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hi all At 12:35 1999/09/30 -0400, Joan U the Dust Bunny Buster wrote, in part: >Regarding skin colour...for those of us who sit in front of a >computer for hours at a time, we probably all share one common >colour...flourescent glow-in-the-dark. For those of us with >freckles we must look a photographic negative of the milky way... red hair freckles and an artistic tendency = a result of 'being touched by the fairies' >Here are the chain of event s leading up to my t-shirt design idea... >(a limited edition of one) >In August i cleaned under my couch >and under my couch I found an URL >..... >(cuz I don't like cleaning under the couch >that's why the t-shirt idea >on the other hand >just wait >til I clean my closets?... i dug up some 'semi-official' info re pd logos tulips and colours from the Newfoundland website viz: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Why tulips? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- In Canada tulips are sold to raise funds for Parkinson research and they have become a symbol of our hope for a cure. Every year we plant Parkinson tulip bulbs in our home gardens and we ask our friends and neighbours to do the same. When the winter snows melt, the dry brown bulb we planted grows into a beautiful flower, and the fresh beauty of these tulips gives us renewed hope that someday soon a cure will be found. The story of the Parkinson tulip began in 1981 in the Netherlands when a Dutch horticulturist, who had Parkinson's, gave the name 'Dr James Parkinson' to the prize winning red and white tulip he had developed. This name was chosen to honour Dr James Parkinson, the English doctor who described the condition in his 1817 'Essay on the Shaking Palsy'. A few years later in Ottawa, Canada's capital city, the Parkinson's Society of Ottawa-Carleton heard about the Dr James Parkinson tulip and arranged to import some bulbs. The Parkinson tulip bulbs were so popular in Ottawa that the Parkinson Foundation of Canada began to distribute Dr James Parkinson tulip bulbs through its national network of chapters. In 1988, when Newfoundland's first Parkinson support group was formed, the 12 member group sold 6,000 Parkinson tulip bulbs. Since then, close to 15,000 bulbs have been sold every year enabling Newfoundland to make a significant annual contribution to Parkinson research. Success has its price, however. At present a hundred thousand bulbs are needed in autumn as well as 40,000 fresh cut stems to sell in April. As sales increase it becomes more difficult to find a large enough quantity of the original red and white tulips but when shortages occur most purchasers gladly accept another colour. <http://www.infonet.st-johns.nf.ca/providers/parkinson/whytulip.html> janet paterson 52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset 613 256 8340 po box 171 almonte ontario canada K0A 1A0 a new voice: <http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Village/6263/> <[log in to unmask]>