[Magdalen] Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

Urban legend -- schmurgeon schmegend! No way.  I saw it all the time.
Caused all kinds of havoc.

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 11:29 PM, James Handsfield <jhandsfield at icloud.com>
wrote:

> 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
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > 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
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>
>