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<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 26 January 2008 - Volume 06</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">=========================================================================</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Marsha Wilson</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:marshatrue@mtangel.net">marshatrue@mtangel.net</a>></span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Traditions" 2008.01.26 (05) [E]<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span><font size="2">I found this upon googling, which I found rather
strange. We didn't rub the flower under the chin, just held it close
enough for it to reflect:</font></span></div>
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<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><font size="2"><a href="http://museum.gov.ns.ca/poison/buttcup1.htm" target="_blank">museum.gov.ns.ca/poison/buttcup1.htm</a></font></span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span></span> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>Buttercups</strong> are familiar wildflowers, favouring open, waste
ground and acidic soils throughout Nova Scotia, not to mention the middle of the
back lawn, where the neighbour's cat goes to pee... Their irritant qualities are
probably the basis of the children's game in which one child presses a buttercup
to the sensitive skin just below the chin, "to see if you like butter". The
slight redness caused by such casual contact is supposed, in the game, to
indicate a butter lover. Prolonged contact can have more uncomfortable results
[see below].</div><font color="#888888">
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<div><font face="Comic Sans MS">Marsha Wilson</font></div></font>
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<br>From: <span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Kevin & Cheryl Caldwell</span> <span><<a href="mailto:kevin.caldwell1963@verizon.net" target="_blank">kevin.caldwell1963@verizon.net</a>></span><br>Subject: LL-L "Traditions"
2008.01.26 (03) [E]<br></div>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 40px;"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">This tradition was mentioned
in the "Peanuts" comic strip back in the 1960s. Charles Schulz grew up in St.
Paul, Minnesota, and his parents were of German and Norwegian
ancestry.</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 40px;"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">Also, I thought you were
supposed to rub the buttercup on someone's chin, and if their chin turned
yellow it meant that you liked butter.</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 40px;"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">Kevin
Caldwell</span></font></p><br>
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