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Gee, janet, I don't know that you should have added that 'touched by the fairies' business. There are some who would argue that we're just "touched"... Carole H. --- janet paterson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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]> > ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com