Re: LIST: why search the PARKINSN list archives / colours / tee shirts

[Carole Hercun <grinchcsh@xxxxxxxxx>]

Gee, janet, I don't know that you should have added
that 'touched by the fairies' business. There are some
who would argue that we're just "touched"...  Carole
H.

--- janet paterson <janet313@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> hi all
>
> At 12:35 1999/09/30 -0400, Joan U the Dust Bunny
> Buster wrote, in part:
> >Regarding skin colour...for those of us who sit in
> front of a
> >computer for hours at a time, we probably all share
> one common
> >colour...flourescent glow-in-the-dark.  For those
> of us with
> >freckles we must look a photographic negative of
> the milky way...
>
> red hair freckles and an artistic tendency
> =
> a result of 'being touched by the fairies'
>
> >Here are the chain of event s leading up to my
> t-shirt design idea...
> >(a limited edition of one)
> >In August i cleaned under my couch
> >and under my couch I found an URL
> >.....
> >(cuz I don't like cleaning under the couch
> >that's why the t-shirt idea
> >on the other hand
> >just wait
> >til I clean my closets?...
>
> i dug up some 'semi-official' info re pd logos
> tulips and colours
> from the Newfoundland website viz:
>
>
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> Why tulips?
>
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>
> In Canada tulips are sold to raise funds for
> Parkinson research and they
> have become a symbol of our hope for a cure. Every
> year we plant Parkinson
> tulip bulbs in our home gardens and we ask our
> friends and neighbours to do
> the same. When the winter snows melt, the dry brown
> bulb we planted grows
> into a beautiful flower, and the fresh beauty of
> these tulips gives us
> renewed hope that someday soon a cure will be found.
>
> The story of the Parkinson tulip began in 1981 in
> the Netherlands when a
> Dutch horticulturist, who had Parkinson's, gave the
> name 'Dr James Parkinson'
> to the prize winning red and white tulip he had
> developed. This name was
> chosen to honour Dr James Parkinson, the English
> doctor who described the
> condition in his 1817 'Essay on the Shaking Palsy'.
>
> A few years later in Ottawa, Canada's capital city,
> the Parkinson's Society
> of Ottawa-Carleton heard about the Dr James
> Parkinson tulip and arranged to
> import some bulbs. The Parkinson tulip bulbs were so
> popular in Ottawa that
> the Parkinson Foundation of Canada began to
> distribute Dr James Parkinson
> tulip bulbs through its national network of
> chapters.
>
> In 1988, when Newfoundland's first Parkinson support
> group was formed, the
> 12 member group sold 6,000 Parkinson tulip bulbs.
> Since then, close to
> 15,000 bulbs have been sold every year enabling
> Newfoundland to make a
> significant annual contribution to Parkinson
> research.
>
> Success has its price, however. At present a hundred
> thousand bulbs are
> needed in autumn as well as 40,000 fresh cut stems
> to sell in April. As
> sales increase it becomes more difficult to find a
> large enough quantity of
> the original red and white tulips but when shortages
> occur most purchasers
> gladly accept another colour.
>
>
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>
> janet paterson
> 52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset
> 613 256 8340 po box 171 almonte ontario canada K0A
> 1A0
> a new voice:
> <>
> <janet313@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>


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