Gee, Joan, what other great ideas do you have lurking
under your coach? I LIKE this URL thing.
Another Redhead Adds Her 2 Cents,
Carole H.
--- joan carol urquhart <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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
> I followed the URL to a cyber PD info farm
> and on this farm we found some friends
> who shared alot
> so we spread the URL...
> we told my mom's neurologist
> (who did not know)
> and my mom's physiotherapist
> (whom she did not have before joining the list
> and who did not know)
> and her physiotherapist told her PD dad
> (who did not know about Kathyrnne Holden's nutrition
> book
> and about the Parkinson Post)
> which we got from this list
> and from this list
> we learned about support groups
> and found one at home
> to which we now belong
> where we met other PDs
> (who did not know about this list)
> where they showed us some things
> about Community Access
> to assist my mother
> from day to day
> so now
> she is curious
> about Independance Dogs
> all because one day
> I cleaned under my couch
> and found an URL
>
> wouldn't it just be easier
> to get the URL
> off of someone's t-shirt
> as you pass them
> in the grocery store?
> or out on the street?
> (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?
>
> Joan U
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: janet paterson <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thursday, September 30, 1999 11:57 AM
> Subject: Re: LIST: why search the PARKINSN list
> archives
>
>
> >hi all
> >
> >At 11:09 1999/09/30 -0400, Joan U wrote:
> >>An interesting analogy Janet..
> >>There are some PWPs on dry dock being fed daily
> from the
> >>harvest of information that this list yields. I
> feel a
> >>t-shirt design coming on...just this listserve's
> URL and
> >>the words "plant a seed for Parkinson's Disease"
> Do we
> >>have any official colours?
> >>morning meanderings from one redhead to another
> >>Joan U
> >
> >ono,
> >another redhead!
> >is there something here worth investigating???
> >
> >seriously though,
> >one of the studies posted recently said that
> >black people or people 'of colour' have
> >less chance of contracting pd
> >
> >on the scale of skin colour
> >mine rates as white as a sheet of xerox #1524 20 lb
> finest
> >
> >and on a different subject,
> >i don't know about official pd colours
> >
> >the canadian foundation used to use a lot of purple
> >in their printed newsletter
> >
> >their coffee mugs had red and white tulips
> >
> >i think the official parkinson tulip is red and
> white
> >but i can't remember how 'official' official is
> >canadian, dutch, european??
> >
> >a quick scan through my collection of pd brochures
> >american and canadian
> >yields
> >red
> >blue
> >green
> >grey
> >purple
> >
> >so
> >in re your 'official' colour question
> >the short answer is 'probably not'
> >
> >what's this about tee shirts?
> >
> >janet
> >
> >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]>
> >
>
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