[lace-chat] Driving us mad
Sue wrote: try getting on the web site for the CSI there is a whole lot of help for these games. What games? I'm asking about the Yellow pages ad breaks. Betty Ann wrote: Well, the little jam rolls falls into the usual genre of CSI Miami, CSI NY, and CSI Las Vegas. Nothing else on these shows is very authentic either. The little jam rolls aren't part of the programme. They're British made advertisements for Yellow pages at the end of the ad breaks in the programmes. They really take the mickey out of the differences between the UK and the US by making the 'detective' stupid, like when he can't reach across the car to put his parking receipt in a UK car park exit machine from a lefthand drive car because it's been designed for our righthand drive ones, saying This is so Anti-American, or squatting over the outline of where a dead body has been at a car park exit saying He was hit on the had by a blunt object just before the car park barrier comes down and hits him on the head. All these are amusing except we miss the point of the little jam rolls. I don't believe the ladies in my lace group are the only ones with this 'itch to scratch', thinking What on earth are they talking about? I agree, the programmes are far from the truth, but as you say, they are very entertaining. Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Need a good functional wrist and thumb brace
Everyone's different but from my experience... When I had thumb tendonitis the physiotherapist suggested I wear a thumb brace and rest my thumb (no lacemaking etc). The thumb got worse and I ended up with a trigger thumb. Only when I gave up wearing the brace did my thumb start to improve! The trigger thumb went away and although the thumb still aches a bit at times it is much, much better. I do make an effort to rest it when it gets sore as I think that's the real answer. Jean in wet, grey Glasgow To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Need a good functional wrist and thumb brace
I can't really rest my hand from life, which seems to be what's annoying it. I can plainly see that completely rigid braces will make the problem worse - partly by spreading it around. That's why I want braces that allow function. Yours, Dora Smith Austin, TX [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Jean Leader [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lace-chat@arachne.com Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 2:37 AM Subject: Re: [lace-chat] Need a good functional wrist and thumb brace Everyone's different but from my experience... When I had thumb tendonitis the physiotherapist suggested I wear a thumb brace and rest my thumb (no lacemaking etc). The thumb got worse and I ended up with a trigger thumb. Only when I gave up wearing the brace did my thumb start to improve! The trigger thumb went away and although the thumb still aches a bit at times it is much, much better. I do make an effort to rest it when it gets sore as I think that's the real answer. Jean in wet, grey Glasgow To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.3/699 - Release Date: 2/23/2007 1:26 PM To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Driving us mad
Hello Jean I'm pretty mystified by the jam rolls as well. They're certainly not as obvious as the other differences the ads dig at (pants versus trousers etc.) The only thing I can think is that the (possibly very middle-class) advertising scriptwriter thinks of mini-rolls as being typically working class and therefore the opposite of what you'd have at fancy parties. The ad DH and I like best is the one you described at the car-park entrance. Here in Holland we find the top shelves in the supermarkets are too high for us to reach because the Dutch are on average much taller than Brits. We chuckle and say It's so anti-British Hazel (in Oude Wetering, Holland) (formerly of Southampton UK) --- Jean Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The little jam rolls aren't part of the programme. They're British made advertisements for Yellow pages at the end of the ad breaks in the programmes. They really take the mickey out of the differences between the UK and the US by making the 'detective' stupid, like when he can't reach across the car to put his parking receipt in a UK car park exit machine from a lefthand drive car because it's been designed for our righthand drive ones, saying This is so Anti-American, or squatting over the outline of where a dead body has been at a car park exit saying He was hit on the had by a blunt object just before the car park barrier comes down and hits him on the head. All these are amusing except we miss the point of the little jam rolls. I don't believe the ladies in my lace group are the only ones with this 'itch to scratch', thinking What on earth are they talking about? I agree, the programmes are far from the truth, but as you say, they are very entertaining. Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ The all-new Yahoo! Mail goes wherever you go - free your email address from your Internet provider. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] :-) Behind the door
A man is driving down the road and his car breaks down near a monastery. He goes to the monastery, knocks on the door, and says, My car broke down. Do you think I could stay the night? The Monks graciously accept him, feed him dinner, even fix his car. As the man tries to f all asleep, he hears a strange sound. A sound not like anything he's ever heard before. The Sirens that nearly seduced Odysseus into crashing his ship comes to his mind. He doesn't sleep that night. He tosses and turns trying to figure out what could possibly be making such a seductive sound. The next morning, he asks the Monks what the sound was, but they say, We can't tell you. You're not a Monk. Distraught, the man is forced to leave. Years later, after never being able to forget that sound, the ma n goes back to the monastery and pleads for the answer again. The Monks reply, We can't tell you. You're not a Monk. The man says, If the only way I can find out what is making that beautiful sound is to become a Monk, then please, make me a Monk. BR The Monks reply, You must travel the earth and tell us how many blades of grass there are and the exact number of grains of sand. When you find these answers, you will have become a Monk. The man sets about his task. After years of searching he returns as a gray-haired old man and knocks on the door of the monastery. A Monk answers. He is taken before a gathering of all the Monks. In my quest to find what makes that beautiful sound, I traveled the earth and have found what you asked for: By design, the world is in a state of perpetual change. Only God knows what you ask. All a man can know is himself, and only then if he is honest and reflective and willing to strip away self deception. The Monks reply, Congratulations. You have become a Monk. We shall now show you the way to the mystery of the sacred sound. The Monks lead the man to a wooden door, where the head monk says, The sound is beyond that door. The Monks give him the key, and he opens the door. Behind the wooden door is another door made of stone. The man is given the key to the stone door and he opens it, only to find a door made of ruby. And so it went that he needed keys to doors of emerald, pearl and diamond. Finally, they come to a door made of solid gold. The sound has become very clear and definite. The Monks say, This is the last key to the last door. The man is apprehensive to no end. His life's wish is behind that door! With trembling hands, he unlocks the door, turns the knob, and slowly pushes the door open. Falling to his knee s, he is utterly amazed to discover the source of that haunting and seductive sound.. But I can't tell you what it is because you're not a Monk..:) Jeanette Fischer, Western Cape, South Africa. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Butch the Rooster - humor
From my husband who got it from The Flying Pigs site -(ham radio). John the Farmer was in the fertilized egg business. He had several hundred young layers (hens), called pullets, and ten roosters, whose job it was to fertilize the eggs (for you city folks). The farmer kept records and any rooster that didn't perform went into the soup pot and was replaced. That took an awful lot of his time, so he bought a set of tiny bells and attached them to his roosters. Each bell had a different tone so John could tell from a distance, which rooster was performing. Now he could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report simply by listening to the bells. The farmer's favorite rooster was old Butch, and a very fine specimen he was, too. But on this particular morning John noticed old Butch's bell hadn't rung at all! John went to investigate. The other roosters were chasing pullets, bells-a-ringing. The pullets, hearing the roosters coming, would run for cover. But to Farmer John's amazement, old Butch had his bell in his beak, so it couldn't ring. He would sneak up on a pullet, do his job and walk on to the next one. John was so proud of old Butch, he entered him in the Renfrew County Fair and he became an overnight sensation among the judges. The result...The judges not only awarded old Butch the No Bell Piece Prize but they also awarded him the Pullet Surprise as well. Have a great day from sunny Phoenix, AZ U.S.A. Carol Melton Valley of the Sun Phoenix, AZ U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Top Shelf
Even after all those years in UK (I am Dutch), I still do not know how tall I am in feet, but know that I am 1m71 or 171 cm, and can reach the top shelves and am often asked by other, smaller, customers to help them out. One old man in a wheelie-thing even waits for me in certain aisles. Mu own fault for doing the shopping the same day and time each week! Agnes Boddington - Elloughton East Yorkshire UK Bobbin maker At 6:42 PM + 2/27/07, Jean Nathan wrote: Hazerl wrote: Here in Holland we find the top shelves in the supermarkets are too high for us to reach because the Dutch are on average much taller than Brits. We chuckle and say It's so anti-British To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace-chat] Anti-British
I am with you other short folk...I am 5'2 as well (and I am one of the taller in my family) maybe it is my English/Irish ancestory to blame...I hate not being able to reach stuff. I am very vocal and make the grocers and store personnel work very hard keeping me happy. Fortunately I live in a small town so they don't MIND going out of their way for me... Cearbhael -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jean Nathan Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 12:42 PM To: Chat Subject: [lace-chat] Anti-British Hazerl wrote: Here in Holland we find the top shelves in the supermarkets are too high for us to reach because the Dutch are on average much taller than Brits. We chuckle and say It's so anti-British I can't reach the top shelves of supermarkets here. I'm 5 ft 2 inches tall and I think supermarkets deliberately employ shelf stackers of minimum height 6 ft. Usually when I can't reach something I call to the nearest assistant Could you please get an abnormally tall assistant to get 'whatever it is' from the top shelf for me. I can't reach it because I'm of normal height, as are most of the shoppers in here. Or, if I remember to take my long-handle grab with me, I just knock the top item off the shelf (provided it isn't breakable) and pick it up off the floor. Of course, other items fall on the floor with it, and I tell the next assitant I see that there are goods on the floor which need picking up. Hearing several tins on the floor usually gets several assitants running. DH says I'm evil, but the stores don't listen to reason - We have to stack that high to get the required number displayed. - so I get back the only way I know how. Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Height
Agnes wrote: Even after all those years in UK (I am Dutch), I still do not know how tall I am in feet, but know that I am 1m71 or 171 cm At 5 ft 2 inches, I am 1.57 metres 1 m 71 converts to 5 ft 6 inches Useful site for various conversions: http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/conversions.html Only thing is you have to divide your spare inches by 12 to get the decimal of feet, or you could convert your feet to inches. Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Height
Hello Jean Agnes wrote: Even after all those years in UK (I am Dutch), I still do not know how tall I am in feet, but know that I am 1m71 or 171 cm At 5 ft 2 inches, I am 1.57 metres correct 1 m 71 converts to 5 ft 6 inches No! 1m 71 converts to just over 5 ft 7 inches 2.540 cm = 1 inch (exactly) Convert the feet and inches to inches Your 5' 2 = 60 inches plus 2 inches = 62. 62 x 2.54 = 157.48 cm = 1.5748 m Agnes' 171 cm divided by 2.54 = 67.322834645669 - say 67 and a bit - inches. the 60 inches is 5 feet, so she's 5 ft 7 and a bit inches. Brenda Useful site for various conversions: http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/conversions.html Only thing is you have to divide your spare inches by 12 to get the decimal of feet, or you could convert your feet to inches. Brenda in Allhallows, Kent http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/index.html To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Height
You see, this is why I never bothered to try and convert my height: you get different answers! Agnes Boddington - Elloughton UK Bobbin maker Brenda Paternoster wrote: Hello Jean Agnes wrote: Even after all those years in UK (I am Dutch), I still do not know how tall I am in feet, but know that I am 1m71 or 171 cm At 5 ft 2 inches, I am 1.57 metres correct 1 m 71 converts to 5 ft 6 inches No! 1m 71 converts to just over 5 ft 7 inches 2.540 cm = 1 inch (exactly) Convert the feet and inches to inches Your 5' 2 = 60 inches plus 2 inches = 62. 62 x 2.54 = 157.48 cm = 1.5748 m Agnes' 171 cm divided by 2.54 = 67.322834645669 - say 67 and a bit - inches. the 60 inches is 5 feet, so she's 5 ft 7 and a bit inches. Brenda Useful site for various conversions: http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/conversions.html Only thing is you have to divide your spare inches by 12 to get the decimal of feet, or you could convert your feet to inches. Brenda in Allhallows, Kent http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/index.html To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Driving us mad
In one the stupid American detective says what he wants is ... and some of those cute little jam rolls you British have at fancy parties. What cute little jam rolls? What is he talking about? The only ones we can think of are the small swiss rolls, sometimes with a jam filling, that are sold in packs of six or so. But do we have those at fancy parties? If we do, then I've never been to a fancy party. I have never heard that reference in the states. In fact, I quite miss the jam swiss rolls that we used to buy so cheaply in England. There isn't an equivalent here and I have made my own in the past. Actually my local Polish/Mexican supermarket does stock some down the bread aisle but they are quite often past the sell by date and are almost $5 each, which to me is not inexpensive and I have never bought one having noticed something green on one of them! Some supermarket bakeries do carry larger swiss rolls but they are short and fat unlike the long skinny ones we used to buy in England and which I used to use for my trifles. The one thing I miss about England is the cakes, especially the cream cakes. My P/M supermarket does have a good bakery with a better selection of cakes than most supermarkets but it they seem to soak their sponge cakes in some syrup that makes them very moist and messy. Ooohh, my mouth is watering at the thought of a cream cake! I plan on going to the P/M tomorrow as they have salmon for $5 a pound and bananas for 19 cents a pound so I might visit the bakery. Janice Janice Blair Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA http://jblace.wordpress.com/ http://www.lacemakersofillinois.org/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] recipes with cloves
The chili recipe my mom (which came from my dad's Aunt Ruth) always uses has cloves, the spice, in it. My husband likes to add the garlic -- but that's not on the recipe! Lynn Carpenter in SW Michigan, USA alwen at i2k dot com http://lost-arts.blogspot.com/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] the tall Dutch
Hazel Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here in Holland we find the top shelves in the supermarkets are too high for us to reach because the Dutch are on average much taller than Brits. We chuckle and say It's so anti-British That's for sure! In the US, I'm about average height for a woman, but in the Netherlands I felt like I was looking at everyone's belt buckles. But my husband had it worse -- once I remember him coming out of a bathroom totally flustered, as the height of the urinal in it was too high! I read somewhere that the Dutch had the tallest average height in the world. Now I can't find where I read that, but I believe it. Lynn Carpenter in SW Michigan, USA alwen at i2k dot com http://lost-arts.blogspot.com/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
