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- From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
- Subject: Re: Ankle bracelets
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.140837.8702@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
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- References: <1992Dec24.022312.8061@netcom.com> <1992Dec24.172147.26637@clsi.COM> <42893@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 14:08:37 GMT
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- In article <42893@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> kprashan@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (hyderabadi) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec24.172147.26637@clsi.COM>, kevin@clsi.COM (Kevin Cameron) writes:
- >>
- >> stevek@netcom.com (Steve Kile) writes:
- >> > I'd like to ask the ladies of the net (tm) to answer a question for me. I
- >> > frequent a couple of restaurants where the waitresses wear ankle bracelets
- >> > (is that the correct terminology?) These girls are mostly high school or
- >> > college age. I don't recall this type of jewelery being worn during my high
- >> > school or college days. Is this a new fad? What is the significance of
- >> > wearing it on the right versus left ankle? Thanks.
- >
- >
- >Ankle bracelets are commonly used jewellery among females in India. I guess
- >some schoolgirl must have brought them over to USA and then the trend
- >slowly develops.
-
- Actually it was the other way around. In 1834 A.D. a tupperware salesman
- named Bob was kicked in the head by a mule. The force of the kick projected
- Bob across the barn whereupon his head (he had a small head, a pin head)
- jammed into the hub of a nearby Conastoga wagon. In an effort to free
- his pinhead he placed his foot against a nearby bridal. His foot lodged
- in a ring of the bridal and voil'a ankle bracelets and necklaces came upon
- the earth.
- The cowboys who were prown to drinking lots of redeye and hooch were always
- looking for a reason to pick on Bob since most of the women folk began
- to look on Bob as a rather snappy dresser. After many embarassing
- confrontations ranging from Dead Gulch Montana to Boot Hill in Tucson Arizona
- Bob decided that since his drooling problem did not appear to be curable
- and tired of the chafing caused by cowboys snuggies he would get into
- the ground floor of the fast paced incense burning industry in India.
- By the time Bob actually got to India most settler women of the era
- were already adorned in necklaces, ankle bracelets and ostrich feather hats.
-
- The rest as they say is history.
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