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Post by Phalon on Jan 1, 2010 9:56:41 GMT -6
Oh, I know, I know....or know part of it anyway; I know why green, but had to two-minute drill the red.
Green as a traditional Christmas color began with the pagans who viewed evergreen trees with reverance; because they don't go bare in winter they were worshiped as representing eternal life that even survived through the long, hard winters. Evergreens were used in solstice rituals. When Christianity came onto the scene, like so many other pagan beliefs, the Church incorporated this belief into their own, and continued to use evergreens in Christmas celebrations. Green came to represent the eternal life of Christ.
The use of color red in Christmas began in the 1300's when "Adam and Eve" day was celebrated on Christmas Eve with "paradise plays" that acted out what happened in the Garden of Eden. Evergreen trees were still used, and decorated with apples to represent the forbidden fruit in the garden. These decorated trees became known as "Paradise Trees" and when people began putting them in their own homes, so began the tradition of the Christmas tree.
Wanna know what questions kept me awake last night? Why did I let both girls each have a friend spend the night? Why did they decide to play Clue until 3 o'clock in the morning? Why were they playing it in LX's bedroom which is right next to ours? Why aren't our walls thicker?
And why in the hell wouldn't someone guess 'Mr. Green with the rope in the Conservatory' and end the damn game so I could get to sleep?!
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Post by stepper on Jan 1, 2010 15:30:38 GMT -6
Without checking, I would have guessed it was related to Holly...green leaves and red berries at Christmas time.
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Post by vox on Jan 2, 2010 16:36:38 GMT -6
We watched a programme on TV just before Christmas Aphrodite, it was called 'A Victorian Farmhouse Christmas' and they actually used a lot of colour in their decorations! They showed how the people made the various colours, ie, blue, Green, Yellow & red, to decorate the big hall where there would be a big christmas feast. The red colour was easy, it was made out of ground down Cochineal beetles. yellow was made from weeds, but some of their colours were made from stale urine (euuuch!) or 'bluck!' as Phalon would say!. Albiet, it was a fascinating programme. It not only covered the decorations but also how their food was prepared and how the first Christmas pudding was made! Even down to how the animals on the farm were fed differently Christmas day morning.
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Post by stepper on Jan 2, 2010 18:12:17 GMT -6
Sounds like an interesting show Vox! It's fun reading posts from those who are from other countries. I'm a fan of James Harriot and noticed a few things in his books. Colour - I'd spell it color, and programme where I'd spell it program. I saw the same thing in your post. No real meaning behind all this, just something I noticed. Still, I wish they'd run that program here. Sounds like it'd be fun and informative.
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Post by Awesome Aphrodite on Jan 3, 2010 12:43:21 GMT -6
WOW! never knew any of that. well, that question won't keep me up anymore, will it? poor Phalon! did you ever get to sleep? I hope so! can't think of any other questions at the moment that keep me awake, but I will post more if another one decides to keep me up!
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Post by Phalon on Apr 22, 2010 5:58:49 GMT -6
I wonder sometimes how people in non-English speaking countries text. What is OMG in Spanish? BTW in French? LMAO in German?
How is BOLL spelled in Chinese?
And how possibly can a question be posed without using RU?
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Apr 22, 2010 15:21:35 GMT -6
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Post by Phalon on Apr 23, 2010 20:44:23 GMT -6
LMAO, Scrappy. You know I was just kidding, yes? Seeing those kinds of acronyms and abbreviations written in printed word aside from a message board or text irks me to no end - hearing them in speech makes me cringe. Hubs and LX do it just because they know it gets on my last nerve. Grrrr.
It was fun though, looking through the links to see what abbreviations other countries use. I didn't know I could speak Spanish, and have been doing it for years! (eye-roll)
Grrrr! (enfadado)
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Post by vox on May 6, 2010 14:11:20 GMT -6
Vegetable oil is made from vegetables, olive oil is made from olives and sunflower oil is made from sunflowers! so what the hell is baby oil made from?!
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Post by Gabrielle On Nutbread on May 6, 2010 14:22:41 GMT -6
EEEEWwwwwww.... weird thought about the baby oil, vox. Reminded me of a comic I saw once. This cat sees his human "Mom" make Lemonade out of lemons. He then sees a bottle labeled "Gatorade," and his eyes get really wide. Made me crack up laughing.
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Post by vox on May 8, 2010 7:16:58 GMT -6
He he! good one that Gabrielle!
Sorry bout the baby oil, couldn't resist that one!
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Post by stepper on Jul 5, 2010 16:30:37 GMT -6
Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard?
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Post by Phalon on Jul 8, 2010 20:26:01 GMT -6
For the same reason Jane doesn't have hairy legs.
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Post by stepper on Jul 8, 2010 20:51:26 GMT -6
When I was young I broke my leg - it was in a cast for 6 months. When the cast was broken off I had very long hair on my legs, but that disappeared quickly because I wore jeans all the time and the friction reduced the hair to near invisibility. So by extension we're saying the reason is friction?
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Post by Phalon on Nov 28, 2010 6:47:14 GMT -6
When is Kid Rock going to change his name to Middle-age Pop?
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Post by stepper on Nov 28, 2010 15:34:24 GMT -6
When is Kid Rock going to change his name to Middle-age Pop? The week after Gene Simmons realizes he's not 25 anymore.
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Post by EllieNeo on Nov 28, 2010 20:26:51 GMT -6
question that kept me up the other night... "why are dried cranberries called crasins, when raisins are dried... GRAPES?"
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Post by Mini Mia on Jun 8, 2012 16:55:35 GMT -6
I kind of, sort of, know why the water dishes on the North porch (back of house) turn green, with green slime. Green patches on vinyl siding, brick foundation, trees, etc. is just an everyday, ordinary occurrence on the North side of things. But why does the water dish on the South porch (front of house) turn a red tint, with red slime on the bottom and sides? It isn't rust. It occurs with plastic dishes too. And the red slime cleans out fine, leaving a shiny smooth metal. Very weird.
Guess it's time for a 2-minute drill.
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Post by Mini Mia on Jun 8, 2012 17:17:50 GMT -6
Acid rain, or poisonous algae. I'm gonna have to pay closer attention to how the water looks when it hasn't rained, and after it has rained. I wonder if dewdrops work the same? ... It seems so. Okay. Now I know why the water turns red.
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Post by Phalon on Jun 9, 2012 6:09:03 GMT -6
I'm not so sure I'd be thinking anything so hazardous, Joxie. I sometimes get a reddish-pink ring around the drain in the tub, or even the toilet bowl. For whatever reason, (and I'm not sure why), I always associated it with the fluoride they put in the water supply. I don't know if what you're talking about in the water dish is the same thing I sometimes see, but Wiki-answers (not the most reliable source, I know), explains it this way: "If you live in an older neighborhood it could be clay piping or copper piping can sometimes do the same thing. It's what is in the earth around the piping that can cause this problem. Hard water can cause green inside toilets or in sinks and bath tubs. The pink stuff is actually produced by naturally occurring airborne bacteria called Serratia marcescens. Presence of the pink bacteria does not have anything to do with the water quality coming out of the faucet distributed by the water system. These bacteria are very common but cannot be seen until after they grow and multiply. Left undisturbed in areas of high humidity at room temperature, the bacteria multiply producing a pinkish-red pigment, or sometimes a dark gray color, on surfaces that are regularly moist." wiki.answers.com/Q/What_in_the_water_could_leave_a_pink_ring_around_my_tub_and_toilet* * * I actually thought about this thread yesterday while driving with the girls in the car.... I wonder if people who drive Volkswagens get some kind of sick pleasure out of knowing people in the cars around them are getting punched in the arm as they drive past.
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Post by stepper on Jun 9, 2012 16:05:20 GMT -6
How in the world did you remember about that VW thing? And why is it a sick pleasure? I mean, so what if you go by the same people more than once just because the one you don't like is the one getting hit?
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Post by Mini Mia on Jun 9, 2012 17:27:17 GMT -6
I put my double wide in a grove of trees (horseshoe shape) in a field. Nothing was here before, and all pipes are new. My water comes from a well that I share with my Sister and her family, and the barn. The water dish on the front porch stays mostly out in the sun. Any shade it gets is early morning and late evening. The water dishes on the back porch stay mostly in the shade of the house/eaves.
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Post by Phalon on Jun 10, 2012 6:58:05 GMT -6
Remember it? I relive it every day. The rules have changed over the years - it's not just the Beetle, but every model of Volkswagen is included in "Punch Buggy" (we called it Slug Bug when we were kids), and you have to call out the color, (no tag-backs!).
There are "official rules" to the game, which seem to change daily depending on who is in the car with me, (eye-roll).
Volkswagen had a commercial (with Stevie Wonder) a couple of years back with this era's version of the game:
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Post by stepper on Jun 14, 2012 16:52:43 GMT -6
Speaking of commercials - if you remember the Superbowl Commercial with the little kid who is trying to be Darth Vader and starts the car, the little kid had to have open heart surgery. He's okay so far. The commercial is still good for a smile.
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Post by quettalee on Jun 15, 2012 0:04:34 GMT -6
I love that one too, Step. He's so little...
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Jun 15, 2012 23:24:49 GMT -6
Didn't know where to put this....... This is the funniest thing I've seen in a long while. Turn up the sound, not suitable for work or when drinking coffee, or anything else. unless you like that sort of thing coming out of your nose, or all over your computer. DRAMATIC MOMENT
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Post by scamp on Jul 20, 2012 0:26:07 GMT -6
Why, oh why does all my bread get moldy so quick -- okay, I know why -- it's hot and humid. So how come my hamburger buns don't ever get even a hint of mold? Do I really want to know the answer?
AAARRRGHH!!
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Post by Phalon on Jul 21, 2012 5:57:05 GMT -6
A couple of years ago, I got BP a book for Christmas called 'Make a Mess of this Journal' or something like that. Each page had a different prompt to create a mess - stuff like smear mud on this page, shred a piece of paper and glue it on the page to make a picture, etc.. BP, always taught to respect books, had a hard time actually making a mess out of a book. One of the pages suggested glueing a piece of food to it. She put a piece of bread - Wonderbread - in a ziplock bag, and taped it to the page.
Weeks later the bread didn't have a speck of mold on it, and was still as soft as the day she taped it in the book. Months later, still the same. It became a kind of ritual to check the bread page every couple of weeks to see if it changed. Nothing - it was always soft and mold-free.
I wonder whatever happened to the book...and the bread.
As a side note: For a long time, the Wonder Bread factory was a destination for all elementary schools in the Detroit area. My boss, a good 20 years older than me, went when she was in school; even "way out in the sticks" our school went too. We can both remember watching the loaves side down giant shoots into their plastic wrappers near the end of the tour, and then each kid getting a mini-loaf, still warm.
And obviously soft and mold-free.
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Post by stepper on Jul 21, 2012 9:45:55 GMT -6
Sounds like a fun trip Phalon. Where I grew up manufacturing had died out except for the glass plant and that was too dangerous for children so we didn't have those kinds of trips. And when they did take us someplace, we were always "punished" - we had to write a paper on the trip and what we did. I just couldn't fully appreciate the trip knowing that I'd have to write a paper about it. Even so, the zoo trips were fun and instilled in me a quirk or two. I still love hand feeding bread to the ducks and deer. The albino deer was just so different that everyone wanted to be near him. One day he somehow escaped. (There was a rumor that a couple teenagers tried to get in the zoo to shoot him but he got out instead.) Since the zoo was in the local park which, for the size of the city was pretty extensive, he stayed in the area. Every so often someone would spot him - he was like a ghost in a forest - you only caught glimpses and it left you wondering "Did I really see that?"
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Post by moonglum on Jul 17, 2021 11:51:03 GMT -6
Do flies buzz all the time or just when they pass you to p**s you off?
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