Re: OT-equality, not reversed

Ya think we hit a nerve somehow?  LOL
We probably ought to give it a rest however.
I'm sure you guys are like "ok girls, we're not all that bad"
yuk yuk yuk...

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: David Franzman <dfranzma@pacbell.net>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Thu, 30 Jan 2003 18:57:44 -0800

>Man, the one liners are endless with this one!  However, I'm still blushing over
>Peggy's recent letter so I'll abstain.
>
>DF
>
>"Richard T. Apking" wrote:
>
>> Hey Pam, I think Pamela is a great name.  When I was a little boy, of course
>> Richard was shortened to Dick, and that wasn't too bad, since I grew up in
>> the time of the Dick and Jane reading primers.  As time went on the name
>> just got worse and worse.  Hence the Rich.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Pamela J. Evans" <gardenqueen@gbronline.com>
>> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 5:42 PM
>> Subject: Re: [CHAT] OT-equality, not reversed
>>
>> > Don't feel bad, I used to have a Chinese dry cleaner who could not spell
>> > Evans. So he showed me the character he devised so I could always pick
>> > out my ticket.
>> >
>> > Hilarious.
>> >
>> > ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>> > From: Janet  Laytham <jw.laytham@worldnet.att.net>
>> > Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
>> > Date:  Wed, 29 Jan 2003 20:34:55 -0500
>> >
>> > >Claire,
>> > >My maiden name is White.  Yet people always asked how to spell it.  Some
>> > >spell it with a 'y', just as there are Smythes.
>> > >Janet
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >on 01/29/2003 12:18 PM, ECPep@aol.com at ECPep@aol.com wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> In a message dated 1/28/03 5:54:54 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>> > >> kmrsy@earthlink.net writes:
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >>> Why don't single people count?>>>>
>> > >>
>> > >> Kitty, they do.  All people count.  All.  From a "NY bleeding heart
>> liberal"
>> > >> Don't let anyone get you down on this issue.  Eleanor Roosevelt said,
>> amongst
>> > >> her many worthy statements, that you are only lessened to the degree
>> you
>> > >> allow it.  No-one should presume anything with regard to the life
>> status of
>> > >> another.
>> > >>
>> > >> Upon reading the many comments, think the solutions to life's problems
>> are
>> > >> well handled in this category.  I married and have spent 40 years
>> spelling my
>> > >> name.  My husband will say quietly say, I have told you once and that
>> is
>> > >> enough and you cannot get another word out of him.   Sometimes I need
>> to
>> > >> correct a clerk somewhere on why "you people don't change your names."
>> I
>> > >> have a mother, aged 94, who uses her own name and always has.  If you
>> expect
>> > >> dignity to be afforded to you from society, you extend dignity to your
>> fellow
>> > >> man.
>> > >>
>> > >> Funnily, I was raised in a city with such a mixture of people and a
>> wide
>> > >> general acceptance of lifestyle that the shock only came upon moving to
>> a
>> > >> rural area of New York and finding "country people" much more
>> conservative.
>> > >> This attitude is diminishing to the individual and once in while makes
>> you a
>> > >> pariah in your own town.  In what is not a small way, it does
>> demonstrate a
>> > >> wide division in social attitude in this country.  It is shame that in
>> this
>> > >> new century in the US, women are still struggling for an equal place at
>> the
>> > >> table.
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >> Claire Peplowski
>> > >> NYS z4
>> > >>
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>> > Pam Evans
>> > Kemp TX/zone 8A
>> >
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