Re: Re: clay pots/Dillon Seed Co

Not all Muslims are terrorists. My dear friend Ali is orignally from
Iran (been here since he was a teenager) and he's a delight. He's 45 now
and no more a threat than your pet. But he still gets grief when
travelling. Too bad. Fanatics are the only problem, regardless of who
they pray to.


Pam Evans
Kemp, TX
zone 8A
----- Original Message -----
From: james singer
Sent: 6/4/2004 4:33:26 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] clay pots/Dillon Seed Co

> Okay, I'm convinced. Tomorrow I will start my quest for a discarded 
> bathtub. And I will visit one [two, if necessary] of our concrete 
> statuary merchants to find a virgin Mary that fits inside the bath tub. 
> And I will create an Italian shrine somewhere here at the plantation.
> 
> Meantime, please remember that Ms. Fatma is Muslim ["not a terrorist," 
> I tell people at work while not making eye contact, but occasionally a 
> Holy Terror] so we may end up with a second bathtub [somehow I don't 
> think Muslims do this, but I'll ask first--would be really, really 
> funny if they did; I mean REALLY, REALLY FUNNY] with a statue of 
> Ali--if the concrete statuary merchants have such [probably not, 
> because they are mostly Italians, cranking out Marys and like most 
> Italians and/or Americans, have no idea who Ali was].
> 
> On Friday, June 4, 2004, at 04:43 PM, Kitty wrote:
> 
> >> a bathtub
> >> half-buried horizontally in front of a house with the Virgin Mary in 
> >> the
> >> enclosure!  Having grown up in Chicago, I'd never seen anything like 
> >> it!
> >> Mardi
> >
> > Mardi !!!!!  I grew up in Chicago and believe me Chicago has plenty of 
> > Our
> > Lady of the Bathtub shrines!  You must have just been in the wrong
> > neighborhoods!
> >
> > Kitty
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <mlrasmus@rockwellcollins.com>
> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 1:18 PM
> > Subject: [CHAT] clay pots/Dillon Seed Co
> >
> >
> >>> it's right up there with my desire to get an old,
> >> footed cast iron bath tub & making a water feature/water garden out 
> >> of it.
> >>
> >> Eva, in some small towns in Iowa it is not unusual to see a bathtub
> >> half-buried horizontally in front of a house with the Virgin Mary in 
> >> the
> >> enclosure!  Having grown up in Chicago, I'd never seen anything like 
> >> it!
> >> Mardi
> >>
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> Island Jim
> Southwest Florida
> Zone 10
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