provide the footnote. OB off-color: I used to know a bit of doggerel that ended: Wasn't Mary a perfect fool, her little *. -- Joy Beeson http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~dbeeson594/ROUGHSEW/ROUGH.HTM http://home.earthlink.net

Re: [lace-chat] Re: ideal knitting bag

2005-11-24 Thread Joy Beeson
At 11:07 PM 11/23/05 -, maureen harvey wrote: What on earth is a fanny pack ? A bum bag. (Sorry; I forgot this is an international forum.) A purse on a belt, the pouch usually worn in back -- but worn in front in crowded places. A large one is a good day pack. (The large ones *have*

[lace-chat] Re: ideal knitting bag

2005-11-23 Thread Joy Beeson
yards of ramie just because I hadn't seen any for sale before. (And I haven't seen any since.) -- Joy Beeson http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~dbeeson594/ROUGHSEW/ROUGH.HTM http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where we

[lace-chat] Re: 20 Uses for Useless CDs

2005-11-15 Thread Joy Beeson
The list left out spindle whorls. And lace-covered decorations. -- Joy Beeson http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~dbeeson594/ROUGHSEW/ROUGH.HTM http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where it's raining and just might snow

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