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Ed Rich

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Oct 23, 1995, 3:00:00 AM10/23/95
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Over in re.crafts.textiles.yarn ( newsgroup) there is an organization called
"Stitch & Bitch" they meet weekly for a potluck, sewing or knitting or
something and, presumably, bitching. I thought it rather humorous...
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Ed (Moosemeat) Rich
"Unless you're the lead dog the view never changes."


Lin Nah

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Oct 25, 1995, 3:00:00 AM10/25/95
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Ed Rich (edr...@halcyon.com) wrote:
: Over in re.crafts.textiles.yarn ( newsgroup) there is an organization called
: "Stitch & Bitch" they meet weekly for a potluck, sewing or knitting or
: something and, presumably, bitching. I thought it rather humorous...
BE carefull or I'll sic Noeline on you.

lin


Valerie Stark

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Oct 25, 1995, 3:00:00 AM10/25/95
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In article <edrich.47...@halcyon.com>,

Ed Rich <edr...@halcyon.com> wrote:
>Over in re.crafts.textiles.yarn ( newsgroup) there is an organization called
>"Stitch & Bitch" they meet weekly for a potluck, sewing or knitting or
>something and, presumably, bitching. I thought it rather humorous...
>

I prefer the Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society, myself.


Val

The way to a man's heart is just under the xyphoid.


Joel Ehrlich

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Oct 26, 1995, 3:00:00 AM10/26/95
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Lin Nah wrote about Ladies Chowder & Marching Society to
All on 25 Oct 95 03:05:01 saying...

LN> Ed Rich (edr...@halcyon.com) wrote:
LN> : Over in re.crafts.textiles.yarn ( newsgroup) there is an
LN> organization called : "Stitch & Bitch" they meet weekly for a
LN> potluck, sewing or knitting or : something and, presumably, bitching.
LN> I thought it rather humorous... BE carefull or I'll sic Noeline on you.

How is Noeline? It's been a long time since she's dropped by.

Give her our best.

Joel


Linnie K. Gardner

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Oct 27, 1995, 3:00:00 AM10/27/95
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In article <edrich.49...@halcyon.com>,
Ed Rich <edr...@halcyon.com> wrote:

>OK, so what is a( or is it an) xyphoid? Websters seventh Collegiate only goes
>to zylotomy, ( the art of preparing wood for examination). God I just hate
>this.

>Ed (Moosemeat) Rich
>"Unless you're the lead dog the view never changes."

It's the very bottom part of your sternum. It's also a great
Scrabble word.

k.

Nancy Dooley

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Oct 27, 1995, 3:00:00 AM10/27/95
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In article <edrich.49...@halcyon.com> edr...@halcyon.com (Ed Rich) writes:
>From: edr...@halcyon.com (Ed Rich)
>Subject: Re: Ladies Chowder & Marching Society
>Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 17:16:44 PST

>In article <vstarkDH...@netcom.com> vst...@netcom.com (Valerie Stark) writes:
>>From: vst...@netcom.com (Valerie Stark)
>>Subject: Re: Ladies Chowder & Marching Society
>>Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 22:15:22 GMT

>>In article <edrich.47...@halcyon.com>,


>>Ed Rich <edr...@halcyon.com> wrote:
>>>Over in re.crafts.textiles.yarn ( newsgroup) there is an organization called
>>>"Stitch & Bitch" they meet weekly for a potluck, sewing or knitting or
>>>something and, presumably, bitching. I thought it rather humorous...
>>>

>>I prefer the Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society, myself.


>>Val

>>The way to a man's heart is just under the xyphoid.

>OK, so what is a( or is it an) xyphoid? Websters seventh Collegiate only goes
>to zylotomy, ( the art of preparing wood for examination). God I just hate
>this.

O.k., Val, 'fess up...xyphoid isn't even in our 3200 page international
dictionary...did you make it up?? (Of course, our big dictionary is so old,
it may be a human body part that hadn't been discovered yet at the time of
printing...:-))

Nancy Dooley

"A cheerful look makes a dish a feast"...Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

Sue M. Ford

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Oct 28, 1995, 3:00:00 AM10/28/95
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>In article <vstarkDH...@netcom.com> vst...@netcom.com (Valerie Stark)

>writes:

>>In article <edrich.47...@halcyon.com>,
>>Ed Rich <edr...@halcyon.com> wrote:
>>>Over in re.crafts.textiles.yarn ( newsgroup) there is an organization
called
>>>"Stitch & Bitch" they meet weekly for a potluck, sewing or knitting or

>>>something and, presumably, bitching. I thought it rather humorous...
>
>>I prefer the Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society, myself.

In my wanderings on the 'Net, I ran across (figuratively speaking) a few
who claimed to belong to "Dykes on Bikes".


Sue
Lead me not into temptation.... I can find it myself!

Valerie Stark

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Oct 29, 1995, 2:00:00 AM10/29/95
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In article <edrich.49...@halcyon.com>,

Ed Rich <edr...@halcyon.com> wrote:
>
>>I prefer the Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society, myself.
>
>
>>Val
>
>>The way to a man's heart is just under the xyphoid.
>
>
>OK, so what is a( or is it an) xyphoid? Websters seventh Collegiate only goes
>to zylotomy, ( the art of preparing wood for examination). God I just hate
>this.
>


The Xyphoid process is the little bit of bone that sticks down from the
breast bone (which is in between the ribs, men do so have them!). It's
why mothers always stop kids from bouncing on their siblings: if you
break off the xyphoid process, you can pierce the heart.


Val

Sheri McRae

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Oct 30, 1995, 3:00:00 AM10/30/95
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In article <edrich.49...@halcyon.com>, edr...@halcyon.com (Ed Rich)
wrote:

> In article <vstarkDH...@netcom.com> vst...@netcom.com (Valerie
Stark) writes:

> >From: vst...@netcom.com (Valerie Stark)
> >Subject: Re: Ladies Chowder & Marching Society
> >Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 22:15:22 GMT
>

> >In article <edrich.47...@halcyon.com>,


> >Ed Rich <edr...@halcyon.com> wrote:
> >>Over in re.crafts.textiles.yarn ( newsgroup) there is an organization
called

> >>"Stitch & Bitch" I thought it rather humorous...


> >>
>
> >I prefer the Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society, myself.
>
> >Val
>
> >The way to a man's heart is just under the xyphoid.
>
> OK, so what is a( or is it an) xyphoid?

> Ed (Moosemeat) Rich


> "Unless you're the lead dog the view never changes."

You've all been misled. The way to a man's heart is *not* through his
stomach. (And from there I leave you to draw your own conclusions.)

Cheers, Sheri

Sheri McRae she...@zeta.org.au
Little children who could neither walk nor talk were running about in the streets cursing their Maker.
- Sir Boyle Roche

Iain G Liddell

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Oct 30, 1995, 3:00:00 AM10/30/95
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In article <471tsh$e...@celebrian.otago.ac.nz>,
>> OK, so what is a( or is it an) xyphoid? Websters seventh Collegiate only goes
>> to zylotomy, ( the art of preparing wood for examination). God I just hate
>> this.
>
>You mean it missed the noble art of zymurgy?
>

... but Mrs Byrne (*) has zzxjoanw (**) in her Dictionary of Unusual,
Obscure and Preposterous Words. Oh, but I forgot, you'd never look
that one up, Miche, since you're from NZ. ;-)

Iain


* Josefa Heifetz Byrne, daughter of Jascha Heifetz, who compiled the
dictionary to while away tedium when on concert tours.

** It's (a) a Maori drum
(b) not a bad password on most systems :-)

Dan Masi

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Oct 30, 1995, 3:00:00 AM10/30/95
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In article <nancy-dooley....@uiowa.edu>, nancy-...@uiowa.edu (Nancy Dooley) writes:
>In article <edrich.49...@halcyon.com> edr...@halcyon.com (Ed Rich) writes:
>>In article <vstarkDH...@netcom.com> vst...@netcom.com (Valerie Stark) writes:

>>>The way to a man's heart is just under the xyphoid.

This seems to come around often enough that I'm gonna invest in a
Kevlar cooking apron.

>>OK, so what is a( or is it an) xyphoid? Websters seventh Collegiate only goes ...

>O.k., Val, 'fess up...xyphoid isn't even in our 3200 page international
>dictionary...did you make it up??

It's in there. It's just listed under "xiphoid", for some strange reason. ;-)

The xiphoid process is the little bony thing at the base of the sternum. Should
have a big "in case of no heartbeat, press here" tatoo on it. Or a bullseye
tatoo, according to some of the females here...

>"A cheerful ***k makes a dish a feast"...Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

[hey, if Ray can do it...]

--
Dan Masi
Mentor Graphics Corp.
dan_...@mentorg.com


Nancy Dooley

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Nov 2, 1995, 3:00:00 AM11/2/95
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In article <47ahi6$p...@net.auckland.ac.nz> lin...@comu2.auckland.ac.nz (Lin Nah) writes:
>From: lin...@comu2.auckland.ac.nz (Lin Nah)

>Subject: Re: Ladies Chowder & Marching Society
>Date: 2 Nov 1995 13:37:10 GMT

>Joel Ehrlich (Joel.E...@salata.com) wrote:
>: How is Noeline? It's been a long time since she's dropped by.
>She's fine. she cut down her news reading to concentrate on other
>things. She's a very busy woman 8) who does not know the meaning
>of being retired 8)))

>She still reads soc.culture.new-zealand and the textiles newsgroup.
>Her posting is not as prolific as it used to be. However she's our
>source of recipes in scnz 8)

>In January, I spent 2 days at her place eating her wonderful cooking.
>She has her own vege garden. So the peas were fresh and I helped "un-pod"
>them. never had such sweet tasting peas. They were even nice raw.

Here, we say "shell" peas.


Nancy Dooley

"A cheerful look makes a dish a feast"...Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

Lloyd Evans

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Nov 4, 1995, 3:00:00 AM11/4/95
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>>The way to a man's heart is just under the xyphoid.
>
>
>OK, so what is a( or is it an) xyphoid? Websters seventh Collegiate only goes
>to zylotomy, ( the art of preparing wood for examination). God I just hate
>this.
>
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>Ed (Moosemeat) Rich


Hi Ed,
The xyphoid process is an elongated piece of cartilage,
located in approximately in the center of your chest at the
bottom of where your ribs meet. It is used as a landmark
when doing CPR, and is easily broken whilst doing same.
Therefore one is taught to keep the hand doing compressions
off of the xyphoid.

Lloyd (who knows where the xyphoid is, but has broken a
couple never the less)

Greg Zywicki

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Nov 8, 1995, 3:00:00 AM11/8/95
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In article <vstarkDH...@netcom.com>,
vst...@netcom.com (Valerie Stark) wrote:

>>>The way to a man's heart is just under the xyphoid.
>>
>>
>>OK, so what is a( or is it an) xyphoid? Websters seventh Collegiate only
goes
>>to zylotomy, ( the art of preparing wood for examination). God I just hate
>>this.
>>
>

>The Xyphoid process is the little bit of bone that sticks down from the
>breast bone (which is in between the ribs, men do so have them!). It's
>why mothers always stop kids from bouncing on their siblings: if you
>break off the xyphoid process, you can pierce the heart.
>

I was told it was the liver, not the heart, which you would pierce.

Greg Z

(Knowing these wacky Gen-X kids, liver piercing will probably be the next
big thing.)


Valerie Stark

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Nov 11, 1995, 3:00:00 AM11/11/95
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In article <47r5fo$b...@rcsuna.gmr.com>,

Well, I was told heart, but the point they made was that you can die.

Val


al...@accessone.com

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Nov 12, 1995, 3:00:00 AM11/12/95
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vst...@netcom.com (Valerie Stark) wrote:

>Val
If you're having CPR performed on you, you're probably heading in that
direction anyway.
Paula A.
way too much free time on my hands
al...@accessone.com


Leigh Redding

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Nov 12, 1995, 3:00:00 AM11/12/95
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I say this reseptfully - If you like real lamb, as in a young animal, not
mutton, lemon enhances the flavor. If you are eating older lamb or mutton
then the mint will cover up the offensive odor and taste of the "lamb."
Then if you like mint jelly that is fine also. I spent time in the near
East where "lamb" as in young and tender and fresh smelling doesn't
require mint to mask the flavor to enjoy. Regards, Leigh.

Lin Nah (lin...@comu2.auckland.ac.nz) wrote:


: Joel Ehrlich (Joel.E...@salata.com) wrote:
: : How is Noeline? It's been a long time since she's dropped by.

: In January, I spent 2 days at her place eating her wonderful cooking.
< deleted stuff >. . . .
: I was thoroughly spoilt. When we had grilled lamb chops, she made
: fresh mint sauce with mint from her garden.
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