Re: hump day

the druids, my dear, who celebrated the solstice, dyed/painted their bodies blue. i have no idea why. there is a line in the old movie "gunga din" when sam jaffe [who plays, i think, a high hindi priest] says to a brit soldier [played, i think, by cary grant] "we were a great empire when you were still painting your bodies blue." or something like that.


At 12:38 PM 12/21/02 -0600, you wrote:
you go girl - have one for me. Sunny here but gale force winds. I'm curious about the dye too BTW

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From: "Andrea H" <hodgesaa@islc.net>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 12:57:28 -0500

>What blue dye? what have you been up to?
>My friend Liz and I used to celebrate this day with a margarita fest since
>it was the shortest day of the year and then we could begin to see a few
>more seconds of daylight from here til day light savings time starts. Winter
>solstice, ah, I may have to drag out the tequila tonight and have margaritas
>in front of the fire since it's supposed to be in the 30's tonight. Maybe
>I'll even drag my lounge chair in the house and sit there!
>
>
>Andrea H
>Beaufort, SC
>Zone 8b
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "jim singer" <jsinger@igc.org>
>To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
>Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 11:43 AM
>Subject: [CHAT] hump day
>
>
>> as zem reminded me, today is winter solstice. hump day. happy winter
>> solstice, everyone. from here on the daylight gets longer for quite
>awhile.
>> does anyone know how to get this blue dye off your skin?
>>
>>
>>
>> jsinger@igc.org
>>
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