"Flashed" oak

[mttt]

And whaddabout Thanksgiving? Right - not a "holiday" until mid 1800's, IIRC? Seem to recall Geo Washington was hot about it, but it languised until a magazine editor made it her crusade.

[Charlie Self]

Oh, lord. Please, no.

Yeah, but I think the major observation that we have today is all marketing. Same with Halloween. When I was a wee bit younger, Halloween was an evening when you wore burnt cork on your face and old sheets on your body, with ribs drawn with cork. Made a helluva fine ghost. Now, costumes cost the earth, and every parent fears razor blades in apples and worse in candies.

Charlie Self "In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office." Ambrose Bierce

[bridger]

tucson was part of mexico not all that long ago. there are still plenty of families here who were here, then.

[bridger]

IIRC, the word "hispanic" was made up by the nixon administration to refer to anyone in the western hemisphere who natively speaks spanish. thus it refers to mexicans, chileans and most of the rest of south america, but not to brazillians, who speak portugese.

[George]

Or, once again, we could take advantage of this reference library that begins with www.

to echo the consensus, with the additional joy of letting "nons" know that they can never get it right.

So get a clue, all you WOPs, Micks and Polacks....

[J. Clarke]

Sicne the discussion seems to have degenerated, I'm going to stick my neck out and suggest the possibility that it might be "fumed" oak which was commonplace in arts-and-crafts furniture.

[The Guy]

Gee, and I was thinking it might have been from a little guy with a trench coat at the lumber yard. :)

Tim

[Swingman]

No problem ... I'll file suit immediately. MSFT may have some crumbs leftover from that recent $250,000,000 legal bill. ;>)

[Eddie Munster]