On the important French Fry Question

Matt Cramer cramer at unix01.voicenet.com
Mon Jan 22 06:17:26 PST 2001


On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, kelley wrote:

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> going for the "earth" tones hippy dippy crunchola look -- which reminds me
> of a secretary i once had. one of her daughter's decided to join some
> mennonite sect. she hated it that she couldn't get her grandchildren
> colorful clothes because they're only supposed to wear 'natural'
> colors. gladys couldn't wrap her head around that one since cornflower
> blue, poppy orange, yadda were certainly natural enough to her!

Actually Mennonites are supposed to wear *plain* colours. I've never heard anything about natural before. The wealthy Mennonites all drive black Mercedes and Lincolns, which always kind of amuses me.

Matt

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