[Magdalen] Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.

[James Handsfield]

Urban legend. It would have to span the third rail and the nearest track.  But if it did so would immediately melt under the current. 

Jim Handsfield
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> On Dec 23, 2014, at 11:12 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I remember that if it fell on the tracks, trains were stopped. It shorted
> out the tracks.
> 
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better
> for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your time
> on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente
> 
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 11:06 PM, Charles Wohlers <
> charles.wohlers at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
>> Hmmm - our family did also. And it indeed was lead foil. Every Christmas
>> there was just a little bit less than the previous, and, by the time I had
>> left home, there was hardly any at all. Needless to say, I'm sure you can't
>> get it now.
>> 
>> Chad Wohlers
>> Woodbury, VT USA
>> chadwohl at satucket.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message----- From: Grace Cangialosi
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2014 5:07 PM
>> To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
>> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.
>> 
>> 
>> Actually, it was made of lead, and my mother saved it from year to year,
>> as well. We had to put it on one strand at a time, from the insides of the
>> branches to the tips, and then remove it in reverse, still one strand at a
>> time, and put it back in the boxes.
>> The tree would be a shimmering wonder, but I could never understand why
>> there was so much tinsel, since it made it hard to see the ornaments...
>> 
>> I HATED putting tinsel on the tree!  Haven't done it for at least 40 years!
>> 
>>> On Dec 23, 2014, at 4:45 PM, Jon Egger <revegger at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> One of the odd things my mother did when we were kids in the 1960s (she
>>> died Christmas morning in 2010) was to save the tinsel that she hung on
>>> the
>>> tree.  She felt a Christmas Tree wasn't a true tree unless it had tinsel
>>> on
>>> it.  I wonder if, her being a child of the depression, made her save
>>> things...but tinsel?  That must have been made of gold, not silver.
>>> 
>>> +++
>>> Grace & peace,
>>> jon
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Lesley de Voil <lesleymdv at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On 12/24/14, Joseph Cirou <romanos at mindspring.com> wrote:
>>>>> Jim,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Your listgiv arrived today. Thanks very much. I loved the card (which is
>>>>> described elsewhere) and will enjoy the cd from St. Bartholomew's
>>>>> 
>>>>> Joe
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com>
>>>>>> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> From: Joseph Cirou
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> About the only thing like that that I had was the crib my father
>>>>>> 
>>>>> started
>>>> 
>>>>> to
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> There was the story about the Michigan relatives in a Dutch Reform
>>>>>> 
>>>>> Church
>>>> 
>>>>> that had never previously decorated nor set up a creche.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> And when their new Pastor decided they needed one and asked for a crib,
>>>>>> the cousins were puzzled but dutifully dismantled (to get through the
>>>>>> door)
>>>>>> and re-assembled a corn crib.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> Jim Guthrie
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>