tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61905770781034414742024-03-12T19:33:02.090-04:00TangoPonylearning about very vintage, really retro and other old stuffMary Ann Hopehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07974558153190883512noreply@blogger.comBlogger65125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190577078103441474.post-32779242910506888252023-03-23T22:27:00.001-04:002023-03-24T13:09:06.822-04:00DA DO RAG RAG<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Everyone knows what a durag is. Or dorag. Or
doorag. I have one from the 70s in my Etsy shop. It’s vintage and retro, but the
design is still current.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLG1SAOSgzu29cETfEuAV-FF3USMei2jIjaN1blUss6OP5DrzzltRLxNSX6tjxpEuFa2KLq8Y52lCpnLYWJmrYji5Jf4L5C6fEPZ17nWxtnjaS3DkOw4uXuWQgSJXRV5MQ6HIFf4x0RmYtgJzZK-WqXxdJzTyKDXA9nm5SSd_s9pjDmi4yVKslcLU/s2000/doorag.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1997" data-original-width="2000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLG1SAOSgzu29cETfEuAV-FF3USMei2jIjaN1blUss6OP5DrzzltRLxNSX6tjxpEuFa2KLq8Y52lCpnLYWJmrYji5Jf4L5C6fEPZ17nWxtnjaS3DkOw4uXuWQgSJXRV5MQ6HIFf4x0RmYtgJzZK-WqXxdJzTyKDXA9nm5SSd_s9pjDmi4yVKslcLU/s320/doorag.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">Where did this come from? Probably Africa, where
women still wear fabulous head wraps. They’re like big do rags with the tie in
front. We know in 1700s New Orleans enslaved women were required to wear head
coverings to demean them and make sure everyone else knew they were enslaved.</span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">That hideous law has been turned on its head, thank
goodness. In current culture, the durag is embraced by musicians, motorcyclists,
bicyclists, top fashion designers, medical personnel, people with hair loss and
people with natural hair protecting their do. Rihanna’s <span style="color: #222222;">dancers wore do rags under their fuzzy hoods at Super Bowl 2023.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This hip accessory makes me think of the 1963 song
by the Crystals – “Da Doo Ron Ron” – specifically written to imbed itself in
your brain. Sort of a rock ‘n’ roll tumor. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Enjoy:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyI40SgYCJokOqLb0pa_bGWKLM-PROZMi3xPTq_xpdf623RcDDyABTh_jTqVIA4CsSXnur85s4Q9htHQoxgNQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Just imagine The Crystals performing at the first
Super Bowl halftime show just four years later. It would have been rock and
roll – you know – Satan’s music. They would have had those bare arms and those
wiggly, shimmy moves. Outraged, God-fearing viewers would have complained to
the FCC. They would have used words like <a name="_Hlk128563576">"overtly</a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"> sexual" and "patently offensive and completely
inappropriate for children." </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">Like porn. And you allowed your innocent offspring to watch because?</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="speakable" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="speakable" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">“Excuse me, ma’am, have you ever watched porn?”</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="speakable" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><br /></span></p><p class="speakable" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_g5mTxNeeBPIxaQKvnWt94ZBgOxhJH9ikPTvNdYoYgtBgSvWdE29xYZeaGzOevf_lrGG3sipgVy9yoOUOyuPt_lcXFxef4NTMmn1Y1N47ClYMvSOxPkpna-mIPruQqcb2Qvrh96_YtSDvTrR6XQ31DsysyoIOlFPWksUe-sookdZp-EnswKufXjA/s1704/Rihanna%20dorag.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1704" data-original-width="1278" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_g5mTxNeeBPIxaQKvnWt94ZBgOxhJH9ikPTvNdYoYgtBgSvWdE29xYZeaGzOevf_lrGG3sipgVy9yoOUOyuPt_lcXFxef4NTMmn1Y1N47ClYMvSOxPkpna-mIPruQqcb2Qvrh96_YtSDvTrR6XQ31DsysyoIOlFPWksUe-sookdZp-EnswKufXjA/s320/Rihanna%20dorag.webp" width="240" /></a></div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"> </span><p></p>
<p class="speakable" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">Just like the more than a hundred people who complained to the
FCC after Rihanna’s performance at Super Bowl 57. They claimed the show was </span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">"overtly</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"> sexual". <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of the dance moves "were patently
offensive and completely inappropriate for children." You know, just like
porn. Sooo you let your children watch porn because?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="speakable" style="background: white; line-height: 21pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="speakable" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“Excuse me, Karen, have you ever watched porn? How about you,
Ken? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="speakable" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Never mind. Your fat red face is answer enough.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="speakable" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">God bless America.<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright 2010 by TangoPony.</div>Mary Ann Hopehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07974558153190883512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190577078103441474.post-44066614213713916182023-01-30T22:40:00.001-05:002023-01-30T22:40:45.355-05:00THE CASE of the DEADLY HAIR DRYER<p> In case someone is interested in why I haven’t written a
blog post since 2015,
maybe it’s because I was off the grid, lost in the woods, in witness
protection, lazy or in prison. You decide.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And now, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">THE CASE OF THE DEADLY HAIR DRYER<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This retro, Mid Century Modern hair dryer was state of the
art in the 1940s and 50s. The pretty pastel green, painted wood handle and extra-long
cord made drying hair a breeze. No pun intended. Actually, I did it on purpose.<o:p></o:p></p>
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these. Remember how heavy it was? This one weighs two pounds … the weight of a
toaster or eight apples. Yikes.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You also remember how blisteringly hot it was. Just seconds
before you smelled burning hair, you could turn on the ‘cold air’ switch. You also
needed the cold air on your face. By now, sweat was dripping off the end of
your nose.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My aunt, who lived in one of those great big, brick ranch
style homes, gave this to me. After using it as a craft dryer for a while, I
put it in my TangoPony Etsy shop. A couple of days later, BOOM! Etsy took it
down for safety reasons. I assumed it was some kind of electrical issue, so I
cut off the plug. I relisted it as décor for boudoir, bathroom or salon. It’s
in someone’s cart right now.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Though it has the ubiquitous Underwriters Laboratory
plate, the plug is only two pronged – no grounding prong. The law requiring
safety outlets in bathrooms (<span style="background: white; color: #202124; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">GFCI-protected)</span> was not initiated until
1975.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Besides risking injury just to dry your hair, hair dryers were great murder weapons. Milady in the bath and the terrible argument with Hubby
ends with the handy hair dryer dropped into the water. Suddenly all the lights
in the house flicker, the fuses are blown and Mr. Mister thinks he has the
perfect alibi.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“As I was leavin’ for bowling night with the guys, she said
she was gonna take a bath and go to bed early. When I got home, I found her
like this. I guess she fell asleep and drowned. At least she was smart enough
to have a big life insurance policy.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If that wasn’t scary enough, 90% of hairdryers manufactured
through the end of the 1970s were insulated with asbestos. I guess the
manufacturers forgot to tell us. What a surprise. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A photographer who was using a hair dryer to dry his prints ‘discovered’
the asbestos. Tiny, dust like bits of asbestos were blowing all over his
photos.<o:p></o:p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright 2010 by TangoPony.</div>Mary Ann Hopehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07974558153190883512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190577078103441474.post-85015829331589647252015-04-08T12:37:00.000-04:002015-04-08T12:41:46.085-04:00Eau de What?<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I
have always been a collector.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
inherited the tendency from my dad and his carefully catalogued collection of transportation tokens. Dad caught the collecting bug from his mother, who had a vast and stunning collection of
salt and pepper shakers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were
displayed on shelves below the big kitchen window in the ‘breakfast nook’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What could be a better treat for a kid … Grandma's pancakes
with a side of fun little objects to savor. <span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In childhood, my collections were things I loved …
horse figurines, and things I found fascinating … rocks, seashells and bugs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As an adult, I find myself drawn to things
that evoke happy memories of childhood</span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like salt and
pepper shakers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another childhood treat was roaming a dime store with a
few coins and being allowed to buy something all by myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was drawn to the perfume ... the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Eau de Toilette</i> (<em>very</em> funny to a
kid).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh, the treasures to be found
… the gently curved, cobalt blue glass bottles of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Evening
in Paris</i> and the clear heart-shaped bottles with the pale blue rosebud tops
that held <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Blue Waltz.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright 2010 by TangoPony.</div>Mary Ann Hopehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07974558153190883512noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190577078103441474.post-44685661810505465862014-03-02T23:48:00.000-05:002014-03-04T10:10:51.230-05:00So Where's the Chair, Raphael?<br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">'Madonna of the Chair' was painted in 1514 in Rome by Raffaello Sanzio da
Urbino, aka Raphael.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Try not to confuse it with the painting 'Madogga of the Chair' from Australia.</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>We know Raphael is a
famous artist because we refer to him by one name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like Madonna on her chair.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">'Madonna' is an old Italian word for 'lady', which I doubt Madonna ever
was (see gross photo).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Madonna in the Raphael painting is supposedly
not just a lady, but a virgin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The kid
with the chubby legs is her baby, Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The depraved looking person on the right is supposed to be John the
Baptist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe he's just sleep deprived. Maybe from having nightmares about being beheaded.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">So where is the chair?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe the
thingie in the foreground that I thought was a wine bottle is a part of the chair.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The legend of the painting is the best part.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Raphael was supposedly taking a walk and saw
a young mother sitting in a doorway with her baby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He thought it would make a great Madonna and
child, but he didn't have any paper with him. He found a cask head and sketched the idea on
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He kept the round shape when he
painted the painting which is probably why we can't see the chair.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">I would just love to see that chair.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright 2010 by TangoPony.</div>Mary Ann Hopehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07974558153190883512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190577078103441474.post-8579302088180171442013-11-30T14:51:00.000-05:002013-11-30T14:51:21.528-05:00Sometimes a Choir Boy is a Girl
<span style="font-family: Arial;">We've all heard the bad
jokes about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">castrati … </i>that the man
who has an unfortunate injury to his private parts will soon be singing soprano
in the choir.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That story is for another
day.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The Boys Club of the
Choir, where all parts are sung only by the male species, can be traced back to
that most famous misogenist of the Bronze Age, Saint Paul.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He claimed that <span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">"women should be silent in churches" (<i>mulieres
in ecclesiis taceant</i>), and so they were.</span></span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Since girls and women were not allowed to sing in
church, neither were they allowed in any other patriarchal venue that developed
… like opera.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Having said all this, I am forced to admit that
hearing an all-male choir with boy sopranos in a towering medieval cathedral is
a treat for the senses.</span></span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Girls are allowed to do almost everything boys do
now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They can even be choirboys.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the 21<sup>st</sup> Century, both genders
are called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">choristers.</i></span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></o:p></span></i></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright 2010 by TangoPony.</div>Mary Ann Hopehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07974558153190883512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190577078103441474.post-36356962609397042152013-07-18T17:54:00.000-04:002013-07-18T20:25:27.885-04:00The Marvelous Mittens Mystery or Fabulous Faux Finally Fails <span style="font-family: Arial;">Has anyone besides me
noticed how well modern chemistry is duplicating natural materials now?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I have a couple of faux
fur coats that people think are real when I wear them<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have red pleather short shorts that … never
mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just kidding.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">My recent faux vs. real experience
I will call the Marvelous Mittens Mystery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I acquired a pair of
vintage fur and leather marvelous mittens lined with fleece.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were in great condition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was no brand label, just a very worn
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">A couple of months later
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Mittens.'<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I photographed the marvelous
mittens, edited the fifteen shots down to five, resized them and uploaded them
to my in-progress Etsy listing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">As I began to write the
description, it occurred to me that the lining might not be real fleece from a
sheep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It felt woolly, but something
wasn't quite right.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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could at least be wool, I pulled a few fuzzies off and took them to the Fire
Test Laboratory … one of my dad's old glass ashtrays from the 1940's and a box
of Rosebud stick matches.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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looked real.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It felt real.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even after an examination under magnification
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an old leather backpack.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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burned hair or paper and turn to ash. Silk threads will actually glow like the
filament in a light bulb.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Synthetic
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Leather:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Leather will always smell like
leather.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Synthetic pleathers or vinyls
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fair Isle sweaters are named after a tiny island in the north of Scotland. The island is part of the Shetland Islands, famous for little fat, hairy ponies like this pair.<br />
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Fair isle knitting is a traditional technique used to create patterns with multiple colors. It became popular in the 1920's when the Prince of Wales (later to become Edward VIII) wore Fair Isle tank tops in public. <br />
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Sometimes people like me come along, chop up a vintage wool Fair Isle sweeater and use power tools to make a purse.<br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I call my washer, dryer and sewing machine power tools. Doesn't everyone?</span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright 2010 by TangoPony.</div>Mary Ann Hopehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07974558153190883512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190577078103441474.post-76238189558022732312013-06-30T17:39:00.000-04:002013-06-30T17:44:28.928-04:00Jonathan Swift, The Mark Twain of the Late, Great 18th Century<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vintage Majolica wall pocket features a gentleman perched in a rose tree playing a golden flute or fife. He is wearing breeches and stockings, the manly dress of the 18th Century. <br /><br />I'm a big fan of the 18th Century, the Age of Enlightenment. At one point in my life I planned to pursue a postgraduate degree in 18th Century English Literature. I got over it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The century is most notable for the American and French Revolutions. The French went a little overboard popularizing public beheadings as entertainment in my opinion, but at least they gave us the baguette.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course you remember that Mt. Fuji erupted in this century. George Friederich Handel wrote his first opera. His fellow composers, those I call 'My Favorite Dead Guys', were Bach,<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gainsborough painted his creepy people,</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and Goya painted violence.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The city of New Orleans was founded. Slavery was abolished in
Russia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Edward Jenner administered the
first smallpox vaccine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bartolomeo
Cristofori built the first piano.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rubber
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 18th Century gave us Voltaire, Jane Austin, <br />
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Robert Burns, Walter Scott and my all time favorite, Jonathan Swift, author of 'Gulliver's Travels'. <br />
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Swift stands as the most prolific satirist of the English language. His works comprise 14 volumes of prose, over 900 pages of poetry and at least three volumes of correspondence. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Swift was the Mark Twain of his day. His thoughts are as witty, fresh and stinging as they were 250 years ago......................</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.</em></span><br />
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Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Books, the children of the brain.</em></span><br />
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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest. </em></span><br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright 2010 by TangoPony.</div>Mary Ann Hopehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07974558153190883512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190577078103441474.post-67734200299402835402013-06-12T13:59:00.000-04:002013-06-12T13:59:15.115-04:00The Golden Boy was an Earring Wearing Trendsetter
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Earring wearing is
documented back to 2500 B.C.E.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In many
ancient cultures, earrings were reserved for royalty ... like the original golden boy,
King Tut.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Throughout the Dark,
Middle and Enlightened ages, earring wearing for women was dependent on the
visibility of the ear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>High,
ear-covering collars meant no earrings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Earrings, schmearings! I can barely move.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Elaborate wigged updo's brought out lobe to shoulder jewels.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You can't see them, but my little dog is wearing earrings too.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In the early part of the
20th century, Victorians thought piercing the ears was barbaric and
uncouth. As bad as saying "sex" or "pregnant" out
loud.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You can't make me say it or do it and don't even try to look at my ears.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">As the Victorians eventually got over
themselves, hairstyles swept upward, ugly bonnets came off and earrings were
popular once again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Screw backs were invented,
allowing women freedom to choose styles and shapes of earrings that were
comfortable to wear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With the surge of
the Roaring '20s Art Deco style, women wore long chandelier, angled and
straight designs. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Screw backs do have a downside .... screwing the little
screw tight enough to keep the earring on, but loose enough to be comfortable
is tricky. I had a pair of small pearl screw backs in the 1950's and I rarely escaped without throbbing earlobes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pearls never made it through Sunday dinner
… I always took them off on the way home from church.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Clip on earrings arrived
on the scene in t<span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">he 1930's and were a big improvement over screw backs. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As hairdos climbed shorter following World War
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looks like Bakelite, but is modern plastic.</td></tr>
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piercing and fashion has never looked back.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mexican 'Alpaca' silver, which is not silver at all.</td></tr>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright 2010 by TangoPony.</div>Mary Ann Hopehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07974558153190883512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190577078103441474.post-35981324318893528522013-05-26T13:14:00.000-04:002013-05-26T13:51:45.253-04:00EVERY MURDERER HAS M.O.M.<br />
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by Anthony Ernest Pratt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pratt received
a patent for the game, which he named CLUEDO.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">He
sold the game to Waddington Games, but it was not launched until 1949 due to
post-war shortages of various materials.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Parker Brothers obtained the U.S. rights to CLUE® from Waddington's in
1949.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hasbro now owns Parker Brothers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>CLUE® is sold in over 40 countries from
Brazil to Sweden, New Zealand to Abu Dhabi. The same successful murder-detection
formula seems to work well in any language. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</i>murdered Mr. Boddy, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">where </i>he was
murdered and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">with what</i>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the UK, Dr. Black is always dead. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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playmates and I used to play it for hours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was always the perfect thing for a rainy Saturday afternoon.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm
not sure how modern kids view the game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After
60 years of Perry Mason, Columbo, Rockford Files, Magnum PI, Law and Order,
CSI, and Criminal Minds, everyone knows that the solution of every murder case requires
that the perp must have the Means, the Opportunity and the Motive to have murdered
the victim . . . M.O.M.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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21<sup>st</sup> Century kids immediately spot the lack of motive in Clue?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Dr. Black or Mr. Boddy were murdered remains a
mystery.</span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright 2010 by TangoPony.</div>Mary Ann Hopehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07974558153190883512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190577078103441474.post-64844795031826426712013-03-03T22:09:00.000-05:002013-03-03T22:09:19.475-05:00Little Bo Peep and the Lost Porridge
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not complete without an Easter basket.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
I think the </span>'bead and pin' basket fits the bill quite nicely.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The basket pictured above is a fabulous foot tall and made in the 1950's. Called a V</span></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial;">ictorian Bride Basket or Little Bo Peep basket, the bottom is open, so it can
be slipped over a narrow bud vase.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I think Little Bo
Peep would have loved it, but would not have been able to figure out why her
flowers kept falling out of the bottom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She was quite the dim bulb.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial;">'Little Bo Peep has
lost her sheep and doesn't know where to find them.'</span></span></div>
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What? They're big fat puffs of wooly animal! It's not like she dropped her contact in
the grass. Sheep are not exactly known for sprinting. They stand around eating
all day and maybe saunter a bit. How far could they go? Did she even try to find
them? Did she look in the next meadow? Did she look behind her?<br />
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What a lazy pill.
I hope she got a punishment. Like no porridge for supper.</div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial;">That would have meant English porridge made by boiling barley flour and water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ICK.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial;">It's not much of a punishment to miss that tasty treat, but not so with Norwegian porridge. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Norwegian porridge, called Rømmegrøt, is
a thick, warming, filling supper dish that, like many traditional ethnic
dishes, is a 'love it' or 'hate it' menu item.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright 2010 by TangoPony.</div>Mary Ann Hopehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07974558153190883512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190577078103441474.post-16437970793849785892012-09-24T20:41:00.000-04:002012-09-24T20:43:15.196-04:00Donkeys and Elephants<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think the </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Republican
Elephant and Democrat Donkey have outlived their usefulness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The cute mascots,
originally sketched by Thomas Nast in the 1800's seem worn out and not </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">particularly
descriptive of either party.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Let's pick something new,
like the Republican Rottweilers and the Democrat Dalmations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Both run around making a lot of
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright 2010 by TangoPony.</div>Mary Ann Hopehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07974558153190883512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190577078103441474.post-45223662003528626492012-09-14T10:07:00.000-04:002012-09-14T10:09:25.073-04:00The World's Worst Recipe<br />
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Autumn
is on its way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's time to start
looking for that other glove.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's also
time to start thinking about tummy-warming comfort food.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In the 1960's,
our family had a favorite.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fondue</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">We were
active and frequent participants in the craze. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We dipped color-coded long forks into chunks of lean beef and plunged them into boiling peanut oil. We tried ... not always successfully ... to avoid burning ourselves and each other.
Dangerous food is always fun.</span></span></div>
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We also regularly treated ourselves to cheese fondue, made in a crockery fondue
pot. We loved this in the sixties. Of course we also ate Spam.</div>
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BROCCOLI-CHEESE FONDUE</div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">• 1 pound
Velveeta cheese.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don't be frightened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It will appear to be made of rubber.<br />
• 1 can cream of mushroom soup.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don't be
frightened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is beige and gelatinous
goop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
• <span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Pinch
of garlic salt <br />
• 1 box frozen chopped broccoli, thawed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cheap
generic is preferable.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
• <span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Small
package of slivered almonds<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
• <span style="font-family: Arial;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">White
wine that has been in the refrigerator a month</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Melt cheese and mushroom goop over low heat. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
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salt and a shot of the wine. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Serve in a
crockery fondue pot with bite-sized chunks of stale french bread.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span><o:p></o:p></span><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright 2010 by TangoPony.</div>Mary Ann Hopehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07974558153190883512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190577078103441474.post-57611068022820177082012-06-04T12:56:00.000-04:002012-06-04T13:08:03.970-04:00Hey Quaker! These Cookies are Nothing to Smile About.<span style="font-family: Arial;">My kid taste buds kicked
in when I saw the ad on TV for my favorite treat, the baked perfection known as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the oatmeal raisin cookie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>Even better, they were made by none
other than <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Quaker Oats, </i>Emperor of Oatdom.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">My mother used to bake my
favorite cookie using the recipe inside the lid of the familiar cylindrical paperboard box with the smiley Quaker man on the front.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The cookies were chewy
and moist and yum yum yummy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> N</span>o
nuts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No chocolate chips.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just raisins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I am an oatmeal raisin cookie purist.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In the grocery store, I
hunted in the cookie maze until I spotted the smiley Quaker himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh joy!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Then gloom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The package said <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">banana nut.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A travesty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>It's neighbor said <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">c<span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">hocolate
almond.</span></i><span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Heresy. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">Next to </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">c<span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">hocolate almond </span></i><span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cranberry
and yogurt.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Was I sleepwalking in a
bad cookie nightmare?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Not wanting to cry in the store,
I frantically pushed packages around until I finally found one on the
very back of the shelf that said<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Raisins.<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Oh joy!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Of course I couldn't wait until I got
home to try one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I tore open the box on
my way to the car, then tore open the individual wrapper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The first bite!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Then gloom. The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">soft baked</i> object from the Quaker package
on the cookie shelf in the cookie aisle tasted nothing like my mom's oatmeal
raisin cookie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not chewy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not oaty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Not even close.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was soft. It was dry. It was gummy. It had a weird flavor. It was ick ick icky. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I threw the rest away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The box revealed why these faux oatmeal
cookies are such a disappointment. The Quaker changed his own
recipe. His new recipe has more than 50 ingredients. This is it:</span></span></div>
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flour (Bleached and unbleached wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"> thiamin mononitrate,
riboflavin, folic acid)</span></div>
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oats</span></div>
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oleic canola oil (with TBHQ preservative)</span></div>
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sugar syrup<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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sunflower oil<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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paste<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">Inulin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">Granola
(whole grain rolled oats, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, sugar, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"> partially
hydrogenated soybean oil, honey, brown sugar, molasses)</span></div>
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eggs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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corn starch</span></div>
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syrup</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"></span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">Poly
dextrose</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"></span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">Leavening
agents (sodium bicarbonate, ammonium bicarbonate)</span></div>
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fiber</span></div>
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glycol</span></div>
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and digycerides</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">Soy
lecithin</span></div>
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phosphate</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">Natural
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<span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">Cinnamon</span></div>
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Here is the original recipe, first printed on the box in 1955. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> It has 11 ingredients. </span>It still makes my perfect favorite cookie:<o:p></o:p></div>
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½ t salt<br />
½ t baking powder<br />
1 t cinnamon<br />
½ t ground cloves<br />
1 cup vegetable shortening<br />
1 ½ cups brown sugar<br />
2 large eggs, beaten<br />
<sub> </sub>2/3 C
sour milk (make by adding scant T lemon juice to milk)<br />
1 1/3 cups Quaker oats<br />
1 cup raisins<br />
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Sift first five ingredients together. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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onto greased cookie sheets. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #3e3e3e; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bake at 350
degrees until golden and springy to the touch, usually for 8 minutes.</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"> </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright 2010 by TangoPony.</div>Mary Ann Hopehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07974558153190883512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190577078103441474.post-45982900464894431762012-05-17T10:38:00.000-04:002012-05-17T10:38:18.136-04:00It's Coming ... Vacation Detritus<span style="font-family: Arial;">Have you noticed when you
are on vacation, it is absolutely impossible to return home without a souvenir tucked
safely away in your suitcase?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Vacation trips are magic
carpet rides into different worlds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
think we have a primordial need to possess at least a little piece of that
magic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The good news is that it
is not your fault if you carry home something useless, ugly or embarrassing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Look at the choices you
have in the souvenir shop.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The ashtray<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The cup and saucer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The seashell thingy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The wooden plaque.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It's even worse now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In earlier souvenir shopping days, everything
was not made in China.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Men are what their mothers made them. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />
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<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright 2010 by TangoPony.</div>Mary Ann Hopehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07974558153190883512noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190577078103441474.post-31079326703571986962012-05-03T13:00:00.000-04:002012-05-03T13:00:30.178-04:00Let's See More Cowgirls, Hollywood<span style="font-family: Arial;">Our concepts of women in the frontier west have been shaped by movies and television.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Women are portrayed as either helpless, long-skirted domestic drudges ...</span><br />
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<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright 2010 by TangoPony.</div>Mary Ann Hopehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07974558153190883512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190577078103441474.post-25563514843103481682012-04-18T22:06:00.001-04:002012-04-26T20:13:48.272-04:00Where's my Face?<div style="text-align: left;">
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dolls are faceless because somewhere in the Bible it prohibits making graven
images.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This makes no sense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once you have graven an entire body, how relevant is a
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Amish girl who had been given a doll by her "English" teacher.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When her father saw the doll, he replaced the
pretty head with an old stuffed sock, saying that "only God can make
people."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Huh?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just because you have a sock head doesn't
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dolls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Oneida Nation
believes if a doll has a face, the child will identify too much with it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A pretty face can cause the girl to become
conceited and prideful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to
Iroquois tradition, a corn husk doll sent to play with children became
conceited after seeing her reflection. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As punishment, an
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dolls were created in some early Amish homes</span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;"> </span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">by wrapping pieces of wood in cloth and were played with by both boys
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faceless dolls simply evolved from these crude dolls.</span></span><br />
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dolls at about the same time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The dolls were
made of corn husks, old scraps of clothing, wooden spoons and clothespins
wrapped in cloth. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These makeshift dolls
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mom, Amish mom or Indian mom had a </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Sharpie or thread to waste. Besides, if you have ever made a doll, you know hard it is to make a decent looking face.</span><br />
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<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright 2010 by TangoPony.</div>Mary Ann Hopehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07974558153190883512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190577078103441474.post-5057892666684013992012-04-16T00:29:00.000-04:002012-04-16T00:29:34.177-04:00Does This Pony Tango?<span style="font-family: Arial;">In honor of his 21<sup>st</sup> birthday today, I would like to introduce my best horse boyfriend, Flash.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">Life is good. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">(I'm not kidding about the yoga.) </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Look at this! Dumbass Duke
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">and I'm eating it all up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Ha ha ha. </span>He's a moron. </span></div>
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"The egg cup adds elegance and sophistication to the egg eating ritual. Eating with filthy human hands is disgusting. If parents refuse to teach proper table manners, their children should be taken away and given to parents who will."<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">According to esteemed archeologist Dr. Eastroff Bunnington, “There is a strong tendency in our culture to super size everything, and it's not just our food and size of our waistlines. Children visit a six-foot tall Easter Bunny at the mall and mistakenly assume TEB is a giant.</span></div>
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is most likely not over ten inches tall. My evidence indicates he is a distant
genetic relative of The Fairy, Troll and Leprechaun. After a careful examination of the basket, I have concluded that he is is also probably
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Our love affair with
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Butchers in ancient Egypt
wore high heeled sandals so they wouldn't have to splash around in animal blood
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">American moccasins originated
with Eastern Native American tribes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ojibway, </i>of the Great Lakes, means <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">people of the puckered moccasin.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Did you know King Tut
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">A 5,500-year-old leather
lace-up size 7 shoe, designed a thousand years before the Great Pyramid of
Giza, was found buried in sheep dung in an Armenian cave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The baa-baa doo-doo kept the world's oldest
piece of leather footwear in perfect condition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Chinese concubines and Turkish odalisques wore tall shoes for beauty …. and
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In 16<sup>th</sup> century European posh society,
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were painted with battle scenes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A high
point of Louie's career was his decree that only the nobility could wear red <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Louis heels</i> and no one could wear heels
higher than his own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I guess size does
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>The Puritans knew how sexy shoes
could be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A law in the Massachusetts
Colony prohibited women from wearing high heels to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ensnare a man or they would be tried as a witch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>And we all thought <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Come F♥♥♥ Me Pumps</i> originated in the 1940's.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Gorged on cake, Marie Antoinette strutted down
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Then along came the Mad
Men.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As with corsets and cigarettes,
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reached the Bahamas on his cruise in 1492, he received a gift of dried tobacco
leaves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not knowing what they were, he threw
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">By 1600, Queen Elizabeth
and her boyfriend Sir Walter Raleigh smoked away as they squinted at their maps and planned domination of the
world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Eighty years later,
Massachusetts and Philadelphia passed no smoking laws because of the fire
danger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The laws prohibited smoking <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">outdoors</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cough cough.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Recognition of the down
side of tobacco use grew until there were vigorous anti-smoking movements in 43
of the then 45 states.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think we can
assume Virginia was not one of the 43.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Enter the Mad Men in the
1930's.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first print advertisement
for cigarettes appeared in JAMA, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Journal
of the American Medical Association.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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were smoking 2,558 cigarettes per capita per year … twice the amount of 1930. By 1975, the number had almost doubled again. </span></div>
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encounter a certain genre of handmade craft.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It's not really
ugly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And for what it is, it is usually
skillfully and carefully made. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It's the kind of thing
that if you received it as a present, you would be speechless.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You would not be able to look the giver in
the eye to express your thanks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It is almost embarrassing
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It's <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tacky </i>and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">kitschy.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tackitsch.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I am drawn to it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Its awfulness is a magnet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can't get enough of it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The bead and pin basket comes
to us from the post-World War II 1950's.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was originally designed to slip over a vase of flowers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of these would make a great mother-in-law
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Crafts made with shells
have been around since the first woman said, "If you want to get in my cave,
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paint, the crafter who created this music box also used <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">macaroni shells.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I think they are a nice complement to the flamingo high ball glass.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">My grandma Hope, a Victorian,
was also a wizard with a crochet hook.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
crocheted intricately designed doilies and trims for bed and table linens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She taught me to crochet a circle with yarn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can still do it, but that is the extent of
my skill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Some of Grandma Hope's
creations had ruffles that would stand up if stiffened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Laundry starch was not strong enough, so she
used sugar water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She would be amazed at
all the polymer sprays and brush-on stiffeners available to the home crafter
today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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