[Magdalen] Happy Christmas

[Jay Weigel]

When I read "bog people" I thought of the folks whose bodies had peen found
preserved in peat in Denmark......

Jay, g/d/r

On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 3:45 PM, Ann Markle <ann.markle at aya.yale.edu> wrote:

> And I thought it was so lovely that your church provided a service for the
> bog people (a swamp here in the US, Marion, not a loo).  They're definitely
> underserved!
>
> Ann
>
> The Rev. Ann Markle
> Buffalo, NY
> ann.markle at aya.yale.edu
>
> On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 2:16 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
> oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > To spell cheque, bog is a word, as indeed it is -- just not the one I had
> > in mind. (the big people's service). We have quite a bit of swampland
> > around here. As a matter of fact, a neighbor was draining a pond by his
> > house and found a large bone. He had experts come in, and they ended up
> > camped out in his yard for a while and extracted an entire skeleton of a
> > mammoth. This area was a swamp back then.  I don't think anyone calls it
> a
> > bog ....
> >
> >
>