Curtis Boehringer - joke??

[Katherine]

OK, i've been looking at his site and came across these two "new"
patterns. Is this a joke of his? Just wondering because I don't
see anything but a big black square and a big white square.

http://www.curtisboehringer.com/Cross_stitch_patterns/Halloween_Crosstitch/Black/black.html

http://www.curtisboehringer.com/Cross_stitch_patterns/Halloween_Crosstitch/White/white.html

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[InStitches]

Katherine:

Not being overly familiar with his work, when I went to view these links I
laughed out loud. The black square is entitled "Trick or Treating in the
Dark" and the white square is entitled "Ghost". I would assume it's a joke
(and actually a pretty funny one at that since he's asking $5.50 for each
pattern...LOL). If it's not a joke, then it should be.

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InStitches
"Count twice, stitch once."

Katherine <anna...@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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InStitches wrote in message ...

>Katherine <anna...@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
>news:38152F4C...@worldnet.att.net...
>> OK, i've been looking at his site and came across these two "new"
>> patterns. Is this a joke of his? Just wondering because I don't
>> see anything but a big black square and a big white square.
>>
>http://www.curtisboehringer.com/Cross_stitch_patterns/Halloween_Crosstitch/B
>lack/black.html
>>
>http://www.curtisboehringer.com/Cross_stitch_patterns/Halloween_Crosstitch/W
>hite/white.html

>Katherine:
>
>Not being overly familiar with his work, when I went to view these links I
>laughed out loud. The black square is entitled "Trick or Treating in the
>Dark" and the white square is entitled "Ghost". I would assume it's a joke
>(and actually a pretty funny one at that since he's asking $5.50 for each
>pattern...LOL). If it's not a joke, then it should be.

Always one to go to the obvious source, I've emailed Mr. Boehringer and asked
him about these two "designs." :-) Can hardly wait to see what he says, if he
replies, and I've asked his permission to post his reply to this group.

Nan Evelyn

[em...@ix.netcom.com]

wol...@pacbell.net wrote:
>
> InStitches wrote in message ...
> >Katherine <anna...@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
> >news:38152F4C...@worldnet.att.net...
> >> OK, i've been looking at his site and came across these two "new"
> >> patterns. Is this a joke of his? Just wondering because I don't
> >> see anything but a big black square and a big white square.
> >>

> >Katherine:
> >

Nan Evelyn says

I would assume it's a joke
> >(and actually a pretty funny one at that since he's asking $5.50 for each
> >pattern...LOL). If it's not a joke, then it should be.
>
> Always one to go to the obvious source, I've emailed Mr. Boehringer and asked
> him about these two "designs." :-) Can hardly wait to see what he says, if he
> replies, and I've asked his permission to post his reply to this group.
>

Emily says

Do you suppose they are copyrighted, or could I just work out one on my own
for free??? What if I sold it? Or put it up on my website?

(Hey, folks, let's not start the copyright wars over this. We haven't really
finished the grammar wars, and I think they weren't due until next month.)

Emily
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[Jill Spreenberg-Robinson]

I vote for 'joke'. Had me LOL! But then I love a good pun!

Jill in IL
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jrsp...@siu.edu

[E. Coleen George]

I have a friend who is still waiting for the center portion of Curtis'
Noah's Ark pattern and I don't think she would find it too funny or much
of a joke.

Love in Stitches,

Coleen

[Doris Rhodes]

Yes, I would certainly vote for joke - I certainly hope it couldn't be
anything else!!!

Dori
Jill Spreenberg-Robinson wrote in message ...

[PENDANT23]

I'm betting "joke." They are on s separate page. The rest of his designs are
grouped together. Plus, all the others don't have the fabric listed as these
do.

And if it is not a joke, I don't want to know.

Shawn

>
>OK, i've been looking at his site and came across these two "new"
>patterns. Is this a joke of his? Just wondering because I don't
>see anything but a big black square and a big white square.
>
>

>http://www.curtisboehringer.com/Cross_stitch_patterns/Halloween_Crosstitc
h/Black/black.html
>
>
>http://www.curtisboehringer.com/Cross_stitch_patterns/Halloween_Crosstitc

h/White/white.html

[Marci S.]

I just went to look at teh pages in question and get the "page not found"
response.

I am hoping this is a joke, too!

Marci -- Brooklyn, New York (lose "myspouse" to reply)
Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/8574/
"Anything less than two karats is a 'friendship' ring."

[Kathleen Mary]

Hi, People !!
I am supposed to be ON here for just a moment today, I want to take myself
out to Lunch and promised myself yesterday that I would go for a nice long
walk( instead of the usual housework!) - but God, this is the funniest thing
I've heard of in a long time !!! I hope we are not going to humor this dear
fool and buy these - some humor is best left unacknowledged. I would beg you
all NOT to, we will never hear the end of it -- Does needlework really need
to get into the modern art crazies - three blue lines on a white canvas, a
pattern with no design but a red circle (it is supposed to make us think
??? ) <it makes me think the artist thinks I'm a fool>

I suspect what Mr. Curtis is saying is that HE is trick or treating --- US
(needleworkers.) As I say to my husband when he goes too far <<< Behave
yourself !>>>>
NOW this is just my opinion so do what you (all) feel is proper and right
and what you want to do, but remember, well, you bought it and there is
always a lot of strange art out there ... But as for me, I couldn't be
silent and let this one go by I can see this writing on the walls (of the
Guggenheim). Kathleen Mary

--
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"...But I have reasoned deeply, and speaking as a philosopher, since the
soul is not found without a body and yet is not the body, it may be in one
body or in another, and pass from body to body. This, if it be not proven
true, seems at least likely, according to the opinion of Pythagoras..."
Giordano Bruno, Philosopher and Mystic
1548-1600 (Burnt Feb. 17, 1600 in Rome.)
InStitches <instit...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Katherine:
>
> Not being overly familiar with his work, when I went to view these links I
> laughed out loud. The black square is entitled "Trick or Treating in the

> Dark" and the white square is entitled "Ghost". I would assume it's a

joke
> (and actually a pretty funny one at that since he's asking $5.50 for each
> pattern...LOL). If it's not a joke, then it should be.
>

> --
> InStitches
> "Count twice, stitch once."
>
>

> Katherine <anna...@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
> news:38152F4C...@worldnet.att.net...

> > OK, i've been looking at his site and came across these two "new"
> > patterns. Is this a joke of his? Just wondering because I don't
> > see anything but a big black square and a big white square.
> >
> >
>
http://www.curtisboehringer.com/Cross_stitch_patterns/Halloween_Crosstitch/B
> lack/black.html
> >
> >
>
http://www.curtisboehringer.com/Cross_stitch_patterns/Halloween_Crosstitch/W

> hite/white.html
> >
> > --
> > Katherine, Sunnyside, Queens, NY

[PENDANT23]

>Does needlework really need
>to get into the modern art crazies - three blue lines on a white canvas, a
>pattern with no design but a red circle (it is supposed to make us think
>??? ) <it makes me think the artist thinks I'm a fool>

>Kathleen Mary

Hey! I bought that one! <VBG>

[Lesa & Mark Steele]

ROFLMAO!!!!!! Now *thats* a sense of humor :-)))

Love the titles too.

Lesa
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[Katherine]

Actually, now that I think of it, I have already completed these designs!
When I first found them, I just couldn't believe what was going
on....wondering if maybe my server was hiccuping and just not getting the
pictures in. I looked more than once thinking somehting was strange here.
Anyway, glad I'm not going nuts!

[Diane Harris]

this is definitely funnier than chapter 10 of the
Needlewoman Murder Mystery...we paid $5.50 for another darn
tree in 611---where is he going with this? Does anybody
have a clue?

Katherine wrote:
>
> OK, i've been looking at his site and came across these two "new"
> patterns. Is this a joke of his? Just wondering because I don't
> see anything but a big black square and a big white square.
>
> http://www.curtisboehringer.com/Cross_stitch_patterns/Halloween_Crosstitch/Black/black.html
>
> http://www.curtisboehringer.com/Cross_stitch_patterns/Halloween_Crosstitch/White/white.html
>

[Margaret Brown]

I will have to agree with that - it is hillarious. Actually the guy is a
genious - what better way of getting hits to a web site. And I am sure he
knew that someone who posts on RCTN would bring it to everyones
attention.LOL

Margaret in New Zealand

Lesa & Mark Steele wrote in message ...

[Kteaches]

<<Always one to go to the obvious source, I've emailed Mr. Boehringer and asked
him about these two "designs." :-) Can hardly wait to see what he says, if he
replies, and I've asked his permission to post his reply to this group.>>

Nan,
Best of luck to you in getting a response. I have e-mailed the man on over 20
different ocassions asking when the center of the Noah's Ark series will be
completed. (I'm one who can take a joke, but releasing a Noah's Ark series
that does NOT include an ARK in the end is not a joke. It's unprofessional.)
Please do post your response, should you receive one. I would be curious to
know if he responds to anyone's e-mail.

<<I have a friend who is still waiting for the center portion of Curtis'
Noah's Ark pattern and I don't think she would find it too funny or much
of a joke.>>

I'd have to second that concept myself...

Kelly in Ohio

[Brenda Voss]

This better not be a joke. I ordered copies for all my friends. This is
the most amazing use of color I've ever seen! I'm thinking I could make
wallpaper in one of these patterns. Now I'm off to Magrethea to design
some lovely landscapes. ;-)

Just call me Slartibartfast...
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unite!)/G/W+/D/M/B/b+/R-/S-/K+/E+/C/J+/Harrison Ford/David Eddings,
Robert Jordan/anything made by Mom!

[Kathleen Mary]

What can I say ??? What about the old Cliche ?? "One man's poison .." and
all that. On second thought, PLEASE tell me your joking , you're joking,
you must be - the acronym at the end - VBG - Very Big Grin ???!! Venus'
Big Goose ? Venerable Boisterous Greeting ? ... OH tell me I'm right,
please, it has to be 'very big grin ', right ???!!!! Kathy Mary--

*****
"...But I have reasoned deeply, and speaking as a philosopher, since the
soul is not found without a body and yet is not the body, it may be in one
body or in another, and pass from body to body. This, if it be not proven
true, seems at least likely, according to the opinion of Pythagoras..."
Giordano Bruno, Philosopher and Mystic
1548-1600 (Burnt Feb. 17, 1600 in Rome.)

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[Jennifer Lee]

Brenda Voss <bev...@iastate.edu> wrote in article
<7v7bas$eib$1...@news.iastate.edu>...

> This better not be a joke. I ordered copies for all my friends. This is

> the most amazing use of color I've ever seen! I'm thinking I could make
> wallpaper in one of these patterns. Now I'm off to Magrethea to design
> some lovely landscapes. ;-)
>
> Just call me Slartibartfast...

Didn't you win an award for Norway? Lovely fjords...;-)

-jen, who needs to read those books again...:) :) :)

[Mays]

On Tue, 26 Oct 1999 20:15:44 -0400,Diane Harris <har...@erols.com>
stitched with finest floss on pure irish linen:

>this is definitely funnier than chapter 10 of the
>Needlewoman Murder Mystery...we paid $5.50 for another darn
>tree in 611---where is he going with this? Does anybody
>have a clue?

Perhaps he is going to the bank.....

-
Ruth Mays

Disorganization is merely the sign of a very healthy
individual trying to do more in a shorter period of time
than those lazy, obsessively tidy types who can think of
nothing better to do than straighten objects in drawers
and stuff like that which only feeds their own egos and makes
them think they are better than those of us who are truly gifted.

[Jill Spreenberg-Robinson]

bev...@iastate.edu (Brenda Voss) writes:

> This better not be a joke. I ordered copies for all my friends. This is
> the most amazing use of color I've ever seen!

Uh oh...copyright infringement! I *know* I've seen these designs
before under different names. They were 'White Cow in a Snowstorm' and
'Black Cat on a Moonless Night". <VBG>*

*Yes, Kathy Mary, it's Very Big Grin...

[MOTHERG1]

>>this is definitely funnier than chapter 10 of the
>>Needlewoman Murder Mystery...we paid $5.50 for another darn
>>tree in 611---where is he going with this? Does anybody
>>have a clue?
>
>Perhaps he is going to the bank....

ROFLMAO. Great comeback, Ruth.

[Jean C.]

I haven't really been following all the posts about this but I did see
the "designs"... are you guys serious about ordering?
Amazing use of color? I'm sure confused because I saw a totally black
and totally white "design".
IMHO it would be a very boring project to cover a piece of fabric with
the same color floss as the fabric.

-Jean

[Joan Erickson]

Jean C. (je...@monroe.net) wrote:
: IMHO it would be a very boring project to cover a piece of fabric with

: the same color floss as the fabric.

But just think of how *easy* it would be! No pattern to follow,
no chance of making an error (and frogging!), no blended threads,
metallics or blending filament, no fractional stitches.... You probably
wouldn't even have to *look* at it as you were doing it, especially if you
used aida--just let your needle find the holes! Therefore, just imagine
how fast you could fly through it! ;-)
Joan

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[wol...@pacbell.net]

Jill Spreenberg-Robinson wrote in message ...

>bev...@iastate.edu (Brenda Voss) writes:
>
>> This better not be a joke. I ordered copies for all my friends. This is
>> the most amazing use of color I've ever seen!
>
>Uh oh...copyright infringement! I *know* I've seen these designs
>before under different names. They were 'White Cow in a Snowstorm' and
>'Black Cat on a Moonless Night". <VBG>

<gasp> Come to think of it, I saw the white one on a jigsaw puzzle over 30 years
ago. It was round instead of rectangular and it was called "Snow White Without
the Seven Dwarfs"!

Nan Evelyn

[Jill Spreenberg-Robinson]

<wol...@pacbell.net> writes:

> <gasp> Come to think of it, I saw the white one on a jigsaw puzzle over 30 years
> ago. It was round instead of rectangular and it was called "Snow White Without
> the Seven Dwarfs"!

Heheh - the companion puzzle to "Red Riding Hood's Hood", I'll bet! ;-)