Re: devinci

Speaking of which has anybody read The De Vinci Code?  Fascinating.

David Franzman
A Touch of the Tropics
www.atouchofthetropics.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kitty" <kmrsy@comcast.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 5:50 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] clay pots/Dillon Seed Co


> Yeah!  You could hire a bunch of college kids to dress up as Tele-TUB-ies!
>
> BTW - you mentioned Muslims don't use statues - graven images and all
that.
> This is a fine point, but I should point out that Christians do not
worship
> Mary.  The shrines are simply places to go to pray to ask her to intercede
> on your behalf.  Do Muslims have intercedents?  Or is that intercediaries?
>
> Kitty
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "james singer" <jsinger@igc.org>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 2:31 AM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] clay pots/Dillon Seed Co
>
>
> > Wow! I like that idea, too. Man, I'm gonna have a yard full of half
> > buried bathtubs before you know it. It'll be a new Florida theme park.
> >
> > On Friday, June 4, 2004, at 09:04 PM, Kitty wrote:
> >
> > > Jim,
> > > That was funny,   I mean REALLY, REALLY FUNNY.
> > > I wonder, has anyone ever stuck Budda in a bathtub?
> > >
> > > Kitty
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "james singer" <jsinger@igc.org>
> > > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > > Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 4:33 PM
> > > 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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