susnfx wrote:I only know what an antimaccasar is because Alan keeps sending them to me as Christmas gifts. (Actually, you can "good show" me too--I DO know what they are!)
Alan wrote:Antimacassar crocheting, both team and individual.
Good show! I didn't know you were also initiated into the ranks of those who know what an antimacassar is (or should we say, was). I am impressed and gratified.
Because why...you use Macassar?
ps...that's "is," not "was," in Tazewell County, Virginia where my Pa grew up.
and next door in Russell County.....
"Let low-country intruder approach a cove
And eyes as gray as icicle fangs measure stranger
For size, honesty, and intent." John Foster West
The wet towel snap. Maybe even the Australian rules wet towel snap, for the real men among us.
And now there was no doubt that the trees were really moving - moving in and out through one another as if in a complicated country dance. ('And I suppose,' thought Lucy, 'when trees dance, it must be a very, very country dance indeed.')
What's criminally missing is the performance of all Olympic sports in the nude, as the ancient Greeks advocated. I for one, and millions more besides, would suddenly get far more interested in a huge range of sports that I currently don't care a fig (leaf?) about. Just think how much more the Games organisers would be able to charge advertisers!
"Last night, among his fellow roughs,
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
SteveShaw wrote:Just think how much more the Games organisers would be able to charge advertisers!
But there would be that much less advertising space (ever tried to read a Speedo?). Nude Olympics would lead to tattoo ads, which would lead to public indignation (permanently tattooing a 14 y.o. just so she would be able to compete?) and the eventual banning of all tattoos, and the gradual return to clothing to provide more ad space, which is exactly what happened to the ancient Greeks when Sammy's Souvlaki vans covered most of the city-state era.
djm
I'd rather be atop the foothills than beneath them.
