Re: Garden decor was Re: [gardeners] 'Bright Lights'
drusus@golden.net (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Thu, 08 Jan 1998 15:52:25 -0500
At 01:07 PM 08-01-98 -0700, Margaret Lauterbach wrote:
>At 03:00 PM 1/8/98 -0500, you wrote:
>>At 08:10 AM 08-01-98, George Shirley wrote:
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>>Hated to go to
>>>>>their houses to visit, always afraid a spider would bite a tender portion
>>>>>of my anatomy whilst in the outhouse. :-)
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>>>>>George
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>>>>Spiders were my worst fear, too, at my grandparents' farm. little did I
>>>>know that rattlesnakes go down the hole to cool off or warm up, I don't
>>>>know which. They didn't dream rattlers would go there either. Margaret
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>Oh geez Margaret, now I'll have nightmares. I hate rattlesnakes worse than
>>>spiders. Must come from having been bitten by a ground rattler when I was
>>>about 9 or 10. Only made me sick for a few days but scared the crap outta
>>>me, literally.
>>>
>>>George
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>>George, the best way to quell those nightmares is to spring for an inside
>>toilet. Come on, lad, it's the end of the 20th century and plumbed toilets
>>have been around since the Romans, maybe even the Minoans.
>>
>>Lucinda
>yes, but didn't they regard elimination as one of the social functions?
oh yeah, pass the sponge.
>Necessary ingestion still is a social function in this era, but elimination
>seems to have "passed" (excuse me) out of favor as a group activity. At
>least in the cultures with which I'm familiar. I don't recall seeing any
>doors at Knossos. Is that a good title for a rock number? Margaret, who
>still doesn't believe the Atlantis as Thera speculation.
No one with any brains does. BTW, a colleague is the *academic* (as
opposed to crackpot) expert on Atlantis, has written book on it and now has
just produced a history of Thera in the bronze age. She was on TV with a
bunch of channelers once on a show about Atlantis. It was a hoot, I
understand. That was pre-tv days (ours--we only got one when friend went
off to grad school, now have our own for nephew.) Lucinda
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