[lace-chat] Kids Humour

2004-05-29 Thread David Collyer
Things I've learned from my Children (honest no kidding): 1. A king size waterbed holds enough water to fill a 2000 sq. ft. house 4 inches deep. 2. If you spray hair spray on dust bunnies and run over them with roller blades, they can ignite. 3. A 3-year olds voice is louder

Re: [lace-chat] Re: Arrangement of dates

2004-05-29 Thread Lorri Ferguson
I have a strong suspicion -- Weronika? -- that Poland is now aping the custom (along with many others). When I was growing up, the dates were not only written in the day, month, year sequence (the logical progression from the smallest to the largest unit), but the month was written in

Re: [lace-chat] Re: Arrangement of dates

2004-05-29 Thread Weronika Patena
On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 09:19:06AM -0700, Lorri Ferguson wrote: I have a strong suspicion -- Weronika? -- that Poland is now aping the custom (along with many others). I've never heard the month/day/year version before coming to the US, so no. Sometime after I left, the month began to

[lace-chat] Fwd: [lace] Wedding Bobbins

2004-05-29 Thread Brenda Paternoster
Begin forwarded message: From: Brenda Paternoster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 29 May 2004 20:06:49 BST To: Adele Shaak [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [lace] Wedding Bobbins On 29 May 2004, at 18:45, Adele Shaak wrote: Just on this one point - I've noticed that many historians who specialise in Modern

[lace-chat] Re: Arrangement of dates

2004-05-29 Thread Tamara P. Duvall
On May 29, 2004, at 12:19, Lorri Ferguson wrote: Tamara, How was it arranged when spoken? We say 'May 28, 2004', would you have said '28th of May, 2004? Dwudziestego osmego maja, dwa tysiace cztery (or: dwa tysiace czwartego roku), Lorri Ferguson napisala (on the 28th of May, two thousand and