Re: Digest Number 2069
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Digest Number 2069
- From: j* b*
- Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2002 12:24:35 +0000
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>To: iris-talk@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [iris-talk] Digest Number 2069
>Date: 3 Jul 2002 07:35:50 -0000
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>There are 3 messages in this issue.
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>Topics in this digest:
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> 1. OT:colloquialisms
> From: Pat Mitchell <corgilover@wi.rr.com>
> 2. Re: OT:More tales of missing plants (Char Randall)
> From: William Wells <wells@train.missouri.org>
> 3. Re: re: Reading...
> From: majorcanis@aol.com
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>Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 21:52:21 -0500
> From: Pat Mitchell <corgilover@wi.rr.com>
>Subject: OT:colloquialisms
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>Mike Greenfield wrote:
> > Here in Ohio we just carry a Buckeye in our pocket for luck, over rides
>all that other stuff.
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>My first thought, upon reading *buckeye* was why would he
>carry a peanut butter and chocolate candy in his pocket at
>this time of year???? Doesn't it make a mess in your
>pocket?
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>Then of course, I realized that you meant the nut that the
>candy/cookie is named after!! I had a very good belly laugh
>at myself!
>++++++++++++
>Pat Mitchell
>corgilover@wi.rr.com
>Zone 5 SE Wisconsin - summer gardener/winter baker
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>Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 22:15:10 -0500
> From: William Wells <wells@train.missouri.org>
>Subject: Re: OT:More tales of missing plants (Char Randall)
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>I have heard this old tale, as well, but I always ignore it. I'd rather
>be "hexed" than appear as unappreciative. :-\
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>Bill Wells
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>laurief wrote:
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> > >Here the local (very local?) custom is somewhat different. You may
> > ask for
> > >a plant or receive one as a gift but must never say "thank you" or it
> > >won't grow. Where do these things come from??
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> > Same here, Janet. It's considered very bad luck to thank someone for
> > gifting you with a living plant. Instead, you need to come up with
> > something more obliquely appreciative like, "It will look absolutely
> > PERFECT in my garden!"
> >
> > Laurie
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> > laurief@paulbunyan.net
> > http://www.geocities.com/lfandjg/
> > zone 3b northern MN - clay soil
> >
> >
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>Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 01:57:34 EDT
> From: majorcanis@aol.com
>Subject: Re: re: Reading...
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>Friends: In case you've never observed one before, this is a pyramid
>scheme.
>An elementary knowledge of arithmetic will tell you, even if the original
>perps have gotten some money, that it cannot sustain itself. And there
>enough
>poor, gullible people who will send off the funds. Don't be one of them and
>expect nothing. James Harrison
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