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- From: coren@speed.osf.org (Robert Coren)
- Subject: Afghans (was: What to do for NEW YEAR'S EVE in Los Angeles?)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.152359.17687@osf.org>
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- References: <9212300536.AA05515@localhost> <1hs001INNg4d@mizar.usc.edu> <1992Dec30.120657.28660@macc.wisc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 15:23:59 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.120657.28660@macc.wisc.edu>, anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:
- > In article <1hs001INNg4d@mizar.usc.edu>
- > adolphso@mizar.usc.edu (adolphson) writes:
- >
- > >Maybe I'll just stay at home
- > >and finish knitting that afghan I started in 1973.
- >
- > Oh, now *here's* a Queer Question (tm): what fraction of
- > afghans are knitted and what fraction are crocheted? My
- > granny could crochet a good-sized afghan in less than a day.
-
- John's been crocheting an afghan since... well, not 1973, but surely
- no later than 1983. It's one of these things where you crochet a bunch
- of patterned squares about 5" on a side, and eventually sew (or
- crochet?) them all together. He estimates that he's made about 40 or
- 50, and the whole thing probably requires anout 150. I'm looking
- forward to my 70th birthday present... :-)
-
- This was conceived as a project to work on during those idle moments
- when there's nothing else to do, of which there don't seem to be many
- -- there's always something, like reading or playing computer games or
- sleeping... I expect he'll bring it on our winter vacation, and
- probably do a few squares during afternoon nap time. The last time he
- worked on it, as far as I remember, was last winter when he was on a
- sequestered jury for two weeks (he did *not* crochet in the courtroom).
-
- >
- > (I suppose the puns on Afghans (the hounds and the hardy
- > folk), as well as on minims, crochets, and quavers are now
- > unavoidable. In the latter category, notated replies will be
- > noted favorably; I get quivery (an arch reaction), though
- > not quacky, over quavers and occasionally crotchety over
- > both crochets and crotches.)
- >
-
- Well, if you're a quarter as crotchety over something half as minimal
- as notational nomenclature, as I live and breve, you'll get more
- quavers than the rest of us. With flags hanging from the beams, and
- staves at the ready, we can handel all the treble that your mordent
- slurs can measure out. (Oh, how trilling! be still, my
- hemidemisemiquavery heart!)
-