Archive-Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 01:20:45 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT- playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 09:20:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Paul Davis Reply-To: ECD-AT- playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Re: British idiom To: ECD-AT- PLAYFORD.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT The hard shoulder is the emergency strip at the side of the motorway, wher eyou pull off if you have a problem. Paul In message <4FE916CF.67581A0D.732DE083-AT- netscape.net> ECD-AT- PLAYFORD.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU writes: > Hello everyone, > > This is slightly off topic, and I apologize, but I thought someone on this list might have an answer to my question. > > Can anyone tell me what the idiom, "the hard shoulder" means? > > Thanks SO much!! > > Best, > > Dorothy Olsson > > > __________________________________________________________________ > Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop-AT- Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ > > Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ > > ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 04:34:38 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT- playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 07:34:26 -0500 From: DorothyOlsson-AT- netscape.net Reply-To: ECD-AT- playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: British idiom To: ECD-AT- SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: <2F75EF63.21554911.732DE083-AT- netscape.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Many thanks to everyone who sent me responses about the "hard shoulder." It is much appreciated!! All the best, Dorothy Olsson __________________________________________________________________ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop-AT- Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 16:33:24 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT- playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 16:37:29 -0800 From: Mary Luckhardt Reply-To: ECD-AT- playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: SFFMC's Camp Harmony Invitation To: "SFFMC (Harmony) List" , ECD List Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Camp Harmony 2001-2002 The San Francisco Folk Music Club invites new members to join the Club - and join our Folk Music Family in the Santa Cruz Mountains for 5 days of jamming, singing and dancing at New Years. Lead a workshop, begin a new instrument, join in a jam or sing along. Hike through the woods for meals. Eat some of the dinner you helped prepare. Make new friends over cider in the Reg Room. Make a box, paint a picture, read a book, and do it all surrounded by folks making music and having fun. We're a home made camp, and we put it on for each other. It's a wonderful, supportive environment for trying out new things. Here it's easy to take the first steps at teaching, whether calling a first dance, teaching a beginning instrument class, or leading a song for the first time. Some folks have found the inspiration to write a song or tune at camp, and the evening concert has debuted some keepers. Camp starts Thursday, December 27 and ends Tuesday, January 1. Until December 1, full price for all 5 days is only $225 ($150 for kids 3-11) or $48/$32 per day for 1-4 days. Come for the whole camp, or just for a winter getaway. You never know what will happen, it all depends on who shows up. Will it be you? See our website at www.sffmc.org for full information and registration forms. ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 17:00:09 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT- playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 16:32:03 -0500 From: "Hanny D. Budnick" <74031.77-AT- compuserve.com> Reply-To: ECD-AT- playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Mr. John Playford To: Blind.Copy.Receiver-AT- compuserve.com Message-ID: <200111021635_MC3-E5AA-65E6-AT- compuserve.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT So a kid asked me "what is a Playford anyway?" I'm putting the question to the rest of you. What DO we know about that man beyond the short biographical information one can find in encyclopaedias? Do we even know whether he himself danced? _-AT- _ {)/' /\ /\_._,<_/ ' \ /_\ /> /< Hanny Budnick ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 17:00:11 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT- playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 16:43:41 -0500 From: Anne Lowenthal Reply-To: ECD-AT- playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: A February date? To: ECD-AT- SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU CC: Annie Edden Message-ID: <013e01c163e7$9be732a0$8a8cfea9-AT- oemcomputer> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT References: Dear Graham, I'm writing you in my role of English Program Chair at CD*NY to invite you to call for one of our regular Tuesday dances next season. The word is out that you will be in New York for the Sword Ale on Presidents' Day Weekend. Might we be able to persuade you to stay on? Our usual fee for callers is $80; we might also be able to help you with travel expenses and would arrange for lodging with one of our dancers. Would this be acceptable? If that Tuesday will not work for you, perhaps we can work something out for later in the season. With best wishes, Anne ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 18:17:47 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT- playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 21:02:28 -0500 From: Allison M Thompson Reply-To: ECD-AT- playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Re: Boscastle To: ECD-AT- SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: <20011102.211621.-1722089.0.AllisonThompson-AT- juno.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Dear Allen, Thanks for your Boscastle dance insight--nothing contextually to prove or disprove what you say re: this dance with reference to (early American folk dance leader) Mary Hinman Wood's involvement ca. 1928 with this dance, although there is a lot in what you say about the dance that makes sense & I'm willing to suppose it. In the U.S. in the 'teens and 'Twenties, many of the early, U.S. folk dance leaders --well, it's stretching a point to call them "ethnographers," since they were (at least until the mid-30s) really quite uninterested in the ethnography of a particular dance.... and "choreographers" isn't the right word...nor is, exactly, "observers"...well, rather like Cecil, the early dance collectors & proselytizers were looking for "ur" -versions, as well as easily-teachable and standardizable-versions of dances. But Wood's selections of English dances is quite quirkily different from the other Grand Masters of the American group of folk dance collectors....most of whom were focused on the May pole dance, Sir Roger, and a representative 1) morris dance and/or 2) country dance such as "Sweet Kate," about which I've already queried here lately. She was clearly a person who "got around," more than most, and I'm still trying to figure her out... More to come on this topic when my notes are in order-- Allison P.S. If the above hardly makes sense--well, you should see my notes! P.P.S. Not to mention the rest of my house!! Why is it that school pants and shirts can live happily (by children) neglected for weeks on end under beds, while socks and underwear give up and vanish if not attended to after 2 or 3 days, and grumpily enter the 5th dimension from which never to return? And school occurs 5 days out of 7, so there is a mathematical hideous certainty underlying these mundane clothing statistics. I feel as if I go out and buy socks and underpants at least 3 weeks out of 4 and yet we never have any on Fridays...where do they all go to?? Will I ever get any of them back? And will I *want* them back? Yrs, in des-pair, A. On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 16:50:44 -0500 Alisa Dodson writes: > >Anyone heard of a dance for 2 couples, to a schottische, involving > >step-hopping & arches & so on, called "Boscastle?" I came across > it in a > >collection of folk dances ca 1910 & am wondering if the writer may > have > >devised it herself. > > > >Allison > > I haven't heard of the dance, but Boscastle is a small town or large > village in northern Cornwall, and it was one of the places where the > BBC > went to record "country dance music" in the 1920s or 30s. (There is > a > long-deleted Topic recording called "The Boscastle Breakdown" which > has > some of the BBC recordings on it; I don't recall if it includes a > schottische). > From your description of the dance, I'd say it was > "traditional"--i.e. > probably a schottishe danced in Boscastle at these social dances. > Couple > dances were popular at these venues, and the step-hopping and arches > are > common in such traditional country dances. > best > Allen Dodson > > ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 00:29:54 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT- playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 00:29:52 -0800 (PST) From: Andrew Peterson Reply-To: ECD-AT- playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Re: Boscastle To: ECD-AT- PLAYFORD.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: <20011103082952.80978.qmail-AT- web20002.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT --- Allison M Thompson wrote: > ...where do they all go to?? Will I ever get any of them > back? And will I *want* them back? They've gone to join all of the lost socks of the world... Consider it training for your child's future. If they lose such things now, they won't have any expectations of finding lost articles later. andy __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post your resume. http://careers.yahoo.com ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 05:55:05 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT- playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 08:55:01 -0500 (EST) From: "Priscilla M. Burrage" Reply-To: ECD-AT- playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Re: Boscastle To: ECD-AT- SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, Andrew Peterson wrote: > --- Allison M Thompson wrote: > > ...where do they all go to?? Will I ever get any of them > > back? And will I *want* them back? > > They've gone to join all of the lost socks of the world... I believe that the sox escape from the washing machine, go to sleep under the machine, become covered with enough dust to make a cocoon, and finally emerge a few weeks later as -- coat hangers. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Priscilla Burrage Vermont US (pburrage-AT- zoo.uvm.edu) ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 06:06:38 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT- playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 09:17:00 -0500 From: C Subject: RE: Boscastle To: ECD-AT- PLAYFORD.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Reply-To: ECD-AT- playford.slac.stanford.edu Message-ID: <000001c16472$3e476440$8a2ffc9e-AT- friedman> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT You know, growing up, my mom had a "sock basket" by her bed and it grew to ridiculous proportions. Those foot coverings were in there for mending, but mostly matching. For years she never found matches to many of my father's socks. Hilarious. :) -- Cara -----Original Message----- From: owner-ecd-AT- PLAYFORD.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU [mailto:owner-ecd-AT- PLAYFORD.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU]On Behalf Of Priscilla M. Burrage Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2001 8:55 AM To: ECD-AT- SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Subject: Re: Boscastle On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, Andrew Peterson wrote: > --- Allison M Thompson wrote: > > ...where do they all go to?? Will I ever get any of them > > back? And will I *want* them back? > > They've gone to join all of the lost socks of the world... I believe that the sox escape from the washing machine, go to sleep under the machine, become covered with enough dust to make a cocoon, and finally emerge a few weeks later as -- coat hangers. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Priscilla Burrage Vermont US (pburrage-AT- zoo.uvm.edu) ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 06:11:01 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT- playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 09:06:57 -0500 From: "Hanny D. Budnick" <74031.77-AT- compuserve.com> Reply-To: ECD-AT- playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: A soxy dilemma To: Blind.Copy.Receiver-AT- compuserve.com Message-ID: <200111030909_MC3-E5B7-5DB3-AT- compuserve.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT For Alison: you can solve your soxy dilemma by buying only ONE color of socks...and then replenish when there's only one specimen left. _-AT- _ {)/' /\ /\_._,<_/ ' \ /_\ /> /< Hanny ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 06:57:44 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT- playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 10:00:43 -0800 From: etepper-AT- juno.com Reply-To: ECD-AT- playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Re: Boscastle To: ECD-AT- SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: <20011103.100043.-270869.0.etepper-AT- juno.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Convinced that it was the dryer's appetite that was responsible for the missing socks, my mother would add a "sacrificial sock" to each load of laundry to appease the appliance and ensure that an even number of socks would emerge. I don't know if this works...she lost a whole lot of clothing that way. Ellen ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 07:36:58 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT- playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 10:29:27 -0500 From: Ruth Feldberg Reply-To: ECD-AT- playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Re: Boscastle To: ECD-AT- SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: <3BE40D54.4189DBEF-AT- javanet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT References: <20011103.100043.-270869.0.etepper-AT- juno.com> Do you know the experience of losing your favorite scarf, umbrella, calculator etc but never losing an ugly umbrella etc. One day a few years ago I was at the bank putting some papers in my safe deposit box. When I leave the area I always look on the floor etc to be sure I haven't dropped anything and much to my surprise there on the floor was one gold knee sock!! I did recognize it right away, it was mine. And the first thing that I thought of was, "You never wear those socks and you have been meaning to get rid of them." The answer that I came up with is that this sock was attached to something in the dryer, perhaps my jeans or shirt and it just worked its way out. So that's the answer to where I think the socks go. Count your socks before you put them in the dryer or hang them up to dry. Ruth Feldberg Amherst, MA etepper-AT- juno.com wrote: > > Convinced that it was the dryer's appetite that was responsible for the > missing socks, my mother would add a "sacrificial sock" to each load of > laundry to appease the appliance and ensure that an even number of socks > would emerge. > I don't know if this works...she lost a whole lot of clothing that way. > Ellen ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 08:49:13 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT- playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 08:49:07 -0800 (PST) From: Andrew Peterson Reply-To: ECD-AT- playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Re: Boscastle To: ECD-AT- PLAYFORD.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: <20011103164907.32760.qmail-AT- web20005.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT --- "Priscilla M. Burrage" wrote: > On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, Andrew Peterson wrote: > > > --- Allison M Thompson wrote: > > > ...where do they all go to?? Will I ever get any of them > > > back? And will I *want* them back? > > > > They've gone to join all of the lost socks of the world... > > > I believe that the sox escape from the washing machine, go to > sleep under the machine, become covered with enough dust to > make a cocoon, and finally emerge a few weeks later as -- coat > hangers. My washer and dryer seem to have an appetite for cat hair, as there are always tufts of it left stuck to the clean clothes when I fold them. In deference to cat hair, it recently even spit out a sock that I was able to match to one of the odd ones in my drawer. Andy __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post your resume. http://careers.yahoo.com ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 09:23:20 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT- playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 10:23:14 -0700 From: Tom Vincent Subject: Re: Boscastle To: ECD-AT- PLAYFORD.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Reply-To: ECD-AT- playford.slac.stanford.edu Message-ID: <004101c1648c$39344350$70cc0e3f-AT- jupiter> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT References: <20011103164907.32760.qmail-AT- web20005.mail.yahoo.com> If you people with your sock sacrifices to your washing machine deities were Contra dancers, I'd suggest that you'd been swinging too much and not balancing enough. :) Tom Vincent ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Peterson" To: Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2001 9:49 AM Subject: Re: Boscastle > --- "Priscilla M. Burrage" wrote: > > On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, Andrew Peterson wrote: > > > > > --- Allison M Thompson wrote: > > > > ...where do they all go to?? Will I ever get any of them > > > > back? And will I *want* them back? > > > > > > They've gone to join all of the lost socks of the world... > > > > > > I believe that the sox escape from the washing machine, go to > > sleep under the machine, become covered with enough dust to > > make a cocoon, and finally emerge a few weeks later as -- coat > > hangers. > > My washer and dryer seem to have an appetite for cat hair, as > there are always tufts of it left stuck to the clean clothes > when I fold them. In deference to cat hair, it recently even > spit out a sock that I was able to match to one of the odd ones > in my drawer. > > Andy ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 09:38:43 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT- playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 12:34:57 -0500 From: "Hanny D. Budnick" <74031.77-AT- compuserve.com> Reply-To: ECD-AT- playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Re: Boscastle To: Blind.Copy.Receiver-AT- compuserve.com Message-ID: <200111031238_MC3-E5B3-C04D-AT- compuserve.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Way back in the day where socks were woollen and handknit(as were mittens...), my grandmother - sometimes with my help - unravelled single specimen and then created multicolored pairs. Current technologies doesn't permit that though. _-AT- _ {)/' /\ /\_._,<_/ ' \ /_\ /> /< Hanny ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 09:55:46 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT- playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 12:49:50 -0500 From: franch-AT- juno.com Reply-To: ECD-AT- playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Re: Socks (was Boscastle) To: ECD-AT- SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: <20011103.124950.-405095.2.franch-AT- juno.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT I made my initial response to the socks issue off-line, as I wasn't sure it was on topic or of interest to the group, but since vox populi declared its interest, and there is a historic angle the following, perhaps it is appropriate: A colleague recently was reading late 18th or early 19th c. correspondence of a traveling Universalist minister and his future wife. It seems the ladies of his home church had knitted him his 52 pairs of socks and he was off on his travels--the implication being that he wore each pair for a week, then discarded the pair (as well he might!). I suggest the next bounce of the conversation be to socks with scandals when dancing. ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 10:04:23 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT- playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 12:02:05 -0600 From: Paul Stamler Subject: Re: Socks (was Boscastle) To: ECD-AT- PLAYFORD.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Reply-To: ECD-AT- playford.slac.stanford.edu Message-ID: <002301c16491$a6629a80$612d4b0c-AT- paulstam> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT References: <20011103.124950.-405095.2.franch-AT- juno.com> <> Doc Watson used to tell a story about how he and two of his friends used to go into Sears Roebuck; the first friend would buy 7 pairs of socks, giving him a pair for every day of the week. The second friend would only buy 6 pairs -- they asked him why, and he said "I go barefoot on Sundays." Finally Doc asked for 12 pairs. "Twelve pairs!?" asked his friends. "Why do you want twelve pairs of socks." "Well," replied Doc, "there's January, February...." Peace, Paul ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 11:11:46 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT- playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 14:12:26 -0500 From: SUSAN B BOOKER Reply-To: ECD-AT- playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: RE: Socks (was Boscastle) To: ECD-AT- SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: <004401c1649b$7ab9f400$9e02ffd1-AT- oemcomputer> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Then there was that evening about ten years ago at Berea's Christmas Country Dance School when I realized that there were an exceptional number of colorful-socks-clad feet in the room (the old Woods-Penn gym). So I asked the MC to call everyone with colorful socks up to the front of the room for a photo, which was taken "Hokey-Pokey" huddle style ("you put your right foot in"...) and shot looking down at all those feet. The result was a kaleidoscopic ring of toes-in feet, with a veritable rainbow of socks! It was also interesting to see the variety of dancing shoes - or rather, shoes chosen for dancing... Susan ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 12:25:07 PST Sender: owner-ecd-AT- playford.slac.stanford.edu Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 15:24:55 -0500 (EST) From: OldTimeTim-AT- aol.com Reply-To: ECD-AT- playford.slac.stanford.edu Subject: Re: A soxy dilemma To: ECD-AT- SSRL04.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Message-ID: <67.1c433544.2915ac97-AT- aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Boundary_(ID_CymjbzGp8rj9LYpL7bEBWA)" --Boundary_(ID_CymjbzGp8rj9LYpL7bEBWA) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT In a message dated 03/11/2001 14:12:18 GMT Standard Time, 74031.77-AT- compuserve.com writes: > > For Alison: > you can solve your soxy dilemma by buying only ONE color of socks...and > Many years ago, when living in digs with a number of other worthy fellows. one of them announced that he was so fed up with socks getting lost in the launderette - resulting in a lack of matching pairs - that he had done just this - and bought ten identical pairs of black socks. The scheme worked fine until he returned to his parents home for Christmas. His Mother was outraged by what he had done - how could he possibly tell which sock belonged to which? So he returned to London with each pair identified by a flash of coloured wool embroidered into the ankle - one pair red, one pair blue, one pair yellow....... Tim Brooks --Boundary_(ID_CymjbzGp8rj9LYpL7bEBWA) Content-type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT In a message dated 03/11/2001 14:12:18 GMT Standard Time, 74031.77-AT- compuserve.com writes:

For Alison:
you can solve your soxy dilemma by buying only ONE color of socks...and
then replenish when there's only one specimen left.

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